Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia

I've blogged about the word that means you are addicted to big words, so what happens when you are scared of them? I'll tell you what! HIPPOPOTOMONSTROSESQUIPPEDALIOPHOBIA. For time's sake, i will not be writing that word again. Sorry. Note that after the first 'third' of the word it says SESQUIPPEDL, this is part of the word that means the addiction to long words. Phobia just means it is recognised world wide and so HIPPOPOTOMONSTRO is the part that means you are scared of '...'. When you think of it.. that sort of looks like hippopotamus.

                                                                                                                        Maddy x

Edentulous

EDENTULOUS is quite a funny one. I am going to say that it describes my father completely when he doesn't have his false teeth in. As you would have guessed EDENTULOUS means lacking teeth. When all your teeth rot and fall out you are EDENTULOUS. Sometimes because of old age your teeth fall out and it leaves you EDENTULOUS. I am not EDENTULOUS.

                                                                                                                         Maddy x

Feverishly

This one is quite the obvious one and when i looked up the meaning i was face palming at how obvious it was. Never the less, it means to do something in a FEVERISH manner. Stemming from the word FEVERISH meaning having or showing the symptoms of a fever, (FEVERISH also means displaying a frenetic excitement or energy, which is not quite as obvious. With my current situation being one that involves me lying in bed with a cold i could say i am completing all my tasks and chores FEVERISHLY.

                                                                                                                                                  Maddy x

Plethora

And the next word is.... PLETHORA.  It means to have an excess of [something]. The word surplus is the same as the word PLETHORA (in meaning). I don't think anyone no matter who the are can have a PLETHORA of knowledge, everything will come in handy one day. Same goes with music, i love music and no matter what it is or when it was released i will always listen to it one time or another, some may say i have a PLETHORA of music but i simply say i love music. If you do have a PLETHORA of knowledge, please do share. :)

                                                                                                                      Maddy x

Logarithm

This one i think is maths term; LOGARITHM. Means a quantity representing the power to which a fixed number (the base) must be raised to produce a given number. Not being the maths wiz that some people are, i can't offer much more than that. But if you can, by all means use the word 'LOGARITHM'.

                                                                                                                                             Maddy x

Penchant

PENCHANT means to have a strong or habitual liking for something or tendency to do something.  I have a PENCHANT for writing blogs, and just writing in general. I also have a PENCHANT for going on my laptop just for the satisfaction it gives me of having something to do that is not overly important. All mothers (i would hope) have a PENCHANT for loving their child, beautiful or ugly, fat or thin, tall or short. It comes when the child breathes it's first breath, but perhaps even before then. After this no matter what the mother only wants what is best for their child.

                                                                                                                             Maddy x

Trepidation

A feeling of fear or agitation about something that may happen. If to have this feeling of TREPIDATION was a sin i would be guilty. I always have this feeling worrying about what could happen and what probably will happen. It is probably not healthy to be TEPID, for our mental or social health but that's the way it goes, we are only humans after all. If you can refrain from having the feeling of TREPIDATION that would be great. If not, it doesn't matter life will go on.

                                                                                                                                   Maddy x

Sanctimonious

Today's word is a derogatory term that means to make a show of being morally superior to other people. I found this word in my current novel for school; The Messenger by Marcus Zuzac on pg 13. SSANCTIMONIOUS is a word that i am happy to have learnt because i can now say to my brother "you are so SANCTIMONIOUS!" when really i am being SANCTIMONIOUS in saying such a word. I find that many people act SANCTIMONIOUS when they are being intimidated.

                                                                                                                      Maddy x

Unintelligible

This is word means to be impossile to understand. I think of how, sometimes, i think everything i say is UNINTELLIGIBLE and i am talking rubbish but then i dismiss any feeling i have because surely everyone else in the world has felt. Next time you think that you are saying or doing something UNINTELLIGIBLE think of me and how i am proof that you are not alone. Thats all for tonight.

                                                                                                    Maddy x

Irked

I realise I have missed a few days but i figured that's all right seeing as i have already failed haha. IRKED means to annoy or to irritate. I had my first plane flight yesterday and it was amazing, i loved everything about it, nothing IRKED me, oh, apart from how much food the air hostess' kept giving me, it was soo much! add to that Qantas club before that! i was soo full! The cold IRKS me that's why i am where i am - in the heat-. Wat IRKS you?
       
                                                                                                                         Maddy x

Whippersnapper

I've always heard this word on movies and i use it sometimes when i say to my litte brother something along the lines of "stop it you little WIPPERSNAPPER" just as a joke because i find the word funny. Anyways! so now the meaning.. a shallow or insignificant person; a whipster: also used attributively. A young and cheeky or presumptuous person. I'm a WHIPPERSNAPPER! haha a young and cheeky person, but i am pretty significant ;P haha. I'm bored and i'm making noises... is that wierd anyways,, when i'm writing these blogs it's like i am talking to myself hmmm what a lonely life i live :/ I need some holidays.. *insert dramtic deep voice here* comming soon on the 6th of april!!

                                                                                                                               Maddy x

Tchotchke

A TCHOTCHKE is a small, decorative item or souvenir, usually of no particular value. I have many TCHOTCHKE's they are my cute little reminders of how life was, how life is and everything that means anthing to me. Another word for TCHOTCHKE is knick knack i know alot of people i know say knick knack but TCHOTCHKE sounds cooler and looks much more sophisticated on paper. I wonder where this word came from because it doesn't look english instead being something foreign. One of my TCHOTCHKE's is a white, sparkly angel given to me by one of my best friends, another is a blue cookie smurf figurine given to be by another one of my best friends, i have these two TCHOTCHKE's by my bedside because to me it means that no matter where i am my best friends are with me. Corny right? well thats just the way it is.

                                                                                                                    Maddy x

Lament

Sort of a sad one today :( but it's been a sad day for me so i find it fitting. Todays word is LAMENT it means to mourn or grieve. With this  i am wondering if it is possible for someone to LAMENT someone who is not yet gone or who is living but distant from one's life? I sometimes get this feeling. I feel as though i am LAMENTing someone when they haven't passed yet they are just no longer in my life and i feel sad and as though a part of me has died not having them with me, i am sure many teenagers who have had their heart broken get this feeling too. What are your thoughts? Do you ever LAMENT someone who is still alive?

                                                                                                                                Maddy x

Serendipity

Noun: The occurrence and development of events by chance in a happy or beneficial way: "a fortunate stroke of serendipity". Let me just say how dissapointed in myself i am, i missed a day :( i was out all day, had friends over who only just left at 4 in the arvo today and i forgot to do a word. I therefore failed my 'challenge'. But never the less i am going to continue writing a word a day, on most cases i probably will write one a day but sometimes i might forget again :/. So my fiends comming over yesterday and me going out all day was not SERENDIPITY, but me spending my holidays with the people i love, in the places i love doing ghe things i LOVE is most definatly a stroke of SERENDIPITY! That is what my holidays are goong to be about, lucky me :) Some people might say that you have to make gour own luck in this world but i believe otherwise, because SERENDIPITY can happen and it does is small ways that we sometimes don't notice. Maddy x