Jun 07 2010
Vocabulary Practice
Improve your vocabulary and dazzle your friends by working these two words into conversation three times next week:
1. Antidisestablishmentarianism (28 letters)
(an·ti·dis·es·tab·lish·men·tar·i·an·ism)
–noun
opposition to the withdrawal of state support or recognition from an established church, esp. the Anglican Church in 19th-century England.
2. Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanokoniosis (45 letters)
(pneu-mo-no-ul-tra-mi-cro-scop-ic-sil-I-co-vol-ca-no-co-ni-o-sis)
–noun
an obscure term ostensibly referring to a lung disease caused by silica dust, sometimes cited as one of the longest words in the English language.