Friday, February 9, 2007

Engl1020: Post 5

Randomly Selected Words: Alchemy, Brontosaurus, Cantankerous, Dodo, Extrapolate, Frigate, Gypsy, Hypnotic, Ibex, Jigger, Kaleidoscope, Lemur, Mobster, Necrophiliac, Opaque, Penguin, Quetzal, Roulette, Sansevieria, Toxin, Ungulate, Vulgar, Walrus, Xanthic, Yokefellow, Zealous.

Over 90 megabytes online of information on alchemy in all its facets.

The dinosaur genus originally known as Brontosaurus is now officially designated Apatosaurus. Please see that article for more information.

Ill-tempered and quarrelsome; disagreeable: disliked her cantankerous landlord.

The Mauritius Dodo (Raphus cucullatus), more commonly just dodo, was a metre-high (three-foot) flightless bird related to the pigeons that lived on the islands of Mauritius.

For the journal of speculative fiction, see Extrapolation (journal). For the John McLaughlin album, see Extrapolation (album).

Frigate is a term which has been used for several distinct types of warships at different times: the term has referred to a variety of ship roles and sizes.

Gypsy (also gipsey, gypsey, gypsie) is a sometimes derogatory term for the following ethnic groups:

Hypnotic drugs are a class of drugs that induce sleep (which differentiates them from the sedative category), used in the treatment of severe insomnia and in surgical anesthesia.

Maybe tonight is the night I die.

A jigger is an indispensable tool for the budding bartender.

Kaleidoscope is the ultimate in user interface customization for the Macintosh, letting you switch between completely different interface designs provided by plug-in modules called "Schemes".

Lemurs are members of a class of primates known as prosimians and make up the infraorder Lemuriformes.

"Mobster" is a slang term for a person who participates in organized crime, which is known as belonging to "the Mob".

Necrophilia, also called thanatophilia and necrolagnia, is a paraphilia characterized by a sexual attraction to corpses.

Opacity (optics), describes opaque material, impenetrable to visible light.

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Quetzals are beautifully colored birds of the trogon family (Trogonidae) found in tropical regions of the Americas.

Roulette is a casino and gambling game named after the French word meaning "small wheel".

Sansevierias is a group of about 60 Agave related species from India, Indonesis and tropical Africa. A couple of species are common as house plants.

For a list of biologically injurious substances, including toxins and other materials, as well as their effects, see poison.

Ungulates (meaning roughly "hoofed" or "hoofed animal") are several groups of mammals most of which use the tips of their toes, usually hoofed, to sustain their whole bodyweight whilst moving.

3 entries found for vulgar.

Money for crimes committed at residential schools may be forthcoming, but problems with the reserve system remain…[more].

a. yellow; yellowish. xanthochroid, n. & a. fair-haired and pale-skinned (person). xanthochroism, n. condition in which all skin pigments except yellow and orange disappear.

The purpose of YokeFellow is to further the cause of Christ through involvement in the Great Commission by using member's God-given gifts and talents.

One entry found for zealous.

1 Comments:

Blogger JAcosta said...

You chose some very interesting and intelligent words to use for this post. The one suggestion I have for improving this post is to have the linked words a different color than the rest of the words on the post. It was a little confusing to find the links to each word, do to the same color of all the words. You could have had all the linked words on this post be blue and the rest of the words to be white. Besides that, as mentioned earlier you picked out some really good words to put this post all together.

February 11, 2007 at 2:10 PM  

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