Ever notice how often these writers throw big words at us? I love it...my vocabulary expands with every episode. I'm going to start keeping track. Two to start with:

malfeasance (The Secret): noun: misconduct, especially by a public official

nebulous (Booze Cruise): adj.: Having indefinite form or limits: vague

This is the most erudite board I've ever seen. Great game!

Derivation (Booze Cruise): (noun) the origin or source of something, for example, a word or someone?s name

How many people just looked up "erudite?"

Erudite: Adj.: learned or educated

thank-you-very-much

Now here's one that has an alternate meaning that makes its use in the show even better:

Scuttlebutt (The Alliance): (noun)
1) rumors about somebody?s activities, often of an intimate and scandalous nature
2) a drinking fountain on a ship

Redacted (Conflict Resolution): (verb)

1. To draw up or frame (a proclamation, for example).
2. To make ready for publication; edit or revise.

Well considering that the writers went to Harvard, Dartmouth and the like, I would expect nothing less.

Your new vocabulary will soon by 'incalcuable'.

How about:

Protuberance (from the injury)
Something, such as a bulge, knob, or swelling, that protrudes.
The condition of being protuberant.


what kills me was that until this thread came up, I thought it was a made-up michael word. I was going to make a joke about it but thought I better look it up first.
Lo & behold, it's a REAL word.
I'm laughing at myself right now.

Yikes! Almost forgot my favorite:

Protuberance (The Injury): (noun) something, or a part of something, that sticks out from its surroundings

Ha! Jinx! You owe me a Coke, grapesoda! LOL that your screen name makes it funnier!

The funny part is that Michael actually mispronounces it as "ProtRuberance." That guy's got a great stash of words, but he tends to say or use them incorrectly. See his use of nebulous (mispronounced) and incalculable (hilariously mispronounced.) He's a modern-day Malaprop..

Malapropism (n): the misuse of a word through confusion with another word that sounds similar, especially when the effect is ridiculous

I would say something, but jamalot would probably punch me.
ha ha.

"grapesoda" okay, I said your name, you can talk now. ;-)

Any more 10-point words, or do we have to go down to 8 points?

Afghan - how they used it over and over...a throw, a person from Afghanistan, a dog. That 30 seconds of dialogue was clever to me. Kinda slapstick ("Who's on First?"),but all the same, funny. Saw it coming, because that is exactly what I was thinking (and then I thought, "What's on Second.") Play on words. Fun.

MAYBE he has a word a day calendar so he learns the words but not really how to pronounce them...or when they should be used... I have this problem with my French word a day calendar...I thought I was learning so much French and then we had this cute French student visiting for a few weeks to do some reseach and I tried to chat her up in French throwing in my all these great French words...

She just looked at me funny because
1) I wasn't pronouncing them quite right..in that I was pronouncing them right, but too exactly. Sorta like someone who over enunciates everything...she pointed out that real French speakers just slur it all together...
2) French speakers KNOW these words but wouldn't dream of using them in normal conversation because they'd look like dorks
3) Using them technically correctly but not in the normal/right context... for instance certain adjective are only used with certain nouns. For example in American English if someone gives you coffee with too much milk/cream you might say "That is really light" but you wouldn't say "That is really beige/tan"

Does Pam-M-S-ing count?

the injury

my bad

the fight

Med lesson, both from "Michael's Birthday":

Interferon: Noun: a family of naturally-occurring proteins that are produced by cells of the immune system. Together, the interferons direct the immune system's attack on viruses, bacteria, tumors and other foreign substances that may invade the body. Once interferons have detected and attacked a foreign substance, they alter it by slowing, blocking, or changing its growth or function.

Dacarbazine: Noun: an antineoplastic chemotherapy drug used in the treatment of various cancers, among them malignant melanoma. Dacarbazine is normally administered by injection (a shot) or intravenous infusion (IV) under the immediate supervision of a doctor or nurse.

I can't think of any other big words from episodes, but we could take up the torch and just build our vocabulary on our own...(?)

Eschew - (eh-shoe)v. to avoid habitually especially on moral or practical grounds

(and don't nobody dis my phonetical spelling)

Used in a sentence: The hemophiliac would eschew playing with razor blades for obvious reasons.

How did I forget my favorite Gareth/Dwight word:
(One word, two syllables):
Demarcation (Pilot): (noun) the process of deciding on and fixing land boundaries; the division of something so that its divided parts are separate and identifiable

Michael calls Oscar "you little gourmond" at the Christmas Party Yankee Swap. It means glutton but I don't see any evidence of this in Oscar's character. I think it was just Michael being Michael.

And don't forget "philanderer."

Here's one that I don't recall from an episode, but just popped into my head.

Weltanschaung - German for outlook on life, as in "As Office fans, we probably have the same Weltanschaung in that we are able to appreciate the same type of humor."

