I thought I would start a thread about the defintions of some of the VMK words.

We can pick out words that are out of the "Complete VMK Dictionary"

and look it up in the dictionary, and then see if people can use it in a sentence! Try to pick out words that we don't use all of the time on VMK!


My first word is:

Abominable
adjective
1 atrocious, abominable, awful, dreadful, painful, terrible, unspeakable

exceptionally bad or displeasing; "atrocious taste"; "abominable workmanship"; "an awful voice"; "dreadful manners"; "a painful performance"; "terrible handwriting"; "an unspeakable odor came sweeping into the room"

2 abominable, detestable, execrable, odious



If you are an abominable person on VMK, you may get banned!

LOL, great idea Kanga ... I'll play ... here's a word that's in the VMK Dictionary, but is NOT in Webster's, at least not using the same exact spelling that VMK has chosen:

In VMK: derezzed
In Webster's: de-rezz

de-rezz

/dee-rez'/ [from `de-resolve' via the movie "Tron"](also `derez') 1. vi. To disappear or dissolve; the image that goeswith it is of an object breaking up into raster lines and static andthen dissolving. Occasionally used of a person who seems to havesuddenly `fuzzed out' mentally rather than physically. Usage:extremely silly, also rare. This verb was actually invented as_fictional_ hacker jargon, and adopted in a spirit of irony by realhackers years after the fact. 2. vt. The Macintosh resourcedecompiler. On a Macintosh, many program structures (including thecode itself) are managed in small segments of the program file knownas `resources'; `Rez' and `DeRez' are a pair of utilities forcompiling and decompiling resource files. Thus, decompiling aresource is `derezzing'. Usage: very common.

Although I've found some of it, I would love to be able to de-rezz all of the VMK source code.

Incognito

In-cog-ni-to
adjective, adverb, noun, plural -tos for 3, 5.
–adjective 1. having one's identity concealed, as under an assumed name, esp. to avoid notice or formal attentions.
–adverb 2. with the real identity concealed: to travel incognito.
–noun 3. a person who is incognito.
4. the state of being incognito.
5. the disguise or character assumed by an incognito.

The de-rezz gooniest is always incognito while at the blue bayou

My New word out of the VMK dictionary is:
BILGE

bilge
n.
1. Nautical
a. The rounded portion of a ship's hull, forming a transition between the bottom and the sides.
b. The lowest inner part of a ship's hull.
2. Bilge water.
3. Slang Stupid talk or writing; nonsense.
4. The bulging part of a barrel or cask.

The Bilge on the boat in New Orleans square must have a hole in it!

NORTHING (I never heard of this word until I accidently typed "Northing" instead of "Nothing" and it went through!)

north·ing Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[nawr-thing, -thing] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
–noun Navigation.
1. northward movement or deviation.
2. distance due north made on any course tending northward.

SEANCE

sé·ance/ˈseɪɑns/Spelled Pronunciation[sey-ahns]
–noun
1. a meeting in which a spiritualist attempts to communicate with the spirits of the dead.
2. a session or sitting, as of a class or organization.


We sat at a seance around Madame Leota's table at the Haunted Mansion.

*LOL, I never knew that that was actually a word.... Seance...

Theses

the·sis (thç'sĭs) Pronunciation Key
n. pl. the·ses (-sçz)

A proposition that is maintained by argument.
A dissertation advancing an original point of view as a result of research, especially as a requirement for an academic degree.
A hypothetical proposition, especially one put forth without proof.
The first stage of the Hegelian dialectic process.

The long or accented part of a metrical foot, especially in quantitative verse.
The unaccented or short part of a metrical foot, especially in accentual verse.
Music The accented section of a measure.



Professor gooniest concluded her theses to the dragon, on what happened to the spell room, before she retired to her winter wonderland room.

My word for the Day is:

EMERGENCY

e·mer·gen·cy (-mûrjn-s)
n. pl. e·mer·gen·cies
1. A serious situation or occurrence that happens unexpectedly and demands immediate action.
2. A condition of urgent need for action or assistance: a state of emergency.


It seems like some VMK players don't know what an emergency is, and they push the help button any way!

one of ofy my monorail music mixes is called " Emergency Emergency!"

Enders

En·ders /ˈɛndərz/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[en-derz] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
–noun John Franklin, 1897–1985, U.S. bacteriologist: Nobel prize for medicine 1954.



