Words I Did Not Know That I Just Learned (1 Viewer)

[rockaction]

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I just learned the word “appellation,” which means a title given something.

 

[Zegras11]

dawn

 

[-fish-]

I recently learned that "vaguer"--as in more vague--is an actual word. I don't think I've ever heard anyone use it. It just sounds wrong.

 

[rockaction]

I recently learned that "vaguer"--as in more vague--is an actual word.

Could you be more specific? I feel like you couldn't be any vaguer.

 

[Terminalxylem]

Shirty mean foul tempered.

 

[rockaction]

Shirty mean foul tempered

I was shirty when I wrote that post about Rob Sheffield. I'm aware of the possibility he might be a great guy who devotes his spare time to helping the impoverished and wanting, but I just let it fly regardless.

 

[rockaction]

You'll all note the italicized font I'm using whenever I use the word being discussed in a sentence. That's because I'm here for you. All of you.

 

[tri-man 47]

Inchoate. It means rudimentary ..something new and so not yet fully formed. “FBG discussions are more meaningful when posters don’t share such inchoate thoughts.”

I’ve seen the word on rare occasion, but didn’t know what it meant. It popped up in a crossword puzzle.

 

[zamboni]

Inchoate. It means rudimentary ..something new and so not yet fully formed. “FBG discussions are more meaningful when posters don’t share such inchoate thoughts.”

Also can be defined as a place for snobby rich kids.

 

[rockaction]

Inchoate

Inchoate, pronounced in-ko-it for all you n00bs who didn't go to Choate Rosemary Hall (I didn't even know the proper way to say the name and it was in my home state—I always thought it was Rosemary Choate or something like that) and didn't have cocaine planes flown up from Colombia or Peru itself, is one of those words that is well-formed when considering that it takes three syllables (always a nice number) to pronounce what lesser knowing folks pronounce in two syllables, or like those folks, in one most of the time.

You're at least a syllable better and ahead of those made-in-the-shade ****ers that go to Choate. Remember that.

 

[rockaction]

I might keep editing that one post above until I get it right, damn it.

It was inchoate when I posted it, by the time I get done editing it'll be baroque.

 

[Ilov80s]

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I just learned the word “appellation,” which means a title given something.

I learned that one from wine. It's a very common term in the wine world.

 

[Andy Dufresne]

I love words.

I use terms like magnanimity and vainglorious in conversation and my friends look at me like cows at a new gate.

 

[rockaction]

magnanimity

usually to act generously and with honor

vainglorious

full of one's self

The speaker's gestures and words were seen for what they actually were; for they were not magnanimous in intent, but mere puffery. He had not acted generously; but rather, he hoped to satisfy his own vainglorious predilections when complimented in return.

 

[rockaction]

I learned that one from wine. It's a very common term in the wine world.

Knew I'd heard it somewhere before. At the curled lip of a sommelier, I guess. I don't know. I was never a wine-with-a-meal type of person. I was a liquor person, or beer when appropriate. Now I don't entertain any form of liquor whatsoever, so I never passed from the "probably a raging alcoholic drinking four drinks of liquor" to an "epicure with a taste for his gustatory pleasure that requires drinking four bottles of wine" type of guy. Because you can pass from alcoholic to epicure just like you can thread the eye of the needle to get into heaven. All it takes is a little know-how at the reception gate.

 

[Dr_Zaius]

...you can thread the eye of the needle to get into heaven

I was relieved to be told that "camel through the eye of a needle" was a mistranslation and should rather be "sturdy rope," because that reading never made any sense to me before.

 

[Hot Diggity Dog]

...you can thread the eye of the needle to get into heaven

I was relieved to be told that "camel through the eye of a needle" was a mistranslation and should rather be "sturdy rope," because that reading never made any sense to me before.

Interesting, I always thought it meant it was unpossible.

 

[rockaction]

sturdy rope

I'd heard it was sturdy dope, but that's probably just me.

And look! I'm going to hell as we speak.

 

[Hot Diggity Dog]

Played some Scrabble with the wife over the weekend. Put the word TIC down in anticipation of using it later as the end of a bigger word. Never worked out, mostly because I blanked on words that ended in TIC. Only came up with didactic. It is a cool story I thought I would share.

 

[rockaction]

Prophylactic

 

[rockaction]

antic
semantic
gigantic

 

[rockaction]

Gigantic - Remastered

Pixies · Song · 1988

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[rockaction]

Antics

Interpol · Album · 2004 · 10 songs.

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[Hot Diggity Dog]

I knew there were some I was missing.

 

[Andy Dufresne]

sturdy rope

I'd heard it was sturdy dope, but that's probably just me.

And look! I'm going to hell as we speak.

