2004-02-23

avrelia: (Ratio by dtissagirl)
2004-02-23 07:37 pm
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Words accidentally found

Studying English is fun. Sometimes. Again I found a bunch of words to show off.

Behold:

Alothen – to grow disgusting
Amplexus – a mating embrace of a toad or frog
Anaxiphilia – the act of falling in love with the wrong person
Baratress – a female quarreller
Bdelloid – resembling a leech
Cacozelot – an evil zealot
Callomaniac – a person under the delusion that he or she is beautiful
Circumstantiality – an inability to separate important from unimportant details when telling a story
Cockalorum – a self-important little man

Some more may be later. ::goes to memorize new words::