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Examples
“Greystone had told his story, all the while managing to entirely sidestep the subject of the Guardians, a feat of verbal terpsichore that Eric could only admire.”
“The bell and the psalm blended curiously with the song and the palm-clapping that announces negro terpsichore.”
“How to peel a banana, how to hold a bowling ball, how to spell remuneration, how to pronounce terpsichore and - above all else - the existence of shift+space!”
“If you don't find a fossilized one, terpsichore, would one of these suffice?”
“To prove you're worth your salt as an international spy (thriller-movie division), all you have to do is: create a stink-bomb bazooka out of ordinary office fixtures; walk barefoot out of a locked-down CIA office where a platoon of feds has you cornered; use window-ledge terpsichore to escape from your high-rise apartment (with a backpack full of artillery, disguises and your spouse's poisonous spider); blast your manacled way out of a police car using a Taser; jump off a highway bridge onto the top of a speeding semi, then onto another truck in the next lane; wear disguises that involve changing your hair color and, at least once, your sex; and all the while, look”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘terpsichore’.
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Redundancing
The Moves. Do~do~ditty!
tango, bolero, cha cha, foxtrot, foxtantino, hip hop, hustle, jive, merengue, two step, paso doble, quickstep and 219 more...
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Dead (or dying) English Words
Inspired by the an old New York Times article and the Dictionary of Dying Danish Words list here on Wordie.
chorine, terpsichore, motorcar, motoring, centigrade, maven, tautology, pleonasm, contrariwise, spatchcock, mascaron, miasma and 29 more...
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Joycean Vocab
You ain't read no English til you read Joyce.
rasher, cygnet, usquebaugh, ephebe, entelechy, kish, caul, vicereine, atelier, daguerreotype, communard, connubial and 99 more...
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inquiryqueue's list
words delicious to pronounce
apostrophe, asphodel, anemone, cantaloupe, cantalevered, cardamom, coriander, petrichor, sycamore, luminous, tendril, peculiar and 122 more...
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Rilakkuma's list
The Velvetine Ruffians
gamine, waif, ruffian, villain, rake, libertine, velvetine, luminary, nom de plume, street urchin, epicurean, eventide and 256 more...
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the gods must be crazy!
quetzalcoatl, baron-samedi, loa, orichas, arianrhod, aine, amaethon, annwn, arnemetia, balor, badbh, bean nighe and 1061 more...
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Words of Whimsy & Grace
abecedary, addendum, ampersand, anachronism, avuncular, balderdash, barnacle, befuddle, behemoth, bejeebers, blabbermouth, blatherskite and 465 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, T
torquate, thalassocracy, toothsome, travois, tempestuous, tone, tincture, tripwire, tether, trill, tenacious, travesty and 355 more...
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Ships
All of which are mentioned in O'Brian's Aubrey/Maturin novels, someplace or other. Most are British navy ships, some are French navy, and others aren't either one.
See also the list Sh...franklin, surprise, agamemnon, vanguard, truelove, minerva, diane, victory, sophie, cacafuego, euryalus, alastor and 382 more...
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implify's Words
gaia, eviscerate, lament, ephemeral, urbane, blight, variant, schadenfreude, hubbub, iteration, feign, hobgoblin and 243 more...
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Kaichi's Wordie Darlings, or I'm a Lo...
persnickety, discombobulated, braggadoccio, anthropomorphous, antelucan, confluxible, anomalous, poseur, gallivant, poppycock, falderal, gewgaw and 705 more...
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My all time favourites
filigree, bouzouki, rambunctious, grotesque, eleemosynary, couthy, jonquil, spokeshave, imp, cushy, banjo, loupe and 17 more...
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Polymorphously Pretentious Patois
epicurean, hermitage, virago, aplomb, riposte, undulate, calliope, terpsichore, polyphonic, quixotic, sanguine, chimera and 81 more...
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Dreamers
calliope, terpsichore, requiem, cassiopeia, nihilism, elucidate, mesmerize, heavy-handed, phantasmagoria, whimsy, vivid, imagining and 2 more...
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Good words
Words I like.
unacceptable, sprezzatura, milquetoast, antinomianism, gossamer, filigree, louche, crepuscular, whorish, blogorrhea, cruciverbalist, eleemosynary and 68 more...
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Greek Gods and Titans
Greek and roman names of gods, titans, heroes, etc
gaea, uranus, cronus, rhea, oceanus, tethys, hyperion, mnemosyne, themis, iapetus, coeus, crius and 67 more...
Tweets
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arcadia Oh man, advertising? Good call, CB. Jul 24, 2009
chained_bear Sorry, Girish, that's considered spam 'round these parts. Jul 24, 2009
milosrdenstvi Pronounced with four syllables (long final e) and hard ch. May 2, 2009
kafkaesque I am one who delights in all manifestations of the Terpsichorean muse! Jan 13, 2007
john This would be Olivia Newton John in "Xanadu", or better yet, Rita Hayworth in "Down to Earth". Dec 19, 2006