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Title: ABC-Vocabulary


tonym5 - January 20, 2005 12:00 AM (GMT)
Anybody interested in an Vocabulary game? Just post a word and it's meaning if you're interested.

OkieMan - January 20, 2005 01:49 AM (GMT)
aphrodisiac ...Arousing or intensifying sexual desire ... or ...Something, such as a drug or food, having such an effect

tonym5 - January 20, 2005 10:04 PM (GMT)
Bathyscaph. A deep sea diving apparatus without a cable.

OkieMan - January 21, 2005 03:11 PM (GMT)
Chastisement ... punishment, beating ...

tonym5 - January 22, 2005 05:49 AM (GMT)
Derogatory. "Tending to lessen or impair. detracting. despairing. "

loren1 - January 22, 2005 12:40 PM (GMT)
Exhume- to dig up, unearth

tonym5 - January 23, 2005 07:38 AM (GMT)
Feud; A bitter, long-continued, and deadly quarrel. Especially between clans or families.

loren1 - January 23, 2005 01:01 PM (GMT)
Ghost -an apparition of a dead person, sembelance or shadow.

tonym5 - January 23, 2005 10:24 PM (GMT)
Honorary; given as an honor only, without the usual requirements or privileges.

TylerV - January 24, 2005 01:41 AM (GMT)
insidious- Subtly cunning or deceitful; treacherous; wily.

khimera - January 24, 2005 02:16 AM (GMT)
Juggernaut - something to which a person blindly devotes him(her)self or is cruelly sacrificed

tonym5 - January 24, 2005 06:48 AM (GMT)
Kimono; A loose outer garment with short, wide sleeves with a sash, the traditional japanese costume of men and women.

OkieMan - January 24, 2005 03:16 PM (GMT)
LATISH ... rather late

OkieMan - January 25, 2005 07:49 PM (GMT)
maharanee ... wife of a maharaja ...

tonym5 - January 25, 2005 10:24 PM (GMT)
Overture; An introductory proposal or offer, indication of willingness to negotiate.

OkieMan - January 26, 2005 03:15 PM (GMT)
I realize we'll speed through this thread faster if we skip letters, but that doesn't seem like the right thing to do. Let's back up to ... N ...

N ... nominal ... existing in name only; not real ...

now we need a P ...

OkieMan - January 27, 2005 03:19 PM (GMT)
PAGINATION: act of numbering the pages of books; figures with which pages are numbered

tonym5 - January 27, 2005 11:17 PM (GMT)
Quarry; A place where stones are squared. A place where stone, marble or slate is excavated as by cutting or blasting.

OkieMan - January 28, 2005 04:10 PM (GMT)
RECOGNIZANCE ... a bond binding a person to do some particular act ...

tonym5 - January 29, 2005 11:40 PM (GMT)
Spandrel; the triangulated space between the exterior of an arch and a rectangular frame or mold enclosing it.

OkieMan - January 31, 2005 03:34 PM (GMT)
THUG ... ruffian; cutthroat ...

loren1 - February 13, 2005 07:39 PM (GMT)
Uplou- Island in the weastern territory of Soma. The home of Rober Louis Stevenson the last 5 years of his life.

Mandasy123 - February 26, 2005 03:05 AM (GMT)
Vagrant - One who wanders from place to place without a permanent home or a means of livelihood

loren1 - February 26, 2005 08:15 PM (GMT)
Whale - large fish like mammal

Mandasy123 - February 27, 2005 04:49 PM (GMT)
x'd
To mark or sign with an X.

tonym5 - March 25, 2008 12:39 AM (GMT)
Y...Yucatan Peninsula

loren1 - March 25, 2008 01:42 PM (GMT)
Z- Nothing, nada, zip

tonym5 - March 27, 2008 03:38 PM (GMT)
A...Aztec Civilization that was made up of different ethniic peoples that lived in Central America and spoke the Nahuatl language.

loren1 - March 27, 2008 06:17 PM (GMT)
BHOPAL - An independent stat in India




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