Weird words activity

1. Divide your class in two teams.
2. Choose a student of a team and ask him to leave the room
3. His/her team chooses a weird word and each one decide what it is while the student is outside the room
Example:

Agastopia

n. – admiration of a particular part of someone’s body

Studnet A will say: Agastopia is a small city in Africa
Stidennt B will say: No, agastopia is an illness. You start vomiting and .... (trying to convence the student that was outside that he or she has the right definitiion)
Student C will say: No, do not listen to them. Agastopia is an instrument used in a band to make a noise like a small bell.
Student D will say: Nope! Agastopia is an admiration of a particular part of someone´s body.

The outsider student should guess who is saying the truth.

Weird words list:

Agastopia

n. – admiration of a particular part of someone’s body

Bibble

v. – to drink often; to eat and/or drink noisily

Cabotage

n. – coastal navigation; the exclusive right of a country to control the air traffic within its borders

Doodle sack

n. – old English word for bagpipe

Erinaceous

adj. – of, pertaining to, or resembling a hedgehog

Firman

n. – in Turkey and some other Oriental countries, a decree or mandate issued by the sovereign

Gabelle

n. – a tax on salt

Halfpace

n. – a platform of a staircase where the stair turns back in exactly the reverse direction of the lower flight

Impignorate

v. – to pawn or mortgage something

Jentacular

adj. – pertaining to breakfast

Kakorrhaphiophobia

n. – fear of failure

Lamprophony

n. – loudness and clarity of enunciation

Macrosmatic

adj. – having a good sense of smell

Nudiustertian

n. – the day before yesterday

Oxter

n. – outdated word meaning “armpit”

Pauciloquent

adj. – uttering few words; brief in speech

Quire

n. – two dozen sheets of paper

Ratoon

n. – small shoot growing from the root of a plant

Salopettes

n. – high-waisted skiing pants with shoulder straps

Tittynope

n. – a small quantity of something left over

Ulotrichous

adj. – having wooly or crispy hair

Valetudinarian

n. – a sickly or weak person, especially one who is constantly and morbidly concerned with his or her health

Winklepicker

n. – style of shoe or boot in the 1950s with a sharp and long pointed toe

Xertz

v. – to gulp down quickly and greedily

Yarborough

n. – hand of cards containing no card above a nine

Zoanthropy

n. – delusion of a person who believes himself changed into an animal