It's probably also a word Grandma Schrute taught Dwight when she read him the E.T.A. Hoffmann stories when he was a kid.

Sorry, I'm not usually this slow on the uptake: it was a great malapropism, he called Oscar a "gourmand" while he was trying to get him to swap for the oven mitt! Honestly, I really do believe Michael has a word-a-day calendar...

Ok, this isn't a vocabulary word, but moreso a literary reference:

Machiavelli (as in, Yankee Swap "is like Machiavelli meets.....Christmas).

Can you tell what I'm doing as I type?

Or word-a-day toilet paper like Joey on Friends. Didn't he say he was like him and Chandler? I guess he meant it.

LOL! I guess once it's flushed you can't go back to check and make sure you got the definition right!

Kitsch (Conflict Resolution): (noun)

Sentimentality or vulgar, often pretentious bad taste, especially in the arts

quick question.. When michael says bye to kelly when she had to go to a meeting on diversity day, he says something like "namastae" or something like that. I was wondering if anyone knew what the heck he said and what the heck it means.

Namaste (i'm not sure if I spelled that right), is like saying thank you in either sanskrit or hindi. I can't remember which language.
All I know is, you're supposed to say it at the end of Yoga Practice.
I live in LA. It's written in the brochure when you move here.

Has anyone decifered what Creed said when he had his shout out to his friends in Hong Kong (Dwight's speech)? I'd love to know...

Michael: His capa was detated!(aka decapitated)

Nice...but can you merge too?

Is there another vocabualry thread I did not see? Or am I missing 'sarcasm' in print?

She already has. You're behind the times.

you call that a merge?
i still see two sep'rate thread
that is called a link

Nice job though, The Artist Formerly Known as KKLJ.

Tee hee - kinda like how I was supposed to learn Spanish and Senior Citizenish when I lived in Florida.

scoliosis - (noun) an abnormal lateral curvature of the spine
Not just a woman's problem.

From The Client, Michael calling Jan under his breath "powertrip".


I have the urge to add this, as my children think when I am gone for 15 minutes and the oldest is in charge, he has gone on a 'powertrip' say the younger ones.

powertrip - An action undertaken chiefly for the gratification associated with the exercise of power over another or others: ?He was giving orders, and people were taking them. He was on a power trip?

Profound: The way Office-holic uses a term from the show to describe her newly obtained authority as well as her aspirations to abuse such recently acquired power.

To be continued with 'megalomaniac'.

Just wait until she reads everyone's PM's and finds out she's not invited to the karaoke party at your house later. Man, I'd hate to be you when THAT happens.

Here's my 10 point word: facetious - 1. Given to jesting; playfully jocular. 2. Amusing; intended to be humorous; not serious.

In other words, Fan Mods do NOT have access to others' PM's - that was a joke. Oh, and we won't drink all of your beer if you do invite us to your soiree...

You almost had me for a second. I thought I was going to have to relocate to Stamford.

My fridge is still stocked from moving day and I'm sorta on the wagon. It's all yours. CountChocula turned me on* to the good stuff, so I have some beer-snob ale that you might dig.

*Oh, grow up, people.

TWSS

Don't pick on our little Kit Kat. Treat her with the respect she deserves in the position she has been promoted to.

This * was a preemptive (twss). DiapersLovesKitKat. We sit close.

Nobody can forget me.


philanderer n : a man who likes many women and has short sexual relationships with them [syn: womanizer, womaniser]

WordNet 2.0, 2003 Princeton University

so how about the word Michael should have used: Philanthropist.

phi?lan?thro?py
n. pl. phi?lan?thro?pies
1. The effort or inclination to increase the well-being of humankind, as by charitable aid or donations.
2. Love of humankind in general.
3. Something, such as an activity or institution, intended to promote human welfare.

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from www.thefreedictionary.com

How about this little gem?

The prodig, the progidal....

prodigal [prod-i-guhl]

adjective 1. wastefully or recklessly extravagant: prodigal expenditure.
2. giving or yielding profusely; lavish (usually fol. by of or with): prodigal of smiles; prodigal with money.
3. lavishly abundant; profuse: nature's prodigal resources.
noun 4. a person who spends, or has spent, his or her money or substance with wasteful extravagance; spendthrift.

unproportionate-
couldn't find that definition so i quess i would not be proportionate.

Proportionate-
1. To put in proper relation with something else.

2. To arrange the parts of (a whole) so as to be harmonius.

Resorb: Grief Counseling
verb (used with object) to absorb again, as an exudation.

from dictionary.com

Now who would like to look up "exudation"

Spurned - Used in the deleted scene for Initiation

Verb;
1. To reject disdainfully or contemptuously; scorn. See Synonyms at refuse1.
2. To kick at or tread on disdainfully.

Michael says "A women Spurned".