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Scintillate, Scintillate!
The following is a famous saying in big words. Can you translate it back to the original?
Scintillate, scintillate, globule of vivific
Fain would I fathom thy nature specific
Loftily poised above the capacious
Closest resembling a gem carbonaceous.
Scintillate, scintillate, globule of vivific
Fain would I fathom thy nature specific
Loftily poised above the capacious
Closest resembling a gem carbonaceous.
Answer
Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star,How I wonder what you are.
Up above the world so high,
Like a diamond in the sky.
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huh?
The gem carbonaceous gave it away for me ^_^
Cool!
Was totally lost but I liked it
old one but still fun
OOOOOOOOHG. My head hurts.
yay!
i'm with hidden. did you know all these words, or use a dictionary or thesaurus or something?
Very cool!!! I figured it out afdter i knew what gem carbonaceous meant!!!!
the coolest
I knew all these words Steph.....
I am an aspiring author, avid reader, and was an English Major for the few semesters I spent in college.
I am an aspiring author, avid reader, and was an English Major for the few semesters I spent in college.
I ACTUALLY GOT THIS !!!!!! when i first saw it i thought i shouldn't bother . i'm glad i did .
i got this one! i just tried to think of famous sayings, and that one came to mind...i thought it was easy and really really fun..good job!
Sweet! And you even made it rhyme!!!! Nice teaser
i cant believe you actually knew all those words!
i dont even know about half of them!
i dont even know about half of them!
It's a great teaser
excellent!
nice one. big words are confusing to those with simple minds (being me )
keep it up!
keep it up!
Very nice, but I don't think vivific is actually a word... and if it is a word it sounds like an adjective. (If it's an adjective then you would have to remove the "of.") I tried using Google's define function, but to no avail.
Great teaser!
cool i thought i shouldnt bother too it came from a random but i liked it the the diamond bit gave it away..... but still cool keep it up
all i saw was scintillate, scintillate and i knew what it was!!! so proud of myself
i luv it!! that was sooo cool!
well done.
Didn't read the teaser, just need one more point to get to 100. Sorry
I love these, they're so cool! I didn't get it, but I love big words!
CREEPY WORDS
WOW.. that is sooo clever.. and i now i am singing this version of twickle twnkle in myhead..must sing it to my kids tonight thanks i got it straight away - my 2yr olds favourite song to sing. Everything he sings turns into twinkle twinkle by the second verse..lol.
So fun! I got it with the "Loftily poised".
The carbon based gem gave it away for me too. Nice one though!
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