Monday, March 29, 2010
Friday, March 26, 2010
EXTEMPORE
extempore: without preparation or premeditation; on the spur of the moment; in an extemporaneous manner (Example: He spoke extempore and wearied the audience.)
CHARY
chary:
- wary; discreetly cautious as hesitant and vigilant about risks and dangers
- discreetly cautious as slow to accept, or expend; not expending freely; sparing
- wary; discreetly cautious as hesitant and vigilant about risks and dangers
- discreetly cautious as slow to accept, or expend; not expending freely; sparing
ESCHEW
eschew: to avoid (as something wrong or distasteful especially on moral or practical grounds)
Thursday, March 25, 2010
REPAST
repast:
- something taken as food; a meal
also:
- the act of taking food
- the time of taking food
- something taken as food; a meal
also:
- the act of taking food
- the time of taking food
EMOLUMENT
emolument: the returns, wages or perquisites arising from office, employment, or labor; compensation; gain
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insipid:
- lacking flavor or zest; tasteless
- not exciting; not interesting
assiduous:
- constant and careful in attention or application; diligent (Example: John is an assiduous programmer who strove for perfection.)
- persistent; unceasing; (Example: The police did an assiduous research to find the murderer.)
wanderlust:
an impulse to wander or travel (Example: The British installation artist Mike Nelson doesn’t just embrace such wanderlust. He also makes it a good reason to stay put. [Reference: The New York Times: Mike Nelson’s Trailer Trash])
asperity: rigor; severity; harshness; roughness (Example: What Pope would say of Cibber nobody inquired, but in hope that Pope's asperity might betray his pain and lessen his dignity. [Reference: Lives of the English Poets: Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, Pope])
mascot:
An icon, sign, person, animal, or object, adopted by a group, believed to bring good luck (Example: The ongoing search for a new mascot at the University of Mississippi has gained national attention. After students voted in favor of having a say in choosing the mascot, speculation ramped up that Ole Miss could end up with Star Wars character Admiral Ackbar as the mascot. [Reference: USNews.com]
interdisciplinary:
involving multiple academic, scientific, or artistic disciplines; involving multiple branches of learning (Example: Some schools allow you to construct your own major, perhaps in an interdisciplinary field. [Reference: USNews.com])
traumatize
- to wound or injure (e.g. tissues) in a surgical operation, or by force or by thermal, chemical, etc. - to subject to psychological trauma by a childhood experience
- to impose a trauma; to subject to a trauma
overhaul:
- a major repair, renovation, or revision (Example: The sewing machine requires a overhaul to work properly again.)
- to examine thoroughly for needed repairs
- to dismantle to repair
- to repair, renovate, or revise
- to catch up with; to overtake
stymie:
- obstacle; obstruction
- in golf, the condition that exists when an opponent's ball lies in a direct line between the player's ball and the hole
- to present an obstacle in the way of; to block; to impede
- to hinder or obstruct as with a stymie
erudite:
- possessing or showing an extensive knowledge gained from reading
- learned
- scholarly
nomenclature:
A system or set of names, terms, or procedures used in a branch of science, art, or technology, e.g. the nomenclature of geomorphology.
verve:
spirit and enthusiasm in an artistic performance
deft:
dexterous; quick; skillful; adroit
scrum:
- a restart after an interruption in a rugby play
- throng
masthead:
- the top of a mast
- the printed matter in a blog, newspaper or periodical that gives the title and the ownership detail, etc.
agelast:
a mirthless person; a person who never laughs
facade: (also façade)
- the front of a building; any face of a building facing a street, courtyard, etc.; any face of a building that has special architectural treatment
- a superficial, artificial, or false appearance
stratum: ( plural: strata)
- a layer of rock or soil with internally consistent characteristics that makes it be distinguished from the other contiguous layers
- a horizontal layer or section of material in a set of contiguous layers
- a part of a series that presents a period or a stage of development or formation
baryon: the family of composite subatomic particles made of three quarks
joust:
- a fight with lances between two knights on horseback
- to fight on horseback as knights
- to engage in fight or competition as in a joust
lambda:
- the eleventh letter of the Greek alphabet (Λ, λ)
- an uncharged hyperon
necropsy: autopsy (usually used for autopsy on animals)
vassal:
- in the Middle Ages: a feudal tenant; a person under protection of the feudal lord to whom she or he has vowed fealty and homage
- a person in a subordinate position
- a person in a subservient position
fealty:
- the loyalty that people owe to their country; the loyalty that people owe to their sovereign
- the fidelity that vassals owe to their feudal lord
- the oath of fidelity or loyalty to country, sovereign, or feudal lord
- faithfulness; allegiance
frolicsome:
full of gaiety; full of high-spirited fun; playful; sportive; rollicking
disport:
- to amuse; to entertain
- amusement; diversion
laager:
- a defensive encampment protected by a circle of armored vehicles or wagons
- a defensive policy; a defensive position
- to camp in a defensive circle of armored vehicles or wagons
- to form (armoured vehicles or wagons) into a laager
- to park (armoured vehicles or wagons) in a laager
Xanthippe (also: Xantippe) :
- Xanthippe was the wife of Socrates
- a scolding woman or wife; an ill-tempered woman or wife; a shrewish woman or wife
jollification: festivity; merrymaking; revelry; conviviality
roomette:
a small private room on a railroad sleeping car or in a railroad passenger train
tootle:
- to toot gently, softly, repeatedly, or continuously on a flute or some musical instrument like that
- to drive, walk or move along in a leisurely manner; amble
hag:
- an ugly, slatternly, wizened, evil-looking old woman; witch
- a kind of fairy or goddess, often found in folklore and children's tales, who is ugly, slatternly, wizened, or evil-looking
old-timer:
- a person who has been an employee, member, soldier or resident for a long time
- an old-fashioned person
- oldster
- veteran
expound:
- to set forth in detail; to state in detail
- to explain, interpret, clarify or defend by setting forth in careful and often elaborate detail
abstain:
to refrain deliberately and often with an effort of self-denial from something regarded as improper or unhealthy (Example: He abstains from eating meat.)
remorse:
a gnawing distress for wrongdoing; compunction; self-reproach
gore:
- a small usually triangular piece of land (as where two roads diverge)
- a triangular piece (as a triangular piece of fabric in clothes)
- to cut into a triangular form
- to pierce or wound with a horn, tusk, or knife
sorgo:
a sorghum cultivated for the sweet juice in its stems (to make sugar and syrup)
delve:
- to dig (with a spade)
- to make a careful investigation for information (Example: He delved into the book to understand the complex algorithms.)
shank:
- the part of leg between knee and ankle in human or other vertebrates
- a cut of meat from the upper or the lower part of the leg of animals
- a projection on the back of buttons by which they are sewn to fabric
pellucid:
- allowing for the passage of light without diffusion; transparent (Example: The air was strangely still, the sky pellucid and speckled with stars except where the swelling clouds massed to the west. [Reference: Conan and the Emerald Lotus by John C. Hocking])
- easy to understand; clear
coeval:
of the same age or antiquity; contemporary
affranchise:
to make or set free from obligation or service
eremite:
a religious recluse; hermit
de jure:
- by right
- in accordance with the laws or the actions of the state
gregarious:
- tending or enjoying to be in crowds and socializing
- traveling or living in herds, flock, or crowd (as animals)
brut:
- very dry
- a sweetness measure for dry sparkling wines
ides:
originally referred to the day of the full moon; but then, in the ancient Roman calendar, refers to the 15th day of March, May, July, or October, or the 13th of the other months
eddy:
- a current of water or air running contrary to the main current and with a circular motion; small whirlpool or whirlwind
- an unimportant contrary movement or trend
- a contrary current as of thought or policy
mortification:
- the control of physical desires and bodily passions and appetites by self-denial, abstinence, fasting, etc.
