Word a day for 30 days: Day 9

Tendentious

Definitions:
adj.
- Calculated to promote a particular cause or point of view.
- Having a tendency; written or spoken with a partisan, biased or prejudiced purpose.
- Implicitly or explicitly slanted.

Tendentious in a sentence:
Six petunia enthusiasts were admitted to hospital with minor injuries following a ruckus at last weekend's Little Ploddington Village Flower Arranging Regatta. The perpetrator, a Mr Archibald Graham (62), is said to have flown into a whirlwind rage following the prize-giving ceremony in which he missed out on winning the coveted Mauve Rosette to rival horticulturalist Lucinda Towel (71). A witness told us, "When he heard the decision he just went berserk, started yelling, 'Tendentious bullshit: lilac was last year's colour! Everyone knows she's sausage polishing the judges!' and ran around assaulting people with his gardening trowel. Luckily he's a tiny wee man so he couldn't reach to do any serious damage; mostly people just got a bit of a kneecap battering."

Word a day for 30 days: Day 8

Today's post is kindly provided courtesy of K.W.. Thank you.

Words and definitions:
Bathykolpian (aj)
- having a large bosom with a deep cleavage

Crinigerous (aj)
- hairy

Aestivate (v)
- to pass the summer in a state of torpor
- to spend the summer

Words in a sentence:
"Wow, that's a nice bathykolpian, not too crinigerous woman; I'd like to aestivate with her..."

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Curiously my computer's spell checker is trying to correct bathykolpian to day 1's word bacchanalian. Keep up Microslotht.

Word a day for 30 days: Day 7

Procrustean

Definition:
Tending to produce confirmity by violent or arbitrary means.
(Eponym of Procrustes: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/procrustes )

Procrustean in a sentence:
As the tangerine baggage girl stomped his elbow into a matchbox-sized gap somewhere behind his sholderblades, Alan cursed Ryan Air's new ruthlessly space efficient 'Compacto Passenger Coffins' and their procrustean ergonomics. But at a bargainous €15 euros (plus taxes) to Oslo he knew he couldn't really complain.

Word a day for 30 days: Day 6

Solecism

Definitions:

1. Erroneous or improper usage; absurdity.
2. (grammar) Error in the use of language.
3. In written language, the intentional use of misspelling and/or incorrect grammar to effect the vernacular of a particular dialect.
4. A faux pas or breach of etiquette; a transgression against the norms of expected behavior. 

Solecism in a sentence:

This sentence are a solecism.

Word a day for 30 days: Day 5

Panglossian

Definition:
(pejorative) Naively or unreasonably optimistic.

Panglossian in a sentence:
Inmate 1: "Drop those throat lozenges and jump aboard my cough-powered wobble-copter; we'll be in Stockholm in time for tea. A Nobel Prize awaits!"
Inmate 2: "Settle down Terrence you panglossian fool, we're not going anywhere for another 5-10 years: your contraption's a dead moth squashed into a bar of soap."

Word a day for 30 days: Day 4

Ameliorate

Definition:
Make (something bad or unsatisfactory) better.

Ameliorate in a sentence:
Record label suit 1: "Not much has changed but we live underwater?! How can we ameliorate this shit?"
Record label suit 2: "Bushey eyebrows?"
Rec suit 1: "Bish Bash Bosh! Nice one Bodger! That leaves the afternoon free for a round of knob cricket! Cocks away what what!"

Word a day for 30 Days: Day 3

Leptocephalous

Definition:
Having a very narrow head.

Leptocephalous in a sentence:
Jimmy Carr could go no further: this pothole was reserved for the leptocephalous.