Great Words

[Turtle]

empyrean

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[Turtle]

beattitudinal

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[Spiked Blood]

Termagant

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[Turtle]

cachinnation

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[Michaelangelica]

Termagant

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&

Virago

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[Boerseun]

Boneacide, or, Death by Viagra.

[Michaelangelica]

Anthropomorphism

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[Tarantism]

jovial!

[Turtle]

declamatory

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[Turtle]

institutionalization

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[Boerseun]

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[Turtle]

malfeasant

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[Turtle]

multilingualism

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[Michaelangelica]

Stolen

and perhaps a bit sus from

http://groups.google.com/group/rec.puzzles/browse_thread/thread/976af3199b22d987/31756c18443810d2?q=Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane&rnum=7#31756c18443810d2

 

From: mensanator - view profile

Date: Thurs, Mar 13 2003 12:01 pm

Email: [email protected] (mensanator)

 

 

 

> > supercalifragilisticexpialidocious 379 > > polyhydroxybutyrate 299 > > transubstantiationalist 298 > > untrustworthiness 283 > > extraterritoriality 269 > > Fuzzywuzzy 225

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> Found these over 300:

> antidisestablishmentarianism 307

> dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane 348

> Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch 740

> pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis 560

> polytetrafluoroethylene 313

> supercalifragilisticexpialidocious 379

 

[ 21 oversuperstitiousness 328 21 quitranstulitsustinet 328 22 dacryocystosyringotomy 328 25 syngenesiotransplantation 326 19 subsultorysubsultus 326 31 pluscachangepluscestlamemechose 324 24 quothominestotsententiae 323 20 overpresumptuousness 321 23 butylatedhydroxytoluene 321 24 preobtrudingpreobtrusion 321 24 oxidativephosphorylation 320 24 pseudohypoparathyroidism 320 24 proximalconvolutedtubule 320 [/size]

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[Turtle]

tumidity

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[infamous]

tumidity

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....bombastiosity......

................indeed...............

[Michaelangelica]

Perspicacious

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(Adjective)

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Pronunciation: [p�r-spi-'key-sh�s]

 

Definition 1: Displaying insightful mental capacities and/or shrewd discernment.

 

Usage 1: The noun is "perspicacity" [p�r-spi-'k�-si-ti]. A shrewd person has a practical kind of intelligence and a sagacious one has knowledge usually accumulated over time. "Perspicacious" implies an ability to perceive hidden truths and to understand what puzzles others.

 

Suggested usage: As you can see, this is a word that should be part of a lexical arsenal for distinguishing different kinds of intelligence. "She was very perspicacious to remain aloof from him when he started asking her to trust him." "He is so perspicacious he can predict market trends from the thickness of Alan Greenspan's briefcase." (yourDictionary thanks and congratulates Jacqueline Williams for suggesting today's lovely word, with which she recently flabbergasted her doctor and herself simultaneously.)

 

Etymology: From Latin perspicere "to look through" from per "through" + spicere "see, look." Akin to perspective. The PIE root underlying "spicere," *spek-, also gave us "spy." It metathesized (the consonants switched places) to skop- in Greek, whence all the Greek words on -scope borrowed by English: "telescope," "microscope," "periscope." (For more on PIE, read "Words: Where do they Come from" in the yourDictionary library.)