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Thursday, October 23, 2003 Un jeu des mots During my freshman year of high school, my Freud-obsessed English teacher instituted a daily vocabulary game (well, it wasn't a game per se, but my friend Dan and I turned it into one). She'd give the class a new word each day and make us write out its definition in a special section of our red binders; we then had to use it in two sentences underneath. Every Friday, we'd get to give her a word. If she couldn't spell and define it properly, we all got an extra credit point. Needless to say, the class took to finding obscurities--the game Balderdash was a great help, and we ended up with words like "tintinnabulary". But the greatness of the "game" was in this: if we heard any of the words used and could remember its context, we'd get an extra credit point. However, if we used a word properly ourselves, we'd get two extra credit points. Dan and I thought this was fun; we started writing poetry for each other using as many vocab words as possible, getting lines like, "The wyvern walked by the lake one day / so morose was he that he started to say / 'I wish I had my shawm so that I could play'." (Guess which words our teacher came up with and which words the class did.) I revived a version of this a year and a half ago under slightly different rules. It died after a few weeks, but its third incarnation was born four nights ago. Every three days, the participants will collectively choose a new, unfamiliar word. The word may only be used for points in context, once per conversation--IE saying, "Google, google, google!" is inadmissible. At the end of three weeks, the loser has to buy the winner ice cream at Stucchi's. Word of the Day: Vulpine, adj.: 1. Of, resembling, or characteristic of a fox. 2. Cunning, clever. ^ Top | 4:05 PM | | | 
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