- something causing shame, humiliation, etc. as it wounds one's pride or self-respect
- the sense of shame and humiliation due to something that wounds one's pride or self-respect
jovial: good-humored, hearty convivial, or genial
abba:
- father
- title of a bishop in some Arabic churches
kame: an irregularly shaped hill or mound composed of sand, gravel and till
scuttlebutt: rumour; gossip
wordmonger
- a writer or speaker who uses words pretentiously
- a writer or speaker who uses words carelessly disregarding for meanings
wean:
- to cause a child or a young animal to get accustomed gradually to food other than its mother's milk
- to detach gradually from a source of dependence
elide:
leave out; suppress; omit; ignore; to strike out, e.g. some word written; slur over, e.g. a vowel, syllable, etc. (Example: "Did you know that dragons elide riders' names?" [Reference: The Chronicles of Pern written by Anne McCaffrey])
elide:
leave out; suppress; omit; ignore; to strike out, e.g. some word written; slur over, e.g. a vowel, syllable, etc. (Example: "Did you know that dragons elide riders' names?" [Reference: The Chronicles of Pern written by Anne McCaffrey])
ewe - a female sheep especially when mature
drudge:
- a person who does hard, menial, tedious, or unpleasant work
- to do hard, menial, tedious, or unpleasant work
- to force to do hard, menial, tedious, or unpleasant work
sabotage:
- destruction of property or obstruction of normal operations in time of war
- destruction of an employer's equipments, tools and materials or hindering of production by discontented workers
hoodlum: a gangster; a thug; a ruffian
yowl:
- to utter a loud and long mournful cry of grief or distress; wail
- to complain with yowls
raver: a person who frequently speaks wildly and irrationally
sempre: always; used in music directions as without varying
turmoil: a state of extreme commotion; tumult
oblivion: the state of forgetting or being forgotten (Example: "Oblivion is a kind of annihilation." [Reference: The Life Of Johnson book])
pooh bah: a pompous ostentatious official especially one that holds many offices and jobs but fulfills none of them
epigrammatic: relating to or resembling an epigram; where an epigram is a short, witty poem expressing a single thought or observation, as an example the following is an epigram by John Donne entitled as A Lame Beggar:
I am unable, yonder beggar cries,
To stand, or move; if he say true, he lies.
topsy-turvy:
- with the head downward; upside down; in a reversed condition
- in confusion or disorder
beleaguerment:
- surrounding with troops; besiege
- harassment
algorithm:
- a step by step procedure to solve a problem
- a set of instructions for solving a problem on a computer in a finite number of steps
lexicon: dictionary; a dictionary especially for of an ancient language
vex: disturb; annoy (Eample: "Vex not your mind on that," the prince answered, smiling. [Reference: The White Company book])
maim: to deprive of a necessary part of the body; cripple (Example: I couldn't, didn't, couldn't believe that Ellis could maim - and effectively kill - a child's pony and three young racehorses. [Reference: Come To Grief book])
womanizer:
- a man who philanders
- to be sexually promiscuous with women
- to make effeminate
duad: pair; couple; unit of two objects
downtrodden: figuratively oppressed; subjugated (Example: He is not a spokesman for the downtrodden, much less those who seek just solutions to real dilemmas [Reference: America and the War by Tony Judt])
oodles: - a great quantity; a great amount; lots; an unspecified large number (Example: I just met her this morning and I could already think of oodles of stuff that I wanted to tell her about.)
foreknowlege: - prescience - awareness of something before its existence or occurrence
looby: someone awkward and clumsy
novemdecillion: The number equal to 1060; one with 60 zeros
foolhardy: heady, reckless
goo goo:
- loving (mostly used in the phrase: goo-goo eyes)
- an advocate of a political reform movement
umpirage: mediation by an umpire; the act of umpiring; refereeing
vorticity:
- the state of a fluid in swirling or vortical motion
- a measure of vortical motions
quackery:
- charlatanism
- medical practice and advice based on observation and experience and ignoring scientific findings
mooch:
- ask for and get free as being a parasite
- someone who cadges and tries to get something free
ultramundane: being beyond the world or the limits of the universe
almsgiving: something such as money, food, etc. given freely to relieve the poor
lorn: desolate; forsaken
idiographic: relating to or concerned with concrete or unique
facts or events
cade: left by its mother and reared by hand (e.g. a cade lamb)
zoolatry: animal worship
baksheesh: munificence (baksheesh is originally a Persian word)
kabbalah (variant of cabala):
- a medieval and modern system of Jewish theosophy, mysticism and thaumaturgy marked by belief in creation through emanation and a cipher method of interpreting Scripture
- a traditional esoteric matter
- esoteric doctrine or mysterious art
cabala:
- a medieval and modern system of Jewish theosophy, mysticism and thaumaturgy marked by belief in creation through emanation and a cipher method of interpreting Scripture
- a traditional esoteric matter
- esoteric doctrine or mysterious art
iconoclast:
- someone who destroys religious images or opposes their veneration
- someone who attacks settled beliefs or institutions
amulet: a small object worn to ward off evil, harm, or illness or to bring
good fortune
balk: to refuse abruptly
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Detailed Definition:
noun
- a ridge of land left unplowed as a dividing line or through carelessness
- a hindrance
- a ridge between furrows
- a wooden beam or rafter
- failure of a player to complete a motion, especially an illegal motion of the pitcher
in baseball while in position
intransitive verb
- to refuse abruptly [is used with 'at'] (e.g. He balked at putting up the promised
money)
- to stop and refuse to proceed
- to commit a balk in sports
transitive verb
- to check or stop by or as if by an obstacle
artiodactyl: having an even number of toes on each foot (as
camel or pig)
neuston: minute organisms that float in the surface film of water
vatic:
- of or related to a prophet or a prophecy
- prophetic
gelid: extremely cold, icy
litany:
- a liturgical prayer consisting of a series of petitions recited by a leader alternating
with fixed responses by the congregation
- a repetitive or incantatory recital
rorqual: any of a family of large baleen whales having the skin of
the throat marked with deep longitudinal furrows
endocarp: the inner, usually woody, layer of the pericarp of a
fruit, such as the stone of a cherry or peach
pedantic:
- like a pedant, overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning
- being showy of one’s knowledge, often in a boring manner
- being finicky or picky with language
euphemism: the substitution of an agreeable or inoffensive
expression for one that may offend or suggest something unpleasant
derision:
- the use of ridicule or scorn to show contempt
- an object of ridicule or scorn
doppelganger (Doppelgänger): the ghostly double of a living
person
subintelligitur:
- something that is implied even though not expressed
- something that is not stated but understood
endemic: native to a particular region
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Detailed Definition:
adjective
- constantly present in a particular region
- native to a particular country, nation, or region
noun
- an endemic organism
pneuma: - soul - spirit
interdigitate: to become interlocked like the fingers of folded
hands
nanocephalous: having abnormally small head
firmament: - the arch of the sky - the heavens
magniloquent: bombastic in style or expression
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Detailed Definition:
