Word & Pronunciation
aborning \uh-BOR-ning\, adverb:
abulia \uh-BOO-lee-uh; uh-BYOO-\, noun: Achates (uh-KAY-teez)
adventitious \ad-ven-TISH-uhs\, adjective: afflatus \uh-FLAY-tuhs\, noun:
agon \AH-gahn; ah-GOHN\, noun
amative \AM-uh-tiv\, adjective: animadversion, noun:
anthropophagus, noun:
apopemptic (ap-uh-PEMP-tik)
asseverate
bagatelle \bag-uh-TEL\, noun:
barmecidal (bahr-mih-SYD-l)
bedizen \bih-DY-zuhn\, transitive verb: benthic (BEN-thik)
bibulous \BIB-yuh-luhs\, adjective: boulevardier \boo-luh-var-DYAY; bul-uh-\, noun:
bounder, noun:
brumal, adjective:
brummagem, adjective:
calumny \KAL-uhm-nee\, noun:
camarilla \kam-uh-RIL-uh; -REE-yuh\, noun:
camorra, noun:
canorous \ KAN-or-uhs\, adjective: captious (KAP-shuhs)
chichi \SHEE-shee\, adjective:
chthonic \THONE-ik\, adjective:
claque \KLACK\, noun:
Cockaigne \kah-KAYN\, noun: commination \kom-uh-NAY-shuhn\, noun condign \kuhn-DINE; KON-dine\, adjective: confabulation \kon-FAB-yuh-lay-shuhn\, noun
congeries (kon-JEER-eez, KON-juh-reez)
contemn \kuhn-TEM\, transitive verb: contumacy, noun:
contumely, noun:
copacetic \koh-puh-SET-ik\, adjective: coprolalia (kop-ruh-LAY-lee-uh)
cozen \KUZ-un\, transitive verb: defenestrate \dee-FEN-uh-strayt\, transitive verb:
deipnosophist \dyp-NOS-uh-fist\, noun: dipsomania, noun:
embonpoint \ahn-bohn-PWAN\, noun: epigone \EP-uh-gohn\, noun: epistemology, noun:
estival (also aestival), adjective:
estivate, verb intransitive:
esurient \i-SOOR-ee-uhnt\
excrescence \ik-SKRESS-uhn(t)s\, noun: exiguous \ig-ZIG-yoo-us\, adjective: factious \FAK-shuhs\, adjective
faineant \fay-nay-AWN\, adjective: farrago, noun:
ferine, adjective:
finical \FIN-ih-kuhl\, adjective:
flaneur \flah-NUR\, noun:
flummery \FLUHM-uh-ree\, noun:
fractious \FRAK-shuhs\, adjective: frangible \FRAN-juh-buhl\, adjective: friable \FRY-uh-buhl\, adjective:
fructuous \FRUHK-choo-uhs\, adjective
fungible \FUHN-juh-buhl\, adjective: gallimaufry \gal-uh-MAW-free\, noun gamine \gam-EEN; GAM-een\, noun: gasconade (gas-kuh-NAYD)
gelid \JEL-id\, adjective:
gnomic \NOH-mik\, adjective:
harridan \HAIR-uh-din\, noun:
hector \HEK-tur\, noun:
impassible \im-PASS-uh-buhl\, adjective: indurate \IN-dur-it; -dyur-\, adjective:
irrupt \ih-RUHPT\, intransitive verb: jeremiad \jair-uh-MY-uhd\, noun:
lacuna \luh-KYOO-nuh\, noun;
latitudinarian \lat-uh-too-din-AIR-ee-un; -tyoo-\, adjective:
limen
lubricious \loo-BRISH-us\, adjective: maffick
magniloquent \mag-NIL-uh-kwent\, adjective:
manumit \man-yuh-MIT\, transitive verb: Mariolatry, noun:
matutinal \muh-TOOT-n-uhl\, adjective:
mephitic \muh-FIT-ik\, adjective: mimetic \mim-ET-ik\, adjective:
minatory \MIN-uh-tor-ee\, adjective:
misandry, noun:
misology, noun:
mulct \MULKT\, noun:
muliebrity, noun:
myrmidon \MUR-muh-don; -duhn\, noun: nebbish \NEB-ish\, noun:
nolens volens \NO-lenz-VO-lenz\: nonage \NON-ij; NOH-nij\, noun: obdurate \OB-duh-rit; -dyuh-\, adjective: objurgate \OB-juhr-gayt\, transitive verb: oblation \uh-BLAY-shuhn; oh-\, noun:
panjandrum \pan-JAN-druhm\, noun:
pari passu \PAIR-ee-PASS-oo; PAIR-ih-PASS-oo\, adverb:
perfervid \puhr-FUR-vid\, adjective: persiflage \PUR-suh-flahzh\, noun: pertinacious \puhr-tin-AY-shuhs\, adjective:
plangent \PLAN-juhnt\, adjective postprandial \post-PRAN-dee-uhl\, adjective:
prink \PRINGK\, transitive verb: pruritus, noun:
purblind \PUR-blynd\, adjective:
ratiocination \rash-ee-ah-suh-NAY-shun;
rash-ee-oh-\, noun:
