Thursday, April 20, 2006

or so Hamlet says

I just learned some new words, which makes me excited, especially because I like to play Scrabble and work crossword puzzles:

tawse - a leather strap slit into strips at the end and used especially for disciplining children

hygroscopic - readily taking up and retaining moisture

anadromous - ascending rivers from the sea for breeding

catadromous - living in freshwater and going to the sea to spawn

agromania - intense desire to be in open spaces (an intense form of spring fever, perhaps?)

cancrine - of, like or pertaining to crabs

hieromania - pathological religious visions or delusions

quoz - absurd person or thing (This is a very good word for Scrabble.)

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