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Help me with a word challenge for dd age 8, need interesting words she can use but won't know.

22 replies

lexcat · 24/10/2009 15:09

It all start about a week ago when she got her first dictionary. A friend gave her the word Serendipity dd looked it up and since has been trying to use the word or telling people what it means. She's now asking if she can a new word every day during half term.

OP posts:
Ivykaty44 · 24/10/2009 15:12

iridesent

Ivykaty44 · 24/10/2009 15:12

lush

curlyredhead · 24/10/2009 15:13

emphatic

herculean

irridescent

elongate

Ivykaty44 · 24/10/2009 15:13

philandera (sp) such a lovely sounding word to describe such a disturbing charicteristic

lexcat · 24/10/2009 15:26

THANKS KEEP THEM COMING

I've given her iridesent for today as I know she'll enjoy that word.

OP posts:
MintyCane · 24/10/2009 15:26

discombobulated

TheDevilEatsBabies · 24/10/2009 15:30

etymology

facetious

cessation

peculiar

ellipsis ...

parentheses

lexcat · 24/10/2009 20:30

Keep them coming

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shockers · 24/10/2009 20:40

glum

amble

placid

bulbous

fragmented

Miggsie · 24/10/2009 20:44

quotidian

coruscating

kenning

palimpsest

obdurate

colloquy

stentorian

thegrammerpolicesic · 24/10/2009 20:46

perambulator
omnipotent
incandescent

CuppaTeaJanice · 24/10/2009 20:52

ethereal

aesthetic

veritable

Takver · 24/10/2009 21:13

sesquipedalian
pachyderm
quantum

Chamomile · 24/10/2009 21:22

rambunctious
obfuscate

tallyhopinkerton · 25/10/2009 19:17

erudite
eclectic
procrastinate
obsequious
onomatopoeia
spondee
alliteration
assonance
juxtap osition

heavealot · 25/10/2009 20:09

quixotism

shallishanti · 25/10/2009 20:10

penultimate

Milliways · 25/10/2009 21:14

Does she want "funny" ones like Halitosis?

fridayschild · 26/10/2009 13:56

subsist

dilemma456 · 26/10/2009 18:01

Message withdrawn

Litchick · 26/10/2009 18:23

malicious
tantamount
obtuse
flagrant
perilous
dormant

verbs are good too, and easier to use
to keen
to impart
to generalise
to inflict
to reciprocate

randomeuro · 26/10/2009 18:25

arbitrary

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