You are sitting in your room scanning through your copy of National Geographic when you encounter an ad for a contest that Merriam-Webster is having. The winner gets to create the meaning for a new word they are about to introduce in their latest dictionary. You tear the page out and throw it into your trash can (you are more of a numbers person, don't much care for the words). Because you are incredibly lazy you don't ever empty that trash can, opting instead to make your mother empty it for you. You're about to pay for that. She empties the can, finds the page, and enters your name into the contest, claiming it will be "fun and educational". Slightly disgruntled, you shake it off. You won't win anyway. Well, guess what...you did. You think about rejecting the offer but you would hate to disappoint mom. So you take a trip and meet with the Merriam-Webster people, and learn that the word you will be assigning a meaning to is "sperritrop". So, what does it mean?
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a crop to that gives you money to spare lol. sperritrop sounds like spare-a-crop
hmm...won't that defeat the purpose of you doing?
but that's an interesting word...and you're a good writer. lol.
It's what scientists call the adolescence in a rare wild pig/hawk only found near Easter Island
Does it mean "portirreps"?, Like a porta-potty?
an animal with five legs
is this one of those things where you fill in a random word?!?!?
I won the Dare essay contest when i was young. I ended up being a high school user, i can be very convincing when i write.
I stopped reading half way through.
a mutant carrot
A word you use to describe a cluster of trees consisting of three different types: Oak, Birch, Chestnut
To spin while skipping.
To act upon the readings of a gyroscopic compass.
An ominous sound in a jungle.
It's the study of exactly when a breed of dog becomes separate and uniquely identifiable from the breeds of dogs that were used in creating it.
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J.K. Rowling's first draft for the spell that would eventually become "Avada Kedavra." Her editors felt it didn't quite have the punch necessary to be an Unforgivable Curse.
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