I like words. You should too. So I have posted words that you should incorporate into your vocabulary. Enjoy.
termagent: a quarrelsome, scolding woman
picara: a woman who is a rogue or adventurer
goliard: a wondering student in medieval Europe, noted for writing ad singing ribald and satirical Latin songs
putto: a representation of a small child, often naked and having wings, used esp. in the art of the European Renaissance
schadenfreude: pleasure derived from the misfortune of others
Pecksniffian: hypocritically benevolent; sanctimonious [after Seth Pecksniff, a character in Martin Chuzzlewit, a novel by Charles Dickens]
philoprogenitive: producing many offspring; prolific
Can we use them all in a sentence?
"The philoprogenitive termagent met the picara goliard while discussing the Pecksniffian putto at the Louvre and felt schadenfreude when the goliard broke her leg."
Posted by: prufrock at May 28, 2004 08:53 AMsimply smashing, j.a. a vocabularic smorgasbord.
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