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Offline austinarg

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Game: Define the word
on: December 09, 2012, 05:24:09 PM
So I thought we could play a little game, while we wait for the world to end. Someone writes a word, and you have to define it. No Google, no Wikipedia, no anything, you have to use your own words. If you don't know what that word is, then write whatever you suppose it means.

Word: "awkward"
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Re: Game: Define the word
Reply #1 on: December 09, 2012, 05:25:10 PM
Very unusual in context of the situation?

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Re: Game: Define the word
Reply #2 on: December 09, 2012, 05:32:01 PM
Tastes like salt. Yuck.


Here comes my favourite word ever: "shenanigan"
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Re: Game: Define the word
Reply #3 on: December 09, 2012, 06:27:50 PM
Tastes like salt. Yuck.


Here comes my favourite word ever: "shenanigan"

A devious trick, usually used for questionable or underhand motives.

My favourite word as of today: guetapens

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Re: Game: Define the word
Reply #4 on: December 09, 2012, 06:56:00 PM
My favourite word as of today: guetapens
Penitentiaries for a certain gigantic ape-like species (gueta) from the planet Reach.

Agastopia is a nice word I came across recently.

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Re: Game: Define the word
Reply #5 on: December 09, 2012, 07:12:15 PM
Penitentiaries for a certain gigantic ape-like species (gueta) from the planet Reach.

Agastopia is a nice word I came across recently.

Paul

By the way, guetapens means an ambush or trap.

Agastopia: admiration of a person's body part

Omphaloskepsis is an interesting word.

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Re: Game: Define the word
Reply #6 on: December 09, 2012, 08:02:29 PM
Contemplation of one's navel for meditation purposes.

Word: ferromagnetism
"Beethoven wrote in three flats a lot. That's because he moved twice."

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Re: Game: Define the word
Reply #7 on: December 09, 2012, 08:04:51 PM
Contemplation of one's navel for meditation purposes.

Word: ferromagnetism

The mechanism by which certain metals, including iron, are attracted to magnets or form permanent magnets.

Word: ergatogyne

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Re: Game: Define the word
Reply #8 on: December 09, 2012, 09:44:49 PM
A very intelligent and knowledgeable woman. (After looking the word up, it turns out I wasn't even close!)

Word: quadriplegia

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Re: Game: Define the word
Reply #9 on: December 09, 2012, 09:54:43 PM

Word: quadriplegia


A form of paralysis which causes all four limbs to become immobile.

Word: phoresy

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Re: Game: Define the word
Reply #10 on: December 09, 2012, 10:07:36 PM
A form of paralysis which causes all four limbs to become immobile.

Word: phoresy

Has the characteristics of a phone?

swag
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Re: Game: Define the word
Reply #11 on: December 09, 2012, 10:25:34 PM


swag

An Australian bedroll, a verb meaning the same thing as "to swagger", or a slang word for a style generally considered "hip" or "cool".

Word: schoenabatist

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Re: Game: Define the word
Reply #12 on: December 09, 2012, 10:31:21 PM
Word: schoenabatist

A tight rope walker (I think)

word: "strine"

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Re: Game: Define the word
Reply #13 on: December 09, 2012, 10:40:48 PM
word: "strine"

The form of the English language and accent of Australia.

Word: epilegomenon

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Re: Game: Define the word
Reply #14 on: December 09, 2012, 10:51:37 PM
Word: epilegomenon

The libretto of "Hair".  ;D

Word: Frankelmoigne
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Re: Game: Define the word
Reply #15 on: December 09, 2012, 11:29:35 PM
Answer to things?
Word chirality
"Beethoven wrote in three flats a lot. That's because he moved twice."

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Re: Game: Define the word
Reply #16 on: December 09, 2012, 11:34:39 PM
Word chirality

The property of a figure that is not identical to its mirror image; that is, one cannot superimpose the object onto its mirror image in such a way that all the features coincide.

Word: sovkhoz

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Re: Game: Define the word
Reply #17 on: December 09, 2012, 11:40:52 PM
The property of a figure that is not identical to its mirror image; that is, one cannot superimpose the object onto its mirror image in such a way that all the features coincide.

Word: sovkhoz

Russian farm
Word. Galvanometer
"Beethoven wrote in three flats a lot. That's because he moved twice."

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Re: Game: Define the word
Reply #18 on: December 09, 2012, 11:46:56 PM
Russian farm
Word. Galvanometer

An instrument used to detect, measure, and calculate the direction of small electric currents.

Word: grimthorpe

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Re: Game: Define the word
Reply #19 on: December 09, 2012, 11:53:32 PM
An instrument used to detect, measure, and calculate the direction of small electric currents.