Gooniest wonders if he's related to Guy Enders? lol

My word for the Day is:

fauna
fau·na (fôn)
n. pl. fau·nas or fau·nae (-n)
1. (used with a sing. or pl. verb) Animals, especially the animals of a particular region or period, considered as a group.
2. A catalog of the animals of a specific region or period.

You can see the fauna in the Safari room at VMK, and some times you can see Fonna there too (one of Geish's friends).

kiosk


ki·osk / Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[kee-osk, kee-osk] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
–noun 1. a small structure having one or more sides open, used as a newsstand, refreshment stand, bandstand, etc.
2. a thick, columnlike structure on which notices, advertisements, etc., are posted.
3. an interactive computer terminal available for public use, as one with Internet access or site-specific information: Students use kiosks to look up campus events.
4. an open pavilion or summerhouse common in Turkey and Iran.
5. British. a telephone booth.

The VMK quest kiosk is no longer on sale to players.

Good one Kanga! nice play on words.

My word for today is:

groovy

Adj. 1. groovy - very good; "he did a bully job"; "a neat sports car"; "had a great time at the party"; "you look simply smashing"
bang-up, bully, corking, cracking, dandy, nifty, not bad, peachy, slap-up, smashing, swell, keen, neat, great
colloquialism - a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech
good - having desirable or positive qualities especially those suitable for a thing specified; "good news from the hospital"; "a good report card"; "when she was good she was very very good"; "a good knife is one good for cutting"; "this stump will make a good picnic table"; "a good check"; "a good joke"; "a good exterior paint"; "a good secretary"; "a good dress for the office"
2. groovy - (British informal) very chic; "groovy clothes"
swagger

I think that is very groovy that we can say retro on VMK! lol!

My word of the day: Triton

Tri·ton Pronunciation Key - [trahyt-n]
–noun 1. Classical Mythology. a son of Poseidon and Amphitrite, represented as having the head and trunk of a man and the tail of a fish, and as using a conch-shell trumpet.
2. Astronomy. a moon of Neptune.
3. (lowercase) any of various marine gastropods of the family Cymatiidae, having a large, spiral, often beautifully colored shell.
4. (lowercase) the shell of a triton.

If there are any marine gastropods such as a triton to be found on VMK, perhaps it would be in the Nautilus Grotto?

My word of the day is gumbo.

gum·bo (gmb)
n. pl. gum·bos
1. Chiefly Southern U.S. See okra. See Regional Note at goober.
2. A soup or stew thickened with okra pods. Also called okra.
3. Chiefly Mississippi Valley & Western U.S. A fine silty soil, common in the southern and western United States, that forms an unusually sticky mud when wet.
4. Gumbo A French patois spoken by some Black people and Creoles in Louisiana and the French West Indies.

There are many varieties of gumbo: Chicken gumbo, Sausage gumbo, Chicken and sausage gumbo, Shrimp gumbo and seafood gumbo. It is very tasty, and it better when it is spicy. New Orleans style gumbo is the best!

I haven't tried this recipe yet, but here is a link to a gumbo recipe:


http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/recipes/re...tml?rsrc=search
Bon appetit!

LOL ... but now we need a non-VMK word of the day to help understand the "gumbo" definition:

okra
o·kra /[oh-kruh]
–noun 1. a shrub, Abelmoschus esculentus, of the mallow family, bearing beaked pods.

thanks for the okra input Jcatsby!

What it doesn't mention is that Okra is a commonly used vegetable in the South! It is pretty nasty boiled, because it gets slimy! People in the South love to eat it fried!!

Ok I hope I'm doing this right.

Tortuga
Tor·tu·ga (tôr-tūu'gə?)
-noun 1. Tortuga (Spanish for turtle) or Isla Tortuga is an island in the Caribbean Sea. Its French name is Île de la Tortue, and it is also called "Tortoise Island" and was a home for 17th century pirates. The location of Tortuga Isle is north of what is present-day Haiti.

I wonder if there is any hidden pirate treasure on Tortuga.

hmm i shall try and use all these new words tomorrow on main street jsut to see what other peeps would say lol

I used the new words while I was walking through the Haunted Mansion yesterday. And someone asked me what the words meant. I told them to look it up in the dictionary! Their response was.... I'm too lazy!