adjective
- speaking by a bombastic style or manner
- characterized by a bombastic style or manner
- inflated in style or expression
- pompous in style or expression
sapid: - having a strong pleasant flavor - pleasing to the mind
lumpen: one cut off from his/her normal socioeconomic class
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Detailed Definition:
adjective
- relating to displaced people who have been cut off from the socioeconomic class
with which they would ordinarily be identified (e.g. lumpen intellectuals unable to
find jobs in their fields)
- plebeian
- stupid
- unthinking
noun
- a member of the uneducated lowest class of society
socioeconomic: relating to, or involving both economic and
social factors
gadabout: one roaming about in search of amusement or social
activity
languor: mental or physical weariness or fatigue
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Detailed Definition:
noun
- mental or physical weariness or fatigue
- physical or mental laziness or weariness
- weakness or weariness of body or mind
- listless indolence
- indolence of one satiated by a luxury life
obtrude: to impose oneself or one's idea on others without
request
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Detailed Definition:
transitive verb
- to impose oneself or one's idea without request
- to force oneself or one's idea without warrant or invitation
- to thrust out
intransitive verb
- to become unduly prominent
- to interfere unduly
- to intrude
exemplar: one that serves as a model or example
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Detailed Definition:
noun
- one that serves as a model or example
- a copy of a book or writing
- a model to be copied
- a model to be imitated
- a pattern to be copied
- a pattern to be imitated
- a typical or standard specimen
- an ideal model or type
penchant: - a strong liking - a strong inclination
incongruous: - not harmonious - inconsistent
precarious: dependent on circumstances beyond one's control
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Detailed Definition:
adjective
- depending on the will or pleasure of another
- dependent on uncertain premises
- dubious
- having insufficient foundation (a precarious belief)
esoteric: intended only for a particular group
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Detailed Definition:
adjective
- limited to a small circle
- private
- confidential (an esoteric target)
- of rare interest (esoteric construction materials)
vexatious: distressing
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Detailed Definition:
adjective
- full of stress
- full of disorder
- full of annoyance
- causing vexation
- annoying
- intended to vex
- intended to annoy
pecuniary: monetary
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Detailed Definition:
adjective
- relating to money
- consisting of or measured in money
- requiring payment of money (e.g. a pecuniary offense)
propitious: presenting favorable conditions
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Detailed Definition:
adjective
- favorable
- being a good omen
- auspicious
- benevolent
chicanery: deception by trickery or sophistry
jocund: merry
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Detailed Definition:
adjective
- full of high-spirited merriment
- marked by high spirits
- marked by lively mirthfulness
- of a humorous temperament
- showing high-spirited merriment
languish: to be or become feeble
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Detailed Definition:
intransitive verb
- to be or become feeble
- to be or become weak
- to be or become enervated
- to be or live in a state of depression
- to be or live in a state of decreasing vitality
- to lose strength or vigor
machination: a crafty action intended to accomplish a sinister
end
surcease: to desist from action
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Detailed Definition:
1. intransitive verb
- to desist from action
- to come to an end
- to cease
- to stop
2. transitive verb
- to put an end to
- to discontinue
3. noun
- cessation
- a temporary respite or end
- intermission
chapfallen: cast down in spirit
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Detailed Definition:
adjective
- dejected
- downhearted
- crestfallen
- depressed
heliolatry: worship of the sun
wrangle: to dispute something angrily
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Detailed Definition:
1. intransitive verb
- to dispute angrily, noisily or peevishly
- to engage in argument or controversy
- to quarrel noisily or angrily
2. transitive verb
- to win or obtain by argument
- to herd livestock, especially horses
3. noun
- the act of wrangling
- an angry, noisy dispute or argument
LUCRE
lucre: monetary gain; profit (Example: He is a director who makes movies almost entirely for lucre.)
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Saturday, March 20, 2010
LAUREATE
laureates:
- a person who is the recipient of honor or recognition for achievement in literature, art, or science (Example: The Swedish Academy decides who will receive the Nobel Prize in Literature and announces the name of the chosen laureate.)
- to crown with a laurel wreath as a mark of honor, excellence, or achievement
- a person who is the recipient of honor or recognition for achievement in literature, art, or science (Example: The Swedish Academy decides who will receive the Nobel Prize in Literature and announces the name of the chosen laureate.)
- to crown with a laurel wreath as a mark of honor, excellence, or achievement
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1. very dry
2. tending or enjoying to be in crowds and socializing
3. in accordance with the laws or the actions of the state
4. a religious recluse; hermit
5. to make or set free from obligation or service
6. of the same age or antiquity; contemporary
7. allowing for the passage of light without diffusion; transparent
8. the part of leg between knee and ankle in human or other vertebrates
9. to make a careful investigation for information
10. a sorghum cultivated for the sweet juice in its stems (to make sugar and syrup)
11. a small usually triangular piece of land (as where two roads diverge)
12. a gnawing distress for wrongdoing; compunction; self-reproach
13. to refrain deliberately and often with an effort of self-denial from something regarded as improper or unhealthy
14. to set forth in detail; to state in detail
15. a person who has been an employee, member, soldier or resident for a long time
16. an ugly, slatternly, wizened, evil-looking old woman; witch
17. to drive, walk or move along in a leisurely manner; amble
18. a small private room on a railroad sleeping car or in a railroad passenger train
19. festivity; merrymaking; revelry; conviviality
20. a scolding woman or wife; an ill-tempered woman or wife; a shrewish woman or wife
21. a defensive encampment protected by a circle of armored vehicles or wagons
22. to amuse; to entertain
23. full of gaiety; full of high-spirited fun; playful; sportive; rollicking
24. the loyalty that people owe to their country; the loyalty that people owe to their sovereign
25. in the Middle Ages: a feudal tenant; a person under protection of the feudal lord to whom she or he has vowed fealty and homage
26. autopsy (usually used for autopsy on animals)
27. the eleventh letter of the Greek alphabet
28. a fight with lances between two knights on horseback
29. the family of composite subatomic particles made of three quarks
30. a layer of rock or soil with internally consistent characteristics that makes it be distinguished from the other contiguous layers
31. the front of a building; any face of a building facing a street, courtyard, etc.; any face of a building that has special architectural treatment
32. a mirthless person; a person who never laughs
33. the printed matter in a blog, newspaper or periodical that gives the title and the ownership detail, etc.
