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GRE Charades

So, new game. GRE vocab Charades!

It is quite an esoteric, challenging game... you try acting out "ephemeral".

Example: Michael is acting it out, Diana and I are guessing.

1 finger for first part of word-

Michael pretends to hack, leaning towards the trashcan, just in case- also pretends to sneeze

"Uhhh.... sick?"

nodding, he indicates the second word and blows up his cheeks and holds out his arms as if they were around a large belly

"You feel bloated? Need to stop eating so much? (he rolls his eyes and points to me, repeating the belly imitation) I am not fat."

He changes his strategy, and raises his arm like a trunk.

"Elephant? (nods, then puts hands together) sick elephant?"

indicates that I should add the words together

"Sickphant? Selephant? sycophant!"

And that's how it goes. Don't vituperate me, its a great way to learn the words. How can I forget sycophant when i remember Michael waving his arms around like an elephant? Maybe one of these days I will become an erudite student.

Only 495 words to go...