What it means

[Silver Wind]

Here is a game I have found fun before in the past as well as educational and useful. The idea of the game is someone posts a word, and then the next person, posts what they guess/think the word means, and then look it up and posts the real defintion, and then post a new word for the next person.

So here is the first word.

Moue

[smorzando]

a mispelling of mouse? lmao

what it really means is a pout or frown

next word:tithe

[Silver Wind]

Ooo I think I know this one, tithe is money you pay to the church

Real answer: to pay or give a tenth part of especially for the support of the church

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Mellifluous

[Flutterings]

Wickedly flirtacious? lmao

abscond

[smorzando]

oooh i know this one! doesnt it mean to hide/run away?

real meaning: run away; usually includes taking something or somebody along; "The thief made off with our silver"; "the accountant absconded with the cash from the safe"

next word: acerebral

[Silver Wind]

This is a tough one, but I am going to guess it has something to do with the brain

Real meaning: Without a brian; not using or involving the brain

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Diaphanous

[smorzando]

no idea at all... uhm... phanous is greek... and thats all I know lol

real meaning: semitransparent, clear

next word: ferrous

[Silver Wind]

Hmm this one is tricky, well I have no idea, so this is a completely wild guess. Heat or having to do with heat.

Real meaning: of, relating to, or containing iron

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Palpable

[smorzando]

awwwwwwwwww nooooo I used to know this one too! grrr umm does it mean obvious or something like that?

real meaning: tangible; easily perceived

next word: intrinsic

[Silver Wind]

Blah, that sounds so famillar, I know if I do not get this right when I look it up I will smack myself. I will say close attention to detail.

Real meaning: belonging to the essential nature or constitution of a thing

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propitiate

[smorzando]

oh... it has something to do with religion or something like that... right?

real meaning:"to gain or regain the favor or goodwill of"

next word: paronomasia

[Silver Wind]

Hehe, I have no idea, a person with amanisa who is paranoid.....LOL

Real meaning: a play on words; a pun

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Derelict

[smorzando]

Oooh I know this one! It means all run down and abandoned.

real meaning: run down and abandoned.

Next word:flummox

[Flutterings]

To confuse or baffle?

Real meaning: perplex

emancipate

[smorzando]

crap I know this one too.. but I cant remember it.... grrrrrrr does it mean really skinny?

real meaning:to free from bondage or involantary servitude

next:lexicon

[Flutterings]

Like a unicorn but with more feet.

real meaning: a dictionary;


superfluous

[smorzando]

excessive

real meaning:flowing over the top. Too much.

next word:impromptu

[Jay]

to just do it.

real meaning : Prompted by the occasion rather than being planned in advance

Next word : ISOLATION

[Tiraka]

means to be kept from people or things


sermon

[smorzando]

one of those things a priest says

real meaning: an address of a religious nature (usually delivered during a church service)

next word: brassard

[Jay]

I have no idea is it something to do with a Brass Band

Real Meaning - A brassard is an armband or piece of cloth or other material worn around the upper arm, used as an item of military uniform to which rank badges (or other insignia) may be attached, instead of to the actual clothing.

Next word - PNEUMONOULTRAMICROSCOPICSILICOVOLCANOCONIOSIS

[smorzando]

wtf... well... pneu means it has something to do with the lungs.... and micro means little... so some little thats in the lungs thats got to do with volcanoes?!

real meaning: lung disease caused by the inhalation of very fine silica dust found in volcanoes

next word: yersinia

[Jay]

Again I have no idea is it about sinning?

Real meaning - A group of bacteria that appear rod-like under the microscope and include Yersinia pestis (the cause of the bubonic and pneumonic plague)

Next word - consensus

[smorzando]

I should know this... and I've heard it a billion and one times but I dont know what it means... lol.

