Definitions
Etymologies
- From Latin illūdō. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Time he had a reality check but that is likely to illude him as it has to date.”
“Even tha basics of meaty things outside of chicken illude me.”
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“If a man should promise to give a thousand pounds to a blind man upon condition that he will open his eyes and see, — which he knows well enough he cannot do, — were that promise to be supposed to come from a heart-pitying of his poverty, and not rather from a mind to illude and mock at his misery?”
“SECRET, because the secret was absolutely necessary to the preservation of their office, so do the Inquisitors in partibus falsify and illude without the least scruple of conscience, in order to put the people of this country off their guard.”
“His versatile pen was prolific of poetry, sentimental and satirical; of political allegories of great potency, of fiction erected of impossible materials, and yet so creating and peopling a world of fancy as to illude the reader into temporary belief in its truth.”
“The longer we gaze, the more surely does the picture illude us and enthral us, steeping us in that tragedy of 'the fruitless crown and barren sceptre.”
“For its power to illude, an art depends on its limitations.”
“That it could do none of these things would rob it of all power to illude you.”
“Yes, it may be, if the solitariness of these rocks do not illude me.”
“He will illude to such things again, knowing the economy is in a shambles.”
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you know that thing where the Eskimos have 50 words for snow?
little white lie, big lie, the Big Lie, economical with t..., muddy the waters, fabrication, deception, lies, damned lies..., façade, slander, omission, web of lies and 159 more...
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llogos, peter stickles, old age, 39, insomnia, frown of approval, chuck norris, ovular, gay, fencing, rabbits, seven empty cups ... and 137 more...
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iamb, ianthine, ibidem, iceblink, ichneumous, ichnite, ichnogram, ichnography, ictus, idolum, idoneous, ilke and 510 more...
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Gone, But Not Forgotten...Yet
Ay, ay, the best terms will grow obsolete: damns have had their day. -- Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816)
Obsolete, rare, and obscure words culled from my Wordie/Wordnik Curio Cabi...rouzie-bouzie, knuckylbonyard, ferrups, defease, malahane, accinge, venundate, pinguidity, preterlapsed, wlatsome, emuscation, atbraid and 427 more...
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inkhorn's Words
inkhorn, aplomb, apotheosis, asinine, avatar, bombastic, boorish, bromide, bucolic, cagey, canvass, digress and 991 more...
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ex cathedra, screed, de rigueur, palpable, wheedle, piebald, incongruity, cassandra, xantippe, ebullient, exuberant, fainéant and 178 more...
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linguista88's Words
panjandrum, turpitude, ignoble, roue, plangent, cozen, fungible, salient, evince, antiquarian, commination, maudlin and 172 more...
Tweets
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ruzuzu Pterodactyl, thank you! I saw a horse on la playa today, after I ate some fresh pineapple. I did not ask to join the folks who were playing Scrabble at another table. Feb 18, 2010
bilby We could strap her to a sled and shove her down a mountain.
*is feeling helpful* Feb 18, 2010
reesetee Oh, no! Not during the Olympics! Feb 18, 2010
pterodactyl Ruzuzu, on a triple word score, would be worth 42 points. This means that she herself is a thing of rare beauty. It also means that she'll have trouble building up momentum. Feb 18, 2010
ruzuzu *grins*
Thanks, bilby! Feb 17, 2010
bilby Sometimes ruzuzu scares me. Feb 17, 2010
ruzuzu I used to play a lot of Scrabble with graduate students in creative writing (poets). I had one friend who kept score by writing down each word played, rather than the word's worth. I had another friend who was always sharing strange new words found in the Official Scrabble Players Dictionary, but wasn't very good at finding places to play those words on the board.
When I started playing, I hated to keep score and searched for wonderful words only. But I've found that something interesting happens when you play for points. When you begin to strategize--memorizing the 2-letter words, holding on to the Q until there's a Triple Letter Score--suddenly the words become more interesting because of the context of how they're placed on the board. You begin to move from free verse into the realm of the.... Well, I was going to say sonnet, but I suppose it's more of an obsessive sestina (which Wordnik tells us is worth just 7 points, but which, if played using all the tiles in your rack, and then through a Triple Word Score, can be a thing of rare beauty). Feb 17, 2010
Prolagus That's how it should be! Feb 17, 2010
milosrdenstvi When I play Scrabble with my friends, we keep all our tiles visible to everybody so that we can play cooperatively; scoring is based on subjective decisions about the prettiness of the word. Essential aim is to make the most interesting board possible. Feb 17, 2010
Prolagus I confess I am terrible at Scrabble. I can't just play random words worth a zillion points like many do. My S.O. says it's because I look for pretty words instead. Which is flattering, but probably false. Feb 17, 2010
bilby Must be. I've never played. Feb 17, 2010
ruzuzu Oh! Is it my turn? Feb 17, 2010
Prolagus ...Not accepted on "Words with friends" (Scrabble-like application for iPhone). :-( Feb 17, 2010