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on lacunae, quotato said:
"The media behemoth slouching after the senator is scouring his every word, expression, bead of sweat, basketball shot and accessory — are those..." more...
on divination, quotato said:
"successful conjecture by unusual insight or good luck, conversely; good insight or unusual luck..." more...
on teetotalism, quotato said:
"Nephalism, temperance, abstinence and restraint are synonyms for teetotalism. Abstinence and restraint have other, sometimes sexual..." more...
on senescence, quotato said:
"Young pop stars never die---they just fake away" more...
on subjunctive, quotato said:
"I am really getting tired of discovering new words that keep popping up out of nowhere..." more...
on discomfiture, quotato said:
The Strong Word Discomfit Got Weaker
"discomfit used to used as "to be defeated"

c.1225, from O.Fr. desconfit, pp. of desconfire "to defeat, destroy," from des- "not" + confire "make,..." more...
on misspeak, quotato said:
"The word "misspeak" has a long and varied history, says John Simpson, chief editor of the Oxford English Dictionary.

"It goes back to the Old..." more...
on flagitious, quotato said:
"Latin meaning of flagitious= To incite to lewdness" more...
on the list Dictionary.com Word Of The Day, quotato said:
"insolence was Yahoo word of the day for 15Feb2008" more...
on vertiginous, quotato said:
"Looking at that word vertiginous is making me dizzy." more...
on gormless, quotato said:
"A place where everyone is happy: a gormitory" more...
on the list I Must Emancipate These Words From My Brain! I'm Goin Crazy!, quotato said:
"Me to. I am vexed by the word vexed:*)" more...
on cohort, quotato said:
"A legion of Wordies marching through the dictionary.

1422, from L. cohortem, acc. of cohors "enclosure," meaning extended to "infantry company" in..." more...
on hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia, quotato said:
"Add another wicked wordie to the hexakosioihexekontahexaphobialist" more...
on decorum, quotato said:
"In accordance with its etymology, is that
which is becoming in outward act or appearance;
as,the decorum of a public assembly. Dignity springs from..." more...
on vade mecum, quotato said:
"Latin "Go With Me"---a pocket handbook=vade mecum" more...
on chastisement, quotato said:
"Are too many words a form of chastisement?" more...
on triptych, quotato said:
"word
word
word" more...
on avulsed, quotato said:
define:
"to pull off or tear away forcibly: to avulse a ligament." more...
on clunky, quotato said:
Let the truth about computers be revealed:
"awkwardly heavy or clumsy: clunky software applications; clunky client-server." more...
on inefficacious, quotato said:
Alan Greenspan used this word
"inefficacious on National Public radio today (thursday, 20 September 2007)." more...
on supernal, quotato said:
Dictionary.com word of the day for Thursday 30 August 2007
"supernal very lofty word" more...
on insufferable, quotato said:
A Proper Use Of The Word Insufferable
"THERE’S nothing wrong with self-pity. As a spur to songwriting, it’s right up there with lust, anger and greed, and probably better than the..." more...
on matutinal, quotato said:
Where This Word Started, Probably Coined Early in the Morning
"MATUTINAL, pertaining to the morning, early. (L.) Matutinal
is in Blount's Gloss., ed. 1674 ; mainline in Kersey, ed. 1715.—
Lat. matutinalis,..." more...
on coruscate, quotato said:
Dictionary.com Word Of The Day For Friday 27 July 2007
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on vitriolic, quotato said:
Acid Wordie
"a sulfurous denunciation"; "a vitriolic critique" more...
on counterfactual, quotato said:
usage note:
"Running contrary to the facts: "Cold war historiography vividly illustrates how the selection of the counterfactual question to be asked generally..." more...
on flivver, quotato said:
"Henry Ford was called "The Flivver King"...." more...
on the list Bombs Away!, quotato said:
"A bomb
H bomb" more...
on travesty, quotato said:
"Travesty of justice" more...
on serrefine, quotato said:
This Word Was The Final Word At The 80th National Spelling Bee
"WASHINGTON — The winner of the spelling bee sounded as if he'd rather be at a math Olympiad. Thirteen-year-old Evan O'Dorney of Danville, Calif.,..." more...
on white hot, quotato said:
"Disc 1: The 1944 VPO Eroica is an incredibly white-hot reading - quite simply one of the greatest ... Symphony 9: Berlin Philharmonic, 22-24 March..." more...
on instant classic, quotato said:
"Could this be High School Musical and it's soon to be released sequel?" more...
on noctilucent, quotato said:
NASA Space Craft Launches on Wednesday April 25, 2007
"NIGHT-SHINING CLOUDS: NASA's AIM spacecraft left Earth Wednesday on a two-year mission to study mysterious noctilucent (night-shining) clouds...." more...
on upsurge, quotato said:
Word Usage
"There has been an upsurge in the use of the word surge." more...
on phat, quotato said:
A Deep and Phat Bass Note From A Synth
"I always hear the word phat used when the synth gets real low and fat sounding. Ya all remember that Moog Synth. They have a new board out now..." more...
on aplomb, quotato said:
Brad Delp Lead Singer For Boston Passes Away
"They were the only local act to regularly perform two nights a month there when Boston wasn't on tour -- and the principal draw was Brad, who sang..." more...
on apophthegm, quotato said:
Also Known As
"apothegm" more...
on uneducated, quotato said:
The More I Study Words
"The more I feel uneducated" more...
on perchance, quotato said:
Perchance I Shall Improve My Vocabulary
"or, at least I shall dream about it." more...
on spectrograph, quotato said:
ExoPlanets give up their light and elements today Wednesday 21Feb2007
"In the new studies, Spitzer's spectrograph, which measures infrared light at a range of wavelengths, stared at the two transiting planets as they..." more...
on apropos, quotato said:
Prior comment is apropos
"and, what is that last letter s for?" more...
on milquetoast, quotato said:
Casper Milqueghost
"Casper first appeared in a cartoon entitled (appropriately enough) The Friendly Ghost, based on an unpublished story written by Seymour V. Reit" more...
on moil, quotato said:
Word Of The Day September 11, 2001
"http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/moil says that moil was their word of the day on that most infamous day. When you read the meaning of this..." more...
on transmittendum, quotato said:
Meaning Of Above Suject Work
"TRANSMITTENDUM, _pl._ TRANSMITTENDA or TRANSMITTENDUMS. Anything
transmitted, or handed down from one to another.

