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Foofaraw

Frills and flashy finery; a fuss about nothing.

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Proselyte means to convert from one way of thinking to another. This is my new word for today. Before I came to EP I didn't think people who knew how to sympathize still existed (gone like the covered wagon). Now that I've been here for...

Indemnity - in-DEM-ni-tee , noun;

1.

Protection or security against damage or loss.

2.

Compensation for damage or loss sustained.

3.

Something paid by way of such compensation...

noun (Ihm prih kay shuhn)
meaning = a curse

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...

http://freerice.com/
Learn new vocabulary; help end hunger. I do it everyday(:

Incarnadine: adj: Meaning blood-red

From Shakespeare's Macbeth, Act II, Scene II

Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood
Clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather
The multitudinous seas in incarnadine,
Making the green...

respitory disease caused by tiny silicone particals (dust like) .

perhaps a vocanic eruption, or quarts exposure mining

I love learning new words.

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Mathlete - "A mathlete is a person who competes in mathematics competitions at any level or any age. The term is a portmanteau of the words math and athlete".

Lol. This is the best word of the day ever. It makes me want to break out...

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?

February 24: Mutually Assured Distraction

The practice of distracting others in a manner assuring that neither party gets any work done.

We were both working on our papers but then she started chatting with me on Facebook and...

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...

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 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.

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...

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

but I still need to master it. So I need to learn new words. Not hose big ones that you wonder what the ... But those useful one that are not so common. I have many dictionary from 19 or even 18 century. It's amazing how much English...

I randomly send my friends a Word of The Day via email...and since everyone here likes to learn new words I thought I would share some of the most recent ones... my WOTD comes from dictionary.com in case you're wondering... ENJOY...