Tuesday, March 18, 2008

Quadridecennial

colorblindnessAnu Garg of Wordsmith.org has been sending out a word a day for 14 years. In celebration this week all the words were not only 14 letters long but defined in 14 letters.

Use them in a story, a paragraph or even a single sentence. :-)

acritochromacy (uh-KRIT-o-kro-muh-see) noun -- Color blindness.
tintinnabulate (tin-ti-NAB-yuh-layt) verb intr. -- To ring; to tinkle.
tinctumutation (tinkt-myoo-TAY-shuhn) noun -- Change of colour.
Brobdingnagian (brob-ding-NAG-ee-uhn) adjective -- Of gigantic size.
circumbendibus (sur-kuhm-BEN-duh-buhs) noun -- Circumlocution.

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