Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Words of the Day Fantastipalooza

Kapellmeister - The Director of a choir or orchestra
Bidextrous - Using the left hand for some tasks, and the right hand for other tasks
Chiasmus - an inverted relationship between the syntactic elements of parallel phrases (as in Goldsmith's to stop too fearful, and too faint to go)
Bibber - a person who drinks regularly
Holothurian - Sea cucumber
Scheelite - a mineral consisting of the tungstate of calcium that is an ore of tungsten
Negatron - An electron with a negative charge, rather than a a positron. (Not to be confused with the archnemesis of Optimus Prime)
Skirl - A scream or shriek
Trysail - a fore-and-aft sail bent to a gaff and hoisted on a lower mast or a small mast close abaft
Panglossia - Excessively Optimistic
Whiffet - Insignificant person
Bunko - A swindle in which someone is cheated at gambling
Electrolyze - Decomposition via electrolysis
Ambuscade - An ambush, or to Ambush
Interlined - To write between the lines of print
Tabu - to Ostracize

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