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hard vocab words
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| rebab | a bowed or plucked stringed instrument of Arab origin, used especially in North Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia. |
| pekoe | a tea made from young leaves |
| weir | fence or enclosure set in a waterway for taking fish. |
| lanceolate | shaped like a lance head |
| lance | a steel-tipped spear carried by mounted knights or light cavalry |
| satiety (pos.) | the quality or state of being fed or gratified to or beyond capacity, fullness, contentment. |
| satiety (neg.) | the revulsion or disgust caused by overindulgence or excess |
| orotund | sonorous or overbearing |
| sonorous | full or loud in sound |
| sonorous | imposing or impressive in effect or style |
| badinage | light and playful repartee or wit : banter |
| paraclete | one called to aid or support |
| maudlin | weakly and effusively sentimental, lachrymose |
| lachrymose | given to tears or weeping |
| resplendent | shining brilliantly |
| palladium | a protector or safeguard |
| palladium | a silver-white non-radioactive ductile malleable metallic element that is used especially in electrical contacts, as a catalyst, and in alloys |
| regress | an act or the privilege of going or coming back, exit AND entrance |
| riparian | relating to or situated on the banks of a river. |
| lucullan | lavish, luxurious |
| sumptuous | involving large outlay or expense, lavish |
| vivisepulture | the act or practice of burying someone alive |
| supererogation | going above and beyond,the act or process or an instance of performing more than is required by duty or obligation |
| tenuity | rareness or lackn of sustainability |
| zucchetto | an ecclesiastical hat |
| sententious | brief or aphoristic |
| adduce | to offer or present |
| muumuu | a brightly colored dress |
| pahoehoe | cooled lava |
| ainhum (ai-nyoom) | a tropical disease that results in toe rot |
| lochetic | to lie in wait of prey |
| soupcon | a little bit |
| bathetic | excessively sentimental |
| tergiversate | to be evasive |
| diapason | melody |
| tjaele | rozen ground especially : permanently frozen ground |
| bivouac | to camp out |
| gallimaufry | a variety or assortment, mixture |
| exotergic | suitable for wide distribution |
| jnana | knowledge (in hinduism) |
| adamantine | rigidly firm, unyielding |
| galjoen | a compressed deep-bodied percoid food and sport fish |
| oxymel | a mixture of honey and dilute acetic acid |
| voeu | a proposal or recommendation made by a country to an international body or conference |
| zugzwang | a move in chess |
| nocuous | likely to cause injury : harmful, damaging |
| tohubohu | chaos, confusion |
| ululate | to cry shrilly |
| pergola | an arbor |
| foudroyant | dazzling |
| virulence | the characteristic of being able to get the better of the host's defenses. |
| erubescent | blushing |
| consigliere | a counselor or adviser |
| vacillate | to vary in intention, feeling, or thoughts |
| bicameral | having or composed of two distinct legislative bodies |
| cassandra | one who prophesies misfortune or disaster |
| errata | a list of errors in a printed work |
| affianced | engaged oneself or someone else to be married |
| mandorla | A pointed oval figure typically composed of two intersecting arcs;specifically: an aureole of this shape surrounding a representation of a sacred personage |
| trillium | A trype of primarily north american plant that has an upright stem with a whorl of tree leaves and one large flower at hte top. |
| jimberjawed | having a lower mandible that projects |
| ablaut | a change in vowels between different forms of a word |
| ignominious | marked by disgrace or shame |
| bittern | any of several herons of small or medium size |
| louche | sinister, devious |
| toccata | a piece of music typically for harpsichord or pipe organ with many rapid, equal timed notes. |
| liaise | to establish communication in order to develop and maintain mutual understanding. |
| phenotype | the observable characteristics of an organism. |
| depreciate | to fall in value or self esteem |
| rapprochement | a state or the establishment of relations that are friendly |
| machination | a scheme or subtle maneuver intended to accomplish some end |
| mademoiselle | a french governess or nurse |
| tinseltown | the american film industry, hollywood |
| nepotism | favoritism shown to relatives by allowing them opportunities because of their relationship rather than their own merits.= |
| diadem | an ornate headband worn as a royal crown |
| expectorant | an agent tending to promot edischarge of mucus from the respiratory tract. |
| mambo | a complex, staccato, usually fast dance related to the rumba of cuban origin. |
| ozone | pure and refreshing air |
| sessile | permanently attached, unable to move freely. |
| declension | a presentation in some speciific order of the inflectional forms of a pronoun, noun, or adjective |
| solicit | to entreat |
| entreat | to ask earnestly : petition or supplicate urgently : beg for |
| bromide | an overused saying or idea |
| planisphere | : a polar projection of the celestial sphere and the stars on a plane with adjustable circles or other appendages for showing celestial phenomena for any given time |
| harangue | a showy or ranting speech or piece of wriitng, especially one marked by anger or complaint |
| scrivener | a typically unimportant or unknown author |
| antigua | an island of the British West Indies |
| cataphora | the use of grammatical substitue (such as a pronoun) that refers to a word or phrase that follows |
| undercroft | an underground room, especially: a vaulted chamber under a church |
| Plantagenet | A member of an English royal family to which velonged the rulers of England from 1154 to 1485 |
| Muzak | used for recorded backgroun (as at an office or restaurant) |
| skerrick | the least bit: trace-chiefly used in australia |
| farrago | a disorderd or confused collection of words or ideas |
| zortzico | a type of danced of basque origin with a dotted rhythym. |
| martial | belonging to or having to do with military life |
| manu | one of a series of progenitors of human beings and authors of human wisdom in hindu mythology. |
| beseech | to implore |
| implore | to call upon in supplication : urgently petition |
| civet | an old world catlike mammal with a long body, short legs, and an unusually long tail. |
| circuitous | winding or meandering |
| meandering | winding or turning in a course or passage : following an intricate course |
| limpid | free from cloudiness or other matter that might prevent the passage of light. |
| Yorkshire | any of various types of white swine that come from a part of england by the same name. |
| chateau | a mansion or large country house |
| malfeasance | an instant of wrongdoing bt a public offical under th eguise of authority of the office |
| guise | : form or style of dress : costume |
| praxis | the practice or carrying out of a skill, art, or science |
| cenotaph | a monument honoring someone who is buried in another place |
| champignon | a button mushroom |
| wigan | a plain-weave cotton fabric with a stiff finish used for interlining |
| koto | a long japanese zither having 13 silk strings |
| zither | a musical instrument consisting of a shallow soundboard set horizontally before the performer and overlaid with 30 to 40 strings some of which pass over a fretted fingerboard, are stopped with the left hand. |
| zaibatsu | powerful japanese industrial and financial diversified companies. |
| factitious | produced artifically or through special effort |
| cladistics | a system of biological classification that uses inferred evolutionary relationships to arrange groups in a branching hierarchy so that all members of a given group have the same ancestors. |
| taxonomy | the study of the general principles of scientific classification : systematics |
| gouge | a tool used for working or cutting the surface of wood or stone to create an effect. |
| portugais | a black angelfish |
| silique | a narrow elongated usually many-seeded capsule that is characteristic of the family Cruciferae, consists of two valves with a false dissepiment, opens by sutures at either margin, and has the seeds attached to two parietal placentas |
| tributary | a body of running water feeding a larger body of running water or a lake |
| recamier | a usually backless couch with a high curved headrest and low footrest |
| spiracle | one of the breathing porest that are usually in 10 pairs on the thorax and abdomen of an insect. |
| continuum | cohesion, constancy |
| Franciscan | of or relating to the various religious foundations established by St. Francisco of Assisi |
| trochee | A metrical foot of a long followed by a short syllable, or a stressed followed by an unstressed syllable. |
| plutonomy | a modern social sicince that deals with how economic and political processes relate to each other. |
| placards | sign or posters |
| louche | sinister, devious |
| spectral | ghostly |
| disneyfication | the transformation (as of something unsettling) into carefully controlled and safe entertainment or an environment with similar qualities. |
| whet | to make eager or excite |
| Hathor | the ancient Egyptian goddess of the sky, women, fertility, and love |
| boniface | the proprietor of a hotel, nightclub, or restaurant |
| diverge | to branch off from a common point |
| machination | a scheme or subtle maneuver intended to accomplish some end |
| perspicacious | of keen, shrewd mental vision or discernment |
| pious | devout |
| greaves | armor for the legs below the knee |
| assiduous | industrious and persistent |
| ecchymosis | a highly discolored bruise |
| inveterate | continuous, recurring, chronic |
| cornel | a common spring-flowering white-bracted dogwood |
| sycophant | a flatterer or person who is only seeking their own advantage or pleasure |
| pothos | any of various woody vines cultivated as ornamentals for their glossy often slotted and variegated foliage. |
