My vocabulary stinks! I used to have such a range of words, and could carry on a decent conversation. And now, it's been reduced to talking like a 3 year old! If I'm lucky enough to get involved in an adul conversation, I feel stupid! I'm so nervouse about what I'm going to say, and how I'm going to say things, that I usually just keep quiet, unless a question is directed right at me. And even then I get all nervouse. I hate it. So I've decided to do something about it. My mom used to tell me that one of her favorite things to do was read the dictionary, I of course thought she was insane! But I think I am going to pick a word out of the dictionary every day, and try to use it more. That's really the only way I'm going to expand my vocabulary. Any one wanna do it with me!!! I'll post a new word every day


Today's word is: Abash (e bash') | to make embarrassed and ill at ease; make self-conscious; disconcern - SYN EMBARASSED - abashedly-adv. | abashment-n.

If it will help me engage in fewer discussions about poop, I'm all for it. Unabashedly.

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I'm game! We will not be abashed any more.

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I feel the same way. And Its not just my vocabulary. My grammer and spelling have gone down hill. I used to love to read and I mean "real books" But now I'm lucky to glance at a magazine.

My dictoionay says that ABASH means to deprive of self-possession;disconcern;make ashamed or confused.

I'm up for it! Great idea!!
And like on Pee Wee's playhouse, if anyone uses it in a sentence we all SCREAM!!! :D

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I just signed up for to recieve a word daily form dictionary.com, so I'll post the word I get from there

I do this with my son. It's a good thing. Listen, the other thing is that I do crossword puzzles to try to keep sharp. They say that crosswords are great for helping prevent loss of brain cells and Alzheimers. Anything to keep those little connectors connecting. I agree about the poopy thing. My son makes up songs about farts and poopy and I have to put a moratorium on them at some point during the day or night. Of course, this is after having two days of poopy - dd's diaper leaked in her intellitainer, down her leg, onto the carpet where it was rubbed in before dh, who was on duty, noticed it (gee, guess who got to clean it all up?). Then today, my geriatric cat left a trail in many spots in the house. Lovely to wake up to. DH didn't clean it or her because he didn't know what I used

My word for today?

Egregious: egregious means conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible;Roget's New Millenium Thesaurus. Also, arrant, atrocious, capital, deplorable, extreme, flagrant, glaring, grievous, gross*, heinous, infamous, insufferable, intolerable, monstrous, nefarious, notorious, outrageous, outright, preposterous, rank, scandalous, shocking, stark

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