Improving words (10)
Adverse: A poetic advertisement
Bellowing: You're in debt in the amount of one clanging instrument
Brokerage: Anger at running out of money
Cobalt: A fellow resident of Estonia, Latvia, or Lithuania
Collusion: The illusion of a collision
Desire: To retract paternity
Device: To rob someone of guilty pleasures
Extent: A former shelter for campers
Formaldehyde: Dr. Jekyll's official renunciation of his alter ego
Impossible: Susceptible to being changed into bone by small demonic creatures
Kinship: A large boat whose crew are all related
Legislate: Your lower limb can't keep up with you
Migration: A limited supply of Russian fighter planes
Mistrust: Deterioration of iron caused by fog
Panorama: A Greek satyr belonging to a Hindu deity
Pervade: A sports drink marketed to sexual deviants
Repeal: To let a bell ring again
Scabbard: A storyteller who helps break a strike
Scarlet: A small wound
Stalagmite: A tiny parasitic arthropod found in German prisoner-of-war camps
Urban: The primordial prohibition
Wooden: A cozy dwelling used for soliciting marriage
[The previous "improving words" post is here.]
posted by Infidel753 at 7:51 PM
6 Comments:
These are great. It's funny if you think about some words how they could be used differently.
Damn man, every time I read these word improvement lists ... I can't get halfway through without laughing .... {:-)
Glad no one can see me laughing at these!
Stalagmite? It doesn't get any better than that!
These are all clever and funny.
Paradigm - discarding your ejector seat for 10 cents.
Thanks, everyone! Glad to know my efforts to improve the language are appreciated.
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