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Friday, 17 September 2004
Harper's Vocabulary Words!!
Topic: Vocabulary Words!
a-bou-li-a / a-bu-li-a
Loss or impairment the ability to make decisions.
Example: Jane wasn't sure whether it was aboulia or amnesia that made decisions difficult for her.


Brob-ding-nag-i-an
Immense; enormous
Example: The houses we saw on the homes tour had Brobdingnagian entrances fit for giants and their pet woolly mammoths.
(This comes from Brobdingnag, a country in Gulliver's Travels where everything is enormous.)

maf-fick
To rejoice or celebrate with boisterous public demonstrations.
Example: The British mafficked after their successful stand against the Boers.
(Primarily a British word.)



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