Posts Tagged ‘difficult words’

Procrastinate
Meaning – to put off doing something; to hestitate; to delay unnecessarily.
Example – I know I should be writing this article, but I’ll just write it tomorrow. After all, I’ve already written an article this week. These are the kind of thoughts that enter the mind of a procastinator.

Clobbered
Meaning – 1. To strike violently and repeatedly; batter or maul.2. To defeat decisively.3. To criticize harshly.
Examples – “She clobbered the man who tried to attack her”
“I don’t want to end up getting clobbered.”

Semordnilap
Meaning - A word that spells a different word when written backwards (”semordnilap” is “palindromes” spelled backwards).
Example – “Drawer” is a semordnilap, because backwards it spells reward.
I found this rather cool!!

Wordle
Meaning – a piece of text which has been rearranged into a visual pattern of words. Also referred to as word clouds or text clouds.
Example - 
‘Here’s a wordle of the G20 communique, with support, financial and agreed especially prominent.’

Fantod
Meaning – A state of nervous irritability; Nervous movements caused by tension.
Example – “Of course, when we cranked the 70-horse Evinrude into life to go ripping to another part of the lake, Mr. (Izaak) Walton might have the fantods.” — Ned Crabb, Bugs, Bass and Loons in Moonlight, The Wall Street Journal (New York), Aug [...]

Obscurity
Meaning – not clear, the condition of being unknown; opposite to transparent; hidden motives.
Example – “The obscurity of purpose behind his visit was what confused me”.

Apologue :
A  moral  fable,  usually  featuring  personified  animals or inanimate objects that act like people, which allows the author to comment on the human condition. Often, an apologue highlights the irrationality of humankind. The Beast fable and Aesop’s Fables are examples. Some critics have called Samuel Johnson’s Rasselas an apologue rather than a novel because its focus is more on moral [...]