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20PointsFloccinaucinihilipilification - created by students at Eton, combining several synonymous Latin roots. Who said Latin is a dead language?19 July 2010
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20PointsFloccinaucinihilipilification =Latin flocci-a wisp of wool + nauci-a trifle + nihili-nothing + pili-a hair + fication. Talk about redundant.19 July 2010
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15PointsFloccinaucinihilipilification. Pretty worthless I'd say.19 July 2010
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10Points"Triumphs for nothing and lamenting toys Is jollity for apes and grief for boys." Cymbeline, William Shakespeare23 December 2009
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10PointsI live in the crowds of jollity, not so much to enjoy company as to shun myself. Samuel Johnson23 December 2009
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10PointsLet no profit allure U 2 do anything which U know 2 B evil so shalt U live jollity 4 a good conscience is a continual Christmas. B Franklin23 December 2009
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15PointsThe brazen throat of war had ceased to roar, All now was turned to jollity and game, To luxury and riot, feast and dance. John Milton23 December 2009
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10Points"Jollity and gloom were contending for an empire." Nathaniel Hawthorne23 December 2009
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10PointsThe new help to discourse: or, Wit, mirth and jollity, intermixt with more serious matters...: book by William Winstanley, date 168423 December 2009
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10PointsIf the left hemisphere of the brain controls my right side & the right one controls my left side what does it mean to be in the right mind?21 December 2009
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15PointsMy sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere. Anthony Trollope21 December 2009
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20PointsI am sure that by the end of the contest there will be an onslaught of uses for the word kumquat. But now I have naught.20 December 2009
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20Pointspulchritudinous: not an example of onomatopoeia19 December 2009
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15Points"He's absolutely pulchritudinous!" cried Betsy in a 1948 Betsy-Tacy book by Maud Hart Lovelace. How dummy downed are children's books today?19 December 2009
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20PointsDon Quixote was a long and somewhat boring book to me as a freshman. It did not inspire me to be quixotic, I just wanted to pass the exam.18 December 2009
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15PointsModern man's capacity for destruction is quixotic evidence of humanity's capacity for reconstruction. George Will18 December 2009
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17PointsComing in first on Artwiculate would be an anomaly for me, but I keep trying.16 December 2009
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20PointsPastiche: An incongruous mixture; a hodgepodge - isn't that what's offered on TV today.15 December 2009
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24PointsPastiche and Prejudice: Jane Austen updated15 December 2009
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20PointsPastiche: A work of art made in admitted imitation of several styles of other works - pop music today - but then again a work of art?15 December 2009
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20PointsAll was unstable; quivering as leaves, evanescent as lightning. The Return of the Native - Thomas Hardy ...A14 December 2009
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21PointsSo evanescent and unstable are men 's works in this world! The Prince and the Pauper - Mark Twain14 December 2009
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20PointsMen are more evanescent than pictures, yet one sorrows for lost friends, and pictures are my friends. I have none others. John Ruskin14 December 2009
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20PointsThe actor's popularity is evanescent ; applauded today, forgotten tomorrow. Harrison Ford14 December 2009
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20PointsHuman life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning. Samuel Butler14 December 2009
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39PointsGosselin is just like Gossamer: all a web of illusion.13 December 2009
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10PointsAfter an existence of nearly twenty years of almost innocuous desuetude these laws are brought forth. Grover Cleveland12 December 2009
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10PointsScottish Quaker Robert Barclay wrote in 17th century, "The weighty Truths of God were neglected, and, as it were, went into Desuetude."12 December 2009
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20PointsFribble and Bits: what humans long for.11 December 2009
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13 December 2009 | Gossamer |
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10 December 2009 | Evocative |
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08 December 2009 | Embrocation |
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06 December 2009 | Viridescent |
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06 December 2009 | Viridescent |
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| Dec 2009 | 80 points |
| Nov 2009 | 40 points |
| Oct 2009 | 45 points |
| Sep 2009 | 48 points |
Acquiesce, Anomaly, Bourgeois, Capricious, Colloquial, Crepuscular, Defenestrate, Desuetude, Embrocation, Equanimity, Evanescent, Evocative, Felicitous, Fisticuffs, Floccinaucinihilipilification, Fribble, Gossamer, Hemisphere, Imbrication, Jollity, Kumquat, Kvetch, Lassitude, Mirth, Ogle, Pastiche, Paucity, Pilgrim, Pulchritudinous, Quixotic, Quotidian, Raillery, Tautology, Viridescent