Free association in studying....
I have always enjoyed picking up the dictionary and thumbing to a random page to see all of the associations between words of similar spellings. As I come across interesting words, I check possible anagrams and look up cross references. This is how I account for almost all of my studying these days. I know a lot of words, but a lot of random words for this very reason.
This morning I found myself in the OS- section of the dictionary and here is the wandering process that popped up:
Root: OS
Back Hook: OSE (pl. - OSES)
Plurals: ORA, OSAR, and OSSA. None of which have plurals.
OSSA (no back hook) takes a front F to make FOSSA. A similar word is FOSSE (not related in definition)
FOSSA takes an E & S to make FOSSAE and FOSSAS.
The adjectival form is FOSSATE
FOSSATE anagrams with FATSOES.
A similar word to OSSA is OSSIA (a musical direction and does not have any hooks) which anagrams with OASIS
Slantwise from OSSIA you find OSTIA (IOTAS, STOAI) which is the plural for OSTIUM.
Most of the OST- words have bone related meaning, but OSTIUM means "an opening in a bodily organ." The closest cousin words then would be OSTOMY (OSTOMIES) (surgical creation of a bodily opening), OSTOMATE (S) (one who has had an OSTOMY), OSTIOLE (S) (a small bodily opening), and OSTIARY (a door keeper at a church), which of course would pluralize to OSTIARIES.
The adjectival form of OSTIOLE is OSTIOLAR (= ISOLATOR(S)).
Rounding out the non-bone related OST- words are:
-OSTINATO (pluralizing to OSTINATOS and OSTINATI)
-OSTLER (making OSTLERS and HOSTLER (S) & JOSTLER(S))
-OSTMARK (making OSTMARKS, & POSTMARK (awesome))
-OSTRACOD (E(S), S) which has a relative in OSTRACODERM(S)
-OSTRACON (pl. OSTRACA, alternately OSTRAKON and OSTRAKA) Anagrams of OSTRACON are CARTOONs and CORANTOS.
-OSTRICH (pl. OSTRICHES, which anagrams to TRICHOSES)
That is what I consider fun. Man, maybe I need to reevaluate my life.
This morning I found myself in the OS- section of the dictionary and here is the wandering process that popped up:
Root: OS
Back Hook: OSE (pl. - OSES)
Plurals: ORA, OSAR, and OSSA. None of which have plurals.
OSSA (no back hook) takes a front F to make FOSSA. A similar word is FOSSE (not related in definition)
FOSSA takes an E & S to make FOSSAE and FOSSAS.
The adjectival form is FOSSATE
FOSSATE anagrams with FATSOES.
A similar word to OSSA is OSSIA (a musical direction and does not have any hooks) which anagrams with OASIS
Slantwise from OSSIA you find OSTIA (IOTAS, STOAI) which is the plural for OSTIUM.
Most of the OST- words have bone related meaning, but OSTIUM means "an opening in a bodily organ." The closest cousin words then would be OSTOMY (OSTOMIES) (surgical creation of a bodily opening), OSTOMATE (S) (one who has had an OSTOMY), OSTIOLE (S) (a small bodily opening), and OSTIARY (a door keeper at a church), which of course would pluralize to OSTIARIES.
The adjectival form of OSTIOLE is OSTIOLAR (= ISOLATOR(S)).
Rounding out the non-bone related OST- words are:
-OSTINATO (pluralizing to OSTINATOS and OSTINATI)
-OSTLER (making OSTLERS and HOSTLER (S) & JOSTLER(S))
-OSTMARK (making OSTMARKS, & POSTMARK (awesome))
-OSTRACOD (E(S), S) which has a relative in OSTRACODERM(S)
-OSTRACON (pl. OSTRACA, alternately OSTRAKON and OSTRAKA) Anagrams of OSTRACON are CARTOONs and CORANTOS.
-OSTRICH (pl. OSTRICHES, which anagrams to TRICHOSES)
That is what I consider fun. Man, maybe I need to reevaluate my life.