Vocabulary Builder

[Shadelier]

Goal: Build up your vocabulary. Reinforce learning by... teaching.
Benefits: Improves writing, gives inspiration, enriches RPing.
Format: Post excerpt where you looked up a word or two. Then post the definition(s).


In the apotheosis of the Warriors' crunch-time woes this season, their loss of a 24-point lead to Memphis, Durant was actively avoiding this play, much to Draymond Green's screaming chagrin. Curry stood with the rock, ready to run a pick-and-roll. Durant demanded the ball back, prompting an awkward exchange, an isolation brick and the Green histrionics.



noun: apotheosis; plural noun: apotheoses

1. the highest point in the development of something; culmination or climax.
   "his appearance as Hamlet was the apotheosis of his career"
   • the elevation of someone to divine status; deification.

plural noun: histrionics

1. 1.
   exaggerated dramatic behavior designed to attract attention.
   "discussions around the issue have been based as much in histrionics as in history"
   synonyms: dramatics, theatrics, tantrums; affectation, staginess, artificiality
   "how about a little more plain-talking sincerity and a little less histrionics?"
   • dramatic performance; theater.
2. 2.
   archaic
   an actor.

 

[Shadelier]

1. Shadelier: Why do I picture Cailin as a Shaolin monk.
2. Cailin: Why do I picture you as a chandelier?
3. Cailin: Using your light bulb appendages to type.
4. Cailin: Oh God, I need sleep.
5. Shadelier: Cailin sounds like Shaolin, okay.
6. Cailin: It's pronounced like 'Colleen', actually.
7. Shadelier: Ah.
8. Cailin: And I meant phalanges, not appendages.

The phalanges are the bones that make up the fingers of the hand and the toes of the foot. There are 56 phalanges in the human body, with fourteen on each hand and foot. Three phalanges are present on each finger and toe, with the exception of the thumb and large toe, which possess only two. - Wikipedia