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RE: Word Fight - 4/12/2006 5:29:00 PM   
Tikkiee


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Status: offline 		Actually, fractious means : irritable
It was hot outside and the toddler was becoming fractious.
 
LOL Factive is an adjective that describes a verb in relation to a direct object and complement
 
 

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RE: Word Fight - 4/12/2006 5:38:26 PM   
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Status: offline 		Right.  An obsolete (or obsolescent) meaning of "fraction" is "discord."  ("Fraction" basically means "breaking apart.")

Edited to add: You're right about "factive" as a kind of verb.  Basically a verb is "factive" if it takes a complement that must be true for the sentence to be true.  For example, if "I know that you like wordplay" is true, "you like wordplay" must also be true.  That means "to know" is "factive."

But there's another meaning of "factive"...

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RE: Word Fight - 4/12/2006 7:02:46 PM   
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But there's another meaning of "factive"...


work?
as in, working on something?

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RE: Word Fight - 4/12/2006 7:04:22 PM   
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Status: offline 		Yes, exactly.  Basically it just means "having the capacity to make something."  Not 1% of the population knows that.

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RE: Word Fight - 4/12/2006 7:11:20 PM   
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Status: offline 		LOL well, I was about to give up when Chris told me to check my med ref books. The only reference I could find to the word was in corelation to antidotes. Very interesting though :)

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RE: Word Fight - 4/12/2006 7:15:30 PM   
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Status: offline 		A propos: does anyone know of an internet resource that lists words backwords--in other words, an alphabetical list of words spelled backwards?  That should be easy for a computer to generate, but, surprisingly, I can't find any site that has something like this.

You'd just type in "ykra" and see all the words in English that end in "-arky."

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Lam, you seem like the kinda guy who would know this (this is seriously asked by the way...) are there alot of words with the alternate of arky instead of the good old archy?

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RE: Word Fight - 4/13/2006 11:30:52 AM   
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RE: Word Fight - 4/13/2006 8:58:09 PM   
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RE: Word Fight - 4/13/2006 9:03:39 PM   
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Status: offline 		glomerulus: that's the tangle of capillaries that the actual filtering of the blood takes in inside the kidneys. There are zillions of little glomeruli in the kidney.

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RE: Word Fight - 4/13/2006 9:08:59 PM   
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Status: offline 		I'm a nurse so I knew that one off the top of my head. Here is another one I know and one of my very favorites!

Borborygmi.

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RE: Word Fight - 4/13/2006 9:17:38 PM   
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I'm a nurse so I knew that one off the top of my head. Here is another one I know and one of my very favorites!

Borborygmi.

---intestinal rumbling caused by moving gas

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RE: Word Fight - 4/13/2006 9:17:55 PM   
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Edited to add: Your turn, FootQueen.

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ORIGINAL: AngelaK

Borborygmi.


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RE: Word Fight - 4/13/2006 9:29:01 PM   
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(sorry didn't know all the rules)  *giggling*

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RE: Word Fight - 4/13/2006 9:48:38 PM   
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Status: offline 		That's a big mish-mash.

Next one..."desquamation"

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RE: Word Fight - 4/13/2006 10:01:12 PM   
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That's a big mish-mash.

Next one..."desquamation"

mish-mash?   what do you mean by mish-mash?lol<nevermind, got it...duhh. It can be> Maybe i am too tired for this game(tonight)
 is desquamation the peeling off of scales?

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RE: Word Fight - 4/13/2006 11:06:41 PM   
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Status: offline 		Well, close enough.  It's when your skin becomes scaly and starts to peel off.  Not appetizing.

Your turn.

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RE: Word Fight - 4/14/2006 7:27:04 AM   
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RE: Word Fight - 4/14/2006 4:32:43 PM   
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new word:  "apropos"
 
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RE: Word Fight - 4/14/2006 5:31:08 PM   
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apropos


appropriate to a specific situation

"vociferous"

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RE: Word Fight - 4/14/2006 5:38:07 PM   
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Next one..."diremption"

Edited to add: "a propos" is two words, strictly speaking

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