Students, on withdrawing from..." more...
on hype, quotato said:
Advertisement
"I'm just trying to hype the word hype." more...
on distribution, quotato said:
Meaning No. 10 From Dictionary Dot Com
"10. the marketing, transporting, merchandising, and selling of any item." more...
on locktender, quotato said:
Monster.com
"boy oh boy, I wish I could find a job like that... :*)" more...
on panoply, quotato said:
Short Paste of Net Usage of Panoply
"It’s an impressive panoply of moonbat leftist self-loathing, exemplified by Republican political leaders holding hands with the Devil...." more...
on gutch's profile, quotato said:
"Congrats on being the first person to list the word incunabulumon wordie.org. The first use of this word is one of the meanings of the word." more...
on sagacity, quotato said:
Bill Gates Keynote Speech
"Gates’ lack of news or sagacity was doubly troubling for the elaborate protocol required to get in, including making people sit in the auditorium..." more...
on mnemosyne, quotato said:
"Ahhhh! I must remember this word." more...
on wordie, quotato said:
"Could wordie be virtual vebosity? Who cares---I still like it." more...
on schadenfreude, quotato said:
"The next time I see someone fall on the ice I am going to help them up." more...
on quotidian, quotato said:
"Oh no! My wordie name is quotato---sounds like word quotidian" more...
on the list Beautiful Music, quotato said:
"The bottom line is basso profundo" more...
on xenolalia, quotato said:
"I get it. Sort of like I am running a computer and REALLY have not learnt the computer programming language" more...
on blurb, quotato said:
"sounds like suburb, or worse yet, sub-blurb" more...
on nisus, quotato said:
quick def
"an effort or striving toward a particular goal or attainment; impulse." more...
on Kaichi's profile, quotato said:
"We are all drowning in a bowl of alphabet soup. Yet, what a way to go...." more...
on actually, quotato said:
The most abused spoken word in the English Language Used in 2006
"The word "actually", an adverb, is spoken both publically, and in private conversations, like a skipping CD." more...
on quotato's profile, quotato said:
Why I typed duhhh
"Definition


Onomatopoeia is the use of a word that denotes a


* sound suggested by the phonetic quality of the word, or
* thing that..." more...
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