Test your vocabulary...

[dwndrgn]

Choose the best description for each word:

1. Orgulus, adjective
a. having a large nose
b. given to fighting
c. hasty
d. proud

2. Ideate, verb
a. create or form ideas
b. bask in the sun
c. the act of looking into the future
d. chew slowly and carefully

3. Torrid, adjective
a. dull and lifeless
b. parched in the heat of the sun
c. wet, slippery; slimey
d. deflated

 

[Jayaprakash Satyamurthy]

Orgulus:No clue...although I'd go for 'having a large nose'.


Ideate: Create of form ideas


Torrid: Parched in the heat of the sun

 

[Brian G Turner]

Choose the best description for each word:

1. Orgulus, adjective
a. having a large nose
b. given to fighting
c. hasty
d. proud

2. Ideate, verb
a. create or form ideas
b. bask in the sun
c. the act of looking into the future
d. chew slowly and carefully

3. Torrid, adjective
a. dull and lifeless
b. parched in the heat of the sun
c. wet, slippery; slimey
d. deflated

Orgulus sounds like the name of a drunken Roman noble. But I'll risk public humiliation and suggest it as nose, simply because the word sounds like one.


Ideate - I'll risk the bleedin' obvious and go for "create ideas".

Torrid - as in a "torrid affair" - therefore wet, slippery, slimey, seems the most appropriate.

 

[Jayaprakash Satyamurthy]

I think you're right on 'torrid'...darn.


OK, dwndrgn, please tell us what orgulus is?

 

[dwndrgn]

Shall I reveal the answers when everyone hasn't had a chance to give it a whirl yet? Nah, I'll wait a bit. You guys will just have to look it up. By the way, I didn't know what it was either, I pulled it from a dictionary

 

[Brian G Turner]

I have a big thick Oxford dictionary next to me - but I ain't looking until more people have answered.

 

[erickad71]

1. Orgulus, adjective
a. having a large nose
b. given to fighting
c. hasty
d. proud

2. Ideate, verb
a. create or form ideas
b. bask in the sun
c. the act of looking into the future
d. chew slowly and carefully

3. Torrid, adjective
a. dull and lifeless
b. parched in the heat of the sun
c. wet, slippery; slimey
d. deflated

1.Orgulus: proud
2.Ideate: create or form ideas
3.Torrid: parched in the heat of the sun

So it's ok to use a dictionary then?

 

[mzarynn]

Choose the best description for each word:

1. Orgulus, adjective
a. having a large nose
b. given to fighting
c. hasty
d. proud

2. Ideate, verb
a. create or form ideas
b. bask in the sun
c. the act of looking into the future
d. chew slowly and carefully

3. Torrid, adjective
a. dull and lifeless
b. parched in the heat of the sun
c. wet, slippery; slimey
d. deflated

1. a- having a large nose
2. d- chew slowly and carefully
3. c- dull and lifeless

 

[dwndrgn]

The correct answers: D,A,B

New vocabulary: I'll list the words and you tell me what they mean...

Simulacrum
Abstruse
Conclave
Vulpine

 

[Brian G Turner]

Simulacrum: something pertaining to the similarity to the remnants of bread slices.
Abtuse: a posture that focuses attention on the abdominal muscles
Conclave: A hideout for terrorists who steal from one another
Vulpine: A rather strange German evergreen tree, that has sheep living on the branches.

 

[dwndrgn]

Simulacrum: something pertaining to the similarity to the remnants of bread slices.
Abtuse: a posture that focuses attention on the abdominal muscles
Conclave: A hideout for terrorists who steal from one another
Vulpine: A rather strange German evergreen tree, that has sheep living on the branches.

Very amusing. Not terribly erudite, but amusing just the same!

 

[Ahdkaw]

I don't know, I have a few feelings about them all, but I'm not 100% so I really can't give any answers.

Will be looking them up in the dictionary though, as I enjoy finding out about new words.

 

[Esioul]

Simulacrum: image?
Abstruse: hidden/secret?

Not sure about the others...

 

[Lacedaemonian]

1 = Proud
2 = Create, form ideas
3 = Parched in the heat of the sun

 

[dwndrgn]

jeremiad \jair-uh-MY-uhd\


And what does it mean?

 

[Hypes]

A lament. Much like a dirge, I imagine.

 

[dwndrgn]

Hypes is correct. A dirge is usually thought of as a musical jeremiad but can also be a written poem or story.

jeremiad \jair-uh-MY-uhd\, noun:
A tale of sorrow, disappointment, or complaint; a doleful story; also, a dolorous or angry tirade.

Moving on...next word...

glombe \Glombe\, Glome \Glome\

 

[Devillishgirl]

To look gloomy

 

[Esioul]

Pulchretudinous (probably misplet).

 

[polymorphikos]

Beautiful.