Mellifluous:
- Pleasing to the ear; sweetly melodic.
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Sherb
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@ScribScribScrib is going to murder you for this, brah.
Are you saying that in a mellifluous tone?
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I'm terrible with new words... 
Houdinii
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Sounds almost like euphonic.
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This would be much more fun if you also add how to pronounce: /m????liflo??o??s/
Because many of us don't have English as the first language and would not know how to read it correctly.
Or even add the recorded version would be even better.
https://ssl.gstatic.com/dictionary/static/sounds/20180430/mellifluous--_us_1.mp3
Because many of us don't have English as the first language and would not know how to read it correctly.
Or even add the recorded version would be even better.
https://ssl.gstatic.com/dictionary/static/sounds/20180430/mellifluous--_us_1.mp3
Good idea.
Lets be honest, even native speakers cant read some words right..
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T U R M O I L
/??t??r??moil/
- When shit hits the fan, all hell is broken loose.
*I have been fortunate to recover from the Turmoil of the housing crash in 2008.
Taking any contributors? I got excited when @ScribScribScrib started the thread back up again
/??t??r??moil/
- When shit hits the fan, all hell is broken loose.
*I have been fortunate to recover from the Turmoil of the housing crash in 2008.
Taking any contributors? I got excited when @ScribScribScrib started the thread back up again
Why?
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Never saw that thread before.
It's okay, no such thing as too many community contributions.
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Nice thread. Wonder how popular it'll get.
These are scary. I would not like to use them in an article unless I am impressing a buyer to give me gigs based on my sophisticated writing.
Goodi OG
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This will be fun. Following!
Nope, it's never counter-productive to expand your vocabulary.Agreed.
But doesn't hurt to learn them should you ever come across
Thanks for contributing to the thread.
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I'd like to make a contribution.
vestigial
adjective
/ves??t??d??.i.??l/
being a small remaining part or amount
In medical terminology, often used to describe something, especially a part of the body, that has not developed completely, or has stopped being used and has almost disappeared, commonly used when talking about evolution
Use: 1. Later, colonial laws prohibited even speaking the Pequot language, now long dead but for a few vestigial words.
2. Kiwis lack an external tail, and their vestigial wings are entirely hidden beneath a curious plumage???shaggy, more like fur than feathers.
My good friend is a creationist. In college he was debating a biology student, saying how evolution didn't occur, hence all so-called 'vestigial' organs are a part of intelligent design. The biology guy then got all mad and said my friend had a vestigial brain.. ouch.. rude
adjective
/ves??t??d??.i.??l/
being a small remaining part or amount
In medical terminology, often used to describe something, especially a part of the body, that has not developed completely, or has stopped being used and has almost disappeared, commonly used when talking about evolution
Use: 1. Later, colonial laws prohibited even speaking the Pequot language, now long dead but for a few vestigial words.
2. Kiwis lack an external tail, and their vestigial wings are entirely hidden beneath a curious plumage???shaggy, more like fur than feathers.
My good friend is a creationist. In college he was debating a biology student, saying how evolution didn't occur, hence all so-called 'vestigial' organs are a part of intelligent design. The biology guy then got all mad and said my friend had a vestigial brain.. ouch.. rude