| diadem | an ornate headband worn as a royal crown |
| dyspeptic | ill-tempered |
| blatherskite | a garrulous, usually ineffective person |
| cavalcade | a precession on horseback or in vehicles |
| eluate | the washings obtained by extraction (as from a solution containing a previously absrobed substance. |
| theriatrics | the science of veterinary medicine |
| furneaux | islands of Australia off northeastern Tasmania |
| argot | : the special vocabulary and idiom (as slang) of a particular social group or class |
| elucidate | to explain clearly |
| memorandum | an informal record of something that one wishes to remember or preserve for future use : a note to help or jog the memory : one of the notes in a diary |
| pruritus | itching due to irritation of sensory nerve endings |
| vassal | a person who rents or leases land from a landowner in a feudal system. |
| tractability | the quality or state of being easily taught or managed. |
| jiggery-pokery | underhand dealings, conniving, or manipulations: skulfuggery |
| merlin | a prophet and magician in Arthurian legend |
| toccata | a piece of music typically for harpsichord or pipe organ with many rapid, equal-timed notes. |
| urushiol | a toxic oily liquid that is one of the main blistering substances in poison ivy and related plants. |
| zortzico | a type of dance or music of basque origin with a dotted rhythm. |
| darnel | any of several grasses that have small, many-flowered spikes. |
| amalgam | a mixture of elements |
| satchel | a small, flat-bottomed canvas or leather bag with a shoulder strap |
| isagoge | an academic introduction to a branch of research or study |
| contrivance | artifice or manipulation |
| runcible spoon | fork with three broad curved prongs and a sharpened edge used with pickles or hors d'oeuvres |
| trepanation | : the act or process of perforating a skull with a surgical instrument |
| funambulist | one performing gymnastic feats requiring skillful body control on a rope extended through the air at a great height. |
| bunuelo | a flat, semisweet cake made mainly of eggs, flour, and milk fried in deep fat and usually served with sugar and cinnamon or cane syrup |
| nocive | harmful |
| perilous | full or involving danger |
| keplerian | according to or in agreement with the astronomer Johannes Kepler's laws of planetary motion |
| raclette | a dish of Swiss origin consisting of melted cheese traditionally served with tiny boiled potatoes and sour pickles |
| acharya | a hindu religious teacher |
| peculate | to embezzle |
| embezzle | to appropriate fraudulently to one's own use (as property entrusted to one's care) |
| sacrosanct | inviolable |
| inviolable | : secure from violation or infringement : |
| illustrious | notably or brilliantly outstanding |
| no-goodnik | a person without virtue, honor, or morals: lowlife |
| constabulary | a police force |
| caftan | a coatlike garmnet of ankle length with long sleeves |
| nonage | a period of youth, childhood, or infancy. |
| martial | belonging to or having to do with an army or to military life |
| quittance | discharge form a debt or obligation |
| peradventure | an opinion formed on guesswork |
| saltatory | of or relating to dance |
| undercroft | an underground room; especially: a vaulted chamber under a church |
| zoolatry | worship directed toward particular kinds of animals often as representative of a natural force, as incarnation of some deity, or as symbolic of some power or protector |
| kjeldahl | relating to or being a method of determining the amount of nitrogen in a substance by measuring the amount of ammonia expelled when boiled with sulfuric acid. |
| marathi | the main Indic language of a part of India |
| tardigrade | moving at a sluggish pace |
| declension | a presentation in some specific order of the inflectional forms of a pronoun, noun, or adjective |
| chorten | a Tibetan buddhist shrine or monument |
| tessitura | the general range of a melody or voice part |
| arduous | demanding, difficult |
| aphasia | inability to use words to represent ideas |
| xerogel | a solid substance made from a semisolid substance by drying with shrinkage that is not hampered or restrained |
| plenipotentiary | a person who has been granted full power to carry out any business |
| impetus | an impelling or driving force |
| factitious | produced artificially or through special effort |
| palatial | relating to or resembling the offical residence of a powerful ruler |
| aphasia | the loss or impairment of the power to use words as symbols of ideas that results from a brain lesion — |
| gastronome | a person who is extremely fond of high quality food and drink and is qualified to judge the quality |
| florentine | served or dressed with spinach |
| thrasonical | boastful |
| hydrophobia | rabies |
| mademoiselle | a french governess or nurse |
| convocation | an assembly of the members of a college or university to observe a particular ceremony (as the opening of the academic year or the announcing of prizes, awards, and honors) |
| gabarit | an outline on a drawing of an object that moves showing the space required to allow its motion |
| commodious | roomy, spacious |
| traverse | to journey across |
| lambkin | used as an endearment for a child |
| circadian | having a 24 hour cycle |
| kanban | a manufacturing strategy in which parts are produced on an as-needed basis. |
| goober | peanut-used in the South and Midlands |
| senecio | a plant of a genus of very widely distributed herbs, shrubs, and trees that have alternate or basal leaves and yellow-rayed flowers. |
| hubris | extreme arrogance |
| retinoscopy | observation of the sensory membrane that lines most of the back of the eye in vertebrates |
| soothsayer | someone who makes predictions based on symptoms or signs |
| dilly-dally | to move slowly, loaf |
| venial | meriting no particular notice: insignificant |
| corybantic | wild, frenzied |
| genteel | courteous |
| cattalo | a hybrid between the american bison and domestic cow |
| nonchalance | a display or air of jaunty unconcerrn or indifference |
| beret | a soft woolen cap with no visor, generally associated with the French. |
| McCoy | the real or genuine thing : something that is neither an imitation nor an inferior substitute |
| hsaing-waing | a traditional Burmese music ensemble. |
| deltoidal | triangle-shaped |
| tiffany | a sheer silk gauze formerly used for clothing and trimmings |
| affeer | to asses or fix the ammount of something, such as a penalty-used in law |
| tsk-tsked | expressed disapproval of (someone or something) |
| occultation | disappearance from the public eye |
| blastema | undifferentiated tissue that can grow and differentiate, sometimes to the extent of restoring a missing part |
| raclette | a dish of Swiss origin consisting of melted cheese traditionally served with tiny boiled potatoes and sour pickles |
| obstreperous | stubborn and defiant often with a show of noisy disorder |
| krypton | a colorless gas that occurs in air and in other natural gases and is used in electric lamps for extremely bright illumination. |
| arduous | demanding, difficult |
| modular | capable of being easily joined together or arranged with other parts or units |
| parasol | a lightweight umbrella used as a sunshade |
| bereavement | death of a loved one |
| rabid | having some feeling, interest, or opinion in an extreme degree. |
| osculatory | of, relating to, or characterized by kissing |
| prolix | given to wordiness in speaking or writing: long winded |
| akimbo | having the hands on the hips with the elbows sticking out |
| tomography | a method od medical radiography that produces an image that is clear and sharp for one area of the body but blurry for the surrounding areas. |
| peat | a piece of turf cut to be used as fuel |
| graywacke | a coarse sandstone or fine-grained conglomerate that is usually dark gray and is composed of subangular to rounded fragments of various dark-colored minerals or rocks firmly cemented. |
| saoshyant | one of three deliverers of later zoroastrian belief concerning the ultimate destiny of mankind appearing at thousand year intervals and each inaugurating a new order of things and a special period of human progress |
| quid pro quo | : something given or received for something else |
| besmirch | to stain or tarnish |
| kindred | related |
| panjandrum | a powerful person of distinction or a pompous official |
| apophyge | : the small hollow curvature given to the top (as in a Doric column) or bottom (as in an Ionic or Corinthian column) of the shaft of a column where it expands to meet the edge of the fillet |
| pneumatocyst | a root that can be either submersed or exposed and that often functions as a respiratory organ of plants that grown in marshes or swamps. |
| dictum | decree or pronouncement with authority |
| cohosh | a large perennial herb native to moist woodlands of hte eastern U.S. and Canada with compound leaves and stalks of small white flowers. |
| jeepney | a small passenger bus in the Philippines converted from a multipurpose motor vehicle equipped with four-wheel drive. |
| chinook | a warm dry wind blowing down the eastern side of the Rocky mountains |
| acrogeria | a rare congenital disorder that is chiefly characterized by thinning and wrinkling of the skin of the hands, feet, and often face giving the appearance of premature aging |
| fenestrated | having or notable for windows |
| gregorian | having to do with or being like the monophonic and rhythmically free liturgical chants of the Roman Catholic Church |
| kaiser | the ruler of germany from 1871 to 1918 |
| trellis | a frame made of crossing pieces of wood that is used as a screen or to hold up climbing plants. |
| acral | relating to the extremities of surface body parts |
| fulminate | to issue censures or intense verbal attacks menacingly or authoritatively |
| disembogue | to emit water from an outlet |
| chastushka | a four-line poem of the common people about politics or current events |
| rugose | having the spaces between veinlets elevated |