Sturdy dope - See: Rob Gronkowski

 

[rockaction]

Cause I'm out picking pockets at the Atlantic Antic
And nobody wants to hear you because your rhymes are so frantic . . .

 

[rockaction]

Shadrach

Beastie Boys · Song · 1989

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[tri-man 47]

Cause I'm out picking pockets at the Atlantic Antic
And nobody wants to hear you because your rhymes are so frantic . . .

After your earlier listing, this is somewhat anticlimactic.

 

[Ilov80s]

antic
semantic
gigantic

pedantic
rustic
septic
impressionistic
cryptic

 

[Jayrod]

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I just learned the word “appellation,” which means a title given something.

I don't think you need to be adding anything else to your vocabulary. You've already made me look up the definitions of more words through the years than anyone else.

 

[rockaction]

pedantic
rustic
septic
impressionistic
cryptic

syphilitic
necrotic
sclerotic

 

[rockaction]

dipstic(k)
lipstic(k)
hipstic(k)

 

[rockaction]

Stip-Tic™

 

[rockaction]

I don't think you need to be adding anything else to your vocabulary. You've already made me look up the definitions of more words through the years than anyone else.

I tended towards antipathy and slight obfuscation once upon a time. Now I aim more for empathy and direct understanding than I aim for written pyrotechnics. What's a stage dive with a fog machine?

 

[Bossman]

There should be an add for Tylenol at the end of this page.

 

[tri-man 47]

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I just learned the word “appellation,” which means a title given something.

I don't think you need to be adding anything else to your vocabulary. You've already made me look up the definitions of more words through the years than anyone else.

Waiting for @Andy Dufresne to show up and tell us our lives have been too obtuse.

 

[Terminalxylem]

I might keep editing that one post above until I get it right, damn it.

It was inchoate when I posted it, by the time I get done editing it'll be baroque.

If it’s not baroque, don’t fix it.

 

[Andy Dufresne]

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I just learned the word “appellation,” which means a title given something.

I don't think you need to be adding anything else to your vocabulary. You've already made me look up the definitions of more words through the years than anyone else.

Waiting for @Andy Dufresne to show up and tell us our lives have been too obtuse.

Wonton use of that word leads to discussion about sodomites.

 

[Terminalxylem]

Quixotic is the scrabble play, though waiting for that slate of letters might be foolishly impractical, idealistic bordering idiotic.

 

[zamboni]

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I just learned the word “appellation,” which means a title given something.

I don't think you need to be adding anything else to your vocabulary. You've already made me look up the definitions of more words through the years than anyone else.

Waiting for @Andy Dufresne to show up and tell us our lives have been too obtuse.

Wonton use of that word leads to discussion about sodomites.

You're on a (egg) roll.

 

[whoknew]

Rizz

 

[Zow]

Inchoate. It means rudimentary ..something new and so not yet fully formed. “FBG discussions are more meaningful when posters don’t share such inchoate thoughts.”

I’ve seen the word on rare occasion, but didn’t know what it meant. It popped up in a crossword puzzle.

This is a significant term in criminal law as it describes the types of offenses where, arguably, the "regular" crime itself has not yet been completed but the attempt or conspiracy to complete it is still criminalized by statute.

 

[ignatiusjreilly]

Inchoate. It means rudimentary ..something new and so not yet fully formed. “FBG discussions are more meaningful when posters don’t share such inchoate thoughts.”

I’ve seen the word on rare occasion, but didn’t know what it meant. It popped up in a crossword puzzle.

Random fact I know about inchoate: Unlike with words such as inconceivable or inconvenient, the first two letters are not a prefix meaning "not". However, the misperception that they are led to the "back formation" of the word choate, meaning, "perfected, complete or certain". Apparently Antonin Scalia once admonished a lawyer arguing before the Supreme Court for using that word, which makes me appreciate it all the more

 

[Long Ball Larry]

Atavistic
Fetishistic
Eidetic
Semiotics
Solipsistic
Psychosomatic
Diuretic
Peripatetic

 

[rockaction]

Semiotics

Hide the Chef Boyardee, please.

 

[New Binky the Doormat]

****monics

 

[Ilov80s]

****monics

********ality

 

[jabarony]

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I just learned the word “appellation,” which means a title given something.

I don't think you need to be adding anything else to your vocabulary. You've already made me look up the definitions of more words through the years than anyone else.

I do enjoy rockaction posts. Always a kick in the pants to reach for the dictionary.

 

[rockaction]

Psychosomatic

Breathe

The Prodigy · Song · 1997

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[rockaction]

I do enjoy rockaction posts. Always a kick in the pants to reach for the dictionary.

I'm touched! Really! Don't know what to say. Glad I give off a good vibe rather than something negative.