Big Word Wednesday-Week 15

Of the two words we picked this week, one you will be able to use in everyday conversation, the other will be one that will win you points in a trivia game. Our goal is to help you increase your vocabulary, and most of the words we’ve featured so far can do that. Some of them, though, are just good for when you want to show off a little. I’m sure I won’t have to identify which word is which, but if I do, send me a message through the contact page to avoid public ridicule from your fellow students. Word number one is; efficacious; which means; producing or capable of producing a desired effect. It is a derivative of effective or effect.

The second word this week is a contribution from my sister Stacey. Wasn’t that a TV show; My Sister Stacey? No? Well, it should have been. The word she contributed is trichotillomania; which is the compulsion to pull ones hair out. Being a teacher, I can see where she gets it from. I have three kids, and, at times, a genuine compulsion to become a trichotillomaniac, but since I’m already follicly challenged, I’ve learned to maintain. Edgar and Ethan, the two stalwart follicles who are holding their own about 6 inches north of my eyebrow ridge, thank me for it. They know they are only weeks or perhaps days from being washed down the shower drain anyway; they certainly don’t need any harassment from me. Check out the BWW Home Page for missed assignments, and let’s get those overdue words in; other people are waiting to check them out.

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Audubon Ron

Confucius say, “Man who walks backwards through turnstile going to Bangkok.”

(NukeDad) He certainly was a wise man, wasn’t he? Ouch!

Audubon Rons last blog post..Wordless Wednesday

Jul 24, 2008 @ 6:16 am

Melisa

Ha: you were definitely thinking of “My Sister Sam”, and I definitely just let everyone out there know approximately how old you and I are.

(NukeDad) Ha! I came right out and told ‘em in the Nukiesburg Address!

Melisas last blog post..Risk-y Business

Jul 24, 2008 @ 7:58 am

You know what I mean. Figure of speech. I think I’m going to start “Figure of Speech Thursday”. LOL

(NukeDad0 I know, just giving you a hard time. “Figure of Speech Thursday” is a good idea! How about “Euphemism Tuesday”?

Jul 24, 2008 @ 4:51 pm

Captain Dad

Efficacious is a word that I hear a lot from my wife when discussing her work but when she used it around her sister one day it started an intense argument as to whether this was a real word or not, that explained a lot. The wife is in advertising and the sister got her nursing degree but never became a nurse, just not what she wanted to do. I would think that as a nurse you probably should know the word. Anyway, its amazing what they do not teach you these days in college. Here is one I discovered through spell check “wether”. Do you know it without looking it up?

(NukeDad) Captain Dad, I have to admit, I didn’t know it; I had to look it up. I’m thinking your sister in law could go work for a veterinarian; then she would know what “wether” means.

Jul 25, 2008 @ 8:58 am

tom

Never been much for pulling hair, like you say – try to keep in as many as are willing to stick around, even if they are all going grey. “Efficacious” always sounded to me like a word someone would use if they wanted to sound smart, or wanted a more elegant work than “effective”. I suppose it’s a perfectly cromulent word though.

(NukeDad) Cromulent, huh? Alright, alright, I’ll use it next week…

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Jul 25, 2008 @ 3:36 pm