Monday, February 8, 2010

I'm going to optatively carbando your spartina!

Nouns

1. Mnemosyne - the Greek goddess of memory and mother of the Muses by Zeus

2. wunderkind - a child prodigy; also : one who succeeds in a competitive or highly difficult field or profession at an early age

3. isochrony - the fact or state of occurrence at the same time; contemporaneity.

4. spartina - rope. cord

5. elephantopus - perennial American herb



Adjectives

1. optative - of, relating to, or constituting a verbal mood that is expressive of wish or desire

2. catechizable - instructed orally by means of questions and answers

3. matrilocal - of or pertaining to residence with the wife's family or tribe

4. hypercatalectic - having an extra syllable or syllables at the end of a metrically complete line

5. globuliferous - containing or producing globules (a small spherical body)

Verbs

1. carbando - to slice or cut

2. machicolate - to provide with machicolations (an opening in the floor between the corbels of a projecting gallery or parapet, as on a wall or in the vault of a passage, through which missiles, molten lead, etc., might be cast upon an enemy beneath)

3. absquatulate - to flee

4. neoterize - to coin new words, terms, or expressions

5. guggle - to gurgle! :)

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