| sprue | a chronic hereditary intestinal disorder in which an inability to absorb gluten triggers a chronic hereditary intestinal disorder in which an inability to absorb: celiac disease |
| domiciled | having a home to live in |
| beguile | to entice or charm |
| uveal | affecting or relating to the pigmented layer situated toward the back of the iris of the eye |
| myoglobin | a red iron-containing pigment in muscles that has a large capacity for combining with oxygen. |
| Pierre | city and capital of South Dakota on the Missouri River in the central part of the state |
| antithesis | the exact opposite |
| ogival | having a curved head like a bullet or other projectile |
| sumatran | characteristic of an island of western Indonesia south of the Malay Peninsula |
| castellated | built like a fortress |
| scrapple | mush containing pieces of leftover meat and boiled cornmeal |
| vernal | relating to the spring |
| digression | moving away from the main point in writing or speaking |
| gattine | an epidemic and fatal disease of silkworms |
| eggcorn | a word or phrase that sounds like and is mistakenly used in a seemingly logical or plausible way for another word or phrase either on its own or as part of a set expression |
| trillado | market coffee made by sun-drying the beans |
| astaxanthin | a carentoid pigment found in red- or pink-colored aquatic organisms and the feathers of some birds. |
| slumgullion | a stew made of meat |
| motherumbung | : a shrub or small tree (Acacia cheelii) of Australia having the flowers in pairs or threes and in spikes and the fruit narrow and flat with a thickened margin |
| neophyte | a beginner |
| modiste | one who makes and sells fashionable dresses and hats for women. |
| floridly | in an excessively ornate manner |
| ornate | : marked by elaborate rhetoric or florid style |
| simpatico | likable |
| scruple | a moral or ethical belief or position that discourages action. |
| colcannon | potatoes boiled and mashed with cabbage or other greens. |
| adsum | used to indicate one's presence usually in answer to a roll call. |
| seton | one or more threads introduced under the skin by a knife or needle to create a suture. |
| elicitation | a draw forth:an extraction |
| gasthaus | a german inn |
| olympiad | the four-year interval between successive olympic games |
| congeniality | mutual agreeableness |
| ostensibly | to all outward appearances |
| vagabonds | people who go idly from place to place |
| aistopod | of or relating to an order or other group of extinct Carboniferous and Permian amphibians having a snakelike body and no limbs. |
| tepidity | lukewarmness |
| flimflammer | one that employs trickery or similar strategies to accomplish an end. |
| symposium | : a meeting at which several speakers deliver short addresses on related topics or on various aspects of the same topic |
| Acadians | residents in a french colony of the 17th and 18th century consisting primarily of what is now Nova Scotia |
| turophile | a cheese connoisseur |
| topgallant | relating to a part between the royal mast and the topmast. |
| homiletics | an area of theology that deals with sermons |
| aspish | like that of a venomous snake of egypt |
| quonk | noise (as from conversation) that disturbs or disrupts a television or radio program because of its proximity to the microphones or cameras |
| guidonian | of or relating to the theories of a medieval music theorist;especially: relating to his system of solfege and theory of movable hexachords |
| whirleybird | a helicopter |
| revulsive | causing extreme aversion or dislike |
| danta | any of a genus of herbivorous, perissodactyl mammals of tropical America and southeastern Asia from Myanmar to Sumatra that have a heavy, sparsely hairy body and the snout and upper lip prolonged into a short flexible proboscis: a tapir |
| feckless | indifferent to responsibility: unreliable |
| balbriggan | a knitted typically cotton fabric used primarily for underwear, hosiery, or sweaters |
| epidural | situated upon or administered outside the tough fibrous membrane that covers the spinal cord. |
| fucoid | resembling or being like seaweeds |
| depose | to remove from a throne or other high position. |
| schism | a split or division of a group into two disagreeing groups |
| macular | spotty |
| infirm | of poor or deteriorated vitality especially due to age: infeeble |
| aegilops | a genus of grasses sometimes used to include the presumed wild ancestors of domestic wheat which are now usually placed in the genus Triticum |
| laterigrade | running sidewise or characterized by such running. |
| accordatura | the tuning scheme of a stringed musical instrument |
| placards | sign or posters |
| lambasted | gave a verbal or written thrashing to |
| janthina | a snail of a genus of sea snails that have a thin spiral purple shell, a large head, and gills that can protrude. |
| sedge | a solid-stemmed perennial grasslike herb |
| zurna | a traditional middle eastern woodwind instrument |
| triskelion | a motif of three typically curved or bent branches radiating from a middle point |
| capnometer | a monitoring device that measures and numerically displays the concentration of carbon dioxide in exhaled air. |
| volatile | tending to burst forth or explode into violent action. |
| blarney | smooth, deliberately flattering talk. |
| flipperling | a small animal with broad flat limbs adapted for swimming (as a baby seal) |
| verbena | garden plants that are grown for their flashy spikes of pink, red, white, or blue flowers |
| provincial | displaying the manners and ways of a rural area; unsophisticated. |
| cavalletti | a series of timber jumps that are adjustable in height for schooling horses |
| princeps | a first edition of a work. |
| singultus | a hiccup |
| temerity | inordinate or foolhardy disdain for opposition or danger |
| phlebotomy | the releasing of blood to treat a disease |
| choucroute | salted and unfermented cabbage |
| placate | to soothe or mollify especially by making concessions: to appease |
| manacle | a shackle for the hand or wrist: handcuff |
| missive | a written and often formal or official letter |
| cauterize | to seal off a wound by burning or searing |
| galatea | a striped cotton cloth formerly used for uniforms and payclothes |
| expostulate | to reason with a person seriously and intently in order to dissuade or oppose them. |
| patrician | characteristic of breeding and cultivation, or of noble birth |
| trefoil | clover |
| melamine | a resin made from a white crystalline high-melting organic base and an aldehyde, characterized by resistance to heat and water and good electrical resistance, or a plastic made from such a resin. |
| ingenuous | innocent or childlike in simplicity or straightforwardness. |
| artesian | relating to the bubbling up of underground water due to the pressure of layers of rock. |
| inclement | of weather: harsh, rough, or stormy |
| bureau | a low dresser with a mirror above it that is often used in a bedroom. |
| prespinous | of, relating to, or being part of the scapula situated above the spine. |
| delta | the alluvial deposit at the mouth of a river commonly forming a nearly flat fan-shaped plain of considerable area |
| ubi sunt | of or relating to a type of verse in which the poem or its stanzas begin with words meaning "where are" in latin or another language |
| votive | performed or done to fulfill a vow or pledge |
| ballyhooed | advertised by means of exaggerated claims and cheap sensationalism. |
| legerity | nimbleness |
| veracity | truthfullness |
| calumet | a highly ornamented ceremonial pipe of various indigenous peoples of North America |
| consternation | intense annoyance or perturbation |
| albeit | although |
| quintessential | typical |
| smellfungus | someone who tends to find fault in others |
| boorish | coarse and discourteous |
| tryptophan | a crystalline amino acid that is necessary in the nutrition of animals and humans. |
| wabeno | an ojibwa shaman |
| Sfax | city and port in Tunisia |
| as nas | a persian card game similar to poker and by some thought to be its progenitor. |
| roustabout | a laborer with some or no technical training |
| halcyon | pleasingly calm or peaceful in its natural simplicity: serene |
| cadence | vocal rhythym |
| pugilist | one who boxes professionally |
| hyrax | a small thickset mammal of africa and the Middle East that has short legs and ears, feet with soft pads, and broad nails, and a tail. |
| frabjous | wonderful |
| mortadella | a beef and pork sausage seasoned with pepper and garlic that is stuffed into large casings, cooked, and smoked. |
| noctambulist | one who walks at night especially while asleep |
| parenthetic | enclosed in a pair of curved marks to indicate departure from the main idea of a discourse. |
| ramson | a broad-leaved garlic common in european gardens. |
| tenement | an apartment |
| jocularity | a tendency to act or speak in an amusing manner |
| ague | a fever in which the sufferer is hot, cold, and sweaty by turns. |
| tai chi | an ancient Chinese discipline practiced as a system of exercises for attaining bodily or mental control and well-being |
| grandrelle | a yarn with two strands of different colors |
| lugubrious | marked by or expressive of sorrow or grief. |
| cribbage | a card game for two and sometimes three or four players. |
| spathe | a sheathing bract or pair of bracts subtending or enclosing an inflorescence, exhibiting much variation in form and coloring, and occurring typically in plants whose inflorescence is a spadix |
| inflorescence | 1a(1) : the mode of development and arrangement of flowers on an axis (2) : a floral axis with its appendages : a flower cluster or sometimes a solitary flower |
| spadix | a fleshy or succulent spike that is usually subtended by or enclosed in a leaflike spathe |
| Appaloosa | a sturdy north american horse with spotted hindquarters. |
| Bernoulli Effect | an effect observed in hydrodynamics where the pressure in a stream of fluid is reduced as the speed of flow is increased. |
