Big Words!

Yay, a dork thread!

Indignation: Righteous assertiveness.

Lethologica

 

Catharsis: The sudden realization of subconcious thoughts and feelings in psychoanalytic therapy and the release of tension caused by those feelings.

Discombobulate

 

...Off the bat, "Indubidably"(Afermative), though I may post more some other time...I do have an "Extensive" (Long) List somewhere that would fill an "Ing" (Old word for Valley).

*Edit* And I just HAVE to put this here, Even if people know this word (And yes, it is spelt correctly). Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!

 

Discombobulate: To confuse or disconcert.

I know that long word was in Mary Poppins, but I'm not exactly sure what it means.

Salubrious

 

Salubrious = Wealthy

Schadenfreude < this is an English word but it think it has German origins

 

Schadenfreude: Taking pleasure in the pain of another.

Idiosyncratic.

 

Idiosyncratic : Odd, Peculiar, out of context..

Cytokinesis

 

Cytokinesis: Division of the cytoplasm during cell division.

Perspicuity

 

Perspicuity: Clarity, lucidity, especially in expression; the state or characteristic of being perspicuous.

Kernel

 

Kernel - a subset of the elements of one set (as a group) that a function (as a homomorphism) maps onto an identity element of another set

pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis

 

A lung disease caused by the inhalation of very fine silica dust found in volcanoes.

Triskaidekaphobia

 

extreme superstition regarding the number thirteen.

Chandrasekhar

 

That Indian Physics dude?

or that pre black hole state of a star....



well I figured that wasn't the best definition... soo... I googled the real definition of it (not the physics dude but the other thing.)

limit: The maximum possible mass of a stable cold star, above which it must collapse into a black hole.




My word is easy but it is my favorite word and I always get asked on what it means...


Fornicate.

 

Fornicate- To have sex outside of a marriage, from fornication, the act of sexual intercouse without marital bindings

Straight from my old Religious Studies textbook. We studied weird stuff in RS... but I digress;


etiolate

 

i'm dumb my vocab sucks

 

Etiolate: to make pale through lack of light, especially of a plant.

Buckminsterfullerene

 

Off RS and on to Chemistry ey?

Buckminsterfullerene (also known as a Bucky ball!): molecules of carbon fused together to make an entirely hollow sphere. Incidentally, the molecules of carbon where they link to each other is in exactly the same pattern as a traditional football.

Disambiguation

 

Disambiguation: Removal of ambiguity. Making something clear. My definition could use some disambiguation.

Circumvent