Weird Words
 

swasivious [sway-siv-ee-us]

Any ideas about what this word means? (It is a rare or obsolete word ...) ;)


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swasivious /swa SIV ee uhs/ agreeably persuasive.

I'd not heard that word before in my life, as far as I recall.

I looked around a little and apparently the nature of being swasivious or agreeably persuasive has a lot to do with "tone".

hmmnn, interesting word.

Yes, you both got it right.


Next word:

finifugal [fye-nif-yoo-gul]

Finiculee finicula, finiculee finiculaaaaaa
echoes sound afar finiculee finiculaaaaaa

first thing I thought of :D

No idea what that word is, scrabble, and I don't want to look it up.

finifugal

fini would probably mean the end of something? No idea what though. I learned greek and latin roots in school. Can't remember any of them

finifugal - is an adjective meaning 'shunning the end (of anything).' Appropriate for children avoiding bedtime and for those who "just don't want the book to end."

(I thought the 'fini' must mean 'finished' also. The 'fugal' I first read as 'frugal' ... :rolleyes: )


Next word:

aspectabund [uh-spek-tuh-bund]


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Aspectabund is an old word for "expressive," referring to the face.

Sharob, well done!

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Next word:

sciapodus [sye-app-uh-dus]


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sciapodus [sye-app-uh-dus]

So don't laugh at what I say 'cause I'm trying to do this without looking anything up. It's more fun for me that way.

scia ... well only other word I can think of with scia is sciatica, so scia might have something to do with back

pod might refer to foot or feet or standing. another word with that is anthropod

us... well that's in a lot of biology terms. Ornithorhynchus or ornithorinchus.

my guess is it's something like being able to stand on back legs or describes an animal or creature that can stand on back legs. Unless it means something really obscure like having backbone.

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I like your style, Lara ... :)

You got the 'pod' right .... and that is as far as I got too. :rolleyes:

"sciapodous-having feet large enough to shelter the whole body when used as an umbrella. :eek: From a Greek word meaning 'shadow foot'. The Sciapodes who had these feet were supposed to live in Libya."