| glazier | a person who cuts and sets glass for a living. |
| animus | deeply felt hatred or hostility |
| requiem | a grand song of praise or joy made to honor the dead |
| impecunious | having very little or no money usually habitually: penniless |
| habitually | by habit : customarily, unthinkingly 2: consistently, persistently, repeatedly, usually |
| odometer | an instrument attached to a vehicle to measure the distance traveled. |
| hypochondria | extreme depression often centered on imaginary ailments |
| nutation | a motion of the earth's axis similar to the nodding of a top due to joint action of the sun and moon. |
| biomimicry | the imitation of natural biological designs or processes in engineering or invention. |
| realgar | an orange-red mineral that is made up of arsenic sulfide |
| erythroblast | a type of cell with a nucleus appearing in red marrow as a step in the formation of red blood cells. |
| reciprocity | give and take |
| bauxite | an impure mixture of aluminum oxides that is the main source of commercial aluminum. |
| bahuvrihi | a type of compound word in which the first part of the word describes the second part (as in redhead and barefoot) |
| tapetum | a layer of cells in the eye of primarily nocturnal animals that is covered by double refracting crystals that reflect light. |
| daresay | believe: think likely |
| herringbone | a pattern made up of adjacent rows of parallel lines where any two adjacent rows slope slightly in reverse directions. |
| arbitrary | random or capricious |
| vermicide | a substance that kills worms, primarily parasitic intestinal worms. |
| stupa | a hemispherical or cylindrical mound or tower artificially constructed of earth, brick, or stone, topped by a spire or umbrella, and containing a relic chamber |
| levity | a lack of the serious attitude necessary for a situation. |
| majuscule | written in or in the size or style of large lettres (as capitals) |
| rollicking | full of or expressing light-hearted joy |
| plangency | an expressive, especially plaintive quality. |
| plaintive | expressive of suffering or woe : sorrowful, melancholy |
| opulent | exhibiting or characterized by wealth or affluence. |
| coup de grace | an occurrence or action that brings an end to something |
| scrounge | to round up or find |
| illative | relating to or marked by the use of an inference |
| vascular | relating to, or affecting a tube for the conveyance of a body fluid (as the blood of an animal or the sap of a plant) |
| gustatory | concerning or associated with the sense of taste |
| pendragon | a chief leader among the ancient British chiefs (as in time of war) : head of all the chiefs : king |
| staid | grave, sober, sedate |
| adiabatic | describing a process that happens without any heat transmission. |
| inimical | viewing with disfavor: hostile |
| Zdarsky tent | an especially prepared light sheet of cloth that is used for shelter |
| womble | to move unsteadily or with a weaving or rolling motion. |
| quittance | discharge form a debt or an obligation |
| profligacy | reckless extravagance or wastefulness |
| vespertine | passing below the horizon along with the sun. |
| melismatic | relating to or having melodic embellishment or ornamentation-used of music |
| quadrillion | one followed by 15 zeros, or ten to the 15th power |
| pelagial | of the ocean |
| ranunculus | any plant from a genus of herbs that have simple leaves and mostly yellow flowers |
| ludicrous | deserving of scorn for being absurdly inept, false, or foolish |
| in silico | in or on a computer: done or produced by computer software or simulation |
| omnilegent | reading or having read everything |
| blandish | to flatter with soft words or affectionate actions |
| inducement | a motive or consideration that leads one to action |
| nexus | a series or group that is connected |
| languorous | producing or tending to produce laziness or apathy |
| luculent | extremely clear and convincing in thought or expression |
| ectoplasm | a spiritual emanation |
| emanation | : something impalpable (such as light, odor, or effluvium) that arises from a material source |
| bunyanesque | enormous, gargantuan |
| rustication | retreat to or living in the country |
| aureole | a quality that surrounds and glorifies something |
| harrumph | to make a throat-clearing sound suggestive of self-importance |
| tenaciously | persistently |
| xiphias | a very big and valued oceanic fish that has the bones of the upper jaw united into an elongated, inflexible, swordlike beak. |
| pompeii | a medium to dark reddish brown |
| struthious | relating to the ostriches and related birds. |
| patripassianism | the doctrine that in the sufferings of jesus christ god the father also suffered. |
| ancho | : a poblano chili pepper especially when mature and dried to a reddish black |
| parturient | being at the point of producing something ( as an idea, discovery, or literary work.) |
| castor | 2-s : a creamy orange-brown substance with strong penetrating odor and bitter taste that consists of the dried perineal glands of the beaver and their secretion or an extract of this and is used by perfumers as a fixative and by professional trappers |
| orthogonal | lying in or intersecting at right angles |
| cornily | in a manner marked by excessive theatricality or grand but commonplace sentiments. |
| parley | a conversation |
| orogeny | the process of forming mountains |
| epideictic | designed to display oratorical skill |
| basilica | a rectangular building with a wide central hall columned aisles or porticoes, and a semicircular area at one end. |
| cordillera | a chain of mountain ranges |
| hellebore | an alkaloid-rich powder or extract from the dried root of a poisonous plant related to the lily. |
| hinoki | the wood of a japanese evergreen tree that is often cultivated as an ornamental for its fragrant weather-resistant lumber. |
| crescive | growing |
| transience | the characteristic or state of lasting only a short time. |
| tryptophan | a crystalline amino acid that is often necessary in the nutrition of animals and humans FUN FACT: makes you sleepy!!! |
| camarilla | a cabal of unofficial often secret advisors to someone in power |
| icosahedron | a three-dimensional figure or solid having 20 sides or faces |
| farouche | shy or lacking social graces |
| oxyacetylene | utilizing a mixture of oxygen and a colorless explosive hydrocarbon gas that is used in welding and soldering |
| transhumance | the movement of livestock between pastures and mountains that occurs seasonally |
| coccygeal | of the tailbone |
| force majeure | an event that cannot reasonably be foreseen or controlled |
| nyctinasty | movement of a plat plant part (as of the opening and closing of some flowers) that is associated with daily changes of temperature or light. |
| mendicity | begging |
| xyloglyphy | wood sculpting that is artistic in nature |
| de rigueur | required by etiquette or custom |
| coaxation | the deep harsh sound or croaking associated usually with frogs |
| illative | relating to or marked by the use of an inference |
| reveille | a signal ( as by a bugle) sounded to call military personnel (as sailors) to begin the day |
| bugle | : a signal horn especially : one made of an animal's horn 3a: a brass instrument with a cupped mouthpiece like the trumpet but having a shorter and more conical tube and now chiefly for military and parade use |
| guayabera | a usually short-sleeved lightweight sport shirt designed to be worn untucked |
| garrulous | : characterized by long-winded or diffuse statements : wordy (as of objects,) chatty (as of people) |
| diffuse | verbose, prolix, long-winded |
| teratism | veneration of monsters |
| decastich | a 10-line or stanza of poetry |
| sturnine | relating to or being similar to a starling |
| starling | bird of the family Sturnidae especially : a dark brown or in summer plumage greenish black bird (Sturnus vulgaris) that has a metallic gloss, is spotted with yellowish white, lives sociably and builds nests around dwellings and structures, |
| beccafico | a european songbird that is eaten as a delicacy particularly in autumn |
| tournedos | a small piece of beef that is wrapped with bacon or salt pork for quick cooking |
| hoi polloi | ordinary people:multitude, masses |
| antenatus | someone who was born before a certain event or point in time |
| adiabatic | describing a process that happens without any heat transmission |
| champignon | a button mushroom |
| unguiculate | possessing claws or nails |
| avunular | like a kindly uncle |
| nescience | ignorance |
| tourelle | a turret |
| bunyanesque | enormous, gargantuan |
| trouvaille | windfall |
| winfall | : something that is blown down by the wind: |
| Zanni | an impulsive clown in masked comedy from Italy that acts as a comic servant and performs tricks and acrobatics |
| macropterous | having long or large wings |
| fulgent | bright and dazzling: radiant |
| mangonel | a military machine historically used for throwing missiles (such as stones or javelins) |
| demurrage | a fee for keeping a freight off the road longer than the base time needed for loading or unloading |
| kakapo | a New Zealand parrot with soft green and brown plumage that has well-developed wings but little power of flight, lives in burrows in the ground and is active mostly at night. |
| glacis | a natural or artificial slope used for defense against attack |
| proprioceptive | relating to stimuli that are produced or felt within an organism |
| mediobrome | a process for altering tone values, removing distracting parts and shifting emphasis in monochrome photographic prints by the use of oil pants |
| icarian | inadequate for or incapable of bringing about an ambitious project |
| pinniped | an animal in a suborder of water-dwelling, flesh-eating mammals that includes the walruses and the seal. |
| moiety | one of the portions into which something is divided: component, part |
| olecranon | the bone that sticks out behind the elbow: the funny bone |
| euphonious | pleasant to the ear |
| dysrhythmia | jet lag |