My word for today is:

redemption

re·demp·tion /[ri-demp-shuhn]
–noun
1. an act of redeeming or the state of being redeemed.
2. deliverance; rescue.
3. Theology. deliverance from sin; salvation.
4. atonement for guilt.
5. repurchase, as of something sold.
6. paying off, as of a mortgage, bond, or note.
7. recovery by payment, as of something pledged.
8. conversion of paper money into specie.


I find it a bit odd that the word redemption is in the VMK dictionary, but it's root word "redeem" is not.

My word for today is:

Stanchion
Stan·chion (stnchn, -shn)
n.
1. An upright bar, post, or frame forming a support or barrier.
2. A framework consisting of two or more vertical bars, used to secure cattle in a stall or at a feed trough.

The rope divider in VMK could also be considered a stanchion.

My word of the day is:

melekalikimaka

'Mele Kalikimaka 'and 'Hauoli Makahiki Hou' are the equivalents of 'Merry Christmas' and 'Happy New Year, 'greetings you should know if you are in Hawaii for these holidays. Remember to pronounce every single vowel, and don't run any together. The accent or stress is generally on the second to last syllable unless otherwise accented.


I posted this because it was on someone's signature at Christmas, and everyone kept asking waht it meant....

Sorry this might be going off topic. Regarding melekalikimaka, is this considered pidgin or do I have the definition of pidgin wrong? If you break up melekalikimaka you can decipher the where it says Merry Christmas. I'm going to assume Hawaiian does not have certain consonant sounds (please correct me if I'm wrong), thus they replaced it with what they have in their language. (subbing s with a k sound in this example)

Mele = Merry
Ka li ki ma ka = Ch(k-sound) ri st ma s

The Hawaiian "Happy New Year" greeting, in contrast, seems totally of Hawaiian language origin and not borrowed.

I have an mild interest in linguistics and the history of languages so this kind of stuff intrigues me.

pidg·in (pĭj'ən)
n.
A simplified form of speech that is usually a mixture of two or more languages, has a rudimentary grammar and vocabulary, is used for communication between groups speaking different languages, and is not spoken as a first or native language. Also called contact language.


This was what I could find on pidgin, there wasn't much to find on my previous word.....

My word of the day is:

Alameda
al·a·me·da (ăl'ə-mē'də, -mā'-)
n.
1. A tree-shaded promenade (a paved public walk, especially one along a seafront) or public park.
2. Spanish for "Cottonwood Tree." This word has come to mean a road bordered by cottonwoods.
3. Poplar (a tall, slender tree, often grown in shelter belts or for wood and pulp) grove.

The New Orleans Square guest area is a beautiful alameda.

My word for the day is:
negotiate

ne·go·ti·ate

v., -at·ed, -at·ing, -ates.

v.intr.
To confer with another or others in order to come to terms or reach an agreement: “It is difficult to negotiate where neither will trust” (Samuel Johnson).

v.tr.
To arrange or settle by discussion and mutual agreement: negotiate a contract.

To transfer title to or ownership of (a promissory note, for example) to another party by delivery or by delivery and endorsement in return for value received.
To sell or discount (assets or securities, for example).

To succeed in going over or coping with: negotiate a sharp curve.
To succeed in accomplishing or managing: negotiate a difficult musical passage.


VMK players should negotiate before trading their items.

repay

re·pay [ri-pey]
verb, -paid, -pay·ing.
–verb (used with object) 1. to pay back or refund, as money.
2. to make return for: She repaid the compliment with a smile.
3. to make return to in any way: We can never repay you for your help.
4. to return: to repay a visit.
–verb (used without object)
5. to make repayment or return.

It would be nice if VMK would repay for the credits I lose each time I crash out of the Pirate game before it ends.

My word of the day is:

Doubloon
dou·bloon (dŭ-blūn')
n.
1. A gold coin formerly used in Spain and Spanish America.
2. Another name for Spanish gold dollars.
3. One Spanish doubloon was equal to seven week's pay for the average sailor. Divvying up several coins per pirate when the booty was being divided could make a man rich. This fact along with the offering of better living conditions and food aboard ship as well as shorter working hours added up to a very tempting offer for most honest sailors who were approached by pirate recruiters.
4. The term doubloon (from Spanish doblón, meaning double) refers to a gold coin minted in Spain, Mexico, Peru, or Nueva Granada. The term was first used to describe the golden excelente, either because of its value of two ducats, or because of the double portrait of Ferdinand and Isabella. Later, it referred to a coin worth two escudo d'oro, first minted in 1566, during the reign of Philip II of Spain.

