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Nice to *see* you, Meeralee. I learned tenebrous from you today. When I saw the word, I immediately thought of Christian Holy Week Tenebrae services. I had never known where the wordTenebrae came from. Reading the definition of tenebrous, it now makes sense.
I keep meaning to make a list for the words that I just don't seem to "get," no matter how many times I look them up.
Agree on all three, sionnach!
bimonthly, biennial, next weekend; each of these gives rise to hilarious misunderstandings on occasion, in my neck of the woods.
pwned!!
Well, it might be a candidate for someone else's list of the same name...
:-)
decimate might be a candidate for this list. I think I understand it correctly myself, but it seems to cause a fair amount of confusion.
I think of it the same way you do.
Oh, I was okay with nonplussed until aforementioned friend confused me. ;-)
Meeralee, how about sempiternal? It always makes me think "semi-eternal," which is nonsensical anyway!
Whenever I hear nonplussed I think of the classic Tom Swifty: "That just doesn't add up", said Tom, nonplussed. (sorry!)
reestee, that's funny -- nonplussed sounds exactly like its meaning to me. ;-)
sionnach, enervating is definitely an odd one. It helps me that I kind of sigh when I say it.
I'm adding some of these to the list!
I get into a loop about the word enervating. I'm always inclined to think it means something along the lines of energizing or invigorating, but its actual meaning is closer to debilitating, weakening or unsettling.
I have figured out, though, that fulsome and noisome don't mean what they suggest.
I agree, meeralee. It does "sound" like a stubborn word.
I have a friend who always uses the word nonplussed as exactly the opposite of what it actually means. Now *I* get confused when I use it. :-)
...I always think it means "stubborn." Not only that, but I think it _should_ mean "stubborn."