hellow ENGLISH test!

Write your top-10-most-difficult-english-words-list here, also add their definitions!

Need about 500 words any my brain is stuck right now thanks to the loud noises the workers do outside right now.

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my igoogle start page says boulevardier: a man-about-town.
1. A frequenter of city boulevards, especially in Paris.
2. A sophisticated, worldly, and socially active man; a man who frequents fashionable places; a man-about-town.
modulation ='(
for me, those words are hard, which i dont know. So i cant write you those :D:d
INFECT LOVES MEET THE SPARTANS LOLOL :DDDdddDdDdDd
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i hate that movie.
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GAY
adj. gay·er, gay·est
1. Of, relating to, or having a sexual orientation to persons of the same sex.
2. Showing or characterized by cheerfulness and lighthearted excitement; merry.
3. Bright or lively, especially in color: a gay, sunny room.
4. Given to social pleasures.
5. Dissolute; licentious.
n.
1. A person whose sexual orientation is to persons of the same sex.
2. A man whose sexual orientation is to men: an alliance of gays and lesbians.
Try to say: "the sixth sick shiek's sixth sheep's sick".
irish wrist watch
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"the sixth sick shiek's sixth sheep's sick"

there you go..

what was so hard about that?
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he said 'say' not 'reply'
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Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia

Fear of long words
some that i used in my english lit exam today, cba thinking of more, infact after those 3 hours I never really want to think of it ever again

anthropomorphosis
transformation into human form.

epistolary
contained in or carried on by letters

malevolent
wishing evil or harm to another or others; showing ill will

impermanence
the property of not existing for indefinitely long durations
Antidisestablishmentarianism

[an-tee-dis-uh-stab-lish-muhn-tair-ee-uh-niz-uhm] -noun: opposition to the withdrawal of state support or recognition from an established church, esp. the Anglican Church in 19th-century England.
i was about to post that! :<
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inseperability
heterogenetic
perishability
definitely, no-one can spell it right
the verb to come:

90 % tends to write comming

:D
90% of Belgians maybe.
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Hmm, no not really..
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1. cloy: to weary or become distasteful through excess.
2. halcyon: peaceful; undisturbed; happy.
3. sub rosa: secretly; privately; confidentially.
4. disparate: fundamentally different; also, composed of dissimilar elements.
5. fustian: pompous or pretentious language.
6. amalgam: an alloy of mercury with other metals; also, a mixture.
7. contrite: feeling or expressing grief and regret for sins or offenses.
8. moiety: a half; a small part.
9. sentient: capable of perceiving by the senses.
10. parsimonious: frugal to excess.
11. acumen: quickness or keenness of perception or discernment.
12. cavil: to raise trivial objections; also, a trivial objection.
13. umbrage: offense; resentment.
14. fetter: a restraint; also, to impose restraints on.
15. paean: a song or other expression of praise or joy.
16. subfusc: dark or dull in color.
17. latitudinarian: having or expressing broad and tolerant views.
18. tirade: a long angry speech.
19. obtrude: to thrust out; also, to impose on others.
20. Potemkin village: a false front or facade.
21. boulevardier: a man-about-town.

http://dictionary.reference.com/wordoftheday/archive/
SEEN DONNIE DARKO LATELY?
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NOT LATELY NO (ud better watch out with those capital letters if u value your life...)
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I'm going to write a test in an hour and I have to learn all these definitions - that's the fun when you study English on academic level :D

Synaesthesia: vehicle and tenor allude to different sensory perceptions

Metonymy: replacement of one term with another to which it is ontologically logically or causally connected

Synecdoche: replacement of a part with a whole or vice versa

Antonomasia: replacement of a generic term with a proper name, or of a proper name with an epithet

Periphrasis/Circumlocution: description of an element by making reference to it's characteristics

Euphemism: reference to something by means of a milder, more positive term

Litotes: reference to an element or quality my negating its opposite

Antithesis: juxtaposition of two logically opposed elements

Hendiadys: an idea that would usually be expressed by a single noun phrase is represented by two words joined by a conjunction

Paranomasia: a play of words using two identical or similar sounding words with different and perhaps contradictory meanings.
im english, yet I haven't seen those words before :D
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don't tell me you haven't seen euphemism before :OOOO
I've seen most of the dutch translations of these @ dutch class @school, so i think you must have seen at least 2 of em @ english class mr splodgio!
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Ok yeh ive seen euphemism before, but none of the others. GSCE engrish has failed me :<
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You should have payed more attention MISTER FAIL!
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Im sorry :< Spank me!
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they are related to literature and poetry, rly no need to know them believe me, it's not worth it!
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if you studied latin you can clearly see the references
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seems really funny indeed ...
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Sex Drugs & Rock 'n Roll !
I dont know what hello means :E
diarrhea - A morbidly frequent and profuse discharge of loose or fluid evacuations from the intestines, without tenesmus; a purging or looseness of the bowels; a flux.
Borschtsch.
tits or gtfo
Miscellaneous & Masachuttes
daddy-long-legs -> a sort of spiders with long legs and small body...

learned that in the 1.year engrish
Nephronophthisis -> wasting disease of the kidney substance.
here you find the longest existing word:

http://www.othyr.com/titin.html
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