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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n. – outdated word meaning “armpit”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

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