recherche \ruh-sher-SHAY\, adjective:
recreant \REK-ree-uhnt\, adjective or noun: redoubtable \rih-DOW-tuh-buhl\, adjective:
repine \rih-PINE\, intransitive verb: rodomontade \rod-uh-muhn-TAHD\, noun: salubrious, adjective:
schadenfreude \SHOD-n-froy-duh\, noun: sciolism \SY-uh-liz-uhm\, noun:
seraglio, noun:
sere \SEER\, adjective
sesquipedalian \ses-kwuh-puh-DAYL-
yuhn\, adjective:
shibboleth, noun:
sitzfleisch
solecism \SOL-uh-siz-uhm\, noun:
subfusc \sub-FUHSK\, adjective: supererogate, verb intransitive:
supererogatory \soo-puhr-ih-ROG-uh-tor-ee\, adjective:
supernal \soo-PUR-nuhl\, adjective supervene \soo-pur-VEEN\, intransitive
verb:
tarradiddle \tair-uh-DID-uhl\, noun: tatterdemalion, noun:
tautology, noun:
temerarious \tem-uh-RAIR-ee-uhs\, adjective:
tmesis, (tuh-MEE-sis, TMEE-sis)
tocsin \TOCK-sin\, noun:
turpitude \TUR-puh-tood; -tyood\, noun: valetudinarian \val-uh-too-din-AIR-ee-un; -tyoo-\, noun:
vanity fair
vexillology \vek-sil-AHL-uh-jee\, noun: virago, noun:
vituperation \vy-too-puh-RAY-shuhn, -tyoo-\, noun:
voluble \VOL-yuh-buhl\, adjective:
Definition
1. While being produced or born.
2. Being produced or born.
Loss or impairment of the ability to act or to make decisions.
noun:A trusty friend or companion.
Added extrinsically; not essentially inherent.
A divine imparting of knowledge; inspiration.
A struggle or contest; conflict; especially between the protagonist and antagonist in a literary work.
Pertaining to or disposed to love, especially sexual love; full of love; amorous.
1. Hostile criticism.
2. A severely critical or censorious remark.
A cannibal. Anthropophagous = adjective.
adjective: Relating to departing or leave-taking; valedictory.
verb tr.: To affirm solemnly.
1. A trifle; a thing of little or no importance.
2. A short, light musical or literary piece. adjective: Giving only an illusion of something; unreal.
To dress or adorn in gaudy manner.
adjective Of or relating to the bottom of a sea or lake.
1. Of, pertaining to, marked by, or given to the consumption of alcoholic drink.
2. Readily absorbing fluids or moisture.
A sophisticated, worldly, and socially active man; a man who frequents fashionable places; a man-about-town.
A vulgar, cocksure person.
Of, relating to, or occuring in winter.
Gaudy--tawdry. n. something cheap and showy.
1. False accusation of a crime or offense, intended to injure another's reputation.
2. Malicious misrepresentation; slander.
A group of secret and often scheming advisers, as of a king; a cabal or clique.
1. A Neapolitan secret society organised about 1820, notorious for its violence and blackmail.
2. An unscrupulous, clandestine group.
Richly melodious; pleasant sounding; musical.
adjective: Having an inclination to find faults, especially of a trivial nature. Affectedly trendy.
Dwelling in or under the earth; also, pertaining to the underworld
1. A group hired to applaud at a performance.
2. A group of fawning admirers.
An imaginary land of ease and luxury.
1. A denunciation.
2. A threat of punishment.
Suitable to the fault or crime; deserved; adequate.
1. Familiar talk; easy, unrestrained, unceremonious conversation.
2. (Psychology) A plausible but imagined memory that fills in gaps in what is remembered.
noun: A collection of miscellaneous things.
To regard or treat with disdain or contempt; to scorn; to despise.
Obstinate or contemptuous resistance, esp. to judicial authority.
