Badinage

What is badinage? Here is the defenition from The American Heritage Dictionary:

bad-i-nage n. Light, playful banter [Fr. < badin, joker]

Here are some other amazing, wierd or obscure words (or just plain interesting):
Bola:
bo-la n. A rope with weights attached used esp. in South America to catch cattle or game by entangling the legs.

Corium
co-ri-um n. The layer of the skin beneath the epithelium, containing nerve endings, sweat glands, and blood and lymph vessels [Latin, skin.]

Corrigendum
cor-ri-gen-dum n. 1. An error to be corrected, esp. a printers error. 2. corrigenda. A list of errors in a book with their corrections. [Latin, neuter gerund, of corrigere, to correct]

Corticolous
cor-tic-o-lous adj. Growing or living on tree bark: corticolous mosses.

Nanometer
man-o-me-ter n. One-billionth of a meter. (==> 0.000000001)
Nanosecond
nan-o-sec-ond n. One-billionth of a second.

Ugsome
ug-some adj. disgusting; loathsome



TIP for school: Use lots of cool adverbs and adjectives unless your teacher specifically says no or doesn't like them - usually teachers love it when you use amazing words (They might get flabbergasted if you know the defenition and they don't!). [Flabbergasted: stunned, shocked]