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

• 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
  
  
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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