My word for the day is intercalate.

[Xipe Totec]

Usage:

Let me intercalate this totally random word into the discussion.



What's your word for the day?

And please, use it in a sentence.

:hi:

[Ivan Sputnik]

1. clinquant

(adj): glittering, like gold or silver

"No, there are too many of these fine sparks you talk of who perhaps may be very clinquant, slight, and bright and make a very pretty show at first, but the tinsel-gentlemen do so tarnish in the wearing, there's no enduring them."
--Thomas Shadwell, The Virtuoso

[Xipe Totec]

2. So, there is such a thing as faux bling-bling?

:rofl:

[LynzM]

3. perfidious

Of, relating to, or characterized by perfidy:

perfidy: n.
1 : the quality or state of being faithless or disloyal : treachery
2 : an act or an instance of disloyalty

That perfidious bastard! :rofl:

[Xipe Totec]

4. Casa Blanca - An interesting factoid

When Rick and Ilsa dance, the song that they dance to is called "Perfidy"

Though no words are ever uttered, anyone raised in Mexico will recognize the song instantly.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0Skao81GIQ

[ashling]

6. A beautiful song.

My dad used to play that. It was also very popular with big bands in the 40s.

[BlueIris]

5. Sibilant. As in the phrase:

"My sibilant cats are annoying the crap out of me."

(Sibilant means hissing.)

[Xipe Totec]

12. Onomatopoeic

I love onomatopoeic words like sibilant.

[ashling]

7. Panglossian

Pan⋅gloss⋅i⋅an - overly optimistic in face of reality from a character in Voltaire's Candide who claimed that this is the best of all possible worlds

[Xipe Totec]

14. So this administration panglosses?

as in glosses over everything?

[Dr. Strange]

8. Pogonotrophy

Usage:

I think I'll use the word pogonotrophy in Xipe Totec's thread.

[Xipe Totec]

11. Now there's a hirsute subject n/t

:hi:

[Dr. Strange]

13. Admittedly, discussions on pogonotrophy tend to get somewhat hairy.

[Raven]

9. I LOVE this thread! But I'm so busy looking these words up that

I can't add any of my own!

[kentauros]

10. Cuneate

Cuneiform is a cuneate script of ancient Persia.

By the way, I learned that word over on http://freerice.com/index.php

:D