You are on page 1of 1

Sesquipedalian Assignment

Using all of the following words, write a story that makes sense to the reader.

octothorpe: the symbol # on a telephone or keyboard lamster: fugitive box: a tree or shrub, used for borders, hedges or garden mazes tittle: a small diacritical mark, as an accent, the tiniest bit clowder: a group of cats adfenestration: the (surreptitious) act of entering through a window bissextile: relating to the extra day in a leap year (the second sixth day) pocosin: an upland swamp of the coastal plain of the southeastern U.S. lethe: oblivion, forgetfulness lethologica: the inability to remember the right word lethonomia: the tendency to forget names kef: a state of dreamy tranquility tchoupitoulas: Algonquin for "river people"; a street in New Orleans sesquipedalian: given to the use of long words nugatory: of little or no consequence; trifling , inconsequential; inoperative interrobang: a punctuation mark {!?} designed for use esp at the end of an exclamatory rhetorical question yegg: a criminal, esp a safecracker or burglar

You might also like