I need to expand my vocabulary...i'm rather thick

apiculture

"Scintillating" - brilliantly clever; marked by high spirits or excitement.

OK...it's no good with an explanation for the words...for all i know you could be quoting klingon.

tartar emetic

noun
a toxic compound used in treating protozoal disease in animals, as a mordant in dyeing, and formerly as an emetic. • Alternative name: potassium antimony tartrate; chem. formula: K(SbO)C 4 H 4 O 6.

horatio said:

bee keeping?

portamento


Moving from one note to another with element of sliding, especially on voice or stringed instruments

Imago said:

At first i thought it was French slugs

DanceWme said:

Isin't that located in southern california?

liberation said:

No. That would be South California City

Hey, the dude said TEACH him a new word. That means you gotta say what it means.

For instance, "malapropos" \mal-ap-ruh-POH\, adjective:
1. Unseasonable; unsuitable; inappropriate.

adverb:
1. In an inappropriate or inopportune manner; unseasonably.

Such malapropos wise cracks are driven home with a relentlessly upbeat soundtrack which serenades scenes of human tragedy with bouncy, Disneyesque melodies.
-- Steve Rabey, "Noah's Ark' hits bottom: Miniseries suffers from lack of accuracy", Arlington Morning News, May 2, 1999

As an on-air radio pronouncer, I am quite familiar with the hazard of opening the mouth before the brain is in gear. It is very easy to fire-off a malapropos statement in the heat of trying to make a point and the result is some funny things are said, but perhaps not meant.
-- Gerry Forbes, "Foot-in-Mouth Afflictions", Calgary Sun, March 18, 2001

Malapropos comes from French mal à propos, "badly to the purpose."

Antidisestablishmentarianism

is usually used as an example of one of the longest English words that actually means something. Used mostly in reference to the Anglican Church in 19th-century England, it refers to opposition to the separation of Church and State.

Imago said:

Is this another deoxygenated dihydrogen, (or something similar), you mentioned in M&M?

syncategorematic: forming a meaningful expression only in conjunction with a denotative expression (as a content word)

beatification

blueblossom said:

my grade 6 teacher used to use that word all the time, then say spell it


we'd say I T