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Re: Good words
candent - glowing; impassioned
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Re: Good words
ekphrasis -- creating a poem based on an individual work of visual art
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Re: Good words
What? Ekphrasis??? No Way! Nancy!! SFGirl is making up words!!! There should be some sort of penalty for word fabrication! 
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What about:
I see this word everywhere now...it's ubiquitous.
Ubiquitous -- Seeming to be everywhere at the same time; omnipresent.
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Re: Good words
Yeah, come on! If you're going to make up words, at least make them plausible. I mean, who would even need a word for "creating a poem based on an individual work of visual art"? 
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Epicure - A person who cultivates a discriminating palatte for good food and drink. (It sounds more like a cosmetic treatment for your skin...)
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Re: Good words
I couldn't agree more, David and McDoogle.
Sherry... we'll be getting back to you on your punishment.
guys... what should it be?
demerits?
lashes?
or should we just put her on probation? It is possible she just got this thread confused with that other one she started about made up words. Maybe we'll let her off just this once...
~nanc
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anacreontic: celebrating love and drinking
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Re: Good words
Well, if you'll trouble yourselves to pick up the latest issue of Writer's Digest, you'll find an entire article on writing ekphrasis, so there. It's Greek and there's an example in The Iliad, where Achille's shield is described. So, raspberries all 'round to the doubters.
You can all kiss my shombex.
Sherry
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vinaceous -- wine-coloured
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Well, if you'll trouble yourselves to pick up the latest issue of Writer's Digest, you'll find an entire article on writing ekphrasis, so there. It's Greek and there's an example in The Iliad, where Achille's shield is described. So, raspberries all 'round to the doubters.
You can all kiss my shombex.
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vinaceous -- wine-coloured
Oh yeah sure! READ magazines. We could do that too but it's so... so... I don't know....so obvious.
Anacreontic is from the Greek also... After Anacreon the Greek poet noted for songs of praise to love and wine. What's with these Greeks, huh? Thought it was apropos to vinaceous an' all.
and speaking of vinaceous... here's one:
saponaceous: soapy, slippery, evasive
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hey... I was promised raspberries
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YES!, McDoogle
Definitely. Go for it. Great word.
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someone should try to work this one in:
tu quoque: (too KWO kwee) noun a retort accusing one's accuser of the same offense.
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Re: Good words
That's Latin, and means simple: "You, too"
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How in the world did you even bribe 'Writer's Digest' to go along with this charade, S???