It is Friday afternoon. The coffee has reached its dregs in your mug. You are looking longingly out the window. You look back to your monitor and see that PWxyz has posted a fun little vocab quiz, and you click it. It is now later–much later–you are now 67 years old and you are feeding the ducks at a shallow pond in Florida. You think back to March 2, 2012 and that fun little vocab quiz posted on the PWxyz blog. You think of all the amazing things that happened between that day and now and, for the first time, you realize that post was the turning point in your life. You cry for happiness, at the tremendous fortune you have found in having had a life to live.
Highlight the white space between the words to reveal the answers.
1. February 26, 2012 hircine \HUR-sahyn\, adjective:
1. of, pertaining to, or resembling a goat.
2. having a goatish odor.
3. lustful; libidinous.
2. February 16, 2012 mammonism \MAM-uh-niz-uhm\, noun:
the greedy pursuit of riches.
3. January 10, 2012 paregmenon \puh-REG-muh-non\, noun:
The juxtaposition of words that have a common derivation, as in “sense and sensibility.”
4. December 25, 2011 hiemal \HAHY-uh-muhl\, adjective:
Of or pertaining to winter; wintry.
5. January 27, 2010 panjandrum\pan-JAN-druhm\, noun:
An important personage or pretentious official.
6. December 4, 2009 gallimaufry \gal-uh-MAW-free\, noun:
A hodgepodge; jumble; confused medley.
7. January 21, 2010 bibelot \BEE-buh-loh\, noun:
A small decorative object without practical utility; a trinket.
8. October 14, 2009 pukka \PUHK-uh\, adjective:
1. Authentic; genuine.
2. Superior; first-class.
9. April 30, 2010 doula \DOO-luh\, noun:
A woman who assists during childbirth labor and provides support to the mother, her child and the family after childbirth.
10. March 21, 2010 fatidic \fuh-TID-ik\, adjective:
Of, relating to, or characterized by prophecy; prophetic.
11. February 1, 2010 mondegreen \MON-di-green\, noun:
A word or phrase resulting from a misinterpretation of a word or phrase that has been heard.
12. February 3, 2010 aubade \oh-BAHD\, noun:
A song or poem greeting the dawn; also, a composition suggestive of morning.
13. February 26, 2010 mulct \MULKT\, noun/transitive verb:
1. A fine or penalty
2. To punish for an offense or misdemeanor by imposing a fine or demanding a forfeiture.
3. To obtain by fraud or deception.
4. To defraud; to swindle.
14. October 2, 2010 mussitate \MUHS-i-teyt\, verb:
To silently move the lips in simulation of audible speech. To mutter; mumble.
15. October 10, 2010 bricolage \bree-koh-LAHZH; brih-\, noun:
Construction or something constructed by using whatever materials happen to be available.
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