Vocabulary Builders Gifts

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

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.

What does aloof mean?

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

"Dad, can we have a bedtime narrative?"

"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'?"

Wordplay: Nonstarter.

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

"I'm tardy? Whew! I was afraid I was going to be late for school!"

Wordplay: Rabbit Punch.

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

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

"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....'

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

Wordplay: Lemonade - Save the Lemon.

Wordplay: Pantomime.

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

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

Wordplay: Me.

'The chechako sparged rhamnose into his yerba.'

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

'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!"

'The larrikin was shirty because his crowdy wasn't flyless.'

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

"Quick, how do you spell ‘anthropomorphize’?"

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

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