34. a restart after an interruption in a rugby play
35. dexterous; quick; skillful; adroit
36. spirit and enthusiasm in an artistic performance
37. A system or set of names, terms, or procedures used in a branch of science, art, or technology
38. possessing or showing an extensive knowledge gained from reading
39. obstacle; obstruction
40. a major repair, renovation, or revision
1. very dry
2. tending or enjoying to be in crowds and socializing
3. in accordance with the laws or the actions of the state
4. a religious recluse; hermit
5. to make or set free from obligation or service
6. of the same age or antiquity; contemporary
7. allowing for the passage of light without diffusion; transparent
8. the part of leg between knee and ankle in human or other vertebrates
9. to make a careful investigation for information
10. a sorghum cultivated for the sweet juice in its stems (to make sugar and syrup)
11. a small usually triangular piece of land (as where two roads diverge)
12. a gnawing distress for wrongdoing; compunction; self-reproach
13. to refrain deliberately and often with an effort of self-denial from something regarded as improper or unhealthy
14. to set forth in detail; to state in detail
15. a person who has been an employee, member, soldier or resident for a long time
16. an ugly, slatternly, wizened, evil-looking old woman; witch
17. to drive, walk or move along in a leisurely manner; amble
18. a small private room on a railroad sleeping car or in a railroad passenger train
19. festivity; merrymaking; revelry; conviviality
20. a scolding woman or wife; an ill-tempered woman or wife; a shrewish woman or wife
21. a defensive encampment protected by a circle of armored vehicles or wagons
22. to amuse; to entertain
23. full of gaiety; full of high-spirited fun; playful; sportive; rollicking
24. the loyalty that people owe to their country; the loyalty that people owe to their sovereign
25. in the Middle Ages: a feudal tenant; a person under protection of the feudal lord to whom she or he has vowed fealty and homage
26. autopsy (usually used for autopsy on animals)
27. the eleventh letter of the Greek alphabet
28. a fight with lances between two knights on horseback
29. the family of composite subatomic particles made of three quarks
30. a layer of rock or soil with internally consistent characteristics that makes it be distinguished from the other contiguous layers
31. the front of a building; any face of a building facing a street, courtyard, etc.; any face of a building that has special architectural treatment
32. a mirthless person; a person who never laughs
33. the printed matter in a blog, newspaper or periodical that gives the title and the ownership detail, etc.
34. a restart after an interruption in a rugby play
35. dexterous; quick; skillful; adroit
36. spirit and enthusiasm in an artistic performance
37. A system or set of names, terms, or procedures used in a branch of science, art, or technology
38. possessing or showing an extensive knowledge gained from reading
39. obstacle; obstruction
40. a major repair, renovation, or revision
Friday, March 19, 2010
ASSIDUOUS
assiduous:
- constant and careful in attention or application; diligent (Example: John is an assiduous programmer who strove for perfection.)
- persistent; unceasing; (Example: The police did an assiduous research to find the murderer.)
- constant and careful in attention or application; diligent (Example: John is an assiduous programmer who strove for perfection.)
- persistent; unceasing; (Example: The police did an assiduous research to find the murderer.)
WANDERLUST
wanderlust:
an impulse to wander or travel (Example: The British installation artist Mike Nelson doesn’t just embrace such wanderlust. He also makes it a good reason to stay put. [Reference: The New York Times: Mike Nelson’s Trailer Trash])
an impulse to wander or travel (Example: The British installation artist Mike Nelson doesn’t just embrace such wanderlust. He also makes it a good reason to stay put. [Reference: The New York Times: Mike Nelson’s Trailer Trash])
Thursday, March 18, 2010
ASPERITY
asperity: rigor; severity; harshness; roughness (Example: What Pope would say of Cibber nobody inquired, but in hope that Pope's asperity might betray his pain and lessen his dignity. [Reference: Lives of the English Poets: Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, Pope])
Monday, March 15, 2010
MASCOT
mascot:
An icon, sign, person, animal, or object, adopted by a group, believed to bring good luck (Example: The ongoing search for a new mascot at the University of Mississippi has gained national attention. After students voted in favor of having a say in choosing the mascot, speculation ramped up that Ole Miss could end up with Star Wars character Admiral Ackbar as the mascot. [Reference: USNews.com]
An icon, sign, person, animal, or object, adopted by a group, believed to bring good luck (Example: The ongoing search for a new mascot at the University of Mississippi has gained national attention. After students voted in favor of having a say in choosing the mascot, speculation ramped up that Ole Miss could end up with Star Wars character Admiral Ackbar as the mascot. [Reference: USNews.com]
INTERDISCIPLINARY
interdisciplinary:
involving multiple academic, scientific, or artistic disciplines; involving multiple branches of learning (Example: Some schools allow you to construct your own major, perhaps in an interdisciplinary field. [Reference: USNews.com])
involving multiple academic, scientific, or artistic disciplines; involving multiple branches of learning (Example: Some schools allow you to construct your own major, perhaps in an interdisciplinary field. [Reference: USNews.com])
TRAUMATIZE
traumatize
- to wound or injure (e.g. tissues) in a surgical operation, or by force or by thermal, chemical, etc. - to subject to psychological trauma by a childhood experience
- to impose a trauma; to subject to a trauma
- to wound or injure (e.g. tissues) in a surgical operation, or by force or by thermal, chemical, etc. - to subject to psychological trauma by a childhood experience
- to impose a trauma; to subject to a trauma
OVERHAUL
overhaul:
- a major repair, renovation, or revision (Example: The sewing machine requires a overhaul to work properly again.)
- to examine thoroughly for needed repairs
- to dismantle to repair
- to repair, renovate, or revise
- to catch up with; to overtake
- a major repair, renovation, or revision (Example: The sewing machine requires a overhaul to work properly again.)
- to examine thoroughly for needed repairs
- to dismantle to repair
- to repair, renovate, or revise
- to catch up with; to overtake
Thursday, March 11, 2010
STYMIE
stymie:
- obstacle; obstruction
- in golf, the condition that exists when an opponent's ball lies in a direct line between the player's ball and the hole
- to present an obstacle in the way of; to block; to impede
- to hinder or obstruct as with a stymie
- obstacle; obstruction
- in golf, the condition that exists when an opponent's ball lies in a direct line between the player's ball and the hole
- to present an obstacle in the way of; to block; to impede
- to hinder or obstruct as with a stymie
ERUDITE
erudite:
- possessing or showing an extensive knowledge gained from reading
- learned
- scholarly
- possessing or showing an extensive knowledge gained from reading
- learned
- scholarly
NOMENCLATURE
nomenclature:
A system or set of names, terms, or procedures used in a branch of science, art, or technology, e.g. the nomenclature of geomorphology.