The New Orleans Doubloon pin looks great!

Here is a word not "officially" in the VMK Dictionary, but should be:

BSOD

- noun
1. Black Screen Of Death
2. What you typically get after the "loading bar" updates but VMK is down so your login attempt fails.

Too Funny Jcatsby! Can we all go walking around with black arm bands on while on VMK, and chanting BSOD!
We would be one scary bunch! But it would be funny! lol!

My word for the day is
EXTREME

ex·treme (k-strm)
adj.
1. Most remote in any direction; outermost or farthest: the extreme edge of the field.
2. Being in or attaining the greatest or highest degree; very intense: extreme pleasure; extreme pain.
3. Extending far beyond the norm: an extreme conservative. See Synonyms at excessive.
4. Of the greatest severity; drastic: took extreme measures to conserve fuel.
5. Sports
a. Very dangerous or difficult: extreme rafting.
b. Participating or tending to participate in a very dangerous or difficult sport: an extreme skier.
6. Archaic Final; last.
n.
1. The greatest or utmost degree or point.
2. Either of the two things situated at opposite ends of a range: the extremes of boiling and freezing.
3. An extreme condition.
4. An immoderate, drastic expedient: resorted to extremes in the emergency.
5. Mathematics
a. The first or last term of a ratio or a series.
b. A maximum or minimum value of a function.
6. Logic The major or minor term of a syllogism.

We seem to use the word extreme too much lately. We have extreme candy, extreme chips, extreme this and extreme that! I might just have to change my name to ExtremeKanga for VMK!!

My word for today is:

Celebrate

cel·e·brate (sl-brt)
v. cel·e·brat·ed, cel·e·brat·ing, cel·e·brates
v.tr.
1. To observe (a day or event) with ceremonies of respect, festivity, or rejoicing. See Synonyms at observe.
2. To perform (a religious ceremony): celebrate Mass.
3. To extol or praise: a sonnet that celebrates love.
4. To make widely known; display: "a determination on the author's part to celebrate . . . the offenses of another" William H. Pritchard.
v.intr.
1. To observe an occasion with appropriate ceremony or festivity.
2. To perform a religious ceremony.
3. To engage in festivities: went out and celebrated after the victory.

It is time to celebrate Tiger's birthday! And VMK players will be celebrating football today with a football Maze today. And finally, Which team will celebrate their victory after the Super Bowl?

My word for the day is:

pillage

pil·lage
v. pil·laged, pil·lag·ing, pil·lag·es
v.tr.
1. To rob of goods by force, especially in time of war; plunder.
2. To take as spoils.
v.intr.
To take spoils by force.
n.
1. The act of pillaging.
2. Something pillaged; spoils.

I plan to pillage the Haunted Mansion next tuesday! lol!

My word of the day is:

Aztec
Az·tec (ăz'tĕk')
n.
1. A group of Mexican Indian peoples whose civilization was at its height at the time of the Spanish conquest in the early 16th century.
2. The Nahuatl language of the Aztecs.

I think it would be neat to have an Aztec themed guest room in VMK.

My word of the day is:

Blimey
bli·mey (blīmee)
interjection
1. Brit. informal expressing surprise, amazement, excitement, or alarm.
2. Late 19th century. Alteration of God blind (or blame) me!

Blimey! The quest kiosks are expensive!

My VMK word of the day is:

prospect

pros·pect
n.
1. Something expected; a possibility.
2. prospects
a. Chances.
b. Financial expectations, especially of success.
3.
a. A potential customer, client, or purchaser.
b. A candidate deemed likely to succeed.
4. The direction in which an object, such as a building, faces; an outlook.
5. Something presented to the eye; a scene: a pleasant prospect.
6. The act of surveying or examining.
7.
a. The location or probable location of a mineral deposit.
b. An actual or probable mineral deposit.
c. The mineral yield obtained by working an ore.

Lastinside had many prospect's in his quest room last night!

swabbie

swab·bie also swab·by
n. pl. swab·bies
Slang - A sailor.

I had best spend more time pretending to be a swabbie at the Pirates Game if I want to earn enough credits to buy more hats this month!

My word of the day is:

Exhibition
ex·hi·bi·tion (ĕk'sə-bĭsh'ən)
n.
1. A public display of items in an art gallery or museum.
Thesaurus: display, presentation, showing, advertisement, show, performance, exposition, fair, carnival.
2. A display or demonstration of a skill or quality.
3. Chiefly British. A scholarship or grant awarded to a scholar by a college or university.

