Expanded Vocabulary Gifts

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Freind: 'Misspelled, anything helps.'

So I'm "cheap." It's a perfectly good word. And it aptly describes my interest in conserving resources. I suppose we could call you "thrifty." Heavens no! And waste two whole letters? I see we've only wasted one whole tea bag.

"That was totally....what's the word I'm looking for?"

"Sorry I'm late. I overslept." "Is that even a real word?"

What does aloof mean?

"Dad, can we have a bedtime narrative?"

We're going on a first date. So many words are misused every day. Literally! I don't accept the use of imperfect language. Me either. Trying to fight it has no effect. It's all a mute point. Irregardless, I could care less. I had nothing farther to say.

"Today I came across antiderenuclearizationalityness."

"I found out why we study vocabulary. Last night, my mother told me to ruminate, and I spent three hours in my room."

"What's another word for 'thesaurus'?"

"Why do people think using big words is a bad thing?"

'Sometimes, from time to time, occasionally I wish I'd never bought that ruddy thesaurus!'

Wordplay: Nonstarter.

"Dad, is there a word that contains all the vowels?"

'What's with the Thesaurus - trying to find a clinical term for love?'

Wordplay: Rabbit Punch.

"What does procrastination mean?"

"Well %$@#(&!! is not a banned word in the &%Xsing UK!"

"Audacity, noun. Unrestrained impudence. Impudence... Impudence... Impudent, adjective. Marked by impertinent disrespect. Impertinent... Impertinent..."

"Of course, that's only a first draft."

'Yes, sure, certainly, you bet, of course, yeah, right, yep....'

'Once a donzel, the dyvour now settled for orts.'

Wordplay: Me.

Wordplay: Lemonade - Save the Lemon.

"Aren't you young to be worrying about college?"

"I attempted to circumvent the traditional trappings of a teen furlough...but I was thwarted by my czar-ish parental unit."

"Sometimes, occasionally, from time to time, now and then, periodically I wish I'd never been given this Thesaurus."

'The chechako sparged rhamnose into his yerba.'

Wordplay: Pantomime.

'What does the word ‘Face' mean in this sentence: 'He was only trying to save face.' A) The front of the head. B)To look at something. C) The surface of a solid. D) Dignity.

"I don't like playing Scrabble with Gracie! She totally makes up all kinds of crazy words! And they're always in the dictionary!"

'Grog would never be able to finish a cross pictograph without his thesaurus.'

"No, you moron — this is not 'serendipitous'!"

'The gypper was up to his genua in testoons.'