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Joined: 5/31/2008
Location: South Florida - Zone 9B/10
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Posted: Apr/14/2009 7:26 AM PST

Hi all:

Because I love words and adding to my vocabulary I thought it might be fun to start a new game. First player posts a new word, next players defines and posts a new word. Pretty simple. I hope alot will play.

new word - irascible
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Joined: 9/12/2006
Location: Northern, NJ
Posts: 8371
Posted: Apr/14/2009 2:34 PM PST

Easily provoked to anger; very irritable: an irascible old (wo)man.

New word: phlegmatic.
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Joined: 3/28/2008
Location: Lancaster, SC
Posts: 16637
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Posted: Apr/15/2009 1:55 AM PST

having a slow and stolid temperament

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eidetic
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Location: Northern, NJ
Posts: 8371
Posted: Apr/15/2009 12:15 PM PST

Of, relating to, or marked by extraordinarily detailed and vivid recall of visual images.

New word: deistic
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Location: Lancaster, SC
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Posted: Apr/16/2009 3:40 AM PST

pertaining to a movement that advocated natural religion, emphasizing morality, and denying the interference of the Creator with the laws of the universe.

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sesquipedalian
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Location: Northern, NJ
Posts: 8371
Posted: Apr/17/2009 1:16 AM PST

Given to or characterized by the use of long words.

New word: exedra
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Location: South Florida - Zone 9B/10
Posts: 782
Posted: Apr/17/2009 5:01 AM PST

1. a room or covered area open on one side, used as a meeting place.
2. a permanent outdoor bench, semicircular in plan and having a high back.

New Word: verisimilitude
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Joined: 9/06/2007
Location: Kellyville, Okla
Posts: 2176
Posted: Apr/18/2009 12:40 PM PST

Verisimilitude in its literary context is defined as the fact or quality of being verisimilar, the appearance of being true or real; likeness or resemblance of the truth, reality or a fact's probability

new word hoick
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Location: Lancaster, SC
Posts: 16637
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Posted: Apr/18/2009 1:00 PM PST

to yank

New Word:

opprobrium
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Joined: 9/12/2006
Location: Northern, NJ
Posts: 8371
Posted: Apr/18/2009 1:14 PM PST

The disgrace or the reproach incurred by conduct considered outrageously shameful.

new word: obloquy
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