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RAUNCHY - earthy, vulgar, and often sexually explicit; slovenly, dirty; also: very smelly.

The definition of fabulous is someone or something that is imaginary, hard to believe or very good. Other meaning include extraordinary, especially in being very large; wonderful; of the nature of a fable; unhistorical.

FABRICATE - invent, create; to make up for the purpose of deception accused of fabricating evidence; construct, manufacture specifically; to construct from diverse and usually standardized parts.

In cooking, proofing (also called proving) is a step in the preparation of yeast bread and other baked goods where the dough is allowed to rest and rise a final time before baking. During this rest period, yeast ferments the dough and produces gases, thereby leavening the dough.

Conversate is a nonstandard verb that means ''to have a conversation.'' The standard verb (and the one you should use if you want to be correct) is converse. The use of conversate has soared since 2000, mostly in speech and in written records of speech. The term s a back formation from conversation, created by dropping the suffix -ion, and adding -e, to produce a verb form.

CONVERSATE Origin - The term is a back formation from conversation, created by dropping the suffix - ion, and adding -e, to produce a verb form. Since it has essentially the same meaning as the more common and frequently used verb converse, the term conversate has been condemned in some circles as an unnecessary nonword.

When used as nouns, human means a human being, whether man, woman or child, whereas man means an adult male human. Human is also adjective with the meaning: of or belonging to the species homo sapiens or its closest relatives.

The faceoff is used to begin every game, period and play. It occurs when a referee drops the puck between the sticks of two opposing players. The opposing players then fight for possession of the puck. At the beginning of a game or period, or after a goal is scored, the faceoff happens at centre ice.

STRAWBERRY BLONDE - is mostly based on red tones, with blonde highlights dotted here and there. It takes its name from the Italian renaissance. During this period, women lightened their hair using lemon juice and saffron in combination with the sun's natural rays of light. In the late 1800s, Jennie Hicks, a popular newspaper writer for the New York Daily Mail, toiled under the pseudonym Sophie Sparkle.'' This early usage (1873) of strawberry blonde appears to confirm its AmE origin.