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Have fun with a new word each day. I'll choose a word. You make up a meaning.
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How to Play:
1. I choose an obscure dictionary word.
2. You invent a wacky meaning and add it as a comment.
3. After a certain time I list the true meaning and choose a winner for the invented meaning.
There are no prizes, just lots of fun!
Remember, children use this site too.
2. You invent a wacky meaning and add it as a comment.
3. After a certain time I list the true meaning and choose a winner for the invented meaning.
There are no prizes, just lots of fun!
Remember, children use this site too.
About Me
- Word Imp
- I am a children's author who has had a handful of books published by trade publishers. They're in book shops and libraries. I've also had a sackful of books published by educational publishers. These are mainly found in schools. I love words and that's why I invented this blog site.
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14 comments:
Encomium is the stuff that comes out when you squeeze blackheads.
Eew, Jude!
Encomium. N. - a state of delusion so completely out of touch with reality that it carries with it almost a narcoleptic quality.
For instance: "Everyone could see that Jimmy didn't love Jane, but she was in such an encomium that even when he pledged his love to her sister before God and man, she was convinced this was just his way of staying close to her."
The voting is fun, but I can see that setting up a new poll every day might be a bit of a pain. The friendly competition is part of what makes it fun, but I'd play even without a "winner."
Encomium is the latin botanical name for a money tree.
Encomium is the youtube - or similar site - equivalent to going platinum, and more specifically when it results in an unknown artist getting a record contract.
For example - "Hey dude did you hear the song by Major Molly's Dancing Dolls had gone encomium!"
What a fun site. I love Word Power in Reader's Digest magazine. Okay, encomium: um, I have no idea. I can see I'm going to have to practice at this game.
Encomium is the name of a specific chemical produced by the brain which causes people to be attracted to members of the opposite sex who are patently unsuitable for them, e.g. bad boys, girls with tattoos etc. For reasons not yet explained by scientists, men notice it most in their own daughters, who continue to fall for boys much below their fathers' required standards. The brain tends to slow down production of enconium when people hit their mid-20s, but disturbingly cranks it up again in their early 40s, causing them to be attracted to co-workers half their age whose sole topics of conversation are horoscopes and reality TV. Mercifully, scientists in Sweden are developing anti-enconium medications that may offer new hope to the many sufferers in the world today.
One of many generally accepted skills of social etiquette, in which a person is expected to offer encouragement when a friend, relative, or colleague describes their rationale for making an important life decision. For example: Upon telling my family of my intentions to relocate, there was a stunned silence; which should not have come as a surprise considering their complete lack of encomium.
What a timely appearance of this word! I am currently full of a spring cold.....you know the type.....sore throat, headache, sneezing and encomium....encomium is that stuff that's sitting on your chest after a restless nights sleep and you wake up the next morning and try to speak, but all that comes out is a gurgle.....you need to cough up all the encomium before anyone in your family can understand a word you are trying to say.
Could the encomium be that little hard black bit of old umbilical cord that drops off a baby's tummy button eventually?
An ecomium can be found deep in the earth. It is a special stone. In the cave-men days, these stones were sharpened and used for etching symbols in the caves or stone tablets or tombstones.
Word Imp, it doesn't matter to me if there's a winner. It's fun to make up a definition. It's expanding my vocabulary. It's all in the name of fun. If it takes up a lot of your time, then don't. It doesn't matter to me either way. I will still visit your site.
BTW, Clare, I looked over my definition for stertorous and even though I knew better, I had "it's" in there. It should have been "its." (groan)Too bad we can't edit our comments.
Jenny Rough, dear, we just need to come up with wacky meanings for the words. so really not a practice thing. Just pull ur crazy hat on imagine away.
thats what i do....
Encomium hmmmm....
Kinda sounds like meconium which is the initial few greenish stool that a newborn passes...
But i think ENCOMIUM is an element, a metal found on planet Mars in vast quantities. Recently it was found in small amounts near Roswell and in a remote village near Aurangabad, India and a few other places. They are thinking it could have been as asteroid or meteor...but then again, it could just be a remnant of an unsuccessful alien attack in the past....
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