ACCRETION
When is water an accretion to sand?
.
.
.
....
When the sand creates a beach.
Accretion means to gradually grow by an external source.
.
.
.
IGNOBLE -
Your friend says his hat is very expensive...
You say: "It's so ignoble!"
.
Why does your friend look at you funny?
....
.
.
Ignoble means inferior.
.
.
Subscribe
NewWordADay

 © 2010 Englishionary
.
.

HINTERLAND
You visit the hinterland in the summer.
Why can't you find people there?
.
.
....
.
Hinterland is the remote parts of a country where no one lives.
.
.
You didn't have time to be timorous.
.
What did you not have time for?
.
.
....
To be afraid.
Timorous means to be afraid.
.
.
Subscribe
NewWordADay

 © 2010 Englishionary
.
.

TRANSNATION

You use transnatation to get cross the nation.
You're not getting anywhere.
Why?
.
.
.
Transnatation means to swim.


.
.
You brew up a brouhaha.
What have you made?
.
.
.
.
An uproar.
A brouhaha is a ruckus or a commotion.

.
.
Subscribe
NewWordADay

 © 2010 Englishionary
.
.

RAMBUNCTIOUS
You have a ram in your bunk.
Why do you call it rambunctious?
.
.
.
....
It is out of control.
Rambunctious means loud and out of control
.
.
.
.
flocculent -
I bring you a broccoli flocculent soup...
... why do you not eat it?
.
.
....
Flocculent means a clump of wool.
So... Waiter! There's a hair in my soup... ta-dum.
.
.
Subscribe
NewWordADay

 © 2010 Englishionary
.
.

WABBIT
You have the habit of running around like a rabbit.
Now you are a bit wabbit.
What are you?
.
.
.
.
.
Very tired.
Wabbit means to be exhausted or tired.
.
.
.
Borborygm -
You go to the gym.
You have a tremendous borborygm...
... why do you run out?
.
....
A borborygm is a loud gurgle in your belly.

.
.
Subscribe
NewWordADay

 © 2010 Englishionary
.
.

IT IS GREEN IN THE ____
I walk after ____
I heard a dog ____
I did this on a ____


...
park
dark
bark
lark

The expression:
"I did this on a lark"
...means to do something on a whim...
...or at the last minute and whithout thinking first.



I ask you to pack drinking glasses.
I say "Be careful. They can break.".
You are fastidious as you pack them.
Am I happy?

...
Yes! Fastidious means to do something with great care and thought.
Should it not be slowtidious?
Yes. English is funny.

.
.
Subscribe
NewWordADay

 © 2010 Englishionary
.
.

EFFICACIOUS
You sneeze.
I give you something efficacious.
Now you are gracious and feel vivacious.

I give you something effective for your sneezing.
Now you are thankful and feel very lively.
.
.

You tell me that you made a great new spelling spreadsheet.
You tell me it has twelve colums.
Why do I tell you to learn how to spell?
.
.
.
Colums is spelled as columns.

I give you a grapefruit... Are you...
a) grateful
b) gratefull
c) greatful..
d) greatfull
....
.
grateful
Remember:
It does not have great or full in the word!
Should it not be great full ?
English is funny!

.
.
Subscribe
NewWordADay

 © 2010 Englishionary
.
.