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?"

Wordplay: Endoscope.

"I procure considerable gratification from belles-lettres."

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

'I'm NOT a pedant.'

Playing Scrabble.

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

"My god - a thesaurus!"

Berlitz's Learn To Speak Adult

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

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

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

Wordplay: Choice.

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

Wordplay: Half Time.

"Today I came across antiderenuclearizationalityness."

'The blasty libeccio fleyed the keitloa.'

Reference Books, Inc. Marketing Dept. How should we describe this dictionary of redundancies? "Complete and unabridged"!

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

I really didn't expect the judge to release you on your own recognizance. I just enjoy saying "recognizance"!

Hey, Ernie, what's a nine-letter word describing somebody who discounts their blessings? Thankrupt.

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

The End Is Nigh*

Wordplay: Rabbit Punch.

"What does 'procrastinate' mean..."

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

Fatal Lethal Mortal Pestilent Deathly Pernicious Mortiferous. The Seven Deadly Synonyms.

Vocabulary. Decadent. Decree. Deduce. No, "decadent" does not mean that you're ten years old.

Ernie, the term is "polyamorous," not "Polly-Amorous," and it doesn't describe a parrot who loves you because you give her crackers.

"Wow. Great fusillade."

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