Vocabulary meme.
Don't read this if you want to do the vocabulary meme all on your own, boys and girls.
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well, I said that a talisman is a charm with power and that something ostentatious is overly showy and that to cajole means to coax and that an atheist doesn't believe in god and that to peruse is to read carefully (though I know that there's a case for that meaning to have shifted in recent times) and that an enigma is a mystery and that to be quoxotic is to be fast to act and that it's rude to be impudent (in contrast to imprudent) and that an altruist puts others first and that mastication is chewing and that serendipity is luck and that onmiscient is all powerful and that a woman should be happy to be told she is lithe even though I personally think a woman upon being told she is 'lithe' should be inclined to say "and you're telling me because...." or sneer unpleasantly. Or both. A hedonist seeks pleasure, right?
edit: *flashes her slip & blue stockings*
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well, I said that a talisman is a charm with power and that something ostentatious is overly showy and that to cajole means to coax and that an atheist doesn't believe in god and that to peruse is to read carefully (though I know that there's a case for that meaning to have shifted in recent times) and that an enigma is a mystery and that to be quoxotic is to be fast to act and that it's rude to be impudent (in contrast to imprudent) and that an altruist puts others first and that mastication is chewing and that serendipity is luck and that onmiscient is all powerful and that a woman should be happy to be told she is lithe even though I personally think a woman upon being told she is 'lithe' should be inclined to say "and you're telling me because...." or sneer unpleasantly. Or both. A hedonist seeks pleasure, right?
edit: *flashes her slip & blue stockings*
posted by Polysemous at 11:48 AM
2 Comments:
Yeah, except omniscient is all knowing (omnipotent is all powerful). I forgot which use of peruse was the original one, and I thought Don Quixote was more idealistic than fast acting.
I think it would be perfectly reasonable to say when a woman is told she has a lithe body she could be confused. This is a vocabulary quiz, you must expect some people won't know what the word means.
but knowledge IS power.
:)
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