(Gulf Shores)

Each week we try to bring you a new word you may not normally use in your daily vocabulary.  Try using this weeks word over the next week.

 

gribble (grib'-ul) n. a small marine isopod crustacean (Limnoria lignorum or L. terebrans) that destroys submerged timber.

Each week we try to bring you a new word you may not normally use in your daily vocabulary.  Try using this weeks word over the next week.

 

 

brobdignagian (brob-dig-nag'-ee-un) adj. (often capitalized) of colossal proportions or extraordinary height; gigantic. n. a giant. [From Brobdignag, a country of giants, in the book Gulliver's Travels.]
Here is the story about the photo:  http://www.instatravel.org/entry/the-brobdingnagian-mega-cruise-can-carry-17650-passangers/

Each week we try to bring you a new word you may not normally use in your daily vocabulary.  Try using this weeks word over the next week.

pilgarlic (pill-gar'-lick) n. 1a: a bald head. 1b: a bald-headed man. 2: a man looked upon with humorous contempt or mock pity.

Each week we try to bring you a new word you may not normally use in your daily vocabulary.  Try using this weeks word over the next week.

 

 

 

incondite (in-kon'-dite) adj. badly put together; crude. [From Latin inconditus: in- "not" + conditus, past participle of condere "to put together" from com- "together" + -dere "to put."]

Each week we try to bring you a new word you may not normally use in your daily vocabulary.  Try using this weeks word over the next week.

 

gormless (gorm'less) adj. lacking intelligence: stupid.

 

Once again Hobnob Gulf Shores in an effort to expand all of our vocabularies offers the "Word of the Week"


lacuna (lah-kyoon'-uh) n. 1: a blank space or a missing part; gap. 2: a small cavity, pit, or discontinuity in an anatomical structure. [From Latin lacuna "pool, pit, gap."