Conference Call Games

1. Close your eyes and select any word from a book and try to slip it unnoticed in to conference call.
2. Sign up for word of the day from Dictionary.com so you can have a new word for every meeting or try some of our favourite words (definitions courtesy of Dictionary.com):

• Abulia - loss or impairment of the ability to make decisions or act independently

• Bloviate - to speak or write at length in a pompous or boastful manner.

• Perambulate - to walk about; to roam; to stroll

• Vacillate - to swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another

• Parsimony - unusual or excessive frugality; extreme economy or stinginess

• Pervicacious - refusing to change one's ideas, behaviour, etc.; stubborn; obstinate

• Ostensible - represented or appearing to be true, but not necessarily so

• Fulsome - insincere or excessively lavish; especially, offensive from excess of praise

• Purblind - lacking in insight or discernment

• Flummery - empty compliment; unsubstantial talk or writing; mumbo jumbo; nonsense

• Flaneur - one who strolls about aimlessly; a lounger; a loafer

• Sciolism - superficial knowledge
• Camarilla - a group of secret and often scheming advisers, as of a king; a cabal or clique
• Afflatus - a divine imparting of knowledge; inspiration
• Inveigle - To persuade by ingenuity or flattery; to entice. To obtain by ingenuity or flattery
• Tergiversation - The act of practicing evasion or of being deliberately ambiguous
• Scapegrace - A reckless, unprincipled person; one who is wild and reckless; a rascal; a scoundrel.
• Pygalgia - Medical term meaning pain in the buttocks
  
  
3. Play Conference Call Bingo
4. Play computer Solitaire or one of the many free games at Egg2
5. Play Paper, Scissors, Rock with a colleague.
6. Make as many words as you can from the following letters. Proper nouns or plurals are not allowed. Each word must use the centre letter. There is a nine letter word, if you find it, email it to us and we'll pop a small prize in the mail to you.
   

If you can think of some further suitably low brow ideas, we would love to hear from you.

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