A system or set of names, terms, or procedures used in a branch of science, art, or technology, e.g. the nomenclature of geomorphology.
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
MASTHEAD
masthead:
- the top of a mast
- the printed matter in a blog, newspaper or periodical that gives the title and the ownership detail, etc.
- the top of a mast
- the printed matter in a blog, newspaper or periodical that gives the title and the ownership detail, etc.
Monday, March 8, 2010
FACADE
facade: (also façade)
- the front of a building; any face of a building facing a street, courtyard, etc.; any face of a building that has special architectural treatment
- a superficial, artificial, or false appearance
- the front of a building; any face of a building facing a street, courtyard, etc.; any face of a building that has special architectural treatment
- a superficial, artificial, or false appearance
STRATUM
stratum: ( plural: strata)
- a layer of rock or soil with internally consistent characteristics that makes it be distinguished from the other contiguous layers
- a horizontal layer or section of material in a set of contiguous layers
- a part of a series that presents a period or a stage of development or formation
- a layer of rock or soil with internally consistent characteristics that makes it be distinguished from the other contiguous layers
- a horizontal layer or section of material in a set of contiguous layers
- a part of a series that presents a period or a stage of development or formation
Review Items No. 1-120
lambda:
- the eleventh letter of the Greek alphabet (Λ, λ)
- an uncharged hyperon
necropsy: autopsy (usually used for autopsy on animals)
vassal:
- in the Middle Ages: a feudal tenant; a person under protection of the feudal lord to whom she or he has vowed fealty and homage
- a person in a subordinate position
- a person in a subservient position
fealty:
- the loyalty that people owe to their country; the loyalty that people owe to their sovereign
- the fidelity that vassals owe to their feudal lord
- the oath of fidelity or loyalty to country, sovereign, or feudal lord
- faithfulness; allegiance
frolicsome:
full of gaiety; full of high-spirited fun; playful; sportive; rollicking
disport:
- to amuse; to entertain
- amusement; diversion
laager:
- a defensive encampment protected by a circle of armored vehicles or wagons
- a defensive policy; a defensive position
- to camp in a defensive circle of armored vehicles or wagons
- to form (armoured vehicles or wagons) into a laager
- to park (armoured vehicles or wagons) in a laager
Xanthippe (also: Xantippe) :
- Xanthippe was the wife of Socrates
- a scolding woman or wife; an ill-tempered woman or wife; a shrewish woman or wife
jollification: festivity; merrymaking; revelry; conviviality
roomette:
a small private room on a railroad sleeping car or in a railroad passenger train
tootle:
- to toot gently, softly, repeatedly, or continuously on a flute or some musical instrument like that
- to drive, walk or move along in a leisurely manner; amble
hag:
- an ugly, slatternly, wizened, evil-looking old woman; witch
- a kind of fairy or goddess, often found in folklore and children's tales, who is ugly, slatternly, wizened, or evil-looking
old-timer:
- a person who has been an employee, member, soldier or resident for a long time
- an old-fashioned person
- oldster
- veteran
expound:
- to set forth in detail; to state in detail
- to explain, interpret, clarify or defend by setting forth in careful and often elaborate detail
abstain:
to refrain deliberately and often with an effort of self-denial from something regarded as improper or unhealthy (Example: He abstains from eating meat.)
remorse:
a gnawing distress for wrongdoing; compunction; self-reproach
gore:
- a small usually triangular piece of land (as where two roads diverge)
- a triangular piece (as a triangular piece of fabric in clothes)
- to cut into a triangular form
- to pierce or wound with a horn, tusk, or knife
sorgo:
a sorghum cultivated for the sweet juice in its stems (to make sugar and syrup)
delve:
- to dig (with a spade)
- to make a careful investigation for information (Example: He delved into the book to understand the complex algorithms.)
shank:
- the part of leg between knee and ankle in human or other vertebrates
- a cut of meat from the upper or the lower part of the leg of animals
- a projection on the back of buttons by which they are sewn to fabric
pellucid:
- allowing for the passage of light without diffusion; transparent (Example: The air was strangely still, the sky pellucid and speckled with stars except where the swelling clouds massed to the west. [Reference: Conan and the Emerald Lotus by John C. Hocking])
- easy to understand; clear
coeval:
of the same age or antiquity; contemporary
affranchise:
to make or set free from obligation or service
eremite:
a religious recluse; hermit
de jure:
- by right
- in accordance with the laws or the actions of the state
gregarious:
- tending or enjoying to be in crowds and socializing
- traveling or living in herds, flock, or crowd (as animals)
brut:
- very dry
- a sweetness measure for dry sparkling wines
ides:
originally referred to the day of the full moon; but then, in the ancient Roman calendar, refers to the 15th day of March, May, July, or October, or the 13th of the other months
eddy:
- a current of water or air running contrary to the main current and with a circular motion; small whirlpool or whirlwind
- an unimportant contrary movement or trend
- a contrary current as of thought or policy
mortification:
- the control of physical desires and bodily passions and appetites by self-denial, abstinence, fasting, etc.
- something causing shame, humiliation, etc. as it wounds one's pride or self-respect
- the sense of shame and humiliation due to something that wounds one's pride or self-respect
jovial: good-humored, hearty convivial, or genial
abba:
- father
- title of a bishop in some Arabic churches
kame: an irregularly shaped hill or mound composed of sand, gravel and till
scuttlebutt: rumour; gossip
wordmonger
- a writer or speaker who uses words pretentiously
- a writer or speaker who uses words carelessly disregarding for meanings
wean:
- to cause a child or a young animal to get accustomed gradually to food other than its mother's milk
- to detach gradually from a source of dependence
elide:
leave out; suppress; omit; ignore; to strike out, e.g. some word written; slur over, e.g. a vowel, syllable, etc. (Example: "Did you know that dragons elide riders' names?" [Reference: The Chronicles of Pern written by Anne McCaffrey])
elide:
leave out; suppress; omit; ignore; to strike out, e.g. some word written; slur over, e.g. a vowel, syllable, etc. (Example: "Did you know that dragons elide riders' names?" [Reference: The Chronicles of Pern written by Anne McCaffrey])
ewe - a female sheep especially when mature
drudge:
- a person who does hard, menial, tedious, or unpleasant work
- to do hard, menial, tedious, or unpleasant work
- to force to do hard, menial, tedious, or unpleasant work
sabotage:
- destruction of property or obstruction of normal operations in time of war
- destruction of an employer's equipments, tools and materials or hindering of production by discontented workers
hoodlum: a gangster; a thug; a ruffian
yowl:
- to utter a loud and long mournful cry of grief or distress; wail
- to complain with yowls
raver: a person who frequently speaks wildly and irrationally
sempre: always; used in music directions as without varying
turmoil: a state of extreme commotion; tumult
oblivion: the state of forgetting or being forgotten (Example: "Oblivion is a kind of annihilation." [Reference: The Life Of Johnson book])
pooh bah: a pompous ostentatious official especially one that holds many offices and jobs but fulfills none of them
epigrammatic: relating to or resembling an epigram; where an epigram is a short, witty poem expressing a single thought or observation, as an example the following is an epigram by John Donne entitled as A Lame Beggar:
I am unable, yonder beggar cries,
To stand, or move; if he say true, he lies.
