Tuesday, May 30, 2006

More Words Of The Day

  • Anastylosis is the process of taking apart a ruined building, measuring it carefully, and then reconstructing it brick by brick.

  • Valorise, a word spotted by 14 year old Countdown champ Conor Travers, which means to arbitrarily set the price of a commodity.

  • Obdormition, a fancy medical term for a dead leg or dead arm. (As in pins and needles, not actually dead.)
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