Words I Don't Know: 'A'
So, I got this little 35,000 word dictionary, a slender volume I can easily fit inside a pocket, and I says to myself I says, 'I must know at least 35,000 words, what with my massive capacity for language and my daily curiosity!' So I open the book, determined to prove how little I need Webster or his puny dictionary. Here, from the first 20 pages of this (very) small book, are the words I don't know:
abstemious
acclivity
accrete
acyclovir
apiary
abstemious
acclivity
accrete
acyclovir
apiary
Labels: dictionary
posted by k_sra at 11/03/2005 03:43:00 PM
4 Comments:
Think of it this way: You've got 35000 words on, say, 350 pages. That's 100 words per page. So 20 pages is 2000 words. And you missed 5. That's 99.75% coverage. Carry that over the whole dictionary and you know 34913 of the words.
BTW, I know what "accrete" means, so, nyah!
Isn't apiary a bee word? (I didn't look it up cause YOU have the dictionary.)
apiary is indeed, a bee house thingy
// apiary is indeed, a bee house thingy//
Yeah, I had to look that one up. Would've guessed it was a building for keeping flying monkeys.
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