If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!This is the archive of my 3rd set of Words To Know. This is the Words To Know Contest.
hirsute \HUR-soot; HIR-soot; hur-SOOT; hir-SOOT\, adjective:
Covered with hair; set with bristles; shaggy; hairy.
sesquipedalian \ses-kwuh-puh-DAYL-yuhn\, adjective:
1. Given to or characterized by the [...]
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My 3rd, Words To Know, (formerly known as New Word Monday), contest is officially over. I had some really great entries this time. Very impressive, considering the word choices. The most popular word used was bugbear. Used 14 times out of 21 entries. Hirsute, somniferous, and draconian were the 2nd most popular words, each [...]
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Hello everyone, the good news, is that, Words To Know is actually, a little easier than New Word Monday.
Instead of having 5 new words, in which all have to be used in a comment. You get your choice of 10 new words (these words can be found on my Words To Know page). But you [...]
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Some of you may be familiar with my New Word Monday Page. In order to have a more flexible blog schedule, my New Word Monday is now Words To Know. It will still be full of notable words that aren’t commonly used, and I will still have the comment contests. I will just have more [...]
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As most of you know, my Ipod contest ended on Halloween night. First off, I would like to thank everyone who entered. Some of the posts were really good, and I was actually flattered that these people would take the time to write about my contest. So, thank-you again.
The quality of entries varied. But I [...]
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Well folks once again it is time for another Monday New Word Contest. To enter all you have to do is leave a comment on this post using all 5 Monday New Words in some kind of scenario.
I know the words are hard and they don’t even go together. I figured that out when I [...]
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My last New Word Monday Word. We have all heard the word Cosmopolitan. But do we know what it actually means? Simply put it is being open to other cultures.
cos·mo·pol·i·tan /ˌkɒzməˈpɒlɪtn/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[koz-muh-pol-i-tn] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
–adjective
1.
free from local, provincial, or national ideas, prejudices, or [...]
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My New Word Monday Contest seemed to be a success. People thought it was creative, and at least I learned how to spell, use and define 5 new words.
I had 4 actual entries:
Sam From Taosbound : The use of capricious portmanteau to obfuscate the details of arbitrage has become ubiquitous on the internet. Or [...]
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Portmanteau - A word that fuses two or more words or word parts together, to give a combined meaning, formed by both sounds and meaning. Spoon and Fork = Spork, Technological and Literati= Technorati.
Capricious - Subject to whim, impulsive and unpredictable. Determined by chance, impulse, or whim, rather than by necessity.
Obfuscate - To [...]
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I’ve finally decided what I’m going to do with my New Word Monday. Every 5th word I will have a contest where one lucky commenter wins 20$ USD.
I know it’s not a lot but, all you have to do is stretch your brain for about 2 minutes. The odds are in your favor.
This isn’t a [...]
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