Day 72
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Trounce (v): To beat, punish or rebuke.
"I’ll trounce some of the members", cried the king.
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Frisson (n): Shudder, shiver, thrill; an almost pleasurable sensation of fright.
The royal visit sent a frission of excitement through the city.
A frission of surprise shot throught his heart.
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Amphibology (n): Ambiguous wording or doubt meaning; an ambiguous grammatical construction.
Example: ‘They are flying planes’; can mean either that someone is flying planes or that something is flying planes.
Our dog eats everything and loves children.
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Antediluvian (v): Very old-fashioned. Literally, dating befor Noah’s flood.
The students were exasperated by the principals’ antediluvian ideas.
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Vivify (v): To animate or bring to life.
Her humurous speech vivified the boring meeting.
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Oxymoron (n): Figure of speech combining contradictory expressions.
Example: It was a pretty ugly scene. (Here pretty and ugly are contradictory expressions).
A deafening silence.
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Temerity (n): Rashness, recklessness.
The bloody accident was caused due to the young driver’s temerity.
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Isn’t there any way so that many can blog into one post. It will cause sharing of words and vocab which will be even more beneficial . Otherwise the load comes on to one.
Comment by Sameer Kumar Sahu — June 2, 2007 @ 7:23 pm
Give me the power to blog .
Comment by Sameer Kumar Sahu — June 2, 2007 @ 7:34 pm