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For my writing I have been collecting interesting words that I keep in a huge list to inspire me. It is fun to find a word that I didn't know before, and even ones I had heard before, but that are really different, to convey...

HUMOR FOR LEXOPHILES  (LOVERS OF WORDS):

I wondered why the baseball was getting bigger. Then it hit me.

Police were called to a day care where a three-year-old was resisting a rest...

pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis- 45 letters long, an infection caused by the inhilation of small particles such as volcano ash! =P

pneumono ultra micro scopic silico volcano coniosis

I love the word HONORIFICABILITUDINITATIBUS which actually means to be honorable.

Buying securities in one country/market and selling them in another.

The game goes like this:
everybody has to post a new word and give the meaning of the word posted by the person above you. I hope thats clear. So lets start it!!!!!

squatch
snozzle
pozmondillip snorch
rabazibby
squizzling
snerchified pontippelation
slatch
extippitox
snazzmatic

This is my new word for today. Lauded means praised. Now I'm rarely praised for anything in real life. I must come to EP for that. I will try to remember and learn my new word even if it rarely applies to me. I Laud my EP friends for...

Given to or characterized by the use of long words. Perfect. :)

learning is essential in life.  learning new words allows you to expand your mind.  When you expand your mind you expand your reach

I enjoy expanding my vocabulary.  Looking up definitions is my idea of a good time.  Really, I do it quite often. 

Ok, this is my first time ever in a chat room (is this even called a chat room?). This topic was the easiest one for me to begin with, I used to play a game with a friend, one of us would have the Macquarie and we'd flip it open to...

every page i flip over i run into a new word. but am not really sure if i can remember any word at the moment. makes you wonder huh?

to learn new words and help feed the hungry while you do it!
http://www.freerice.com/
It's addictive.  You can go to options and set your level of difficulty and whether you want to start at -0- or keep a running tally of your...

I love learning new words! I like taking a glimpse into the dictionary every so often and picking out some words to absorb. I also love reading books with words I've never seen and taking the time to look up the meanings.

Ever since I've taken Latin as a language class in high school, I've had a fascination with words. I've learned how to separate the different parts of the word, then analyze their prefix, root, and suffix using latin derivatives to...

Friends invented a game.  You opened the dictionary and no one could see what page you were on.  That person pronounced a word and gave a definition and you guessed if they were telling the truth or not.  We didn't...

I love those scientific words..
I learn a lot of them in biology.. and it's just fun to talk to people who don't know them and confusing them :)
Blasphemy! haha (okay.. that one wasn't from biology)

May not know the meaning or how to pronounce but I could get an A for listening!

I read the dictionary on a daily basis... I get dictionary.com to send me the word of the day... and my boyfriend and I have contests who knows the most synonyms for words... he always wins b/c his vocabulary is much larger than mine...