Question | Answer |
COLLAGE | An assemblage of diverse elements |
Obsequious | Marked by or exhibiting a fawning attentiveness.
Obedient or attentive to an excessive or Servile degree. |
Ambiguous | More than one interpretation: having a double meaning. Unclear or inexact. |
Ameliorate | To make or become better; improve.
To make something bad or unsatisfactory better. |
CONCOCT | CREATE OR DEVISE. |
Aphorism | A tersely phrased Statement of a Truth or Opinion.
A brief Statement of Principle.
"The Golden Rule: He who has the Gold, makes the Rules. |
Sardonic | Scornfully or cynically mocking. Sarcastic. |
Raffish | Unmindful of Social Conventions. |
Incongruities | Discrepancy, inconsistency, mismatch. Out of place. |
Pontificate | To speak or behave in a pompous or dogmatic manner.
Bluster boast Gloat. |
Ambivalent | Uncertain or unable to decide about what course to follow. Coexitence of opposing attitudes or feelings. |
Antecedents | Preceding event, condition or cause. |
Disheveled | Untidy. Disordered. |
Elide | Omit a Sound or Syllable when speaking.
Join together, merge. Whole periods of Time are Elided into a few seconds of screen time. |
Griffin | A Mythological creature with the head and wings of an Eagle and the body of a Lion. |
Inimitable | So good or unusual as to be impossible to copy. Unique. The inimitable ambience of Hawaii. |
Ponce | In England a Pimp.
A man given to Ostentatious or Effeminate display in manners, Speech,Dress ect. |
Zeugma Zeugmatic | the use of a word grammatically related to two adjacent words, but inappropriate for one of them, as in “he loved both his wife and his wallet. Mr. Pickwick took his hat and his leave (Charles Dickens). |
Diphthong | A complex speech sound or glide that begins with one vowel and gradually changes to another vowel within the same syllable, as (oi) in boil or () in fine. |
Ice-berg
Icicle
Icing | |
ice-bound | |
Icythyology
Icythyological
Icythyologist | Branch of Zoology that deals with Fish. |
Iconoclast | A person who attacks cherished beliefs or institutions. |
Icosahedron | A solid figure with twenty plane faces. |
Ambience | The character and atmosphere of a place. |
Ethos | The disposition, character, or fundamental values peculiar to a specific person, people, culture, or movement: "They cultivated a subversive alternative _____" (Anthony Burgess). |
Ambergris | A wax-like substance that originates as secretion in the intestines of the sperm whale, found floating in tropical seas and used in perfume manufacturing. |
Farce Farcical | An absurd event. |
Farinaceous | Composed of or covered with particles resembling meal in texture or consistency |
Farraginous | Composed of a variety of substances |
Farcicality | |
Farmerettes | A women working on a Farm. |
Florid | 1. Flushed with rosy color; ruddy.
2. Very ornate; flowery: a florid prose style.
3. Archaic Healthy.
4. Obsolete Abounding in or covered with flowers. |
Visage | A persons face, with reference to the form or proportions of the features: an elegant, angular visage. A person's facial expression: his visage of cheerfulness. The surface of an object presented:the moonlight visage of the port's whitewashed buildings. |
Xyst | A long portico, esp one used in ancient Greece for athletics.
A covered garden walk or one lined with trees. |
Obfuscate | To make so confused or opaque as to be difficult to perceive or understand1. to obscure or darken
2. to perplex or bewilder |