The VMK Gallery is a great exhibition.

My word of the day is:

Jester
jest·er (jĕs'tər)
n.
1. A professional clown employed to entertain a king or nobleman in the Middle Ages.
2. A jester or "fool" is a specific type of clown mostly associated with the Middle Ages. Jesters typically wore brightly colored clothing in a motley pattern. Their hats (sometimes called the "cap'n'bells") were especially distinctive; made of cloth, they were floppy with three points (liliripes) each of which had a jingle bell at the end. The three points of the hat represent the donkeys' ears and tail worn by jesters in earlier times.

I can't wait until the purple jester hats are released this Friday!

interesting... I was going to use that same word today!!! I will have to look around for another one!

Lol how weird! Speaking of jesters, I found some really cool jester smileys that I'll try to add later today.

I will use one of the latest added words today...

magician
ma·gi·cian (m-jshn)
n.
1. A sorcerer; a wizard.
2. One who performs magic for entertainment or diversion.
3. One whose formidable skill or art seems to be magical: a magician with words

There are many people on VMK who think they are a magician.

My word of the day is:

Lanyard
lan·yard also lan·iard (lăn'yərd)
n.
1. A short rope or gasket used for fastening, securing, rigging, or raising & lowering something, such as a ship's sails.
2. A cord worn around the neck, shoulder, or wrist for carrying something, such as a knife, whistle, or something similar.
3. A cord with a hook at one end used to fire a cannon.

I think it would be neat to have a lanyard on VMK that would allow us to display all of our pins.

My VMK word of the day is:

Variable

var·i·a·ble (vâr--bl, vr-)
adj.
1.
a. Likely to change or vary; subject to variation; changeable.
b. Inconstant; fickle.
2. Biology Tending to deviate, as from a normal or recognized type; aberrant.
3. Mathematics Having no fixed quantitative value.
n.
1. Something that varies or is prone to variation.
2. Astronomy A variable star.
3. Mathematics
a. A quantity capable of assuming any of a set of values.
b. A symbol representing such a quantity. For example, in the expression a2 + b2 = c2, a, b, and c are variables

VMK is one big Variable, it is constantly changing!

My word of the day is:

Commodore
com·mo·dore (kómmə dàwr)
n.
1.
a. (Abbr. Com.) A commissioned rank formerly used in the U.S. Navy that was above captain and below rear admiral. Abolished in 1899, it was restored temporarily during World War II.
b. One who holds this rank.
2. Used as an unofficial designation for a captain in the British Navy temporarily in command of a fleet division or squadron.
3.
a. The senior captain of a naval squadron or merchant fleet.
b. The presiding officer of a yacht club.

I think a commodore costume in VMK would be really cool!

My word for the day is:

trough (trôf, trf)
n.
1.
a. A long, narrow, generally shallow receptacle for holding water or feed for animals.
b. Any of various similar containers for domestic or industrial use, such as kneading or washing.
2. A gutter under the eaves of a roof.
3. A long, narrow depression, as between waves or ridges.
4. A low point in a business cycle or on a statistical graph.
5. Meteorology An elongated region of relatively low atmospheric pressure, often associated with a front.
6. Physics A minimum point in a wave or an alternating signal.


Why do we need a trough on VMK?



Fish and Fairy- Why are the words thank you in the VMK dictionary between the words twists and tycoon?

I don't know what you're talking about.. Just kidding, I just fixed it.

Anyway here is my word of the day:

Yardarm
yard·arm (yärdärm)
n.
1. A long piece of timber or metal tapering slightly toward the ends, hung by the center to the top of a mast (upon which sails are traditionally spread or supported).
2. Either end of a yard of a square sail.
3. A spar slung horizontally across a flagpole.
4. Outer sections of the yard.

There are several yardarms in VMK.

My VMK word of the day is:

phantom also fan·tom
n.
1.
a. Something apparently seen, heard, or sensed, but having no physical reality; a ghost or an apparition.
b. Something elusive or delusive.
2. An image that appears only in the mind; an illusion.
3. Something dreaded or despised.
adj.
1. Resembling, characteristic of, or being a phantom; illusive.
2. Fictitious; nonexistent: phantom employees on the payroll

There appear to be many phantoms walking around on VMK.