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Re: A Word Game!!! - 30-04-2009, 12:08 PM

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cudgel refers to a club or a bick stick like base ball bat like a thing which is used as a weapon... i think this is correct is it hmmm...

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@Zenie, you're correct.. Cudgel is a short, thick stick or a club used as a weapon.

The word cudgel is also used as a verb and means to beat with a cudgel.
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Re: A Word Game!!! - 30-04-2009, 12:38 PM

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Abaxial - Located away from or on the opposite side of the axis, of an organ or organism. (by courtesy of dictionary.com )
e.g - "the abaxial surface of a leaf is the side facing away from the stem"

Next word - Nugatory
Nugatory - of no real value, worthless.

USAGE: I might refer to the general conviction and the common sense of society that such an investment cannot be treated as absolutely idle and nugatory.
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- Benjamin Disraeli, Suez Canal Speech.

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Re: A Word Game!!! - 30-04-2009, 03:25 PM

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To look at something obliquely; with a side glance; with disdain, envy, or suspicion.

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abaxial - facing away from the axis of an organ or organism; "the abaxial surface of a leaf is the underside or side facing away from the stem"


Next Word Abannation
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Re: A Word Game!!! - 30-04-2009, 03:29 PM

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Nugatory - of no real value, worthless.

USAGE: I might refer to the general conviction and the common sense of society that such an investment cannot be treated as absolutely idle and nugatory.
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next word: paronomasia
A play on words in which the same word is used in different senses or words similar in sound are used in opposition to each other for a rhetorical contrast; a pun.
Also called adnomination, agnomination, annomination.
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Re: A Word Game!!! - 30-04-2009, 05:09 PM

next one AISLE
not getting abannation

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Re: A Word Game!!! - 30-04-2009, 08:18 PM

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next one AISLE
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AISLE:
a long narrow passage.
a passage way between the seating area in an auditorium or vehicles.

ABANNATION:
Expel from a community or group, banish, ostracize

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Re: A Word Game!!! - 01-05-2009, 06:57 AM

Rejoinder - a quick reply to a question or remarks (especially witty one)
"it brought a sharp rejoinder from the teacher
SYN: retort, riposte

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Re: A Word Game!!! - 01-05-2009, 01:07 PM

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Rejoinder - a quick reply to a question or remarks (especially witty one)
"it brought a sharp rejoinder from the teacher
SYN: retort, riposte

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The word meands Bewilderment, certain amazement which causes utter confusion.

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Re: A Word Game!!! - 01-05-2009, 08:25 PM

SINISTER means omnious , threatning, menacing, baleful
AS Sin is there so no need to think
usage : a sinister smile, sininster storm clouds
Even this related to left hand

NEXT one is pestilential
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SINISTER means omnious , threatning, menacing, baleful
AS Sin is there so no need to think
usage : a sinister smile, sininster storm clouds
Even this related to left hand

NEXT one is pestilential
pestilential - likely to spread an epidemic disease...

USAGE: Swine Flu is pestilential...

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