PAPPY TOLD HER, SUSIE GAL,
YOU’LL HAVE TO FIND ANOTHER.
I’D JUST AS SOON YO’ MA DON’T KNOW,
BUT JOE IS YO’ HALF BROTHER.

SO SUSIE PUT ASIDE HER JOE
AND PLANNED TO MARRY WILL.
BUT AFTER TELLING PAPPY THIS,
HE SAID, ‘THERE’S TROUBLE STILL.’

YOU CAN’T MARRY WILL, MY GAL,
AND PLEASE DON’T TELL YO’ MOTHER.
BUT WILL AND JOE, AND SEVERAL MO’
I KNOW IS YO’ HALF BROTHER.

BUT MAMA KNEW AND SAID, MY CHILD,
JUST DO WHAT MAKES YO’ HAPPY.
MARRY WILL OR MARRY JOE;
YOU AIN’T NO KIN TO PAPPY.

14 Interesting Words 

How many words are in your vocabulary? The average high school graduate is said to know about 10,000 words. The average 4-year college graduate is said to know about 20,000 words. Do you have room for any more words in your vocabulary?Here are some interesting words, which you may not know.Upon learning an interesting word, if you’re like me, you’ll be tempted to work it into a conversation to improve your vocabulary or just to see the expression on your friends’ faces.

Since this is an online conversation, maybe you’re feeling a little motivated now.If after reviewing this list of 14, you feel up for a challenge, please read through to the Word Power Exercise. 

14 Interesting Words

1. Abligurition  - Spending an inconceivably large amount of money on food.

2. Cereologist  - A person who is unctuous and hypocritical.

3. Jectigation – A movement that’s like wagging or trembling

4. Muculency- Acting very snotty

5. Pulveratricious – Dust-colored

6. Rident - Laughing or cheerful

7. Uliginous - Oozy, slimy, swampy

8. Zoilist – A person who takes joy in finding fault

9. Burgoo – A stew or thick soup

10. Ensorcelled – Bewitched, enchanted

11. Hwyl – A stirring feeling of emotional fervor or energy

12.  Termagant – A harsh-tempered or overbearing woman

13. Vellicate – To irritate

14.  Ullage – The unfilled space in a barrel or wine barrel

Word Power Exercise:

See how many of these 14 Interesting Words you can include in a 100 word (or less) comment. The only two rules are:

1. Your comment must make sense, and

2. You may not use any of the EIWs directly beside another one, such as in a list.

Have fun, and add your blog address, so visitors can stop by and say Hi.

For more word fun, check out my Eight Interesting Words post here.

 1. My wife, a termagant, cow, called me a zoilist yesterday.  Although her remark vellicated me, I was too busy stirring with jectigation the uliginous burgoo I had whipped up into a pulveratricious ullage.  Buying ingredients for it was an exercise in abliguration, but, rident as usual, I countered with muculency the hwyl she projected at me.  “You’re just a cereologist,” I told her, munching corn flakes…………………ian in hamburg: http://lettershometoyou.wordpress.com

 

2. Ensorcelled as I was at first, with rident muculency, by this vellicating challenge, as I begin the task, it feels like a zoilist, or cereologist termagant is over my shoulder looking to cause me hwyl, her pulveratricious jaw jectigating with crtiticsm should I fail, just as she might react to my capacityfor abligurition. (For I have a sick penchant for uliginous burgoos.) However, as I complete this, the last eight of my hundred words seem a mere ullage for others to fill with strange words even my spellcheck does not comprehend…………..David: http://davidweedmark.com

 

3. I was so vellicated that I had an ullage in my brain, but now I’m rident because it is filled with these ensorcelling new words. Now I can act muculent around my friends, even though it’s a little cereologist of me to do so. They’ll have a hwyl and act all termagant towards me, especially my uliginous, zoilist friend, Mike. He’s the one with pulveratricious hair who loves burgoo in the winter. He’s like a dog with a jectigating tail when he smells it. In fact, he’s been known to abligurite on it from time to time…..Auhsoj Sivart: http://webs.calumet.purdue.edu/ifs

 

4. I woke up groggy, feeling ensorcelled, when my wife, a termagant decided to vellicate me with chores today.With her being a zoilist I was filled with hwyl and got out of bed. As I left, I yelled “Good Morning!” as she ducked under the pulveratricious comforter. I threw a shoe at the bed bump for her muculency and saw her painful jectigation in response. I wasn’t very hungry after her burgoo ,which was uliginous,  the night before. She has abligurtion so I had to eat something. Being a cereologist at times, I felt rident at my comment and ate Cheerios….Shell Harris http://www.toptenz.net

