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RLiterary Vocabulary
LIterary Verbiage that I've read
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| artificer | a skilled craftsmen or inventor |
| bacchanal | related to drunken, licentious revelry |
| chicanery | trickery, normally applied to get to some means |
| reprobate | a licentious, uncscrubled, w/o probity person. dissolute! A sybarite, a sensualist. |
| torpid | mental and physical lethargy, languor, indolence, lassitude. |
| moribund | bound and cursed for death, fey. |
| accrue | receive annually increasing funds over time. |
| metier | one's given profession or pecuniary emolument procuring occupation. |
| callipygean | a well shaped buttox |
| gambol | to run around playfully |
| wanton | an unprovoked act of hostility, or, sexually immodest and promiscuous |
| celerity | great swiftness of movement |
| austere | strict, calvinist |
| caprice | a whim |
| fatuous | silly, inane, pointless, empty |
| Kashruth | the jewish symbolism behind kitchen tasks |
| askance | with an attitude of skepticism, disapproval or suspicion |
| menagerie | an exhibition of animals kept for show |
| priapic | of, relating to, or resembling a phallus |
| pluck | spirited and determined courage, guts |
| apocryphal | of doubtful authenticity, despite wide, established circulation |
| spurious | not being what it purports to be, fraudulent |
| ersatz | cheap copy |
| crenellated | given various indentations for the emission of projectiles |
| mottled | an irregular arrangement of spots and color |
| ocelli | eyespot |
| gumption | shrewd spirited initiative |
| pachyderm | a very large, thick-skinned mammal |
| brackish | unpleasant or distasteful, misture of sea and river water |
| morose | sullen and ill-tempered |
| capacious | roomy |
| elan | energy, style and enthusiasm |
| pliant | pliable, protean, amenable |
| pantheism | all is god, god is all |
| obtrusive | prominent, in an unwelcome way |
| prepossessingly | attractive |
| rue | to bitterly regret, bay |
| clarion | a narrow-tubed war trumpet |
| jactitation | the throes of sickness, restless tossing of the body |
| plangent | strident, reverberating, melancholy |
| vitiate | to spoil, impair the quality/efficiency of |
| habitus | bodily composition |
| nether | lower |
| ilium | the hip bone |
| diaphanous | filmy, translucent and iridescent |
| pavonine | of, or relating to, a peacock |
| osculate | to meet tangentially, to kiss |
| raffish | charmingly ruffled and out of sorts, a hoyden (female) |
| indolent | without energy or haste |
| areolas | freckles |
| strident | petulant, melancholy, querolous outburst |
| cloying | disgustingly sentimental, cloying |
| redolent | indulgently reminiscent |
| hors concours | without equal. The best of the best |
| crepitate | to crackle or crunch |
| semblance | appearance of reality |
| verisimilitude | the appearance of being real, spurious realness, fraudulent reification |
| simulacrum | an image or representation of someone or something. |
| remunerate | to repay |
| apoplexy | unconsciousness or incapacity resulting from a cerebral hemorrhage or stroke. |
| tawny | of orange brown or yellowish brown color |
| dulcet | (esp. of sound) sweet and soothing (often used ironically) |
| treacle | british term for molasses |
| obsequious | obedient or attentive to an excessive or servile digree |
| unctuous | flattering, ingratiatingly flattering, oily. Sycophancy. |
| bleary | unfocused or filmy from sleep or tiredness |
| nubile | sexually mature; suitable for marriage (beddable) |
| ribald | referring to sexual matters in an amusingly rude or irreverent way |
| burlesque | a parody or comically exaggerated imitation of something. |
| croon | hum or sing in a soft, low voice, esp. in a sentimental manner |
| bordello and brothel | ho' house |
| mythopoeia | the making of myth |
| autotelic | having an end or purpose in itself: intrinsically rewarding |
| pustules | small blister or pimple on the skin containing pus |
| philters | a drink supposed to excite sexual love in the drinker |
| sublimate | divert or modify (by instinctual impulse) into a culturally higher or socially more acceptable activity |
| bevy | a large group of people or things of a particulary kind |
| surfeit | an excessive amount of something |
| lascivious | feeling or revealing an overt and often offensive sexual desire |
| sordid | squalid, putrid, fetid, effluvia, miasma |
| ignoble | not honorable in character or purpose |
| ingnominious | deserving or causing public disgrace or shame |
| ok | ok |
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