topsy-turvy:
- with the head downward; upside down; in a reversed condition
- in confusion or disorder
beleaguerment:
- surrounding with troops; besiege
- harassment
algorithm:
- a step by step procedure to solve a problem
- a set of instructions for solving a problem on a computer in a finite number of steps
lexicon: dictionary; a dictionary especially for of an ancient language
vex: disturb; annoy (Eample: "Vex not your mind on that," the prince answered, smiling. [Reference: The White Company book])
maim: to deprive of a necessary part of the body; cripple (Example: I couldn't, didn't, couldn't believe that Ellis could maim - and effectively kill - a child's pony and three young racehorses. [Reference: Come To Grief book])
womanizer:
- a man who philanders
- to be sexually promiscuous with women
- to make effeminate
duad: pair; couple; unit of two objects
downtrodden: figuratively oppressed; subjugated (Example: He is not a spokesman for the downtrodden, much less those who seek just solutions to real dilemmas [Reference: America and the War by Tony Judt])
oodles: - a great quantity; a great amount; lots; an unspecified large number (Example: I just met her this morning and I could already think of oodles of stuff that I wanted to tell her about.)
foreknowlege: - prescience - awareness of something before its existence or occurrence
looby: someone awkward and clumsy
novemdecillion: The number equal to 1060; one with 60 zeros
foolhardy: heady, reckless
goo goo:
- loving (mostly used in the phrase: goo-goo eyes)
- an advocate of a political reform movement
umpirage: mediation by an umpire; the act of umpiring; refereeing
vorticity:
- the state of a fluid in swirling or vortical motion
- a measure of vortical motions
quackery:
- charlatanism
- medical practice and advice based on observation and experience and ignoring scientific findings
mooch:
- ask for and get free as being a parasite
- someone who cadges and tries to get something free
ultramundane: being beyond the world or the limits of the universe
almsgiving: something such as money, food, etc. given freely to relieve the poor
lorn: desolate; forsaken
idiographic: relating to or concerned with concrete or unique
facts or events
cade: left by its mother and reared by hand (e.g. a cade lamb)
zoolatry: animal worship
baksheesh: munificence (baksheesh is originally a Persian word)
kabbalah (variant of cabala):
- a medieval and modern system of Jewish theosophy, mysticism and thaumaturgy marked by belief in creation through emanation and a cipher method of interpreting Scripture
- a traditional esoteric matter
- esoteric doctrine or mysterious art
cabala:
- a medieval and modern system of Jewish theosophy, mysticism and thaumaturgy marked by belief in creation through emanation and a cipher method of interpreting Scripture
- a traditional esoteric matter
- esoteric doctrine or mysterious art
iconoclast:
- someone who destroys religious images or opposes their veneration
- someone who attacks settled beliefs or institutions
amulet: a small object worn to ward off evil, harm, or illness or to bring
good fortune
balk: to refuse abruptly
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Detailed Definition:
noun
- a ridge of land left unplowed as a dividing line or through carelessness
- a hindrance
- a ridge between furrows
- a wooden beam or rafter
- failure of a player to complete a motion, especially an illegal motion of the pitcher
in baseball while in position
intransitive verb
- to refuse abruptly [is used with 'at'] (e.g. He balked at putting up the promised
money)
- to stop and refuse to proceed
- to commit a balk in sports
transitive verb
- to check or stop by or as if by an obstacle
artiodactyl: having an even number of toes on each foot (as
camel or pig)
neuston: minute organisms that float in the surface film of water
vatic:
- of or related to a prophet or a prophecy
- prophetic
gelid: extremely cold, icy
litany:
- a liturgical prayer consisting of a series of petitions recited by a leader alternating
with fixed responses by the congregation
- a repetitive or incantatory recital
rorqual: any of a family of large baleen whales having the skin of
the throat marked with deep longitudinal furrows
endocarp: the inner, usually woody, layer of the pericarp of a
fruit, such as the stone of a cherry or peach
pedantic:
- like a pedant, overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning
- being showy of one’s knowledge, often in a boring manner
- being finicky or picky with language
euphemism: the substitution of an agreeable or inoffensive
expression for one that may offend or suggest something unpleasant
derision:
- the use of ridicule or scorn to show contempt
- an object of ridicule or scorn
doppelganger (Doppelgänger): the ghostly double of a living
person
subintelligitur:
- something that is implied even though not expressed
- something that is not stated but understood
endemic: native to a particular region
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Detailed Definition:
adjective
- constantly present in a particular region
- native to a particular country, nation, or region
noun
- an endemic organism
pneuma: - soul - spirit
interdigitate: to become interlocked like the fingers of folded
hands
nanocephalous: having abnormally small head
firmament: - the arch of the sky - the heavens
magniloquent: bombastic in style or expression
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Detailed Definition:
adjective
- speaking by a bombastic style or manner
- characterized by a bombastic style or manner
- inflated in style or expression
- pompous in style or expression
sapid: - having a strong pleasant flavor - pleasing to the mind
lumpen: one cut off from his/her normal socioeconomic class
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Detailed Definition:
adjective
- relating to displaced people who have been cut off from the socioeconomic class
with which they would ordinarily be identified (e.g. lumpen intellectuals unable to
find jobs in their fields)
- plebeian
- stupid
- unthinking
noun
- a member of the uneducated lowest class of society
socioeconomic: relating to, or involving both economic and
social factors
gadabout: one roaming about in search of amusement or social
activity
languor: mental or physical weariness or fatigue
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Detailed Definition:
noun
- mental or physical weariness or fatigue
- physical or mental laziness or weariness
- weakness or weariness of body or mind
- listless indolence
- indolence of one satiated by a luxury life
obtrude: to impose oneself or one's idea on others without
request
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Detailed Definition:
transitive verb
- to impose oneself or one's idea without request
- to force oneself or one's idea without warrant or invitation
- to thrust out
intransitive verb
- to become unduly prominent
- to interfere unduly
- to intrude
exemplar: one that serves as a model or example
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Detailed Definition:
noun
- one that serves as a model or example
