Words you can never remember the definitions of.

[Razgovory]

There are some words I can never seem to remember the definitions for no matter how many times I read the definition.  I noticed this using my Kindle (which broke this week), which allows me to find the definition of a word I don't know in a book I'm reading with just a press of the screen.  For some words the definition just won't stick.  Sometimes it's a word that resembles another word or that I can't remember the proper nuance.  Sometimes I don't even understand the definition.  I don't know if this is just something I do, or something everyone does.  I assume the 2nd one, but that may just be me projecting my experiences on others.  Well anyway, here's a short list.

Peregrine:  The fastest bird and the slowest Hobbit.



Sublime:  Something directly underneath a lime "This tequila is sublime!"



Verve:  A low rent Mick Jagger



Anathema:  A hat-based religion founded by occultist Aleister Crowley in an attempt to best the mitre as the most preposterous religious headgear



Prodigal:  A rent-boy with a sugar daddy.



Praxis:  The same as "practice" but at the college level.



Homeostasis: A gay man incapable of movement



Stolid:  A type of fossilized microbial mat.  Basically ancient pound scum



Ontology:   The study of madness



stochastic:  Magic, basically



heuristic:  I don't know what this word means and neither does anyone else.

[Caliga]

Razgovory.

[mongers]

.....

heuristic:  I don't know what this word means and neither does anyone else.

.....

This.

[DGuller]

Definitely not this.  I know what the word means.

[Valmy]

Reticent. I just know everybody uses it wrong and I am supposed to be outraged by that but I cannot remember what it actually means.

[grumbler]

Reticent. I just know everybody uses it wrong and I am supposed to be outraged by that but I cannot remember what it actually means.

???  I can't remember the last time I saw the word seriously misused.

[Eddie Teach]

Razgovory.

Something Russian I think.

[Razgovory]

Razgovory.

Something Russian I think.

Way, way back, I needed a name for AOL instant messenger.  Every name I came up with was already taken, so I looked around for something obscure.  I had a book on uniforms for the Russian Civil war so I picked the name of a tab on the front of a Soviet Uniform.  That seemed obscure enough and AOL accepted it.

[Valmy]

Reticent. I just know everybody uses it wrong and I am supposed to be outraged by that but I cannot remember what it actually means.

???  I can't remember the last time I saw the word seriously misused.

People use it to mean reluctant but this is outrageous since it originally meant....*looks it up*...to keep silent. I only vaguely remember who it was who was outraged by this, probably my latin teacher.

[Maximus]

Huh, I don't think I've ever heard it used to mean reluctant.

[Admiral Yi]

I thought it was close to shy, withdrawn.  Which I guess is in the neighborhood.

[Caliga]

Way, way back, I needed a name for AOL instant messenger.  Every name I came up with was already taken, so I looked around for something obscure.  I had a book on uniforms for the Russian Civil war so I picked the name of a tab on the front of a Soviet Uniform.  That seemed obscure enough and AOL accepted it.

Interesting.