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Word of the day: high jinks

An old dictionary

Playful, often noisy and rowdy activity, usually involving mischievous pranks.

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4 Responses to “high jinks”

  1. mike Says:

    Tuesday 13 November 2007 at 11:36 am

    Hey, Mister Increase Your Word Power: I think this might be right up your street:

    http://www.freerice.com/index.php

    (I got as high as Level 48 before dropping back.)

  2. bitful Says:

    Wednesday 14 November 2007 at 6:56 am

    I'd seen freerice.com a short while ago, and I cannot remember what level I got to (tentimillion?) before getting bored: I'm bilingual French/Italian, remember? So all those fancy shmancy words like genuflect, and diurnal, and avulsion, and adroit, or napery? Everyday words to me and millions of others.

  3. mike Says:

    Thursday 15 November 2007 at 5:56 pm

    Ouch!

  4. bitful Says:

    Thursday 15 November 2007 at 7:56 pm

    I know, sorry ;-) i'm a right pain in teh proverbials when it comes to language(s). Close friends never fail to take revenge when i get the odd wrong word in English.

    I can never remember, for instance, that 'barrier' does NOT rhyme with 'frontier'.,..

    And the other day I was reading a review of Spirit and had to look up 'warble' and 'bleating' but I knew what 'soporific' meant ;-))

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