Word of the Day!

[Pokemon Trainer Sarah]

Cool, you're doing this again! :D Where do you find these words?! So many I've never heard of xD

[Rival Max]

Abstemious is a four letter word to those few who enjoy pizza more than life!

[Noblejanobii]

Cool, you're doing this again! :D Where do you find these words?! So many I've never heard of xD

Well Merriam-Webster does a good word of the day, so I usually check their first, and then if they don't have a good one, I usually look through a few more before going to a list of words that I've had to look up their definitions in the past.

[Suicune's Fire]

Riiight, derived from abstain. Seems like a handy one to have in the vocab reserves. Though I do hate to admit that I often fail to learn new words because I never remember them. xD Unless I repeatedly use them.

[Noblejanobii]

The Word of the Day is…: Chanticleer

Definition:
1. A rooster, often seen in Medievel folktales

Examples:
1. "You could even see plainly a Calvinistic chanticleer on one of the church towers!" - Heathen Master Filcsik by Klmn Mikszth
2. "Now, by the beard of Nassau, what joke is chanticleer playing us now?" - The Argus Pheasant by John Charles Beecham

This is for the year of the rooster!

[Noblejanobii]

]Word of the Day: Hard-Boiled

Definition:
1. Devoid of sentimentality : tough
2. Of, relating to, or being a detective story featuring a tough unsentimental protagonist and a matter-of-fact attitude towards violence
3. Hardheaded, practical

Examples:
1. The young tycoon proved that to be successful in the cutthroat world of business you need to occasionally put aside hard-boiled business practices and go with your gut instincts.

"The real attraction, as with previous books in the series, is [Tana] French's complex, deeply flawed detectives and her hard-boiled yet poetic way with words." — David Martindale, The Fort Worth (Texas) Star-Telegram, 28 Sep. 2016

[Pokemon Trainer Sarah]

Some people like hard-boiled, some people like fried,
To me Exeggutes taste best when eaten alive.

I asked my friend to come up with a rhyme to post in this thread. That escalated quickly.

[Chibi Altaria]

I asked my friend to come up with a rhyme to post in this thread. That escalated quickly.

I love your friend. xD Also he/she is very creepy.

[Noblejanobii]

This thread has gotten popular in the oddest way.

Word of the Day: Imprecate

Definition:
1. To invoke evil on
2. To curse

Examples:
1. "Mallory imprecated the weather when the ink froze in his fountain pen…." — Stanley Snaith, At Grips with Everest, 1938
2. "The people would pause, look out at the Missouri rolling past and quietly carrying down trees like doomed pinnaces, and the workers' sweating brows wrinkled, but I heard no one imprecate the river; each just went back to passing along stories and sandbags." — William Least Heat-Moon, River-Horse, 1999

[Rival Max]

This thread has gotten popular in the oddest way.

Word of the Day: Imprecate

Definition:
1. To invoke evil on
2. To curse

Examples:
1. "Mallory imprecated the weather when the ink froze in his fountain pen…." — Stanley Snaith, At Grips with Everest, 1938
2. "The people would pause, look out at the Missouri rolling past and quietly carrying down trees like doomed pinnaces, and the workers' sweating brows wrinkled, but I heard no one imprecate the river; each just went back to passing along stories and sandbags." — William Least Heat-Moon, River-Horse, 1999

This word is new to me ! Cool word but I would think it means something else based on how it sounds.