| pasilla | a long, thin, usually dried chili pepper |
| niveau | a level (as of existence or achievement) especially in a progression |
| oviparous | bearing eggs that develop and then hatch outside of the body of the mother |
| tristeza | a highly communicable viral viral disease of grafted citrus trees that kills the trees by rotting the rootlets |
| tetrachoric | relating to a system of statistical correlation between variables that do not allow for precise measurement. |
| diastole | the expansive stroke of the pumping action of the heart |
| metonic cycle | a period of 19 years after the lapse of which the phases of the moon return to a particular date in the calendar year: |
| panathenaea | e annual or quadrennial festivities of ancient Athens in honor of Athena celebrated uring the third year of each olympiad and including a great procession in which the people marched to the acropolis bearing a peplos for their tutelary goddess |
| gaspesian | of or relating to a peninsula in southeastern quebec, canda, between the mouth of the Saint Lawrence river and Chaleur bay |
| pschent | : the headdress of the later Egyptian pharaohs formed of the two crowns worn by the respective pharaohs of Upper Egypt and Lower Egypt before the union of the country under one rule |
| esclandre | an incident that arouses unpleasant talk or gives rise to scandal. |
| carrickmacross | a lace of Irish origin usually having floral or foliage designs |
| mandelbrot set | fractal that roughly resembles a series of heart-shaped disks to which smaller disks are attached |
| deimos | the smaller and outermost of the satellites of Mars |
| calusar | a Romanian hobbyhorse dance done by members of a sworn brotherhood in wild steps and fierce mock combat |
| skerrick | the least bit: trace-chiefly used in australia |
| apabhramsa | an Indic language that was used as a vehicle for poetry from approximately the 6th to the 12th centuries and that shows linguistic changes not found in Prakrit |
| senecio | a plant of a genus of very widely distributed herbs, shrubs, and trees that have alternate or basal leaves nad yellow-rayed flowers |
| rambla | a very wide street |
| Castalia | something that serves as poetic inspiration |
| nuciform | shaped like a nut |
| yabbies | small burrowing crayfish that live in most australian creeks and water holes |
| bordereaux | detailed notes of accounts |
| furuncle | an inflamed, local swelling of the skin that discharges a central core of dead tissue-called also a boil |
| weka | a type of flightless New Zealand wading bird that has short wings each with a spur used in fighting and that has a thievish temperaent |
| pudibund | characterized by extreme modesty or decorousness |
| corybantic | wild, frenzied |
| Tchefuncte | belonging or relating to a culture of Louisiana of about 500-900 CE noted for its cone-shaped burial mounds, round structures, and coiled pottery decorated with dotted lines. |
| uraeus | a stylized likeness of the sacred asp worn on the headdress of ancient rulers as a symbol of sovereignty |
| unakite | an opaque igneous rock flecked with green, back, pink, and white that is used as a gemstone |
| glengarry | a woolen cap of scottish origin usually having a crease from front to back and edges bound with a ribbon |
| trituration | the act or process of rubbing or crushing to a very fine powder |
| viaticum | an allowance for the expenses of travelling, such as money or supplies |
| legerity | nimbleness |
| seton | one or more threads introduced under the skin by a knife or needle to create a suture |
| brockage | a coin that has been imperfectly minted |
| bowsprit | a large pole projecting forward from the stem of a ship |
| olingo | a type of thin, raccoon-like carnivore of South and Central America with a long nonprehensile tail |
| demerits | marks usually meaning lost privileges given to an offender by one in authority, such as a teacher or officer |
| cribbage | a game for two and sometimes three or four players |
| colubrine | relating to or resembling a snake |
| fez | a brimless cone-shaped hat, usually made of red felt, that has a flat crown usually with a long tassel attached |
| smellfungus | someone who tends to fin fault in others |
| tricenary | having or occuring for 30 days |
| neoterism | a word or phrase that has been recently invented |
| episcopal | of, being, or befitting a bishop |
| Antigua | an island of the British West Indies |
| portico | a colonnade or covered walkway particularly in classical architecture that typically is at a building's entrance |
| Charon | in Greek mythology, a son of Erebus who ferries the souls of dead people over the Styx |
| vascular | relating to a tube for the transport of a fluid, such as blood or sap, within something living |
| pelf | money, wealth |
| conclave | the body of cardinals especially when gathered for an election |
| complementary | mutually supplying each other's lack |
| crith | the weight of a liter of hydrogen at 0 degrees Celsius and 760 millimeters pressure |
| frisket | a sheet stretched in a frame with parts cut out to lay over an inked form so that only specific parts will be printed |
| concordance | an alphabetical verbal index showing the places in the text where each principal word may be found |
| Philistine | unaware of aesthetics: insensitive |
| ensconced | settled or established firmly, snugly, or comfortably |
| capstan | a pulley used to control the movement of magnetic tape through a recorder |
| interred | buried a dead body |
| nutation | a motion of the earth's axis similar to the nodding of a top due to joint action of the sun and moon |
| effete | soft or decadent as a result of easy living conditions |
| tam-o-shanter | a woolen cap of Scottish origin that is made with a tight headband and a very wide flat circular crown usually with a pompon in the center |
| zacate | forage of grassy plants: herbage |
| catalina | a synchronized swimming stunt |
| freegan | an activist who scavenges for unused food (as in waste receptacles) as a means of reducing consumption of resources. |
| discretionary | left to individual judgement |
| parsimony | carefulness in the expenditure of money or resources: thrift |
| stricture | an abnormal narrowing of a tubular organ |
| davenport | a large upholstered sofa often convertible into a bed |
| evo-devo | : a field of biology that combines the disciplines of evolutionary biology and developmental biology to study the relationship between evolution and developmental processes and mechanisms |
| Miranda | : a field of biology that combines the disciplines of evolutionary biology and developmental biology to study the relationship between evolution and developmental processes and mechanisms |
| arietta | a short accompanied and usually elaborate melody sung by a single voice (as in opera or oratorio) |
| lumen | a unit of luminous flux equal to the light emitted in a unit solid angle by a uniform point source of one candle |
| credence | acceptance (as of a story or statement) as true: belief |
| planogram | a schematic drawing or plan for displaying merchandise in a store as to maximize sales |
| abaft | toward or at the stern of a ship |
| emissary | an agent or representative usually empowered to act more or less independently |
| retrodict | to infer a past state of affairs from present observational data |
| pomato | a plant produced by grafting detached living portions of one plant that yields large, red berries onto a different plant that produces edible, starchy tubers |
| agnail | a piece of skin from the nail fold hanging loose at the side or root of the hard protective cover at the end of a finger |
| durango | a moderate brown |
| espial | the act of watching stealthily for the purpose of secretly obtaining information |
| no-goodnik | a person without virtue, honor or morals;lowlife |
| prion | any of various infectious proteins that are abnormal forms of normal cellular proteins, and that in mammals include pathogenic forms that can cause brain disease |
| bilaterian | an animal having : the condition of having the right and left sides (as of the body) symmetrical |
| blastogenesis | reproduction by budding |
| novemdecillion | the number equal to 10 to the 114th power |
| recreant | a deserter |
| officinal | kept in stock by pharmacists: available without special preparation or compounding. |
| adjugate | the mathematical transpose of a matrix in which each element is replaced by its cofactor |
| acharya | a hindu religious teacher |
| ben trovato | characteristic or appropriate but not true |
| calumet | a highly ornamented ceremonial pipe of various indigenous peoples of north america |
| coulisse | a side scene of the stage in a theater or the space between the side scenes |
| fugue | a disordered disturbance of consciousness during which the patient performs acts that they appear to be conscious of but that the don't remember when they have recovered. |
| hathor | the ancient egyptian goddess of the sky, women, fertility, and love |
| yuga | one of the four ages of a Hindu world cycle |
| Jumada | either of two months of the Islamic year |
| caprifig | a wild fig of southern europe and Asia Minor used in most fig-raising countries for pollination of the edible fig |
| wigan | a plain-weave cotton fabric with a stiff finish used for interlining |
| mondegreen | a word or phrase that results from mishearing of something said or sung |
| firkin | a small wooden vessel or cask of indeterminate size |
| furan | a flammable liquid compound that is obtained from wood oils of certain pines but is usually made synthetically and that is used chiefly in making intermediates for the manufacture of nylon. |
| toties quoties | repeatedly —used of an indulgence in the Roman Catholic Church that may be gained or granted as often as the required works are performed |
| atresia | absence or closure of a natural passage of the body |
| fecund | notable for productivity or invention |
| curmudgeon | a grouchy person |
| mendacious | likely to deceive or tell lies |
