Word Challenge: Your Creativity is My Motivation Continued

ANCILLARY	serving as an aid
TYRO	new to an activity
INCIPIENT	only partly in existence
ASPERITY	harshness of manner
MORDACIOUS	caustic, biting

Lets hear 'em!

Daily Dose of Diction

Todays Formidable Five:

1. Dearth- lack; scarcity

2. Inveigle-to win over by deception, coaxing, flattery

3. cogent- convincing

4. specious- seeming true, but actually being fallacious; misleadingly attractive; plausible but false

5. guy- (noun or verb) a rope, cord or cable attached to something as a brace or guide; to steady or reinforce using a guy.

Please enjoy these words in any creative or non-creative fashion. The ultimate goal, as selfish as it sounds, is to improve my GRE score. The personal benefits to your contribution are innumerable, not excluding tax-exempt status for your gift of time. Please contact my accountant for tax forms.

For you Wordies (like foodies, people who love words)

diligent; persistent; hard-working

sedulous

calm; sluggish; unemotional

phlegmatic

exhibiting a fawning attentiveness

obsequious

causing drowsiness; tending to induce sleep

soporific

disgrace; contempt; scorn

opprobrium

Vocabulary Respite

A passive activity for recovery purposes:

Vocabulary Quiz: Matching game. Drag the word to match the definition.

Keep those wheels greased.

The picture is just for pure goodness.

Day 5 of the Vocabulary Challenge that has become the Platform for Creative Writing Exhibitionists

Here are the words that must be included in your "piece":

1. spurious- (adj.) lacking authenticity or validity; false; counterfeit

2. mendacity- (n.) the condition of being untruthful

3. obfuscate- (v.) to deliberately make obscure; to make confusing

4. trenchant- (adj.) sharply perceptive; keen; penetrating

5. inimical- (adj.) damaging; harmful; injurious

Again, for your reading pleasure, click on the comments link to read the daily entries. Damn, my GRE score had better improve!

Day 4 Vocab Challenge: 3 weeks to GRE.

5 more:

antediluvian (adj.) ancient; outmoded (literally, before the flood)

Cadge (v.)to get something by taking advantage of someone

irascible (adj.) prone to outburts of temper; easily angered

occlude (v.) to close or obstruct

peccadillo (n.) small sin or fault

Make sure to read the comments after each day's challenge. There are several great entries. Lots of creativity going on at the Juniper Tree these days.

Day 3 Vocab Challenge

Okay. So I didn't give you much time before bed, but it is the Sabbath. If you get a chance, here are 5 new words. Create at your own risk!

1. Rapacious	Greedy, ravenous.
2. Venal	Open to bribery; mercenary.

3.Ineffable

Incapable of being expressed; indescribable or unutterable.

4. Penury

Extreme poverty.

5. Taciturn

Habitually untalkative.

Choose your verbs wisely.