Word: grimthorpe
Interesting! I got something about remodeling without preserving the history of a building

Word translocation lol. In musical terms
"Beethoven wrote in three flats a lot. That's because he moved twice."

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Re: Game: Define the word
Reply #20 on: December 10, 2012, 12:02:23 AM
Interesting! I got something about remodeling without preserving the history of a building

Word translocation lol. In musical terms

Not quite sure in musical terms, but I do know that it means the act or instance of changing position, such as the transfer of part of a chromosome to a different location.

Word: pyopoiesis

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Re: Game: Define the word
Reply #21 on: December 10, 2012, 12:10:04 AM
Formation of pus / purulence ewww

Word pointillism
"Beethoven wrote in three flats a lot. That's because he moved twice."

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Re: Game: Define the word
Reply #22 on: December 10, 2012, 12:20:42 AM
Formation of pus / purulence ewww

Word pointillism

Artistic practice of applying small strokes onto a surface so that they appear to blend from a distance.

Word: psammon

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Re: Game: Define the word
Reply #23 on: December 10, 2012, 12:31:02 AM
Biota burried in sediments

Word  hemianopsia
"Beethoven wrote in three flats a lot. That's because he moved twice."

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Re: Game: Define the word
Reply #24 on: December 10, 2012, 12:36:11 AM
Biota burried in sediments

Word  hemianopsia

Loss of vision in half the visual field of one/both eyes.

Word: loxophthalmus

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Re: Game: Define the word
Reply #25 on: December 10, 2012, 12:40:01 AM
Loss of vision in half the visual field of one/both eyes.

Word: loxophthalmus

A type of squinting condition

Word xenomorph lol
"Beethoven wrote in three flats a lot. That's because he moved twice."

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Re: Game: Define the word
Reply #26 on: December 10, 2012, 12:44:19 AM
A type of squinting condition

Word xenomorph lol

Either a mineral that cannot form its crystal form due to crystallization between earlier crystals or a creature from the Alien films.

Word: lymacatexis

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Re: Game: Define the word
Reply #27 on: December 10, 2012, 12:59:24 AM
No Google, no Wikipedia, no anything

Ahem!
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Re: Game: Define the word
Reply #28 on: December 10, 2012, 01:02:36 AM
Ahem!

No dictionary? I cannot go on.  :-[
"Beethoven wrote in three flats a lot. That's because he moved twice."

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Re: Game: Define the word
Reply #29 on: December 10, 2012, 01:04:40 AM
Either a mineral that cannot form its crystal form due to crystallization between earlier crystals or a creature from the Alien films.

Word: lymacatexis


Hahahh
"Beethoven wrote in three flats a lot. That's because he moved twice."

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Re: Game: Define the word
Reply #30 on: December 10, 2012, 01:10:00 AM
Ahem!

I actually know the definitions of every word I defined. I have a pretty huge vocabulary.

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Re: Game: Define the word
Reply #31 on: December 10, 2012, 01:11:09 AM

Hahahh

Can someone define lymacatexis?

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Re: Game: Define the word
Reply #32 on: December 10, 2012, 01:13:53 AM
I actually know the definitions of every word I defined. I have a pretty huge vocabulary.

I know the definitions of the words i provided plus anything russian.  ::)
"Beethoven wrote in three flats a lot. That's because he moved twice."

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Re: Game: Define the word
Reply #33 on: December 10, 2012, 01:39:20 AM
I know the definitions of the words i provided plus anything russian.  ::)

I know the definitions of pretty much all the words in this thread. Now, will someone define lymacatexis?

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Re: Game: Define the word
Reply #34 on: December 10, 2012, 01:50:06 AM
I know the definitions of pretty much all the words in this thread. Now, will someone define lymacatexis?

Fascination with dirt
"Beethoven wrote in three flats a lot. That's because he moved twice."

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Re: Game: Define the word
Reply #35 on: December 10, 2012, 01:59:21 AM
Fascination with dirt

Excellent!  :) Now, another word for me to define?

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Re: Game: Define the word
Reply #36 on: December 10, 2012, 02:57:30 AM
Excellent!  :) Now, another word for me to define?

Scutage
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Re: Game: Define the word
Reply #37 on: December 10, 2012, 03:03:38 AM
Scutage

In feudalism, a tax paid by a vassal in lieu of offering military service.

Word: xenodocheionology (I'll be really surprised if anyone gets this right)



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Re: Game: Define the word
Reply #38 on: December 10, 2012, 03:08:50 AM
study of specific monastery buildings

word is decibel
"Beethoven wrote in three flats a lot. That's because he moved twice."

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Re: Game: Define the word
Reply #39 on: December 10, 2012, 03:12:21 AM
study of specific monastery buildings

word is decibel

A logarithmic unit of intensity/loudness of a sound relating it to a specific reference level.

Word: zeigarnik
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