| pagoda | an asian structure resembling a tower of several stories that is often richly decorated |
| gazette | a newspaper |
| annuity | money that is paid in installments on a regular basis |
| salience | the quality of being of noteworthy significance |
| lingua franca | something that acts like a common language in making individuals comprehensible to one another (as, for example, a system of shared social symbols. |
| tomahawk | a native north american ax used as a weapon |
| odontiasis | cutting of the teeth: teething |
| gibbous | seen with more than half but not the entire surface lit up-used of a planet or a moon |
| thespian | an actor |
| ursine | relating to a bear |
| impermeable | not permitting passage (as of a fluid) through its substance; impassible |
| dissemble | to hide facts or feelings |
| gossamer | a fragile filmy substance made of strands of cobweb frequently seen caught on grass or shrubs |
| prorogue | to postpone or delay |
| fungible | capable of being used in place of each other: interchangeable |
| scarlatina | an acute contagious disease marked by fever and rash |
| surimi | a cheap fish product made to look like a more expensive seafood |
| enervate | to weaken |
| bonsai | a potted plant (as a tree) made dwarf through special cultivation |
| annulment | a legal declaration that a marriage was not valid |
| depredation | the act of plundering or pillaging |
| patagonia | a region of South America in southern Argentina and Southern Chile that is barren, broad, level, elevated area between the Andes Mountains and the Atlantic Ocean |
| Formica | used for different laminated plastic products used primarily as part of furniture |
| ineluctable | not able to be avoided or resisted: inescapable |
| alluvial | made up of sand and gravel that is deposited by moving water |
| derelict | abandoned, dilapidated |
| revelation | disclosure |
| derisive | scornful, sarcastic |
| epithet | a word or phrase meant as an insult |
| bona fide | genuine or legitimate |
| oompah | a persistent, continuous bass accompaniment in a band or orchestra |
| polysemy | the quality or state of having multiple meanings |
| indigent | impoverished or needy |
| vetiver | a fragrant grass with particularly aromatic roots that produce an oil used in perfumes |
| eschew | to avoid |
| peculate | to embezzle |
| gaudery | flash and overly elaborate display or items that make up such as display |
| arbitraty | random or capricious |
| Belgravia | an upscale neighborhood |
| clemency | compassion in judgement and punishment |
| languish | to lose strength or vividness: fade |
| capillary | the tiniest blood vessels in the body |
| chemise | a loose straight dress |
| moratorium | a delay officially set by some authority |
| enumerated | listed one after another |
| mittimus | a warrant committing the person specified to prison |
| mawkish | falsely or immaturely sentimental |
| stridency | the state of loudly demanding notice |
| veritable | not imaginary or unreal |
| campanology | the methods and traditions of ringing sets of large bells |
| histrionics | staged or stagy conduct or exhibition of temperament usually intended to produce some particular effect or response in others |
| judicious | marked or governed by a careful, unbiased evaluation of options and alternatives |
| fatuously | done in a way that is foolish or absurd |
| prima donna | someone who finds it hard to work as a part of a team or under direction, or who is impatient of criticism |
| clearance | the amount of space between two objects that allows passage between them. |
| moribund | being in a state of suspended activity or arrested growth: dormant |
| extrapolate | to infer (as a conclusion) from previously known information |
| mordant | sharp or biting in manner or style |
| impediment | a hindrance: a block |
| turpentine | the colorless or slightly yellowish flammable acrid that is the result of distilling various oleoresins |
| recriminatory | having the character of a counter acusation |
| Darjeeling | a tea regarded as of high quality, grown especially in the mountainous districts of NOrthern INdia |
| surreptitious | secret |
| clowder | a pack of cats |
| pedantry | an ostentatious presentation or application of knowledge or learning especially by a teacher or scholar |
| ostentatious | attracting or seeking to attract attention often by gaudiness or obviousness : overly elaborate or conspicuous : |
| conspicuous | obvious to the eye or mind : easily noticed : plainly visible |
| recusancy | refusal to comply with a regulation or conform to authority |
| equivocate | to beat around the bush |
| ombudsman | a government official ppointed to receive and investigate complaints made by individuals against abuses or capricious acts of public officials |
| capricious | given to changes of interest or attitude according to whims or passing fancies : not guided by steady judgment, intent, or purpose |
| yardang | a ridge with a sharp point or crest formed by wind erosion from matter that is soft but firmly held together |
| supplicate | to request modestly and earnestly of someone or something |
| curio | an unusual knicknack |
| macrobiotics | the art of prolonging life |
| reconcilable | capable of being resolved |
| rictus | a gaping grimace |
| denticulate | serrated, covered with small teeth |
| dodecahedron | a solid shape with 12 flat sides |
| supine | reclining on the back |
| baleen | a filter of bristles inside the mouths of whales that collects small food from seawater |
| idiosyncratic | marked by a peculiar way of behaving, being, or thinking |
| harbinger | something that foreshadows or predicts what is to come |
| propinquity | nearness or closeness in place: proximity |
| demonstrative | pointing out hte thing or person that is referred to and differentiating it from others of the same class0used of a word in grammar |
| corduroy | a fabric with a cut pile surface, having upright ridges or wales, typically made of cotton |
| ancillary | additional or supplementary |
| divestiture | a required transfer of assets |
| tympanum | the typically triangular face of a pediment that is set back and is located within the frame made by the top and bottoms cornices |
| cornice | : the typically molded and projecting horizontal member that crowns an architectural composition specifically : the uppermost of the three members of a classic entablature |
| widdershins | counterclockwise |
| protectorate | a territorial unit under the political control and protection of a larger and more powerful state especially in the areas of defense and foreign relations |
| fisticuffs | boxing |
| cruciferous | belonging to the mustard family of plants |
| heptad | a group of seven peiople or things |
| megalomaniac | on exhibiting an enthusiasm for doing great or grandiose things |
| raptatorial | taking other animals as prey |
| blatant | shamelessly obvious |
| shoji | a paper screen used as a divider or sliding door |
| adversaria | a mixed collection of notes |
| echinoderm | a radially symmetrical marine creature with an exoskeleton and a water-vascular system that provides tentacles and organs of locomotion |
| paramecium | a protozoan having an elongate body covered with tiny hairlike structures |
| servitude | a condition similar to slavery |
| proviso | a clause or article (such as a statute) that introduces a condition or qualification |
| escarole | endive |
| endive | an annual or biennial herb that is closely related to chicory |
| pecuniary | consisting of or taking the form of money |
| preponderance | an excess in number |
| epoxy | a glue that works usually by combining a resin with a seperate hardener |
| apiary | beehives kept for honey production |
| quince | an acidic yellow fruit that looks similar to an apple |
| netiquette | the rules of conduct for communication over the internet |
| garniture | the material used in fireworks that creates the howy effect in the sky |
| agonistic | aggressively argumentative |
| marionette | a puppet moved by strings or by hand |
| genteel | courteous |
| germane | pertinent (relevant vers. of this def.) |
| pertinent | : connected or related to the matter under discussion : relevant or applicable |
| hydroponic | relating to the growing of plants in nutrient solutions in water often without sand, gravel, or other inert medium in which the plants might anchor the roots |
| varicose | excessively dilated, bulging, or swollen |
| wilco | used mostly in signaling and radio to mean that the person who receives a message will comply |
| bubonic | related to the swelling of lymph nodes due to serious infection |
| boomslang | a large venomous tree snake of sub-saharan africa |
| liege | having the right to feudal allegiance |
| feud | n estate in land held of a lord or superior by a tenant or vassal on condition he render certain services to the lord or superior : a feudal benefice |
| emeritus | retired from an important position |
| declamatory | characterized by rhetorical display or effect: stilted |
| gypsum | plasterboard |
| registrar | an academic offical who keeps academic records and registers students |
| adjudicate | to judge or decide on |
| myopic | lacking in foresight or keenness of insight |
| sartorial | relating to clothing generally |
| astringet | causing cells to tighten |
| ingratiate | to make agreeable to someone |
| ewer | a fancy curved pitcher |
| erstwhile | former |
| feng shui | a chinese method of geomancy designed to bring harmony with natural forces |
| welterweight | a wrestler or a boxer who belongs to a weight class between a middleweight and a lightweight |
| foible | a weakness |
| depravity | debasement, corruption |
| jettison | to drop (as extra equipment, bombs, cargo, or fuel ) from an airplane while flying |
| parochial | supported by, managed by or within the jurisdiction of a church parish |
| hermetically | in a matter that prevents entry or change |
| anemic | dull, lifeless |
| promethean | relating to or resembling the Titan pioneer of civilization, his art or his experiences; especially: daringly creative or original |
