Vocabulary Building Gifts

How to be self-reflexive

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

You want to play internet Scrabble? Right. But that's where I draw the line. I will not waste time with that stupid email, or internet surfing or blobbing. Blogging. that too. I just want to use the internet to crush other people with my superior vocabulary. Then brag about your vocabulary on a blob. I'll leave the flanning to you. Flamin.

'They argued over the ordering of a cutty sark.'

Wordplay: Carelessness.

Wordplay: Knock Out.

'The best the grotty magus could do was produce a footy pagurid.'

Bortex: Debilitating personal field emitted by self-congratulatory people, theorized to consist of large sluggish sub-atomic particles called 'borons'.

'Hey! We can play Scrabble while we eat!'

"Today we're filling out mock college applications."

"You're reading the dictionary?"

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?"

What does aloof mean?

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

"Dad, can we have a bedtime narrative?"

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"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'?"

'All I wanted to know is if that word was naughty.'

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

Wordplay: Nonstarter.

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

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

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

"What does procrastination mean?"

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

Wordplay: Rabbit Punch.

"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....'

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

'The chechako sparged rhamnose into his yerba.'