This Week In Words (10-22-06)

Casket >n. a small ornamental box or chest for holding jewels, letters, or other valuable objects.

2. a coffin. 

Gradulations >n. a joyful or happy exuberance of feeling as passed from one person to another.  A congratulatory salutation which has associated meaning of the individuals having moved on or progressed to a new sphere.  (From the dictionary of impromtu words as concocted in the Warr household.)

Hyperbole >n. exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally. 

Sesquipedalian >adj. formal (of a word); polysyllabic; long: sesquipedalian surnames.

2. characterized by long words; long-winded: the sesquipedalian prose of scientific journals.

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