1. Rudeness or contempt in behavior or speech: INSOLENCE.
2. An insulting act or remark.
Very satisfactory; fine.
noun: An uncontrollable or obsessive use of obscene language.
1. To cheat; to defraud; to deceive, usually by petty tricks.
2. To obtain by deceit.
3. To act deceitfully.
To throw out of a window.
Someone who is skilled in table talk.
An often periodic, insatiable craving for alcohol.
Plumpness of person; stoutness.
An inferior imitator, especially of some distinguished writer, artist, musician, or philosopher.
1. The division of philosophy that investigates the nature and origin of knowledge.
2. A theory of the nature of knowledge
Of, relating to, or occuring in summer.
To spend or pass the summer.
adjective: Hungry; greedy.
1. Something (especially something abnormal) growing out from something else.
2. A disfiguring or unwanted mark, part, or addition.
Extremely scanty; meager.
1. Given to faction; addicted to form parties and raise dissensions, in opposition to government or the common good; turbulent; seditious; prone to clamor against public
1. Doing nothing or given to doing nothing; idle; lazy.
2. A do-nothing; an idle fellow; a sluggard.
A medley: conglomeration.
Feral
Extremely or unduly particular in standards or taste; fastidious; finicky.
One who strolls about aimlessly; a lounger; a loafer.
1. A name given to various sweet dishes made with milk, eggs, flour, etc.
2. Empty compliment; unsubstantial talk or writing; mumbo jumbo; nonsense.
1. Tending to cause trouble; unruly.
2. Irritable; snappish; cranky.
Capable of being broken; brittle; fragile; easily broken.
Easily crumbled, pulverized, or reduced to powder.
Fruitful; productive.
1. (Law) Freely exchangeable for or replaceable by another of like nature or kind in the satisfaction of an obligation.
2. Interchangeable.
3. Something that is exchangeable or substitutable. Usually used in the plural.
A medley; a hodgepodge.
1. A girl who wanders about the streets; an urchin.
2. A playfully mischievous girl or young woman.
noun: Boastful talk. verb intr.: To boast extravagantly.
Extremely cold; icy.
Uttering, containing, or characterized by maxims; wise and pithy.
A worn-out strumpet; a vixenish woman; a hag.
1. A bully.
2. To intimidate or harass in a blustering way; to bully.
3. To play the bully; to bluster.
1. Incapable of suffering; not subject to harm or pain.
2. Unfeeling or not showing feeling.
1. Physically or morally hardened; unfeeling; stubborn.
2. To make hard; to harden.
3. To harden against; to make hardy; to habituate.
4. To make hardened; to make callous or stubborn.
5. To establish; to fix firmly.
6. To grow hard; to harden.
7. To become established or fixed.
1. To burst in forcibly or suddenly; to intrude.
2. (Ecology) To increase rapidly in number.
A tale of sorrow, disappointment, or complaint; a doleful story; also, a dolorous or angry tirade.
1. A blank space; a missing part; a gap.
2. (Biology) A small opening, depression, or cavity in an anatomical structure.
1. Having or expressing broad and tolerant views, especially in religious matters.
2. A person who is broad-minded and tolerant; one who displays freedom in thinking, especially in religious matters.
3. [Often capitalized] A member of the Church of England, in the time of Charles II, who adopted more liberal notions in respect to the authority, government, and doctrines of the church than generally prevailed.
noun:A threshold of response: point at which a stimulus is of sufficient intensity to generate a response
1. Lustful; lewd.
2. Stimulating or appealing to sexual desire or imagination.
3. Having a slippery or smooth quality.
verb intr.:To celebrate boisterously.
Lofty or grandiose in speech or expression; using a high-flown style of discourse; bombastic.
To free from slavery or servitude.
Idolatrous or excessive worship of the Virgin Mary.
Relating to or occurring in the morning; early.
1. Offensive to the smell; as, mephitic odors.
2. Poisonous; noxious.
1. Apt to imitate; given to mimicry; imitative.
2. Characterized by mimicry; -- applied to animals and plants; as, "mimetic species; mimetic organisms."
Threatening; menacing.
Hatred of males.--Corresponds to misogyny. Noun is misandrist.
Hatred of reason, argument or enlightenment.
1. A fine or penalty.
2. To punish for an offense or misdemeanor by imposing a fine or demanding a forfeiture.
3. To obtain by fraud or deception.
4. To defraud; to
1. The state of being a woman.
2. The qualities held to be typical of women.--Corresponds to virility
1. (Capitalized) A member of a warlike Thessalian people who followed Achilles on the expedition against Troy.
