Vocabulary Gifts

Girl to boy: 'My vocabulary is bigger than your vocabulary!'

'I've been trying to think of a word for two weeks.'

'Word up homey!'

'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.

"Did you know that 'decimate' means kill just one out of every ten?"

'Difference between 'ignorance' and 'apathy'? I don't know, and I don't care.'

Wordplay: Endoscope.

Playing Scrabble.

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

'I'm NOT a pedant.'

"I procure considerable gratification from belles-lettres."

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"My god - a thesaurus!"

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

A tombstone with an inscription reading: "Eugene R. Traskin - 'Literally died'"

"Today I came across antiderenuclearizationalityness."

Wordplay: Choice.

'The blasty libeccio fleyed the keitloa.'

Wordplay: Half Time.

"But Madam, that's what we call all female dogs."

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

"If loving school is erroneous...I don't want to be correct."

"So much for spelling out our words."

"Wow. Great fusillade."

"Excuse me, but was that 'to wit' or 'to woo'?"

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

"Am I the only one who had to google 'sedition'?"

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

"Here's a great word - 'Lethologica, the inability to recall a particular word or name'."

"Mom - Declan's using swear words incorrectly."

The End Is Nigh*

Wordplay: Rabbit Punch.

'Trying to think of a word for two weeks? How about 'fortnight'?'

Wordplay: Inverted.

Wordplay: Defoliation.