| ermine | any of several weasel that have white fur in winter |
| palpitant | trembling: quivering |
| analepsis | a flashback in literature |
| seraphic | of or relating to an angel of the highest order: sublime |
| integument | an external enveloping layer, membrane, or structure |
| tabernacle | a building used principally for religious serviceas |
| dietetic | suitable for a restricted eating plan |
| temerity | inordinate or foolhardy disdain for opposition or danger |
| probative | serving to provide, establish, or contribute toward proof |
| graphologist | someone who specializes in analyzing handwriting particularly with the goal of analyzing character |
| striation | the state of being marked with narrow lines or bands |
| cadge | to beg, particularly as a way of making a living |
| altercation | loud, irate disagreement |
| effraction | the action of forced entry |
| nonvolatile | not easily turning into a vapor at a low temperature |
| acquiesce | to accept without protest |
| Holstein | any of a breed of large usually black and white dairy cattle that produce large amounts of comparatively low fat milk |
| reprisal | an act of inflicting in return (as for an injury or other harm) |
| feudalism | a social system in which large landowners derive profit from the land and fulfill the functions of government in their domain |
| gratis | without charge: free |
| jingoism | large or arrogant nationalism especially when accompanied by a foreign policy given to wordmongering |
| evanescent | short-lived |
| fomentation | the action of inciting or instigating |
| filbert | a hazelnut |
| catalepsy | a still, trancelike state |
| approbatory | expressing praise and commendation |
| attributive | modifying a noun |
| environs | surrounding area |
| duress | compulsion by threat of retribution |
| placoderm | an extinct armored prehistoric fish |
| quiddity | the ultimate form or the essential nature of something |
| fealty | faithfulness or dedication |
| besieged | crowded around |
| spurious | outwardly comparable to something without having its true qualities |
| Brigadoon | an idyllic palce |
| charioteer | the driver of a two-wheeled horse carriage used in warfare in ancient times as well as races and processions |
| ghastly | terrible |
| stalwart | brave |
| hermitage | a secluded residence or private retreat |
| jarl (pronunc. yawr-uhl) | a medieval Scandinavian noble ranking immediately below the king |
| wolfsbane | a yellow-flowered Eurasian herb with a somewhat fibrous rootstock and broadly lobed leaves |
| bango | an East african grass used in thatching buildings |
| cockles | the center or core of one's sentient being |
| sentient | capable of sensation and of at least basic consciousness;aware |
| nomophobia | fear of being without access to a working cell phone |
| farkleberry | a shrub or small tree (Vaccinium arboreum) of the southeastern U.S. havin leathery often evergreen leaves and a black dry berry with hard stony seeds |
| coriaceous | like leather in appearance, texture, or quality : tough |
| dorking | an english breed of large domestic fowls having five toes or the hind toe double |
| adjure | to charge or command solemnly as if under oath or penalty of a curse |
| caustic | characterized by incisive( sharp, piercing) wit |
| sclaff | a golf stroke in which the club head strikes the ground behind the ball before contacting the ball |
| cairn | a heap of stones, often in a rounded or pyramidal shape, made as a monument or as a landmark |
| cribble | a mesh or perforated device or utensil through which dry loose material (such as flour or ashes) is winnowed or refined: a strainer |
| Bellatrix | astronomy : a bluish variable star of the second magnitude that forms the right shoulder of the constellation Orion as seen from the ground and is the third brightest star in that constellation |
| nerfing | bumping another car in an automobile race |
| fie | used to express disgust, dislike, or the affectation of being shocked |
| bodkin | a dagger with a usually slender triangular or square blade |
| bilbo | a finely tempered sword |
| churchianity | the usually excessive or sectarian attachment to the practices and interests of a particular church |
| sectarian | of, relating to, or having the characteristics of one or more sects especially of a religious character |
| lossy | involving or causing some failure to keep possession of data |
| lovage | a coarse herb of rocky or marshy coasts of Northwestern Europe and eastern North America with fleshy leaves sometimes used as a potherb |
| glabrous | having a smooth even surface : free of roughness specifically : having an epidermal covering that is totally or relatively devoid of hairs or down |
| carmine | a vivid crimson pigment made from cochineal. |
| cochineal | a red dyestuff consisting of the dried bodies of females of the cochineal insect that is obtained in that was formerly used as a mordant wool dye and food color and is now used as a biological stain and as an indicator |
| scuppers | drains set in the deck of a ship |
| puckish | impish, whimsical |
| imp | a mischievous child |
| row | a heated argument: a quarrel |
| cambio | a money exchange especially in a latin country |
| respite | an interval of rest or relief |
| isms | distinctive doctorines, causes, systems or theories-often used disparagingly |
| disparaging | meant to belittle the value or importance of someone or something := |
| unchristened | not named |
| gumption | blended initiative, resolution, and effort |
| parvo | a highly contagious febrile disease of dogs that is caused by a virus, is spread especially by contact with infected feces, and is marked by loss of appetite, lethargy, often vomiting, and sometimes death |
| puritan | one who on religious or ethical grounds protests against current practices, pleasures, or indulgences |
| bootless | to no advantage or avail: fruitless and frustrating |
| provenance | place of origin |
| riddance | removal or lightening of something oppressive, burdensome, painful, or distressing |
| regiment | body of soldiers commanded by a colonel and consisting of a variable number of companies, troops, or batteries |
| carnation | any of various double-flowered plants that come in many colors |
| coercive | serving or meant ot bring about, establish, or enforce by pressure |
| reign | the authority or rule of a monarch |
| jitterbug | a dance in which couples two-step, balance, and twirl in standardized patterns or with vigorous acrobatics originating in Harlem in the 1920s |
| constituent | a member of a group of citizens that can elect a representative to a legislative assembly or to a public office |
| slurry | a watery mixture or suspension of insoluble matter (such as wood pulp) |
| wheedle | to get or get away with something by using flattery |
| restive | marked by fidgety or uneasy behavior |
| chide | to scold mildly |
| scrounge | to round up or find |
| headlong | without delay or pause: in a rush |
| hamlet | a settlement that is smaller than a village |
| scumble | to soften a drawing's lines by rubbing them lightly |
| tickled | made pleased |
| domineering | overbearing, bossy |
| overbearing | : the behavior of one that overbears another or an instance of such behavior especially : dictatorial or arrogant action or conduct |
| tarmac | a road or runway made of crushed rock bound with tar |
| gimmick | a new and clever idea for solving or approaching a problem |
| winnow | to study and sort to get the most sought after |
| wistful | melancholy |
| vouch | to prove or give material support to: substantiate |
| remedial | relating to the raising of a students' general competence and the correction of study habits and improvement skills |
| aquiclude | a layer of rock that keeps water enclosed in an adjacent layer |
| epicurean | : stimulating and satisfying to the senses |
| boondoggle | : an impracticable or useless project wasteful of time and money |
| Miranda | of, relating to, or being the legal rights of an arrested person to have an attorney and to remain silent so as to avoid self-incrimination |
| inchoate | disordered |
| paramahamsa | : a sannyasi of the highest level of spiritual development in which union with ultimate reality is attained |
| agalma | : memorial specifically : a primitive Greek statue of a god |
| nimiety | excess, redundency |
| ,lumbar, | : of, relating to, or near the loins or the group of vertebrae lying between the thoracic vertebrae and the sacrum 2: of, relating to, or indicating the region of the abdomen lying on either side of the umbilical region |
| scurrilous, | using or given to using the language of low buffoonery broadly : vulgar and evil in habit or demeanor |
| sforzando, | : accented —used as a direction in music to indicate that a single tone or chord is to be sounded more loudly than the rest of a passage |
| betony | any of several woundworts formerly included in the genus Betonica |
| Humboldt | river 290 miles (467 kilometers) long in northern Nevada flowing west and southwest into Rye Patch reservoir and formerly into Humboldt Lake |
| hyssop | : a plant used in bunches for purificatory sprinkling rites by the ancient Hebrews b: a European mint (Hyssopus officinalis) that has highly aromatic and pungent leaves and is often cultivated in gardens as a remedy for bruises |
| tokonoma, | a niche or recess opening from the living room of a Japanese house in which a kakemono may be hung |
| naumachia, | : an ancient Roman spectacle representing a naval battle |
| gentilitial | : relating or peculiar to a people or family |
| otiose, | : the misuse of words: such as a: the use of the wrong word for the context |
| attache | : one attached to another person or to a group specifically : a technical expert on a country's diplomatic staff at a foreign capital |
| sirenian | of or relating to : an order of large aquatic herbivorous mammals including the manatee, dugong, Steller's sea cow, and several fossil forms that have the tail horizontally flattened and expanded into a broad rounded or bilobed fin |
