Unusual Words! A-Z include definition and info that you find on the word

[skwam]

abdominous -    having a paunch or big belly

Found this sentence on wikipedia using the word:

The rectus abdominis muscle, also known as the "abs," is a paired muscle running vertically on each side of the anterior wall of the human abdomen, as well as that of some other mammals.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rectus_abdominis_muscle

I love playing with words! 

I use http://phrontistery.info to look for them.

Next person find an unusual word starting with B, and so on...

[mardukblood2009]

Borknagar, I am not sure what it means but it is the name of a band from Norway.

[nmsmith]

cagamosis   def: An unhappy marriage

 "Our blissful union has turned into cagamosis!"

[kimmy29]

abdominous -    having a paunch or big belly

Found this sentence on wikipedia using the word:

The rectus abdominis muscle, also known as the "abs," is a paired muscle running vertically on each side of the anterior wall of the human abdomen, as well as that of some other mammals.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rectus_abdominis_muscle

I love playing with words! 

I use http://phrontistery.info to look for them.

Next person find an unusual word starting with B, and so on...

[lvstephanie]

This games sounds like the Barenaked Ladies "Crazy ABC's" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQLv7zrJk9U)!

D is for Dystopia. A dystopia is a fictional setting where there is something that makes the place / time frightening, evil, dangerous, etc. It is the opposite of a utopia. Often dystopias are first portrayed as a utopia until you get further into the story where you learn that everything isn't so great as it first appears, or that something that is perceived as being good comes about by some method that isn't as good. For example, in Brave New World the future is presented at first as a utopia where people are happy and content, there is plenty of everything for the population, little crime, etc. But all of this "good" is due to a totalitarian government, the World State, that controls the population size by non-natural human reproduction, creates a caste system of people through genetic manipulation, gives people a false sense of peace / happiness through the state-produced drug "soma", etc.