I have no idea if this will work or not, but this was a game suggested to me by my logophile friend. He suggests that we post a definition, and then someone will post the word, adding another definition. As my friend says, what good are words anyway if you don't remember their meaning. This will help us to recall some meanings. I will start:
A layer or series of layers of sediment deposited in a body of still water in one year.
What is the word? If you know, post the word and a definition of your own.
BTW, there is no scoring in this game! This message has been edited. Last edited by: Kalleh,
This may be too hard of a word. My logophile friend is quite erudite! I will give it a couple of days. If no one gets the word, I will then post another definition that's easier.
If that doesn't take, well, then I will know that no one is interested in this game.
To be honest, I may be the one person in America who doesn't watch Jeopardy, so I don't know.
I did get a PM from someone who Googled and got the answer. He/she may have felt that was cheating, though I wish he/she would post it anyway. There is no cheating in this game!
This isn't a game of scoring, and I wouldn't consider the use of Google or something else cheating. While I have never in my life found a reverse dictionary that's any good, maybe someone would even find that helpful. To me (and my logophile friend), this is a way to learn words and definitions. As my friend says, we often see a word once or twice, but then forget it. If this game can help us know even 5 or 6 more words, it's a winner!
One more day, and then I will give the answer and maybe ditch this game.
One entry found for varve. Main Entry: varve Pronunciation: 'värv Function: noun Etymology: Swedish varv turn, layer; akin to Old Norse hvarf ring, Old English hweorfan to turn -- more at WHARF : a pair of layers of alternately finer and coarser silt or clay believed to comprise an annual cycle of deposition in a body of still water
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If we were playing the TV game, Jeapordy, the answer would be, "What is quinoa?" Well, that's one answer anyway. I think it's also called "Inca wheat."
Asa got it! It is quinoa.... a lovely grain by the way. It makes a really fine, nutty tasting bread, though I always combine it with other flours. But if you have someone who can't tolerate gluten, this is the flour for them.
Grrrr! These things are much harder than I had imagined. Now, I find myself reading about airline fuselage structure, including the tension, compression, bending, shear stress, and torsion. Now, I did learn a few new words, but not what Asa wants, I fear. "Semimonocoque" is the most often used construction for modern, high-performance aircraft. It literally means "half a single shell."
It is the structural "members" that is getting me. "Members?"
It is a good thing this game isn't scored, or I'd be even more frustrated!
Great, you got it! It's one of my favorite words. The fact is, it can be used for any kind of a situation where there is a panic before approaching something...like Christmas shopping! However, I used the common definition from tsuwm's dictionary.
Interestingly, I was sitting on a plane yesterday next to a fellow from Dresden, Germany. I asked him about this word, and he hadn't heard of it! I really love German words, and I think one of my favorite vocabulary themes was the one on German words that wordcrafter did a long time ago.
"Torschlusspanik"? Panic over the worry that the door is closing and the world is moving on without you now...Are you sure this isn't one of those plausible configurations we could argue Is-it-or-is-it-not-a-real-word about, like "cybersquatting"?
There ought to be a Greek equivalent to it, along the lines of epicaricy for Schadenfreude...
That's not the rare raptor whose off-color name was allowed in the OED mainly because it came toward the end of the alphabet, standards of propriety having relaxed somewhat by then (compared to what was extant when aa- though af- [for example] were compiled), is it?
I assume you're right, Jerry (my dictionary doesn't give much more info than that which I typed in), but the specific word I'm looking for is another common (one assumes) name for it. Here's a clue: it begins with a letter.
Hab, I'm ashamed to admit it, but you've lost me! Can you accelerate my process of kicking myself and elaborate?
I didn't know the word, but I do now; I looked it up.
Tinman...and others, the point of this game is to learn new words. It is perfectly alright to look them up; there is no winning or losing in this game.
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