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Author:  Captain Nemo Marlene [ August 29th, 2011, 4:03 pm ]
Post subject:  Where Icasms, Recinerations, and Graviloquences are enclosed

Ahoy everyone!

At this point, you may be wondering: "What on earth does that title mean?!?!" Chances are you also looked up those words on google and could not discover what they meant. There is a reason for this: they no longer exist in the dictionary. These have been real words, but because their use became non-existent, they were taken out of the dictionary. The subject means this: Where figurative expressions, the second time places are burned down, and grave speeches are enclosed.

Where did I find these words, you may ask? Right here: http://savethewords.org/ This website has tons of words that have been taken out of the dictionary. You can adopt a word and use it as often as you can to help bring it back into the dictionary.

In this thread, I have two challenges for you:
1. Adopt a word (officially on the website, or unofficially here). Let us know what word you've adopted! If you choose to adopt a word, just here, or on the other website as well, I'd like to add a challenge to it: use that word at least once in one of your stories.

2. Choose a word on the website and write a short story from it or that uses it. Choosing a word and writing a story with it is not adopting a word. ;) If you decide to write the story, please post it here for the rest of us to read. :D

I hope you enjoy these challenges!

Author:  Riniel Jasmina [ August 29th, 2011, 4:04 pm ]
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This looks exciting. I'll see if I can do it zenzizenzizenzic.

Author:  KathrineROID [ August 29th, 2011, 4:52 pm ]
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I officially adopted "starrify." Means "to decorate with stars." However, "cattify" does not mean "to decorate with cats." Bummer.

O.O What does zenzineczinzen- oh, forget it. What does it mean?

Author:  Riniel Jasmina [ August 30th, 2011, 11:45 am ]
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Anything to the eighth power.

Author:  KathrineROID [ August 30th, 2011, 12:02 pm ]
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But it only has six z's. . .:?

XD

Author:  Andrew Amnon Mimetes [ August 31st, 2011, 5:53 am ]
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Ooh! I call pigritude, which means "laziness" :) I also call veteratorian, or "subtle" :D And I like succisive, meaning "of spare or extra time" :D

*will be frequently visiting this site :D*

Why do I feel like I'm playing balderdash? :rofl:

Author:  Elly [ August 31st, 2011, 12:55 pm ]
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I suppose I unofficially adopted "tussicate", or "to cough". :roll:

Author:  Andrew Amnon Mimetes [ September 1st, 2011, 7:28 am ]
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What? That's not a word anymore? Oh the horror! All these years... *sob* (It's used in Portuguese, hence my over-melodramatic reaction ;))

eru

Author:  KathrineROID [ September 1st, 2011, 8:06 am ]
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I made a blog post about these endangered words. See: http://kathrineroid.wordpress.com/2011/ ... e-words-2/

Author:  Captain Nemo Marlene [ September 5th, 2011, 8:36 am ]
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I am unofficially adopting the word squiriferous: having the characters or qualities of a gentleman.

Author:  Captain Nemo Marlene [ October 28th, 2011, 1:05 pm ]
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How is this going, you guys? Have you used your endangered words in your stories yet? I have! :D

Author:  Lady Elanor [ October 29th, 2011, 7:20 am ]
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This is a really cool idea! I'm going to have to look some long, forgotten words up. :D

Author:  Andrew Amnon Mimetes [ October 30th, 2011, 6:34 pm ]
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I haven't used them in my stories, but I have managed to graft some of them into my vocabulary :D Particularly 'porphyrophobic' :rofl:

eru

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