2. A loyal follower, especially one who executes orders without question, protest, or pity.
A weak-willed, timid, or ineffectual person.
Whether unwilling or willing.
1. The time of life before a person becomes legally of age.
2. A period of youth or immaturity.
1. Hardened in wrongdoing; stubbornly wicked. Hardened in feelings; hard-hearted.
2. Resistant to persuasion; unyielding.
3. Hard; harsh; rugged; rough.
To express strong disapproval of; to criticize severely.
1. The act of offering something, such as worship or thanks, especially to a deity.
2. (Usually capitalized) The act of offering the bread and wine of the Eucharist.
3. Something offered in a religious rite or as a charitable gift.
An important personage or pretentious official.
At an equal pace or rate.
Ardent; impassioned; marked by exaggerated or overwrought emotion.
Frivolous or bantering talk; a frivolous manner of treating any subject, whether serious or otherwise; light raillery.
1. Holding or adhering obstinately to any opinion, purpose, or design.
2. Stubbornly or perversely persistent.
1. Beating with a loud or deep sound, as, "the plangent wave."
2. Expressing sadness; plaintive.
Happening or done after a meal.
1. To dress up; to deck for show.
2. To dress or arrange oneself for show; to primp. Severe itching usu. of undamaged skin.
1. Having greatly reduced vision.
2. Lacking in insight or discernment.
The process of reasoning.
1. Uncommon; exotic; rare.
2. Exquisite; choice.
3. Excessively refined; affected.
4. Pretentious; overblown.
1. Cowardly; craven.
2. Unfaithful; disloyal.
3. A coward.
4. An unfaithful or disloyal person.
1. Arousing fear or alarm; formidable.
2. Illustrious; eminent; worthy of respect or honor.
1. To feel or express discontent.
2. To long for something.
Vain boasting; empty bluster; pretentious, bragging speech; rant.
Conducive or favorable to health or well-being.
A malicious satisfaction obtained from the misfortunes of others.
Superficial knowledge; a superficial show of learning.
1. A harem.
2. A sultan's palace.
Dry; withered.
1. Given to or characterized by the use of long words.
2. Long and ponderous; having many syllables.
3. A long word.
1. A language usage that distinguishes the members of one group or class from another. 2a. A catchword: slogan. b. A common saying.
noun: 1. The ability to sit through or tolerate something boring. 2. The ability to endure or persist in a task.
1. A nonstandard usage or grammatical construction; also, a minor blunder in speech.
2. A breach of good manners or etiquette.
3. Any inconsistency, mistake, or impropriety.
Dark or dull in color; drab, dusky.
To do more than is required or expected.
1. Going beyond what is required or expected.
2. Superfluous; unnecessary.
1. Being in or coming from the heavens or a higher place or region.
2. Relating or belonging to things above; celestial; heavenly.
3. Lofty; of surpassing excellence.
1. To take place or occur as something additional, extraneous, or unexpected (sometimes followed by 'on' or 'upon').
2. To follow immediately after; to ensue.
1. A petty falsehood; a fib.
2. Pretentious nonsense.
One wearing ragged or tattered clothing: RAGAMUFFIN. --adj. Being in a very shabby, tattered state.
Needless repetition of the same sense in different words: REDUNDANCY. Recklessly or presumptuously daring; rash.
noun: Stuffing a word into the middle of another word. Examples: a-whole-nother, abso-bloody-lutely.
1. An alarm bell, or the ringing of a bell for the purpose of alarm.
2. A warning.
1. Inherent baseness or vileness of principle, words, or actions; depravity.
2. A base act.
1. A weak or sickly person, especially one morbidly concerned with his or her health.
2. Sickly; weak; infirm.
3. Morbidly concerned with one's health.
noun:A place characterized by frivolity and ostentation.
The study of flags.
1. A noisy, tyrannizing woman: scold.
2. A large, strong, and courageous woman
1. The act or an instance of speaking abusively to or about.
2. Sustained and severely abusive language.
1. Characterized by a ready flow of speech.
2. Easily rolling or turning; rotating.
3. (Botany) Having the power or habit of turning or twining.
Deipnosophist comes from the title of a work written by the Greek Athenaeus in about 228 AD, Deipnosophistai, in which a number of wise men sit at a dinner table and discuss a wide range of topics. It is derived from deipnon, "dinner" + sophistas, "a clever or wise man."
Pari passu literally means "with equal step," from Latin pari, ablative of par, "equal" + passu, ablative of passus, "step."
Plangent derives from the present participle of Latin plangere, to beat, to strike (noisily), especially to strike the breast, head, etc. as a sign of grief.