vacillation - vac is the same suffix used in vacumn meaning an absence of. ill means sickness. ation is the “act of”
vacilliation means the the act of removing all illness from an area e.g., Mother Theresa or an air purifier.
Next Word: akimbo
vacillation - vac is the same suffix used in vacumn meaning an absence of. ill means sickness. ation is the “act of”
vacilliation means the the act of removing all illness from an area e.g., Mother Theresa or an air purifier.
Next Word: akimbo
Akimbo --derived from kim, a common name in S.Korea, and bo, a young man.
A young Korean guy.
endomorphic
endomorphic
end - derives from the word “ending”
om - a sacred syllable in Hindu mantras
orph - English spelling of the last name of German composer Carl Orff, best known for Carmina Burana
ic - typical adjectival suffix
Endomorphic thus means using the Hindu chanting instead of the actual lyrics when performing “O Fortuna” at the ending of Carmina Burana.
philanthropy
Hey, you’re good!
I imagine that’d be quite the auditory experience, too
philanthropy - v. The act of micturating in the unemployment office while ranting about sacred geometry.
Etymology: Phi, 1.61803… lant, provincial english, urine - HRO, acr. Human Resources Office - py, var. pee.
(Philanthropy is believed to have its origins in the misunderstanding of the term “Golden Section.”)
Next up: analbuminemia – extra points awarded for the unexpected.
(Past tense: philanthropist.)
‘An’, a prefix meaning ‘against’
‘Album’, a record (archaic. Today the term ‘CD’ would be more appropriate.)
‘minem’, a whimsical shortening of ‘Eminem’ (sharing its first M with ‘album’)
‘ia’, a suffix meaning ‘belonging to’ or ‘territory’.
Hence, analbuminemia - describing a group of people who refuse to listen to, or be in the presence of, Eminem recordings.
The word is will likely be replaced with ‘ancdemia’ eventually.
Does it help that I have no idea what that word means anyway?
“is will”? Hard to believe I proof-read that before posting. :smack:
AND forgot to supply a word. :smack: :smack:
Prevaricating.
varicating is zit squeezing (L: varus pimple)
pre-varicating is the feeling of excitment and apprehension before one tries to pop a zit, excitement for the stringy yellow puss of a good zit pop, apprehension in case the zit won’t pop and squeezing it might only make it hurt.
Next word: Castration
This word can be divided into its two simple parts–cast, meaning the company of performers in a production, and ration, the act of distributing a fixed amount of food. Thus, Castration means to feed your actors only enough to keep them ambulatory.
Speaking of, next word: ambulatory.
ambulatory - consists of three parts. am, a form of the verb to be; bul, a shortening of ‘bull’ in the original form, and ‘atory’, originally “o’ Tory”, as in the old U.S. political party.
Thus, to be ‘ambullotory’, or ambulatory in the modern sense, was to be a liar in the tradition of politicians of old.
Next : ‘tatterdemalion’
Tatterdemalion has its origin in Old French. Tatté de Ma-Lion translating to the head (modern French Tete) of the Mother of Lion. Refering to the famous story of how Mdm Lemonsoir would often lose her head whilst drinking too much Pastis. Leading to the modern meaning of Tatterdemalion of being drunk to the point of passing out.
Next an easy one… substandard
Substandard
from sub (shortening of submarine sandwich) + standard (one who stands in the manner of a dullard)
Thus, Substandard is used exclusively for Jared Fogel, pitchman for Subway restaurants.
next up:
Rheoboam
Rheoboam: Is onamatopoic, it is the noise issuing from tatterdemalions as they use the porcelain throne.
So what is the meaning of organization
(ps. don’t put out a word that you can’t think of any possible solution for, or else it will become very difficult to be humorous, and the thread may sink.)
Organization - From the Anglo “organ”, meaning, well, organ, and the Ebonic “zation” meaning, sensational, fabulous. Organization means, literally, a party of organs. Watch out for the liver, unless you want a dry party.
Next word, how about Subterranean (if’n I spelled that right)?
Subterranean: from “subter”, meaning sneaky or decietful, and “ran”, a bastardization of the word “rain”.
Subterranean is when it starts to rain even though it wasnt mentioned in the weather report so you don’t have an umbrella and get soaked.
Next word is recumbent.
Realistic Guidoian solmisation of ‘recumbent’ into re-ut-re-ut gives a monotonous drone.
Next word: extraneous
extraneous - extra/neo/us - Self-identifier used by unionized body doubles for Keanu Reeves between 1997 and 2002.
Larry, how about blessing us with a new word, puh-lease.