Some of the best words ever.

I saw "periwinkle" on that list. It was my favorite crayon when I was a kid, merely because of the name. Then the scatter-brained guy on the original Superman TV show was Professor Periwinkle.

Other words I like are

viviparous: Meaning live-bearer (unlike egg-layers or marsupials)
obfuscate: To obscure the meaning
cacophony: Harsh sound

Someone mentioned halcyon. From that same weird high school phase I had comes "huzzah!"
 
Don't have to be long ,impressive words, do they?
Some of mine are:
wonder,awe, fresh, gumption, eternity, pillage, charge!, ravage, love, truth, thankful, tenderness, existence, thunder, aliveness, create, spirituaality, contentment, intregal, sacred, expansion, soft, gentle, lifeforce.
 
Gaer said:
Don't have to be long ,impressive words, do they?
Some of mine are:
wonder,awe, fresh, gumption, eternity, pillage, charge!, ravage, love, truth, thankful, tenderness, existence, thunder, aliveness, create, spirituaality, contentment, intregal, sacred, expansion, soft, gentle, lifeforce.
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I like words that evoke emotion.

I gotta ask: where did you pull "shagass" from? (Specific anatomical references are not required...you may just allude.)
 
Gaer said:
Don't have to be long ,impressive words, do they?
Some of mine are:
wonder,awe, fresh, gumption, eternity, pillage, charge!, ravage, love, truth, thankful, tenderness, existence, thunder, aliveness, create, spirituaality, contentment, intregal, sacred, expansion, soft, gentle, lifeforce.
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wow...those are kind of all over the place! But all very nice/.
 
EllisT said:
They called them mimeographs when they passed them out.
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Yeh, I did a little bit of reading.

Mimeographs used master stencils that were created on typewriters that had the ribbon removed so the letters could be punched out. Apparently they are still in use in 3rd world countries because they are mechanically simple and don't require electricity.

Spirit duplicators used wax masters.
 
In The Sticks said:
Are those the same as "mimeograph"? Or maybe "spirit duplicators"? I remember one of those from school, but now I'm not sure which. The only good thing about tests was burying your nose in them.
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Similar to mimeograph, but I've never heard of spirit duplicators.
For a quiz or basic schoolwork, the teacher would run off a bunch of copies, so each kid would have a page with the questions/information/etc. on.
 
JaniceM said:
Similar to mimeograph, but I've never heard of spirit duplicators.
For a quiz or basic schoolwork, the teacher would run off a bunch of copies, so each kid would have a page with the questions/information/etc. on.
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I never heard of spirit duplicators, either, until I went to read about mimeographs. Back in the day I worked in jobs that had blueprint machines that were ammonia-based (diazo process), and I wondered if the smell of mimeographs was due to a similar process...it's not.
 
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