Real meaning:When the leader can't decide how to handle a problem.

next word: articulate

[BenJohnson]

To be able to express yourself in words

Real Meaning: to put into words or an expression, or to provide with a joint

next word: reticulate

[smorzando]

oh. bugger. um I can't remember off the top of my head, but I THINK it has something to do with networks or patterns.

Real meaning:
1. To make a net or network of.
2. To mark with lines resembling a network.

Next word: kinematics

[BenJohnson]

No idea, kine would suggest movement or energy to me, matics also suggests movement, movement of energy?

Real Meaning:
1. the branch of mechanics that deals with pure motion, without reference to the masses or forces involved in it.
2. Also called applied kinematics. the theory of mechanical contrivance for converting one kind of motion into another.

Next Word:
Lodestar

[smorzando]

Some kind of star?

Real meaning:

guiding star; a star that is used as a reference point in navigation or astronomy
something that serves as a model or guideNext word: referendum

[Yog]

Lets see, perhaps a meeting to vote on a bill, action, or decision.

1. the principle or practice of referring measures proposed or passed by a legislative body to the vote of the electorate for approval or rejection. Compare initiative (def. 4a).
2. a measure thus referred.
3. a vote on such a measure.


Next word: tesseract

[smorzando]

lmao reminds me of a wrinkle in time! but that's not the real meaning... doesn't it have something to do with 4 dimensions?

real meaning: the four-dimensional analogue of a cube

next word: vector

[Yog]

A vector is a directional value. e.g. velocity is a vector quantity because it inherintly implies a direction. Speed on the other hand is a non-vector quantity because it is a magnitude only and does not imply a direction. We are travelling at 60 KPH is a speed, but we are travelling 60 KPH due north is a vector.

1. Mathematics. a. a quantity possessing both magnitude and direction, represented by an arrow the direction of which indicates the direction of the quantity and the length of which is proportional to the magnitude. Compare scalar (def. 4).
b. such a quantity with the additional requirement that such quantities obey the parallelogram law of addition.
c. such a quantity with the additional requirement that such quantities are to transform in a particular way under changes of the coordinate system.
d. any generalization of the above quantities.
2. the direction or course followed by an airplane, missile, or the like.
3. Biology. a. an insect or other organism that transmits a pathogenic fungus, virus, bacterium, etc.
b. any agent that acts as a carrier or transporter, as a virus or plasmid that conveys a genetically engineered DNA segment into a host cell.

4. Computers. an array of data ordered such that individual items can be located with a single index or subscript.
–verb (used with object) 5. Aeronautics. to guide (an aircraft) in flight by issuing appropriate headings.
6. Aerospace. to change direction of (the thrust of a jet or rocket engine) in order to steer the craft.

Next word: metaphysics

[smorzando]

metaphysics is a branch of philosophy, isn't it?

real meaning:the philosophical study of being and knowing

next word: allusion

[BenJohnson]

allusion referring to something
real meaning: a passing or casual reference; an incidental mention of something, either directly or by implication
next word: smolt

[smorzando]

smolt... umm... does it have anything to do with smelting? probs not...

real meaning:a young salmon that is at the stage of development when it assumes the silvery color of the adult and is ready to migrate to the ocean

next word:cadaver

[Yog]

A corpse.

cadaver [kuh-dav-er]

–noun a dead body, esp. a human body to be dissected; corpse.

Next word: phoneme

[Frippagumble]

phonetics - so I'd guess it's a word that imitates a sound. But those are onomatopoeia..? Ugh something in that sense anyways.

Meaning: In human language, a phoneme (from the Greek: φώνημα, phōnēma, "a sound uttered") is the smallest posited structural unit that distinguishes meaning, though they carry no semantic content themselves. In theoretical terms, phonemes are not the physical segments themselves, but cognitive abstractions or categorizations of them.

next word: magnaminosity

[cloud_gazer88]

don't think that word even exists. however there is magnanimous which means generous in forgiving an insult or injury; free from petty resentfulness or vindictiveness.

define this- imperative programming.