(Thanks, LW, for the inspiration)

This exercise was inspired by a mini challenge issues by Little Whip in which we were to use various words from the blog in a paragraph.

That wasn't enough for me, so I hunted down some obscure words and decided I would issue a challenge to put together a story or poem using as many of the following words as possible. I was going to give the words without the meanings, but I didn't want to deter people. Because of the potential scope of the project, I understand why one might not be able to use all 26 words, but if you could use at least ten (of your choosing), that would be nice (although it would be cool to see all 26). Bonus points for anyone who includes the current JU "hip" phrase "a conga line of suckholes".

Without further adieu, here are your 26 challenge words:

Acronychal --happening in the evening or at nightfall

Blatherskite --a noisy talker of blatant rubbish, foolish talk or nonsense

Chiliastic --relating to, or believing in, Christian millenarianism

Discombobulate --to confuse, upset, or disconcert

Engastrimyth --a ventriloquist

Floccinaucinihilipilification --the action or habit of judging something to be worthless

Gaberlunzie --A beggar

Hircocervus -- A fabulous beast, half goat, half stag

Ichthyophagous --fish eating

Jackanapes --A cheeky or impertinent person

Kerfuffle --a commotion or fuss

Lexiphanic --Of people who use bombastic or pretentious language

Mallemaroking --the carousing of seamen aboard Greenland whaling ships

Nihilartikel --a deliberately erroneous entry in a dictionary or other reference books

Obnubilate --to darken, dim, cloud over or obscure

Perverb --A portmanteau proverb

Quodlibet --either a topic for (or exercise in) philosophical or theological discussion, or a light hearted medley of well-known tunes

Rantipole --Wild, disorderly, rakish; a wild, ill-behaved or reckless person

Scutching --the dressing of fibres by beating them

Tergiversate --Make conflicting or evasive statements; equivocate

Ultracrepidarian --of someone who gives opinions on matters beyond his knowledge

Vaccary -- a cow pasture

Whilom --an adjective meaning former

xenoglossy --the ability to speak a language without having learned it

Yclept --by the name of; called

zenzizenzizenzic -- the eighth power of a number