well this isn't really a game nor considered an entertainment for the majority but it isn't up for discussion so it doesn't belong to the other sub-forums therefore I will be posting this thread here....

this is intended to help those interested in expanding their vocabulary...

so here it goes ..... our WORD FOR TODAY is......

obviate \OB-vee-ayt\, transitive verb:

To prevent by interception; to anticipate and dispose of or make unnecessary.

After lunch he packed and stepped into the shower: Ronald Rosenthal spent a good portion of his life in planes and he knew that hot water immediately before and after a flight obviated most of its bad effects.
-- Neil Gordon, The Gun Runner's Daughter

It is reasonable to assume that Martin acquired the most basic skills of the rural gentleman: horse-riding, elementary sword-play and the minor degree of literacy that compulsory attendance at divine service encouraged were all requirements that preceded -- even obviated -- the need for a more formal education.
-- James McDermott, Martin Frobisher: Elizabethan Privateer

On the positive side, a flood of cheap imports could help hold down inflation and obviate the need for higher interest rates.
-- Richard W. Stevenson and David E. Sanger, "Asian CrisisCould Wreak Havoc on Balance of Trade", New York Times, December 20, 1997

Obviate derives from Latin obviare, "to meet or encounter," from ob viam, "placed or coming in the way" (ob, "in front of"; via, "way").

ABET - encouraging or inciting a crime. Abet usually applies to aiding an individual in the violation of a law.

cahoots/plural noun/in cahoots with/ acting together with others for an illegal or dishonest purpose.. ;D

Floccinaucinihilipilification

The act of judging something to be worthless. ;D

putsch \PUCH ('u' as in 'push')\, noun:

(Sometimes capitalized) A secretly planned and suddenly executed attempt to overthrow a government.

Hitler operated from Munich where he enjoyed a fair degree of support, and it was here that his Putsch took place in an effort to seize power in Bavaria.
-- Alan Jefferson, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf

President Bush, underwriter of the island's nascent democracy, swiftly announced that the coup would not stand, then just as quickly receded into embarrassed silence when informed by his staff that his own crew in Port-au-Prince not only had foreknowledge of the putsch but had allowed it to advance without a word.
-- Bob Shacochis, The Immaculate Invasion

Putsch comes from German, from Middle High German, literally, "thrust."

impugn            \im-PYOON\, transitive verb:

To attack by words or arguments; to call in question; to make insinuations against; to oppose or challenge as false; to gainsay.

   

Impugn comes from Latin impugnare, "to assail," from in-, "against" + pugnare, "to fight."

prepotency   \pree-POTE-n-see\, noun:

1. The quality or condition of having superior power, influence, or force; predominance.
2. (Biology) The capacity, on the part of one of the parents, as compared with the other, to transmit more than his or her own share of characteristics to their offspring.

  The awesome prepotency of this smokescape is no illusion, for this is an epicentre of power, oil capital of the Western world and the most industrialised corner of the United States.
    -- "Dark heart of the American dream", The Observer, June 16, 2002

    Though Sir Tristram lost his record, his prepotency was reinforced at the Doomben races as three of the big race winners carry his blood.
    -- "Sir Tristram loses record", Evening Post (Wellington, New Zealand), May 29, 2001

    These several remarks are apparently applicable to animals; but the subject is here much complicated, partly owing to the existence of secondary sexual characters; but more especially owing to prepotency in transmitting likeness running more strongly in one sex than in the other, both when one species is crossed with another, and when one variety is crossed with another variety.
    -- Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species

Prepotency is from Latin praepotentia, from prae-, "before" + potentia, "power," from potens, "able, powerful," present participle of posse, "to be able."

Copy! - our lingo of saying "acknowledged" 

roger ngay? hahahahaha!

a word borrowed from Spanish...

CAY (kay, kee)

A small low island of coral, sand, etc.

profession of the past...

ZANJERO (zahn-HAY-ro) noun

One who is in charge of water distribution.

"Future Water Engr. William Mulholland got his start  as a zanjero.