i love stuff like this March 12, 2008
The World’s Hardest Vocabulary Test
I saw this on The (New) Legal Writer. I put in my guesses at the meanings for the ones I think I know. I haven’t looked up the definitions of any of them. Some I guessed from the Latin root. I’m sure I have a few wrong. If you know any, put it in the comments. It’s more fun if you don’t look them up. This reminds me of when my friends and I used to play the Dictionary Game.
- Schadenfreude - taking pleasure in the misfortunes of others
- Defenestration - ejection out of a window
- Adumbrate
- Encomium - I’ve seen this word a million times and don’t know what it means. Is it like a compliment?
- Blandish - to flatter
- Turpitude - disturbed, lacking calm
- Fribble
- Solipsism - a self-centered statement or opinion
- Captious - capable of being captured/capturing?
- Protean - original or from ancient beginnings
- Tenebrous - easy to grasp?
- Otiose - loud? Having to do with the ears?
- Puissant - don’t know, but sounds like “piss ant.”
- Hegemony - complete control or authority
- Tertiary - third
- Bathos - extreme sentimentality
- Antediluvian - before the Genesis flood
- Fugacious - prone to fleeing
- Sinecure - a unique position or job
- Defalcate - to fall from the sky?
- Heuristic
- Quotidian - ordinary or day-to-day
- Avuncular - pleasantly talkative
- Somnolent - sleeping or seeming to sleep
- Juggernaut - unstoppable
- Recondite
- Peripatetic - constantly moving from place to place
- Parsimonious - cheap
- Bricolage
- Punctilio - a detail?
- Numinous - things that are numbered?
- Grampus - a grandpa who’s a sourpus?
- Transmogrify - to change shape
- Pismire
- Nictitate
- Crenel
- Gravamen - the central point of an argument
- Insuperable - incapable of being overcome
- Fungible - things that can be changed into other things, like money
- Putative - represented as true
- Palaver - a conversation
- Panoply - a “wide-angle” view
- Aplomb - having notable skill and ease
- Haruspice
- Moribund - not functioning, as though dead
- Foozle
- Nostrum - an adage?
- Moil
- Flagitious
- Draconian - a harsh rule or penalty; from Persian emperor Draco
- Soporific - boring, puts one to sleep
- Aril
- Flivver
- Jejune - naive?
- Frowzy - cranky
- Canard - an untrue but persistent tale
- Qua - which
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