Test your vocabulary...

[Pyan]

Correct, Teresa


peruke .......kind of wig
phaeton.....a light carriage
etui ...........I think it's a needlecase

Colliod

Bronchus

Fletton

(no connection)

 

[Lenny]

Bronchus is part of the lungs - the trachea splits into two more 'tubes' (the bronchi) which split into smaller 'tubes' (bronchioles) which in turn split into millions of tiny 'air sacks' (alveoli).

 

[Talysia]

If I remember from catering college, it's the Italian for "Sunflower"
It was corrupted to Jerusalem in Jerusalem artichokes, which are not even remotely related to proper artichokes, but are related to sunflowers
(lecture over - sorry!)

I didn't know that! As far as I knew, there was one definition of girasol - a name for a type of fire opal. Finding that out, and having checked the dictionary, it gives both definitions. Well, I've learned something today!


Hmm, Colliod and Fletton still to get. I'll have to try and kickstart my brain!

 

[HareBrain]

Choose the best description for each word:

1. Orgulus, adjective

Amazing: I just googled "orgulus" and this thread was the first hit! Chrons is clearly the go-to site for seekers after obscure, slightly misspelled words.

(Yes, it's Saturday night and this is the most interesting thing I've found to do. Weep for me.)

 

[Jo Zebedee]

Amazing: I just googled "orgulus" and this thread was the first hit! Chrons is clearly the go-to site for seekers after obscure, slightly misspelled words.

(Yes, it's Saturday night and this is the most interesting thing I've found to do. Weep for me.)

Ze poor little hare, it isss terrible, ze poor thing

Sob, sob

Since i responded i think i might be equally sad....

 

[Abernovo]

Fletton (not sure if this is the definition you're looking for) is a type of brick, named for the Fletton area of Peterborough, in Cambridgeshire.

I lived there temporarily, hence the knowledge.

HB, my Saturday night is equally boring, if not more so.

 

[HareBrain]

Since i responded i think i might be equally sad....

I just worked out, from our respective join dates and post counts, that if we'd posted at the same rate since joining it would now be April 2022.

 

[Jo Zebedee]

I just worked out, from our respective join dates and post counts, that if we'd posted at the same rate since joining it would now be April 2022.

Eh? I am not good at maths, small explanation please. If you could do it over three posts i could get the dreaded out of the way and bury my head in shame over how i spend my time...

Forget it, i have worked it out, thanks to gary...

 

[Gary Compton]

I just worked out, from our respective join dates and post counts, that if we'd posted at the same rate since joining it would now be April 2022.

Is it not the Hare and the Tortoise syndrome?

Hang on a minute Gary. HB is the Hare.

So...

Sorry back to my bottle of wine. I'm clearly suffering from wobblygob

 

[alternatesanity]

Simulacrum - bearing a resemblance to, a copy of, such as a painting or statue, not an exact copy - something like that.
Abstruse - sounds painful - no idea.
Conclave - a group of people meeting to discuss and decide on something, like a new pope to give a recent example.
Vulpine - fox like, having characteristics like a fox such as cunning.

Looked up the dictionary on Abstruse so now I know.

A bit behind here, interesting word exercises to tease the brain.

 

[Mirannan]

OK, here are three:

Exoteric
Incantatrix
Bromeliad

none of which I've ever had occasion to use.

 

[Lenny]

As an "exo-", I guess it's something outward (such as in exothermic, and extrovert), and because it looks like esoteric, I'm going to guess that exoteric is the opposite, and thus relates to something meant to be understood by many?

Haven't the foggiest about the other two.

But by the same logical process, I'm going to relate incantatrix to incantation and dominatrix, and come to the conclusion that an incantatrix is that member of any magical group who likes to be the one who says all the incantations.

 

[AnyaKimlin]

Bromeliad is a plant - remember seeing one in a book recently.

Agree with Lenny:
Incant means to chant - trix is woman so priestess? or possibly a singer - or if it is from the latin it could me a charming woman, or witch.

and that exoteric - means something generally known.

 

[Mouse]

I have two bromeliads. They're both guzmanias. One I grew from a baby, the other's pretty dead and needs chucking out.

 

[Kylara]

Hehe love these...lets see...

Exoteric - understood by general public (or some such - generally known sort fo thing)

Incantatrix - going with latiny things here - chanty woman - so most likely preistess or witch (but I am sure I have come across it in a game...)

Bromeliad - a type of plant (like a pineapple!)

 

[Mirannan]

"Incantatrix" is a bit more general than either witch or priestess. It's a woman who casts magic spells by use of incantations (chants) so would include some priestesses and some witches.

Kylara, I think you're right. It's an arcane prestige class in D&D.

Incidentally, "exoteric" is one of that class of words that is most definitely not self-referential.

 

[Lenny]

A few more nice words to have a crack at:

apricity
callipygian
chthonic

 

[J Riff]

Geez, three toughies. Without cheating.... hmmmm.
apricity ... swiftness, celerity? Prolly not. (wrong!)
callipygian gotta be some kind of handwriting, runes...? (ouch! wrong!)
cthonic...well autocthones... robotic and uhh, big. (wrongO!)
turrible. Good luck whoevers next. No cheating.

 

[jastius]

apricity .. visibly estimatable
callipygian .. having to do with steam calliaopes..
cthonic.. lethargic

okay.. wrong..