Let's Get Smart - Let's Use the Dictionary

[Barbaraann]

Now to play the game in this thread, you have to use the dictionary.

Here is how it works.

I start with a strange word that you look up in the dictionary. First person who posts the definition of that word, gives another strange word, that has to be looked up.

The key here is to use words that are not easily recognized. MiceChatters should have to look them up.

So if you are prepared with a definition, be prepared with an unusual word for the next poster to provide the definiton for.

Get your dicitionaries out. Keep them handy.

Maybe we can all learn something and get smarter.

I will start with the word:

didactic

[Hakuna Makarla]

Pronunciation: (dī-dak'tik), [key]
—adj.
1. intended for instruction; instructive: didactic poetry.
2. inclined to teach or lecture others too much: a boring, didactic speaker.
3. teaching or intending to teach a moral lesson.

[Hakuna Makarla]

jocose

[Barbaraann]

Karla you provided the definition, so you should have provided the next unusual word.

Make it a good one. Something no one knows, so they have to look it up.

[Hakuna Makarla]

I did hon, jocose...

[Barbaraann]

Oh she did provide the word.

Excuse my 2 inappropriate posts.

Apologies to Karla. I am getting my dictionary.

See if anyone else is paying attention.

[Pacha]

jocose

ADJECTIVE:1. Given to joking; merry. 2. Characterized by joking; humorous

New Word:
Bellicose

[Barbaraann]

bellicose - the dictionary says; inclined to fight, quarrelsome.

The next word is:

sacristy

[Hakuna Makarla]

an apartment in or a building connected with a church or a religious house, in which the sacred vessels, vestments, etc., are kept.

munificent

[Barbaraann]

munificent - the dictionary says: very generous in giving; bountiful, lavish

The next word is:

xylem

[Hakuna Makarla]

Originally Posted by Barbaraann

munificent - the dictionary says: very generous in giving; bountiful, lavish

The next word is:

xylem

a compound tissue in vascular plants that helps provide support and that conducts water and nutrients upward from the roots, consisting of tracheids, vessels, parenchyma cells, and woody fibers.

next word

aeon

[Barbaraann]

It's just you and I karla.

aeon - the dictionary says - very long period of time.

Next word is:

limn

[Hakuna Makarla]

Originally Posted by Barbaraann

It's just you and I karla.

aeon - the dictionary says - very long period of time.

Next word is:

limn

1. to represent in drawing or painting.
2. to portray in words; describe.
3.to illuminate

epilimnion

[Hakuna Makarla]

I am off to bed now hon, see you tomorrow and I know in a little while you will be at 1,000 HAve a wonderful night !!

[Disney4Me]

Originally Posted by hakuna makarla

I am off to bed now hon, see you tomorrow and I know in a little while you will be at 1,000 HAve a wonderful night !!

ep•i•lim•ni•on

Pronunciation: (ep"u-lim'nē-on", -un), [key]
—n.,
—pl. -ni•aPronunciation: (-nē-u). [key]
(in certain lakes) the layer of water above the thermocline.

Next word

Loquacious