“The puppy, despite her best efforts at projecting thooid authority, failed to intimidate the school bus as it drove by her window.”ġ925 gladiolus: any of a genus of perennial plants of the iris family with erect sword-shaped leaves and spikes of brilliantly colored irregular flowers. Thooid: resembling a wolf used of a wolf, dog or jackal as distinguished from the foxes or alopecoid (like a fox) members of the genus Canis. “The guests at the gala, clinquant in finery and jewels for the ‘Shining Knight’ theme, were unhappy to learn that the dinner options were lamprey pie, cabbage chowder or gruel.” “A fanion, fluttering in the wind, marked the spot on the hillside where the children were convinced gnomes lived below.”Ĭlinquant: glittering with gold or tinsel. “The beachcomber gathered fewtrils from the sand, ever optimistic that someone, at a garage sale somewhere, would want to buy them.”įanion: a small flag used originally by horse brigades and now by soldiers and surveyors to mark positions. Still others are saxicolous and grow on rocks.” - Dec. “Terrestrials tend to have well-developed root systems which absorb water and minerals. Saxicolous: inhabiting or growing among rocks. “With a sweep of her arm, the director of the museum of Assyrian antiquities flung a tarp off the supposedly cursed shedu statue, whose human head had been toppled from the taurine base.” Shedu : one of various semidivine beings represented by ancient Assyrian sculptors as colossal human-headed bulls or lions. “The male Ambystoma tigrinum, or tiger salamander, had a light brown background and was marked by cream-colored spots.” - March 7, 1988 16, 1864Īmbystoma: a genus of common salamanders confined to America. “Gentlemen just from Atlanta report that the Federals, not at all deterred by its being Sunday, opened several stores, selling cheap calicoes, gewgaws and notions, lemonade, ice cream.” - Oct. “His exhausted servants are forced to listen for hours to revival services conducted by him on a wheezy organ and he is subject to alternate fits of garrulity and taciturnity.” - April 16, 1923 Garrulity: the quality of being given to prosy, rambling or tedious loquacity pointlessly or annoyingly talkative. “Studying memorabilia like an original gelometer, a contraption that tested Jell-O texture, some people spoke in spiritual terms.” - July 27, 1997
Gelometer: an instrument for measuring jelly strength. “Every town, every hamlet, and every man is for the Union, and if a single ranche in the gallant Grizzly Bear State harbors a traitor, the rascal had better vamoose at once.” - May 23, 1861 (Example sentences that do not end with a publication date are inventions.) Words from 2021 Definitions are drawn from Merriam-Webster, the dictionary partner of the Scripps spelling bee, and sentences come from the New York Times archive, where possible.
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