Make Up Words That Start With X!

So there are some words that start with X....here are the ones in the dictionary.

* Xanadu (n) - an exotic, luxurious place. This word comes from the poem "Kubla Khan" by Samuel T. Coleridge.
* Xanax (n) - a pharmaceutical drug that is used to treat depression and anxiety.
* Xanthic (n) - yellowish in color; having to do with the compound xanthine.
* Xebec: A xebec is a special three-masted sailing ship used in the Mediterranean.
* Xenolith (n) - a fragment of a rock embedded inside another rock.
* Xenon: Scientists call xenon one of the noble gases. It’s odorless, colorless, and found in very small quantities in the Earth’s atmosphere.
* Xenophobia (n) - fear or hatred towards foreigners, foreign countries, or anything foreign. Other related words: xenophobic (adj.) and xenophobe (n)
* Xeric (adj.) - dry or desert like conditions; having very little moisture.
* Xerography: The word for a process to copy documents is xerography.
* Xerox: Xerox is the patented process for copying documents, and the name of a corporation. The word Xerox should never be used as a synonym for photocopying a document.
* Xhosa: Xhosa is the name of the Bantu language, and a name for a member of the Bantu people of South Africa.
* Xylem: Botanists describe the tubes within the stems of woody plants as xylem. The xylem conducts fluids up the plant, while phloem brings the fluids down.
* Xylograph (n) - a wood engraving.
* Xyloid (adj.) - resembling wood; woody.
* Xylophone: A percussion instrument with wood or metal tubes struck with hammers.
* XML: A computer language abbreviation for extensible markup language.

So there are some words from the dictionary that start with X :) I dont know what the mean or where they come from I just copied them from the dictionary.

Now I will make up words of my own that start with X!
-xliterary: unreadable under any circumstances
-xteraniouskopy: disease that means you get frost bite easy
-xperantial: like exponential growth only tripling itself
Now I will just make up a ton of words with no definitions!
-xlimpotion
-xblitory
-xstentious
-xlerkatishontious
-xminionoshousbloshous
-xslimbonogginogouspochtipoloacarocious
-xtimplintantationaryflockdopystepertantlackard
-xteraniouspologramtoponkishpylatoemonostrocklipleypodantromonarystoparnitizeblithern

THE END!!!

-AC

Hold an ice cube for as long as possible

OW OW OW OW!!!
Aye Yae Yae....so I held my ice cube for as long as possible, and I thought that, that would be until it melted. Well little did I know that in the result of my waiting I nearly discovered what it felt like to have frost bite.
Sometime last week my dad had my brother put an ice pack on his arm. My brother wouldn't sit down and be lazy so attached it with a large ace bandage and continued to go about his business. A few hours later my dad asked him to put it back on and my brother told him that it was still off. Well my brother took off his ice only to realize that he had a nice bump that was sure odd looking and a weird red patch on his arm that didn't go away for days.

My dad told my brother it looked like he had a very minor case of frost bite. Of course my mother flipped out and my dad was like its fine...no big deal. While I sat and watched and wondered what it would be like to have frost bite and why I had never developed it because that is always my method of icing as well. Leaving it on until you feel that it is melted ;)

Which brings me back to our case today. I may have been a little bit of a weenie with the ice cube but obviously bad things can happen right! Exactly...so technically I didnt do this entry correctly. I should have waited until the ice was completely melted and the water had evaporated out of my hand. Now lets just pretend that that was precisly what I did even though it was only my intention.

So what you should really learn is that frost bite is easier to get than it sounds and you should be alot more careful when icing an injury!!!
-AC

Check Under Chairs/Tables for Chewing Gum

Fortunately for me, I take a class at the highschool a couple blocks from my house, so today when I went in ( I was a little early) I bent over and looked under my desk.

Gross. There was gum all over the the angle that made the underside hidden from horizontal view. Wads and wads on top of eachother but not just gum! Gum, gum wrappers, candy wrappers! And a funny thing that I noticed was that the front desks had less gum, and the back much more! So it's easier to stick your gum wrappers under there if your in the back withough your teacher noticing, that's for sure. I thought it was rather interesting.

-KJ

Read Tea Leaves

It just so happens that I know a wonderful woman tha owns a tea shop downtown. Yesterday, I went down there and asked her if she knew how to read tea leaves, surprisingly I got a negative answer, but ( there's always a happy ending in fairytales, right?)she did have a book about how to read tea leaves that she told me she'd bring in today. So, I picked it up today, took it home and started reading. Now, I don't believe these sort of things to be true, so I hope you take this with a grain of salt also. After carefully reading the instructions, (and skipping over the history and introductions blah blah blah) I carefully made sure I had about a half a teaspoon left in my cup before I swishes it around three times with my left hand and slowly tipped the cup onto the saucer. Then, after waiting a moment for the moisture to "become right" I picked the cup back up and looked inside. It was interesting to try and see different shapes and figures inside my teacup. Here's what I got, it started out looking pretty good with

Angel- good news, especially in fortune and love

Butterfly- success and pleasure

But then I got a cross, I though a cross would be good but-

Cross- a sign of trouble and delay or even death

It gets worse.

Hour glass- imminent peril

Dog (on the bottem of the cup) secret enemies

But it ends on a good note with

Moon- prosperity and fortune

Triangle- always a sign of good luck and unexpected legacies



So, that is reading tea leaves. I'll let you knownif any of these things actually happen!

-KJ