| sturnine | of or resembling a starling (bird) |
| , panegyric, | a eulogistic oration or writing : a formal or elaborate eulogy or encomium : a laudatory discourse also : formal or elaborate praise or eulogizing : laudation |
| pertinacity | : marked by an unyieldingly persistent fixedness (as of opinion, purpose, action) that is often annoyingly perverse in fact or in appearance : stubbornly inflexible |
| ushabti, | : a small figure deposited in an ancient Egyptian tomb with the mummy generally bearing inscriptions from the Book of the Dead and representing servants expected to do certain agricultural labors required of the deceased in the land of the dead |
| vitiate | : to make incomplete, faulty, or defective : injure the substance or quality of : impair, contaminate, spoil, corrupt |
| , bailiwick, | : office or jurisdiction especially of a bailiff : range of authority |
| bailiff | : one deputed to exercise public administrative authority locally specifically, chiefly British : a sheriff's deputy —used formerly as a title of nearly any officer (such as a mayor, sheriff, or chief officer ) in England nominated by the king |
| semaphore | an apparatus for visual signaling (as by the position of one or more movable arms) |
| Surprise!!! root!!! Origin: greek definition: sign | sema- |
| , rondeau, | : a fixed form of verse running on two rhymes and consisting usually of 15 lines of eight or ten syllables divided into three stanzas with the beginning of the first line of the first stanza serving as the refrain of the second and third stanzas |
| ficus | : a large genus of tropical trees or shrubs (family Moraceae) distinguished usually by their leaves and by their fruit which consists of a pear-shaped or globose receptacle enclosing numerous minute diclinous flowers |
| feldenkrais | used for a system of aided body movements intended to increase body awareness and ease tension |
| , hummock, | 1: a rounded or conical knoll or hillock : a slight rise of ground above a level surface |
| conestoga, | a broad-wheeled covered wagon having a body curving upward toward the ends and suggesting the shape of a boat, usually drawn by six horses, and used especially for transporting freight |
| lemniscus, | : a band of fibers specifically : a band of nerve fibers of the second neurons in the sensory path terminating in the thalamus |
| spodumene | a monoclinic mineral of the pyroxene group that is a lithium aluminum silicate of white to yellowish, purplish, or emerald-green color and that occurs in prismatic crystals |
| principality | the state, office, or authority of a prince : princely dominion OR the territory or jurisdiction of a prince : the country that gives title to a prince |
| abnegation | : restraint or denial of desire or self-interest OR renunciation or denial |
| remuneration, | to pay an equivalent to (a person) for a service, loss, or expense : |
| ineffable | : incapable of being expressed in words : unutterable, indescribable |
| , ruelle, | 1archaic : the space between a bed and the wall : a morning reception held in their bedrooms by fashionable French ladies of the 17th and 18th centuries 3: a narrow street or alley |
| robigalia | an ancient Roman festival celebrated April 25 including a procession and the sacrifice of a dog to the god Robigus to avert blight from the fields |
| geatish, | Scandinavian people of southern Sweden subjugated by the Swedes in the 6th century and believed to be ancestors of the Gotlanders |
| teutonic | germanic |
| hei tiki | a greenstone charm in the shape of a human figure worn as a neck pendant by the Maoris |
| massig, | : moderato —used as a direction in music |
| pareidolia | the tendency to perceive a specific, often meaningful, image in a random or ambiguous visual pattern |
| fete champetre | : a gathering for amusements in a rural setting of members of an 18th century French court costumed as shepherds and shepherdesses |
| ahura mazda | : the Supreme Being represented as a deity of goodness and light in Zoroastrianism |
| , menaia | collections f hymns and collects for all days of the year in the Eastern Orthodox Church arranged in calendar order and usually divided into 12 volumes each for a different month |
| , theravada | he smaller more conservative branch of Buddhism dominant in Sri Lanka, Myanmar (Burma), Thailand, and Cambodia and characterized by adherence to the Pali scriptures and to the nontheistic nonspeculative ideal of self-purification to nirvana |
| millegrain | of a gem setting : having the edge shaped into a fine beading |
| mufti, | : a professional jurist who interprets Islamic religious law |
| pulchritude, | : physical comeliness : beauty |
| taurine, | : of or relating to a bull : bovine |
| altazimuth, | an instrument consisting of a telescope mounted so that it can swing horizontally and vertically and used for observing the altitude and azimuth of a celestial body |
| patois | a dialect other than the standard or literary dialect |
| azulejo, | : a glazed ceramic tile originally of Portugal and Spain that is usually decorated in rich colors and especially blue |
| anaglyphy | 1: art of carving, chasing, or embossing in relief |
| revanche | : revenge especially : the policy of a government intent on the recovery of lost territory |
| hauberk | : a long tunic of ring or chain mail that with a close-fitting helmet and a shield constituted the main defensive armor of the 12th to 14th centuries |
| Tannined, | impregnated or treated with any of a group of soluble astringent complex phenolic substances including gallotannin that are widely distributed in plant |
| vermeil, | : a bright red pigment consisting of mercuric sulfide formerly y obtained from the mineral cinnabar but now always prepared synthetically |
| hermeneutics | the study of the methodological principles of interpretation and explanation specifically : the study of the general principles of biblical interpretation |
| boulevardier | : a sophisticated man of fashion |
| lassitude | a condition of weariness or debility : fatigue OR a condition of listlessness or indifference : languor |
| cozen, | to deceive by artful wheedling or tricky dishonesty : cheat, defraud |
| gallivat | an East Indian ship propelled by sails and oars and often armed and used by pirates |
| balata, | : a hard substance produced by drying the milky juice of a bully tree (Manilkara bidentata) and that possess properties similar to those of gutta percha and is used chiefly in the manufacture of belting and golf balls |
| guerite | a turret or shelter for a sentry on an old fort |
| tullibee | any of several whitefishes of central and northern North America especially : lake herring |
| , bathos | excessive sentimentality : sentimentalism, maudlinism |
| , devastavit, | mismanagement or waste of the goods of a deceased person by the deceased's executor who may thereby be liable |
| agnomen | : an additional name or epithet specifically : an additional cognomen given to a person by the ancient Romans |
| tumulus | an artificial hillock or mound (as over a grave) especially : one over the grave of a person buried in ancient times : barrow |
| rococo | : outmoded, quaint, old-fashioned |
| persiflage | frivolous bantering talk : a frivolous and somewhat derisive manner of treating a subject : light raillery |
| vermicelli | alimentary paste made in long thin solid strings smaller in diameter than spaghetti |
| frangipane | a dessert of almond cream flavored with frangipani or jasmine perfume |
| interpellate, | to question formally about a governmental policy or decision |
| perorate | : to deliver an oration especially in a grandiloquent style : speak at length |
| thalamus, | e largest subdivision of the diencephalon consisting chiefly of an ovoid mass of nuclei in each lateral wall of the third ventricle and being divisible into an anterior and medial group of nuclei and is a center for the crude perception of pain |
| dianthus | a very large and horticulturally important Old World genus of herbs (family Caryophyllaceae) including the pinks and carnations OR a grayish to moderate red that is yellower and darker than Cambridge red |
| verism | 2: a realistic or objective style of musical composition or of painting appropriate to the treatment of everyday material |
| borough | one of the five constituent political divisions of New York City |
| chupacabra | a grotesque creature that drinks the blood of livestock and is reported to exist in North and South America |
| jankers | British : confinement, fatigue duty, or drill imposed as punishment on a member of the armed forces |
| rebuff (noun) | an abrupt or unceremonious rejection of an offer or advance : snub |
| rebuff( adjective) | to refuse or repulse without ceremony : give a sharp check to : snub |
| mephitic | offensive to the sense of smell : noxious, pestilential |
| illicitly | not permitted : not allowed : unlawful |
| froward | : habitually disposed to disobedience and opposition : perverse |
| wentletrap | any of numerous graceful usually white spirally coiled and tapering gastropod mollusk shells that have longitudinal ridges surrounding the whorls |
| dandle | : to move (as a baby) up and down in one's arms or on one's knee : toss up and down in or as if in affectionate play |
| procurement | the act of geting possession of : obtaining, acquiring |
| Trieste | city and port in northeastern Italy |
| triste (adject.) | : sad, dismal, dull, depressing |
| composite | : made up of distinct parts : compounded |
| inglorious | not glorious : not bringing honor or glory : not accompanied with fame or honor |
| anserine | of, relating to, or resembling a goose |
| restitutory | : of, relating to, or aiming at act of restoring or a condition of being restored |
| sostenuto | sustained to or beyond the note's full value —used as a direction in music |
| anoint | 1: to rub over with oil or an oily substance |
| Surprise!! Root!! Origin: . Gk Definition: to turn *mult forms! | trop-/tropo- |
| Origin: greek definition: left | laeo- |
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