Big Words - Make You Sound Smart?

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  1. Seadog

    Seadog Ambidextrous dumb-ass with out coffee

    The word for today is "bursary." Doesn't that mean "WHAT"?
     
  2. Aladdin

    Aladdin Guest

    bursary - student/college grant
     
  3. carolyn33

    carolyn33 New Member

  4. Seadog

    Seadog Ambidextrous dumb-ass with out coffee

    No, What?
     
  5. HeadNoise

    HeadNoise Invisible Me

    A bursary is strictly an office for a bursar and his or her staff in a school or college.

    In modern English usage, the term has become synonymous with "bursary award", a monetary award made by an institution to an individual or a group to assist the development of their education.
     
  6. Seadog

    Seadog Ambidextrous dumb-ass with out coffee

    You smart
     
  7. thornapple

    thornapple New Member

    I always thought "assmosis" is where nobody tells you anything and you are expected to suck information up through your ass. But I was wrong, that isn't what it means.
     
  8. burd

    burd New Member

    That's really a word?
    I'm going to Google it because I like instant gratification.
     
  9. burd

    burd New Member

    Ahhhh, I know it now. ;)
     
  10. Aladdin

    Aladdin Guest

    i've actually heard of that word
     
  11. Aladdin

    Aladdin Guest

    i was never called that but heard others called that
     
  12. Seadog

    Seadog Ambidextrous dumb-ass with out coffee

    Hearing Aid - a condition that occurs when forced to listen to Ass!@#$%'s every day;}
     
  13. Aladdin

    Aladdin Guest

    good one dog
     
  14. Prima Donna

    Prima Donna New Member

    refulgent: (ri fool jent) an adjective meaning 'shining out' or 'shining brightly.'

    His refulgent green eyes have a mesmerizing effect.

    The refulgent sun casts its light across the clear blue sky.
     
  15. HeadNoise

    HeadNoise Invisible Me

    Nanogram
    I just found out I have 39 nanograms per mililiter of Vitamin D in my blood. We are talking SMALL measurements.

    Nanogram - 1 billionth of a gram! This apparently is an important teensy measurement! "Normal" is 25-80 billionths of a gram, but John of Ohio says a person should have 50 ng/ml so I am taking more pills.

    Try saying billionths five times in a row!
     
  16. Prima Donna

    Prima Donna New Member

    Nannu Nannu gram: A telegram sent by Mork from Ork.
     
  17. Aladdin

    Aladdin Guest

  18. carolyn33

    carolyn33 New Member

    supercalifragalisticexbealidocious
     
  19. Aladdin

    Aladdin Guest

  20. mcdizzy

    mcdizzy "Now Who's the Dumbass Dumbass"

    use it in a sentence please... ;D ::)
     

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