Friday, August 22, 2003

Cool Words

According to MSN these are the cool words everyone should know:

1. Defenestrate: "throw somebody or something out of window: to throw something or somebody out of a window (formal or humorous)"
2. Garbology: "study of waste materials: the study of a cultural group by an examination of what it discards"
3. Digerati: "computer experts: people who have or claim to have a sophisticated expertise in the area of computers, the Internet, and the World Wide Web"
4. Antipodes:
1. "places at opposite sides of world: places at opposite sides of the world from each other, or the areas at the side of the world opposite from a given place"
2. "opposites: two points, places, or things that are diametrically opposite each other"
5. Hallux: "first digit on the foot: the big toe on the human foot, or the first digit on the hind foot of some mammals, birds, reptiles, and amphibians (technical)"
6. Otiose:
1. "not effective: with no useful result or practical purpose"
2. "worthless: with little or no value"
3. "lazy: unwilling or uninterested in working or being active (archaic)"
7. Cullet: "glass to be recycled: broken or waste glass returned for recycling"
Don't forget to take the cullet out to the curbside, and be sure to put it next to the trash, not in it.
8. Pellucid:
1. "clear in meaning: easy to understand or clear in meaning (formal)"
2. "transparent: allowing all or most light to pass through (literary)"
The police officer's warning was pellucid: drivers must go the speed limit in the school zone.
9. Borborygmus: "stomach rumble: the rumbling sounds made by the movement of gases in the stomach and intestine (technical)"
If you lay your head on someone's stomach, you are likely to hear borborygmus
and
10. Embrangle: "perplex somebody: to confuse, perplex, or entangle somebody or something (archaic)"

I have to say that I love the word Borborygmus. I love that there is a word for when your stomach is rumbling.




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