How many words are in your vocabulary? The average high school graduate is said to know about 10,000 words. The average 4-year college graduate is said to know about 20,000 words. Do you have room for any more words in your vocabulary?
Here are some interesting words, which you may not know.
Upon learning an interesting word, if you’re like me, you’ll be tempted to work it into a conversation to improve your vocabulary or just to see the expression on your friends’ faces. Since this is an online conversation, maybe you’re feeling a little motivated now.
If after reviewing this list of eleven, you feel up for a challenge, please read through to the Word Power Exercise.
Eleven Interesting Words
Lamprophony Loudness and clarity of voice
Floccinaucinihilipilification Estimation that something is valueless.
Rhinotillexomania Habitual or obsessive nose-picking
Honorificabilitudinitatibus In honor
Deipnosophist One who excels at conversations at the dinner table
Sesquipedalian Using long words
Farctate Full (as from eating) to the point of bursting; completely satiated
Onychophagist Person who bites his fingernails
Bloviate To Speak or Discourse at Length in a Pompous or Boastful Manner
Dextrorotatory Turning Clockwise or to the Right
Eleemosynary Relating to Charity, Alms, or Almsgiving
Word Power Exercise:
See how many of these Eleven Interesting Words (EIW) you can include in a 50 word (or less) comment. The only two rules are: 1. Your comment must make sense, and 2. You may not use any of the EIWs directly beside another one, such as in a list. Have fun, and add your blog address, so visitors can stop by and say Hi.
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Cna yuo raed tihs? Olny 55 plepoe out of 100 can.
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BARACK OBAMA:
The chicken crossed the road because it was time for a CHANGE!
The chicken wanted CHANGE!
JOHN McCAIN: My friends, that chicken crossed the road because he recognized
the need to engage in cooperation and dialogue with all the chickens
on the other side of the road.
HILLARY CLINTON:
When I was First Lady, I personally helped that little chicken
to cross the road. This experience makes me uniquely qualified to
ensure – right from Day One! — that every chicken in this country
gets the chance it deserves to cross the road. But then, this really
isn’t about me.
DR. PHIL:
The problem we have here is that this chicken won’t realize that he
must first deal with the problem on ‘”THIS ” side of the road before it
goes after the problem on the “OTHER SIDE” of the road. What we need to
do is help him realize how stupid he’s acting by not taking on his
“CURRENT” problems before adding “NEW” problems.
GEORGE W. BUSH:
We don’t really care why the chicken crossed the road. We just want
to know if the chicken is on our side of the road, or not. The chicken
is either against us, or for us. There is no middle ground here.
PAT BUCHANAN:
To steal the job of a decent, hardworking American.
DR SEUSS:
Did the chicken cross the road?
Did he cross it with a toad?
Yes, the chicken crossed the road,
but why it crossed I’ve not been told.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY:
To die in the rain. Alone.
GRANDPA:
In my day we didn’t ask why the chicken crossed the road. Somebody
told us the chicken crossed the road, and that was good enough.
BARBARA WALTERS:
Isn’t that interesting? In a few moments, we will be listening to
the chicken tell, for the first time, the heart warming story of how
it experienced a serious case of molting, and went on to accomplish
its life long dream of crossing the road.
JOHN LENNON:
Imagine all the chickens in the world crossing roads together, in
peace.
ALBERT EINSTEIN:
Did the chicken really cross the road, or did the road move beneath
the chicken?
BILL CLINTON:
I did not cross the road with THAT chicken. What is your definition
of chicken?
AL GORE: I invented the chicken!
COLONEL SANDERS:
Did I miss one?
AL SHARPTON:
Why are all the chickens white? We need some black chickens.
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