Words of the Reading #1
Words of the Reading #1
Floccinaucinihilipilification – the action or habit of estimating something as worthless
Gynotikolobomassophile – one who likes to nibble a woman’s earlobes
Ultracrepidarianism – the giving of opinions outside of one’s knowledge
Idiogamy – to be sexually potent with some, but impotent with others
Uxoravalence – to be potent with many women, but not one’s wife
Aposiopesis – to leave a statement incomplete, in order to imply a threat (and if you don’t understand…)
Cisvestitism – to only wear clothing of ones own gender.
Exoteric – ordinary/simple/obvious – as opposed to esoteric, meaning hidden/secret/inner
Hamartia – the tragic flaw – that gaping weakness that’s going to kill you.
Tachyphagia –eating very quickly
Tychism – To believe chance/luck to be the sole agent of action in the universe.
Univocalics – poems with one vowel
Pangrams – one sentence with every letter of the alphabet:
Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs;
How quickly daft jumping zebras vex
Palindromes – sentences that say the same forwards as backwards:
Was it a car or a cat I saw?
A man, a plan, a canal, panama
Step on no pets