Case-in-point, word of the day for Saturday, June 24:
Brobdingnagian: gigantic; enormous.
What a great frickin' word!
Five syllables, all nearly unrecognizable. It sounds like it'd be fun to say with an Irish accent. It has "ding" as a syllable. It's capitalized for no apparent reason; I imagine it as an ironic name given to one of the thumb-sized Lilliputians from Gulliver's Travels. It totally sounds like it could be.
"Oh, that Brobdingnagian - his eyes are bigger than his stomach! He thinks he's the size of Gulliver, don't he?"
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I signed up for a couple different word-of-the-day sites in preparation for the GRE. One day in February or March the word was "seasonal affective disorder."
Seriously? Is that a word? Needless to say it didn't appear in the GRE analogy section.
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