Sunday, 2 November 2014

Words of the Week: Week 6

27/10/14 to 2/11/14

Monday: matutinal - Of or occurring in the morning: e.g. 'his matutinal jog'

Tuesday: anathematize - Curse; condemn: e.g. 'he anathematized them as ‘bloody scroungers’'

Wednesday: notional - Existing as or based on a suggestion, estimate, or theory; not existing in reality: e.g. 'notional budgets for hospital and community health services'

Thursday: noisome - Having an extremely offensive smell: e.g. 'noisome vapours from the smouldering waste'

Friday: bogle - A phantom or goblin

Saturday: katzenjammer - 1. Confusion; uproar: e.g. 'All of this criminal katzenjammer' OR 2. A hangover; A severe headache resulting from a hangover

Sunday: inanimate - 1. Not alive OR 2. Showing no sign of life; lifeless

Words and definitions from Oxford Dictionaries Online's Word of the Day.

Playing with this week's words!
  • Notional matutinal jog
  • Noisome bogle
  • Inanimate due to a katzenjammer
  • I anathematize this katzenjammer!

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