Ranarium

Pronunciation: Ran-ar-i-um

Definition: A frog farm

Used in a sentence: Let's go check out some frogs at our local ranarium! =]

Spelunking

Pronounced: Spe-lunk-ing.

Definition: The hobby or practice of exploring caves.

Origin: Circa 1890

Used in a sentence: We're going spelunking this weekend.

Heres a vid with some spelunking

Abstruse

Definition: 1. Hard to understand; recondite; esoteric.
2. Obsolete; secret; hidden.

Pronunciation: ab-stroos

Origin/History: c. 1600, from L. abstrusus, pp. of abstrudere "conceal", lit. "to thrust away", from ab- "away" + trudere " thrust, push"

Used in sentence: "I find this situation most abstruse".

Reintarnation

Definition: coming back to life as a hillbilly, being reincarnated as white trash.
Pronounced: re-in-tar-nation.
History: reintarnation is a recent word and was made up in america this century.
Examples: "I believe in reintarnation!", " I think when I die I will be reintarnated! Yeehaw!"

SPOONING

Definition: spooning- is when two people lie on their sides and face in the same direction whilst being close to oneanother in a hugging position. Doesnt have to be in a sexual way!!



Spooning is like cuddling with a teddy bear, only the bear is alive!



Used in a sentence: Everyone loves a good spooning followed by a good forking!

Fandango

Pronounced: Fan-dan-go

Definition:
(1) A lively Spanish dance of Cuban origin, with music varying from slow to quick 3/4 time.
(2) A foolish act.

Origin: Circa 17th century

Used in a sentence: They were masters at dancing the fandango.

here's a vid of people doin some foolish acts i.e fandango

Quixotic

Definition: 1. resembling or befitting Don Quixote. 2. extravagantly romantic or chivalrous; visionary, impractical or impracticable. 3. impulsive and often rashly unpredictable.

Pronounced: kwik-sot-ik

History/Origin: "extravagantly chivalrous," 1791, from Don Quixote, romantic, impractical hero of Cervantes' satirical novel "Don Quixote de la Mancha" (1605). His name lit. means "thigh," also "a cuisse" (a piece of armor for the thigh), in Mod.Sp. quijote, from L. coxa "hip."

Used in sentence: The lovely damsel dumped her sickeningly quixotic wooer and ran off with the court jester.

Here's a vid to help say it with a little cartoon aswel :) Enjoy!!

Trifolium Repens

Pronounced: "Try-foal-e-um, repp-enz"

What the hell does it mean?
Trifolium repens means 'white clover'. It grows all over Europe and in parts of North America, West Asia and North Africa.

It is the type of plant in which SHAMROCKS are formed from!

History/ Origin?
Well long ago, when he wasn't beating snakes with a stick, St Patrick used the clover/ shamrock leaves from this plant to illustrate the doctrine of the trinity! In Victorian times, the plant and it's shamrocks were used for their medical properties to treat the ill.

Examples of everyday use in conversation:
"The doctor said i cant drink today so i decided to go find me a four- leaf clover! Gonna need a field rich in Trifolium Repens though!"

HAPPY ST. PATRICK'S DAY EVERYBODY!

Bondoggle

Definition: An unnecessary or wasteful project or activity, A braided leather cord worn as a decoration especially by Boy Scouts, A cord of braided leather, fabric, or plastic strips made by a child as a project to keep busy.

History: It was a word invented by Robert H. Link (scoutmaster) who died in 1957.

Examples: "the scouts are bomdoggling over their", "i just love my bondoggle".

Splendiferous

Pronounced: Splen·dif·er·ous

Definition: Magnificent; very impressive; splendid

Origin: Circa 1425–75

Used in a sentence: Yesterday was a splendiferous day

here's what happens when you have animal costumes, a camera and a lot of free time

Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis

Definition: lung disease caused by the inhalation of very fine silica dust.

Pronunciation: Noo-muh-noh-uhl-tra-mi-kro-skop-ik-sil-i-koh-vol-kan-noh-koh-nee-oh-sis.

Used in a sentence: "Mike, that's a mighty bought of pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis you've got there!"

Little interesting fact, Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis is the longest word ever to appear in an English dictionary. =]

Apodyopsis

Definition: The act of mentally undressing someone.

Used in sentence: Mark practices apodyopsis while he's working at the old folks home.

Pronunciation: A-po-de-op-sis

And a vid to help with the pronunciation :) Although the pic has no relevance just thought it was funny and a little scary too :)

Hieroglyphic

Definition: writing using symbols or pictures rather than words, difficult to read or decipher.

Pronunciation: hi·er·o·glyph·i·cal

History: it is known as "sacred picture writing". This comes from "hiero" meaning "holy" and "glyphe" meaning "carving".

Examples: "Hieroglyphics are an ancient form of Egyption script", "I cant read this text, its mad hieroglyphic" "Use the image to spell your name in hieroglyphics!"

Jollification

Pronounced: Jollification

Definition: Lively celebration with others; merrymaking

Origin: Jollification is from jolly (from Old French joli, jolif, "joyful, merry") + Latin -ficare, combining form of facere, "to make." Circa 1800

Used in a sentence: This weekend there will be Jollification.

Here is an example of Jollification or merrymaking

Noctambulism

Definition: walking by a person who is asleep.

Pronounced: noc-tam-bu-lism

Origin: 1855-60

Adultery

Definition: to make impure by adding wrong or bogus ingredients. Aso a term for infidelity or extremarital sex.

History: The term does not come from the english "adult" but from the late-latin "to alter" meaning to "corrupt"

Examples: "adultery is seen as morally and religiously wrong" "i'll say nothing about his adultery boys!"