Vocabularian Gifts

Wordplay: Minimalism.

"You'll love this. It's swarthy yet munificent, didactic and gregarious with hints of dogma."

'Roget it's fantastic, superb, extraordinary...where on earth did you get the idea?'

Freind: 'Misspelled, anything helps.'

Ninedency: A budding tendency

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.

"It's a play on words."

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

What does aloof mean?

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

"Dad, can we have a bedtime narrative?"

"Your vocabulary is enlarged."

"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?"

Dictionary. It's a cordless spell checker!

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."

Sign on Roget's Thesaurus, Inc.: 'Absent Ingesting Comestibles'

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

Roget's Brontosaurus.

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

Wordplay: Pantomime.

Wordplay: Lemonade - Save the Lemon.

When English majors become waiters.

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

'They decided to immure the ladrone in a drogue.'

Wordplay: Me.