- a copy of a book or writing
- a model to be copied
- a model to be imitated
- a pattern to be copied
- a pattern to be imitated
- a typical or standard specimen
- an ideal model or type
penchant: - a strong liking - a strong inclination
incongruous: - not harmonious - inconsistent
precarious: dependent on circumstances beyond one's control
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Detailed Definition:
adjective
- depending on the will or pleasure of another
- dependent on uncertain premises
- dubious
- having insufficient foundation (a precarious belief)
esoteric: intended only for a particular group
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Detailed Definition:
adjective
- limited to a small circle
- private
- confidential (an esoteric target)
- of rare interest (esoteric construction materials)
vexatious: distressing
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Detailed Definition:
adjective
- full of stress
- full of disorder
- full of annoyance
- causing vexation
- annoying
- intended to vex
- intended to annoy
pecuniary: monetary
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Detailed Definition:
adjective
- relating to money
- consisting of or measured in money
- requiring payment of money (e.g. a pecuniary offense)
propitious: presenting favorable conditions
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Detailed Definition:
adjective
- favorable
- being a good omen
- auspicious
- benevolent
chicanery: deception by trickery or sophistry
jocund: merry
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Detailed Definition:
adjective
- full of high-spirited merriment
- marked by high spirits
- marked by lively mirthfulness
- of a humorous temperament
- showing high-spirited merriment
languish: to be or become feeble
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Detailed Definition:
intransitive verb
- to be or become feeble
- to be or become weak
- to be or become enervated
- to be or live in a state of depression
- to be or live in a state of decreasing vitality
- to lose strength or vigor
machination: a crafty action intended to accomplish a sinister
end
surcease: to desist from action
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Detailed Definition:
1. intransitive verb
- to desist from action
- to come to an end
- to cease
- to stop
2. transitive verb
- to put an end to
- to discontinue
3. noun
- cessation
- a temporary respite or end
- intermission
chapfallen: cast down in spirit
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Detailed Definition:
adjective
- dejected
- downhearted
- crestfallen
- depressed
heliolatry: worship of the sun
wrangle: to dispute something angrily
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Detailed Definition:
1. intransitive verb
- to dispute angrily, noisily or peevishly
- to engage in argument or controversy
- to quarrel noisily or angrily
2. transitive verb
- to win or obtain by argument
- to herd livestock, especially horses
3. noun
- the act of wrangling
- an angry, noisy dispute or argument
Saturday, March 6, 2010
JOUST
joust:
- a fight with lances between two knights on horseback
- to fight on horseback as knights
- to engage in fight or competition as in a joust
- a fight with lances between two knights on horseback
- to fight on horseback as knights
- to engage in fight or competition as in a joust
Friday, March 5, 2010
Answer for Word Scramble Puzzle No. 1
1. lorn
2. idiographic
3. cade
4. zoolatry
5. baksheesh
6. kabbalah
7. cabala
8. iconoclast
9. amulet
10. balk
11. artiodactyl
12. neuston
13. vatic
14. gelid
15. litany
16. rorqual
17. endocarp
18. pedantic
19. euphemism
20. derision
21. doppelganger
22. subintelligitur
23. endemic
24. pneuma
25. interdigitate
26. nanocephalous
27. firmament
28. magniloquent
29. sapid
30. lumpen
31. socioeconomic
32. gadabout
33. languor
34. obtrude
35. exemplar
36. penchant
37. incongruous
38. precarious
39. esoteric
40. vexatious
41. pecuniary
42. propitious
43. chicanery
44. jocund
45. languish
46. machination
47. surcease
48. chapfallen
49. heliolatry
50. wrangle
51. almsgiving
52. ultramundane
53. mooch
54. quackery
55. vorticity
56. umpirage
57. goo goo
58. foolhardy
59. novemdecillion
60. looby
61. foreknowlege
62. oodles
63. downtrodden
64. duad
65. womanizer
66. maim
67. vex
68. lexicon
69. algorithm
70. beleaguerment
71. topsy-turvy
72. epigrammatic
73. pooh bah
74. oblivion
75. turmoil
76. sempre
77. raver
78. yowl
79. hoodlum
80. sabotage
81. drudge
82. ewe
83. oomph
84. elide
85. wean
86. wordmonger
87. scuttlebutt
88. kame
89. abba
90. jovial
91. mortification
92. eddy
93. ides
94. brut
95. gregarious
96. de jure
97. eremite
98. affranchise
99. coeval
100. pellucid
101. shank
102. delve
103. sorgo
104. gore
105. remorse
106. abstain
107. expound
108. old-timer
109. hag
110. tootle
111. roomette
112. jollification
113. Xanthippe
114. laager
115. disport
116. frolicsome
117. fealty
118. vassal
Word Scramble Puzzle No. 1
Review the items posted and try to solve the following Word Scramble Puzzle! In this way you could memorize the words easier to improve your vocabulary in leisure time!
Word Scramble Puzzle No. 1
1. Desolate; forsaken: orln
2. Relating to or concerned with concrete or unique: gciiaohpidr
3. Left by its mother and reared by hand (e.g. a cade lamb): dcae
4. Animal worship: tzayolor
5. Munificence : ekhaseshb
6. Variant of cabala: hlkaabba
7. Esoteric doctrine or mysterious art: lcabaa
8. Someone who destroys religious images or opposes their veneration: slconcitoa
9. Good fortune: eamtul
10. To refuse abruptly: akbl
11. Having an even number of toes on each foot (as camel or pig): iatlrctoday
12. Minute organisms that float in the surface film of water: nesnout
13. Of or related to a prophet or a prophecy: acitv
14. Extremely cold; icy: eldgi
15. A liturgical prayer consisting of a series of petitions recited by a leader alternating: tianyl
16. the throat marked with deep longitudinal furrows": orraulq
17. The inner, usually woody, layer of the pericarp of a fruit, such as the stone of a cherry or peach: rpcondea
18. Being showy of one’s knowledge, often in a boring manner: npcaitde
19. The substitution of an agreeable or inoffensive expression for one that may offend or suggest something unpleasant: humisempe
20. The use of ridicule or scorn to show contempt: rsenioid
21. The ghostly double of a living person: endpgrpagelo
22. Something that is implied even though not expressed: gsiultbtrinueil
23. Native to a particular region: dencmie
24. Soul; spirit: unepma
25. To become interlocked like the fingers of folded hands: itiieandtrtge
26. Having abnormally small head: aslheunaopnco
27. The arch of the sky; the heavens: nartmimfe
28. Bombastic in style or expression: ainnqtgmloeu
29. Having a strong pleasant flavor: psida
30. One cut off from his/her normal socioeconomic class: mupenl
31. Relating to, or involving both economic and social factors: necosmooioicc
32. One roaming about in search of amusement or social activity: uadtbaog
33. Mental or physical weariness or fatigue: rulonag
34. To impose oneself or one's idea on others without request: rbouedt
