Guessed Definition: A box of cookies that are so dry they all simultaneously excrete cookie crums
Real Definition:an image or representation of someone or something. Sentence: Universal Studios has many small scale simulacrums. Guessed Definition: The belief that attitude is life
Real Definition: attachment to Athens or to the style, customs, etc., of the Athenians Sentence: The toga party for the Delta Gamma sorority had a very atticism feel to it. Guessed definition: Monopoly played with pancakes instead of fake money
Real definition: Wide ranging or impressive array or display. Sentence: Spencer's collection of baby dolls was a panoply. Guessed Definition: Displacement of something
Real Definition: An event or situation that is anticipated but does not occur or occurs with much less than the expected impact, especially one that has been widely publicized; anticlimax Sentence: Due to my high opinion of the first 6 Fast and the Furious movies, I had high expectations for Furious 7, however, I consider it a nonevent. Guessed Definition: Stones
Real Definition: a feeling of fear, apprehension, or nervousness Sentence: Waiting to hear back from college's gave me collywobbles. Guessed Definition: To have magnificent dialogue; high vocabulary
Real Definition: Speaking or expressed in a loft or grandiose style; pompous; bombastic; boastful Sentence: The king's speech to his country was magniloquent. Guessed Definition: Someone is full of various personalities
Real Definition: having notes by various editors or commentators Sentence: Spencer's book was a variorum edition. Guessed definition: Great in character
Real definition: intentionally or unintentionally odd or unusual Sentence: Farouq Fardon is so pickwickian that he was voted "Class Clown" for senior stand outs. Guessed Definition: To take the air out of a balloon.
Real Definition: to cause society or a societal system to become less uniform or centralized; diversify or decentralize Sentence: The principal was required to demassify the school as a whole, so he combined the all-girl's school with the all-boy's school. |
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