"Big Words" Challenge

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Tue Nov 28, 2017 12:22 pm

Pick one and write a drabble or ficlet based on your chosen word. (:

1. Apodyopsis - act of mentally undressing someone.
2. Hypnerotomachia - the struggle between sleep and sexual desire.
3. Callipygian - having well-formed buttocks.
4. Colpocoquette - woman who knows she has an attractive bosom and makes good use of its allure.
5. Lethonomia - the inability to recall the names of people.
6. Sesquipedalian - using excessively long words.
7. Schadenfreude - pleasure derived from the misfortunes of others. Failing to discreetly conceal this pleasure constitutes a schadenfreudian slip.
8. Dysania - the state of finding it hard to get out of bed.
9. Philodox - person in love with his own opinions, who loves to hear himself talk.
10. Nudiustertian - the day before yesterday.
11. Automysophobia - fear of being dirty
12. Cacodemonomania - the pathological belief that one is inhabited, or possessed, by an evil spirit or entity.
13. Flibbertigibbet - a frivolous, flighty, or excessively talkative person.
14. Forisfamiliation - to renounce a legal title to a further share of paternal inheritance.
15. Germanophilia - Love or fondness for Germany or for the Germans.
16. Gynotikolobomassophile - A person who likes to nibble a woman's earlobe.
17. Haussmannize - To rebuild
18. Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia - Fear of the number six hundred sixty-six
19. Jouissance - Merriment
20. Kakorrhaphiophobia - Fear of failure
21. Metathesiophobia - Fear of changes
22. Noctambulation - Sleepwalking
23. Nyctohylophobia - Fear of dark wooded areas at night
24. Quomodocunquize - Making money in any possible way
25. Rambunctiousness - The state of being boisterous and disorderly
26. Rhabdophobia - Fear of being severely punished or beaten by a rod, or of being severely criticized
27. Rodomontadist - A person who boasts
28. Thanatognomonic - Indicating death
29. Transmogrification - Transformation to a different form or shape, especially strange or grotesque
30. Parsimonious - frugal
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