The Vocabulary Game Bump Thread

[Hazy Recollections]

SCOFFLAW
A person who flouts a law, especially an unsustainable one.  

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USUFRUCTUARY/juːzjuːˈfrʌktjuːərɪ/
A person who has the use and enjoyment of something, especially property.  

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TONTINE/tɒnˈtiːn/
A system of annuities in which the benefits pass to the surviving subscribers until only one is left.  

[Hazy Recollections]

lol I love your creative winner definition thing razz thanks!  

[Blind Blindness]

Queen Spazzy

Winner
Noun
One who has won or often wins.

Well, wouldja lookit that, you just won the first prize in this thread, Chaotic.
I've been waiting for ages for this, haha, I didn't wanna be the winner since I'm a mod in the guild and all.
I'll set a trade up for you momentarily with your prize. c:

Blind Blindness

Just pinging you to let you know I've handled the winnings already, so you don't have to worry about them~

Lol haha. And thank you  

[nerdy ninja18]

Epic Fail

When something can be seen to be a total failure
The highest form of fail known to man. Reaching this level of fail means only one thing:
You must die, or the world will fail itself due to such an extreme level of failage.
A mistake of such monumental proportions that it requires its own term in order to sucessfully point out the unfathomable shortcomings of an individual or group.

 

[ScuroFenice]

pneu·mo·no·ul·tra·mi·cro·scop·ic·sil·i·co· vol·ca·no·co·ni·o·sis
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an obscure term ostensibly referring to a lung disease caused by silica dust, sometimes cited as one of the longest words in the English language.  

[Black Nachos]

batchelor's fare
(n.) expression meaning bread, cheese and kisses.  

[Black Nachos]

princessofthevamps

batchelor's fare
(n.) expression meaning bread, cheese and kisses.

ergophile (n.) one who loves to work  

[Kami_tyleen6]

Golgi apparatus noun: a complex of vesicles and folded membranes within the cytoplasm of most eukaryotic cells, involved in secretion and intracellular transport.  

[Kami_tyleen6]

zugzwang: a situation in which a player is limited to moves that have a damaging effect.  

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Abiogenesis noun: technical term for spontaneous generation .  

[Kami_tyleen6]

Ancylostomiasis noun:hookworm infection of the small intestine, often leading to anemia.  

[Kami_tyleen6]

Aurantiaceous: like or pertaining to orange or plant group containing it.