Big Words Pt 2
The record correcting continues. Tell your friends.
For new friends: Big Words is a project in which we collectively identify commonly misused words and attempt to inform the public of their correct definitions. Find Part One here.
My new additions:
Avarice: The act of offering someone a single grain of rice
Commensurate: When the cycles of menstruating people sync up
Egress: A female egret
Insinuate: To morally corrupt
Plethora: To spit something out immediately because it was rotten or tasted very bad
Perennial: Of or relating to the stretch of skin between the anus and the testicles/vulva
Supplicate: To put lotion on
Y’all’s new additions:
Distinct: The act of making fun of someone for farting.
Flippant: Ants doing gymnastics.
Ragtag: A group of playful kitchen towels.
Stamen: This is what breaks the first time you leave your? House?
—Nia Lee and Kofi Wade
Procurement: When you support breath mints to cure bad breath.
Substantial: A fan of submarines, but like a chill one.
—Jackie Jahn
Tintinabulation: The act of hugging a VERY small grandmother.
—Shamsa Mangalji
Juxtapose: Just one of those little moves you do in yoga.
—Margaux Groux
Curiosity: Cure-ee-ah!-sit!-tea! = things that help you recover.
—Beth Jacobs
Ameliorate: To reschedule a meeting centered around a meal to a better time
Liminal: the smallest amount of lime required to make a dish Mexican; also, the amount of lime juice one can extract from a slice of lime provided with any dish from non-Mexican restaurants.
Grandiloquent: the state of having eaten too many loquats in a single sitting.
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Surreptitious: When the homie is full of syrup
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Lugubrious: Pertains to the stressful act of uprooting legumes
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Defenestrate: When someone with no sense of direction tells you with blind confidence that the bar you're looking for is "definitely straight" down the road even though it's around the corner and to the left
Calibrate: The act of celebrating, specifically in California
Matrilineal: When your mattress comes with fresh linens!
Oxymoron: When you get dumb stoopit from taking too much oxy lmao whoops
Undulate: When someone is pissed that you're late, like "ummm jur late wtf"
Multisensory: When you've said sorry multiple times in caveman speak "multi said sorry" and you're over it
Umbrage: When you have an irrational fear of bridges and scream "um, bridge!" every time you see one
Polyglot: When the poly lifestyle gets out of hand and now you have too many lovers and mad bills to pay
Longitudinal: When your attitude is so salty that it takes an actual physical form of a looooong middle finger
Rigorous: Oedipus' evil twin, Rigorous, but with fewer mommy issues and more swag
—Rachel Abady
Keep ‘em coming y’all <3