It Pays to Enrich Your Word Power.

When I was growing up, my parents subscribed to the Reader's Digest and those funny little books were kept in our loo.  My favourite page was, "It Pays to Enrich Your Wordpower," and sometimes I really miss those little books and their ability to extend my vocabulary. Now I wake up at 5am, grab my phone, check the news, look at the word of the day on the dictionary (today's is Wuther = (of wind) to blow fiercely, which seems very appropriate) and play my turn of Words with Friends.  I like words and I have serial friends.  My longest oponant is my cousin, who is seems to be just as happy to make up words as I am.  It's better than real scrabble because you learn new words all the time and you don't have to have the arguments about whether the word is in the dictionary or not.  When I play, I look at where I want to go and keep putting letters in, until I get a word that gets accepted.  I have learnt some amazing new words.

Here are twelve of the recent favourites.

1.  Ajee - To one side awry
2. Eidola - apparitions
3. Tropisms - orentations of organisms to an external stimulus like light
4. Nixy - A mis-addressed piece of mail
5. Orcing - An orc is a kind of ogre so it probably means acting like an ogre.  The definition I found says Fake Troll trying to troll, "That guy was orcing so hard on my game last night."  I don't think I will ever be using the word orcing.
6. Ajuga - A plant with blue flowers not something you put your beer in.
7. Keef - A bit of a Cannabis plant and not my next door neighbour.
8. Petiolar -Growing from a petiole (slender stalk by which a leaf is attached to a stem)
9. Kelters - Properties of any kind (kelter is another spelling of kilter as in out of kilter)
10. Worrit - Become worried or show anxiety.  "I was very worrit about Mr Gove's proposals for phonic teaching."
11. Womby - Capacious
12. Fuzee - A conical spirally grooved pulley in a timepiece from which a cord or chain unwinds onto a cylinder containing the mainspring and which by its increasing diameter compensates for the lessening power of the spring.

The flipside of this is that words that you use every day, words that you know are real just don't seem to be accepted.

1.  Cooth - if you can be uncooth then you must be able to be cooth.
2.  Tingly - A friend was very upset that WwF wouldn't let her have tingly today.  We've all had tingly hands and feet in the cold.
3.  Prezoing - Going to Prezo to meet friends, gossip and get thrown out at midnight, as in, "Are you Prezoing tonight?"
4.  Eieio - would be a great way to use up your vowels and we've all sung it, "Old Macdonald had a farm...."
5. Ambitexterous - being able to text with both hands
6. Effin - as in, "we was having fun just effin around."

And finally, my favourite word, which I know I have been doing in this blog: Testiculate - talking bollocks with expansive arm movements.