My list of words I'll never forget
Everyone has a list of words they looked up to find the definition to. Most of the definitions are forgotten as soon as the vocabulary test is over. A few will always remain, never conciously. (Hopefully, I'll someday learn to spell these words correctly)
A few words off my list:
1. Dubious- As in, "Most Dubious." This situation is most dubious. I think putting grated cheese on your cat is a most dubious idea. The actual definition is fraught with doubt, but I think the definition is more similiar to "What the Fuck are you thinking?"
2. Vex- Fancy word for annoy. Thats it...nothing special. Its the apotheosis (more on that word later) of synonym. It brings nothing new to the English language at all. Plus its so short...you can't even curl it off your tongue like "You're starting to annnooyyy me." Since you now know the actual defintion, you realize that you haven't been making much sense saying, "Vex off" all the time. Don't let "knowledge" stop you from abusing the English language.
Make a promise that the next time you see a stranger, you'll proudly shout,"Vex off PUNK!" or something similiar.
3. Asinine- Very little commentary is needed for this word. The official definition is, "Utterly stupid or silly" or "relating to or resembling an ass." I couldn't have said it better myself. Its just one of those perfect words...every fascet of it is flawless (luckily I had a thesaurus handy).
4. Apotheosis- This is the conversation ender. You don't even need to know what it means...in fact its better that you don't know what it means, because you might use it in correct context and someone will figure it out. For those few people who do know what it means and use it in correct context...good for you. What? Did you want a trophy or something. Its a dead word...used only once by a stumbling madman.
5. Loquacious- The dread SAT word. Everyone learns it a couple of times in their life. After the third of fourth time, it sticks. The reason for this gap in comprehension is simply because the word has no correlation with its meaning, unless you know latin or something. FARK, it means talkative...and it sounds like parasite you get from swimming in the kiddy pool. Personally, I blame the Brits...or the Romans or whatever. But not the French, I'm still too pissed off at them for rendezvous (suprisinglly not pronounced ren-dez-vous)
Bonus: Folder- Don't laugh, this is the only word I remember conciously learning. Back in the first grade, I accidentally left some stuff in the class. I walked back in the room during recess to get them back. Unsuprising, I was going to a school in a Russian area, but had the only non-Russian teacher. The bitch refused to give me back my folder, until I fucking had to recall what a folder was called. Seriously dramatic incident...one of very few memories of elementary school. She made me waste all of recess...I only got it back after she forced to overpronounce "folder" over and over again. She was pretty sadistic. If I wasn't so sure shes dead by now...I would have a revenge complex.
All of the official definitions are excerpted from The American Heritage� Dictionary of the English Language.
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