5. These words fill me with hwyl and I’m rather rident to enter these words to fill the ullage of my mind’s dictionary and applying them in coversations like a muculent termagent to vellicate and ensorcell others. Its sort of like abliguration to be using these uliginious words in coversations, like a cereologist speaking. But at least those zoilist acquaintances of mine would be left jectigating their nerve endings  trying to comprehend the meaning of what I speak. Oh pleasure! Like having pulveratricious soup burgoo on a cold winter evening!   Monika Kadam

6. Sitting at my pulveratricious couch after abligurition at the grocery store, I watched tv.  My daughter watched as the cereologist looked in her mirror. While the termigant queen’s attempts vellicate SnowWhite a bit, good triumphs finally.  The woodsman with jectigation finds an impasse via hwyl.  She thought his words were full of muculency but she was wrong.  An uliginous forest left her rident and singing, King Zoilist himself, Grumpy, would prove ensorcelled.  She made a burgoo for the dwarves after work.  Snow White was first Disney’s barrel, since his death many filled the ullage. Damien Riley – http://www.damienriley.com/ 

  

 

 

 

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So who wants a flame job!!  -  Minty

“The painted on flames make the truck go faster. The real ones don’t.”  -  educatedvagabond

The real ones don’t.  -  theyellowbrickroadtrip.blogspot.com

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Ghost Rider 3  -  scottmillerd

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Someone said the flames on my truck looked too fake, so I fixed them.  -   Creativewriting.today.com

2010 ‘Green’ Trucks: Auto industry’s first attempts at clean-burning fuel backfires  -  TheBigRuski

So, I told the painter, “Make the flames look real”… Geesh!   -   Outside My Brain

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Hot Wheels  -  DollinNYC

As real as it’s get  -  dune

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Hello Geico…  -  redkathy

Life Imitates Art  -  busylizzy

(From my cousin Ray Schweibert) “I said Bud Light” acweekly.com 

Talk about pimpin your truck, but that’s a little redundant. don’t you think – Rob

Just for today, let’s embrace the cliché.

I’ve written that a cliché and is an expression that at its birth was both original and clever. But clever expressions spread like wildfire (I couldn’t resist that one!), and over the passage of time such expressions become trite and overused. Readers often see clichés as signs of laziness and/or lack of creativity. http://robsmegaphone.com/2008/02/21/layers-of-revision/

But just for today, let’s embrace the cliché.

Below I’ve written a paragraph using 25 clichés that begin with the letter A. If you would like to do the same, I’ll add you paragraph to this post.  Here’s a partial list of clichés that begin with the letter A.

He was at wits end.  She was the apple of his eye but he always had ants in his pants.  He had always been all talk and no action, but now he had an ace up the sleeve.  Actions speak louder than words he thought.  He decided absence makes the heart grow fonder, so he would walk as far as the eye can see.  Then he thought perhaps presents were her Achilles’ heel but that could cost an arm and a leg.  He could get a second job, but all work and no play make Jack a dull boy.  He decided to ask his dad for advice “well son, the acorn doesn’t fall far from the tree does it?”I was all thumbs when I met your mom.  I was at the end of my rope before I realized that all that glitters is not gold.  The answer is as plain as the nose on your face, expensive presents are as useful as a lead balloon if you’re not there to share them.  Your time is as good as gold.  His dad was right. He would go see her, but he decided to take a small present -an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.  So he picked some fruit and ran to her as the crow flies.  He saw her standing there with his best friend.  His heart sunk, but he had no ax to grind with his friend.  So he handed her the fruit and said an apple a day keeps the doctor away.  She said to his friend any friend of yours is a friend of mine.  My friend turned to me, winked and said all’s well that ends well. And she and he, well now they are as snug as a bug in a rug.

You’re invited to add your paragraph and blog address.

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Here’s my list

ATM machine 

absolutely essential

advance warning

attach together

boiling hot

close proximity 

combined together 

completely destroyed 

descend down

end result

exactly the same

exact replica

fall down

attach together

basic fundamentals

foreign imports

free gift

refer back

see with one’s own eyes

sum total

tuna fish

A common pleonasm is from whence. Because whence means from where, this phrase means from from where.

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