Monday, 21 November 2011

WORDS: An exaltation of larks

Apoplectic - intense or angry enough to cause apoplexy (a stroke)
Lascivious - inclined to lustfulness
Salacious - lustful or lecherous
Egregious - extraordinary in some bad way; glaring; flagrant
Pejorative - having a disparaging, derogatory, or belittling effect or force
Subterfuge - an artifice or expedient used to evade a rule, escape a consequence, hide something, etc.

Mondegreen - misheard song lyrics

A murmuration of starlings
A tower of giraffes
An exaltation of larks
An ostentation of peacocks
A loveliness of ladybirds
A bloat of hippopotamus's
A murder of crows
A sloth of bears
An unkindness of ravens
A wisdom of wombats
A prickle of porcupines



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