Saturday, August 25, 2007

A Master of Vo-cab-lee-ary

A few days ago, Vox posted about Houghton Mifflin's "100 words every collectivist drone should know," or some such thing. I thought I'd take a crack at defining a few:



bowdlerize: crushing w/ a very large rock.



ziggurat: a rodent that runs in zigzagging patterns.



chicanery: another term for the feminist movement.



enfranchise: opening a McDonald's restaurant.



equinox: when everyone has a hard-knock life.



evanescent: when you smell just like Evan.



fatuous: obese.



hegemony: a garden kingdom.



homogeneous: an exceptionally intelligent "gay" person.



hypotenuse: an uneducated guess.



impeach: the act of peppering someone with fruit.



incontrovertible: a non-ragtop automobile.



irony: metallic taste.



jejune: month that comes after memay.



kowtow: ancient bovine martial art.



paradigm: twenty cents.



photosynthesis: feng shui hanging of framed photographs.



supercilious: when Superman has a bout of the giggles.



taxonomy: what the government would like to pass more legislation favoring.



vacuous: the newest Dirt Devil model.



winnow: a minnow whose husband died.





See, publik skewel learnt me gud!

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