I love a challenge.  So when Answers.com sent out an email detailing a contest to use odd phrases and hard to spell words, well, let's just say I got my game on!

The contest is to write a blog or poem with a list of phrases/words to be used in the Contest Entry (which this Post is).  The word count must be under 750 words.  Contest winners will get an Amazon Gift Certificate of $100 for first and $50 for Second.  Additionally All Three Winners will win a Place in Answers.com Hall of Fame.  Provide linkbacks to the phrase/word to Answers.com

So, what kind of phrases do we have to work with?  Ubiquitous is one that always makes me smirk for some reason.  Belize, formerly British Honduras, always makes me sneeze for reasons unknown to medical science.  For all intents and purposes, I couldn't figure out why yo-yo was in the list.  I did, however,  find it perfunctory that quid pro quo was listed.  But what am I to make of these quixotic and noble words: abrogate and melissophobia?  While I only have a marginal fear of bees, they do sting after all, I have an absolute paranoia of the brown recluse spider!

And there you have it.  The linked words above are what the Contest requires us to use.  Which means I've completed the requirements, with plenty of room to spare, word length wise.  I could go on and on just to fill up the remaining space to reach that 750 word length exactly, but that would be trite, would it not?  By the way, trite was not one of the words listed, I just thought I'd toss that in.

Zenny, Wordsmith Extraordinaire