A totally trivial posting on words that I came across reading last night. These three words are new to me. At least I did not know their meaning and have no recollection of having seen them before. Enjoy.
Girn
1. To complain in a whining voice.
2. To contort one’s face; grimace.
Prosody
1. The study of the metrical structure of verse.
2. A particular system of versification.
Afflatus
an impulse of creative power or inspiration, esp in poetry, considered to be of divine origin (esp in the phrase divine afflatus)
[Latin, from afflātus, from afflāre to breathe or blow on, from flāre to blow]
Prompromiscuity: promiscuity at the prom, of course. Here are some other totally real words: http://daisybrain.wordpress.com/2010/09/29/latest-releases-from-the-department-of-new-definitions/