A list of 15 words by meeralee.
- trenchant appears on 171 other lists
- fulsome appears on 121 other lists
- noisome appears on 134 other lists
- surcease appears on 37 other lists
- impecunious appears on 126 other lists
- adumbrate appears on 202 other lists
- sempiternal appears on 75 other lists
- supernumerary appears on 48 other lists
- abrogate appears on 168 other lists
- untrammeled appears on 23 other lists
- stevedore appears on 58 other lists
- ineluctable appears on 164 other lists
- impecunious appears on 126 other lists
- pernicious appears on 274 other lists
- tenebrous appears on 121 other lists
slumry Nice to *see* you, Meeralee. I learned tenebrous from you today. When I saw the word, I immediately thought of Christian Holy Week Tenebrae services. I had never known where the wordTenebrae came from. Reading the definition of tenebrous, it now makes sense.
I keep meaning to make a list for the words that I just don't seem to "get," no matter how many times I look them up. Jul 23, 2007
reesetee Agree on all three, sionnach! Feb 19, 2007
sionnach bimonthly, biennial, next weekend; each of these gives rise to hilarious misunderstandings on occasion, in my neck of the woods. Feb 19, 2007
uselessness pwned!! Feb 16, 2007
meeralee Well, it might be a candidate for someone else's list of the same name...
:-)
Feb 16, 2007
sionnach decimate might be a candidate for this list. I think I understand it correctly myself, but it seems to cause a fair amount of confusion. Feb 16, 2007
meeralee I think of it the same way you do. Feb 16, 2007
reesetee Oh, I was okay with nonplussed until aforementioned friend confused me. ;-)
Meeralee, how about sempiternal? It always makes me think "semi-eternal," which is nonsensical anyway! Feb 16, 2007
sionnach Whenever I hear nonplussed I think of the classic Tom Swifty: "That just doesn't add up", said Tom, nonplussed. (sorry!) Feb 16, 2007
meeralee reestee, that's funny -- nonplussed sounds exactly like its meaning to me. ;-)
sionnach, enervating is definitely an odd one. It helps me that I kind of sigh when I say it.
I'm adding some of these to the list! Feb 16, 2007
sionnach I get into a loop about the word enervating. I'm always inclined to think it means something along the lines of energizing or invigorating, but its actual meaning is closer to debilitating, weakening or unsettling.
I have figured out, though, that fulsome and noisome don't mean what they suggest. Feb 15, 2007
reesetee I agree, meeralee. It does "sound" like a stubborn word.
I have a friend who always uses the word nonplussed as exactly the opposite of what it actually means. Now *I* get confused when I use it. :-) Feb 15, 2007
meeralee ...I always think it means "stubborn." Not only that, but I think it _should_ mean "stubborn." Feb 15, 2007