35. One that serves as a model or example: arpmxeel
36. A strong liking; a strong inclination: hptcnane
37. Not harmonious; inconsistent: nsuirooucng
38. Dependent on circumstances beyond one's control: ripceaousr
39. Intended only for a particular group: icetsoer
40. Distressing: stixvaoue
41. Monetary: rciapneyu
42. Presenting favorable conditions: iptiropsuo
43. Deception by trickery or sophistry: hyeacrnci
44. Merry: ojucdn
45. To be or become feeble: nagilush
46. A crafty action intended to accomplish a sinister end: inaochimtan
47. To desist from action: eruaecss
48. Cast down in spirit: laflphcena
49. Worship of the sun: ltyroalihe
50. To dispute something angrily: nraewlg
51. Something such as money, food, etc. given freely to relieve the poor: ivasmgingl
52. Being beyond the world or the limits of the universe: lautarduemnn
53. Ask for and get free as being a parasite: ochom
54. Charlatanism: rakequyc
55. The state of a fluid in swirling or vortical motion: yicrvtito
56. Mediation by an umpire; refereeing : ermipaug
57. Loving; an advocate of a political reform movement : ogo ogo
58. Heady; reckless : adoforlyh
59. One with 60 zeros: elondneivcloim
60. Someone awkward and clumsy: booly
61. Prescience; awareness of something before its existence or occurrence: elgenworkeof
62. A great quantity; a great amount; lots: elodos
63. Figuratively oppressed; subjugated : dedodwtnnro
64. Pair; couple; unit of two objects: dadu
65. A man who philanders; to be sexually promiscuous with women: nezrmowai
66. To deprive of a necessary part of the body: iamm
67. Disturb; annoy : xve
68. A dictionary especially for of an ancient language: olcnixe
69. A step by step procedure to solve a problem: loghimart
70. Surrounding with troops; harassment: rnelebmgeatue
71. Upside down; in confusion or disorder: ytstyur-pvo
72. Relating to or resembling an epigram: aaimetpgicrm
73. A pompous ostentatious official especially one that holds many offices and jobs but fulfills none of them: opoh ahb
74. The state of forgetting or being forgotten : obiniovl
75. A state of extreme commotion; tumult: lruimot
76. Always; used in music directions as without varying : erepsm
77. A person who frequently speaks wildly and irrationally : raver
78. To utter a loud and long mournful cry of grief or distress; wail: lwyo
79. A gangster; a thug; a ruffian : luohmod
80. Destruction of property or obstruction of normal operations in time of war: ebaatosg
81. A person who does hard, menial, tedious, or unpleasant work: rudedg
82. A female sheep especially when mature : eew
83. Physical or sexual attractiveness, magnetism or personal charm; glamour : ompoh
84. Leave out; suppress; omit; ignore; to strike out: leedi
85. To cause a child or a young animal to get accustomed gradually to food other than its mother's milk: newa
86. A writer or speaker who uses words pretentiously: odwrgoremn
87. Rumour; gossip : lutttctuebs
88. An irregularly shaped hill or mound composed of sand, gravel and till: meka
89. Father (also title of a bishop in some Arabic churches): baab
90. Good-humored, hearty convivial, or genial : ojivla
91. the control of physical desires and bodily passions and appetites by self-denial, abstinence, fasting, etc.: foimarinittoc
92. an unimportant contrary movement or trend: deyd
93. originally referred to the day of the full moon; but then, in the ancient Roman calendar, refers to the 15th day of March, May, July, or October, or the 13th of the other months: edsi
94. very dry: tbur
95. tending or enjoying to be in crowds and socializing: iaegorgusr
96. in accordance with the laws or the actions of the state: ed urje
97. a religious recluse; hermit: retmeie
98. to make or set free from obligation or service: fehniasfcar
99. of the same age or antiquity; contemporary: vcleao
100. allowing for the passage of light without diffusion; transparent: lpedlicu
101. the part of leg between knee and ankle in human or other vertebrates: askhn
102. to make a careful investigation for information : ldvee
103. a sorghum cultivated for the sweet juice in its stems (to make sugar and syrup) : rsoog
104. a small usually triangular piece of land (as where two roads diverge): rgoe
105. a gnawing distress for wrongdoing; compunction; self-reproach : esmreor
106. to refrain deliberately and often with an effort of self-denial from something regarded as improper or unhealthy : niaabst
107. to set forth in detail; to state in detail: xdnopue
108. a person who has been an employee, member, soldier or resident for a long time: -tolrdeim
109. an ugly, slatternly, wizened, evil-looking old woman; witch: gha
110. to drive, walk or move along in a leisurely manner; amble : ottoel
111. a small private room on a railroad sleeping car or in a railroad passenger train : mretooet
112. festivity; merrymaking; revelry; conviviality : ilfotjcnolaii
113. a scolding woman or wife; an ill-tempered woman or wife; a shrewish woman or wife : atxnphepi
114. a defensive encampment protected by a circle of armored vehicles or wagons: aeragl
115. to amuse; to entertain: odsprti
116. full of gaiety; full of high-spirited fun; playful; sportive; rollicking: orclesiofm
117. the loyalty that people owe to their country; the loyalty that people owe to their sovereign: eytlaf
118. in the Middle Ages: a feudal tenant; a person under protection of the feudal lord to whom she or he has vowed fealty and homage: salsva
Word Scramble Puzzle No. 1
1. Desolate; forsaken: orln
2. Relating to or concerned with concrete or unique: gciiaohpidr
3. Left by its mother and reared by hand (e.g. a cade lamb): dcae
4. Animal worship: tzayolor
5. Munificence : ekhaseshb
6. Variant of cabala: hlkaabba
7. Esoteric doctrine or mysterious art: lcabaa
8. Someone who destroys religious images or opposes their veneration: slconcitoa
9. Good fortune: eamtul
10. To refuse abruptly: akbl
11. Having an even number of toes on each foot (as camel or pig): iatlrctoday
12. Minute organisms that float in the surface film of water: nesnout
13. Of or related to a prophet or a prophecy: acitv
14. Extremely cold; icy: eldgi
15. A liturgical prayer consisting of a series of petitions recited by a leader alternating: tianyl
16. the throat marked with deep longitudinal furrows": orraulq
17. The inner, usually woody, layer of the pericarp of a fruit, such as the stone of a cherry or peach: rpcondea
18. Being showy of one’s knowledge, often in a boring manner: npcaitde
19. The substitution of an agreeable or inoffensive expression for one that may offend or suggest something unpleasant: humisempe
20. The use of ridicule or scorn to show contempt: rsenioid
21. The ghostly double of a living person: endpgrpagelo
22. Something that is implied even though not expressed: gsiultbtrinueil
23. Native to a particular region: dencmie
24. Soul; spirit: unepma
25. To become interlocked like the fingers of folded hands: itiieandtrtge
26. Having abnormally small head: aslheunaopnco
27. The arch of the sky; the heavens: nartmimfe
28. Bombastic in style or expression: ainnqtgmloeu
29. Having a strong pleasant flavor: psida
30. One cut off from his/her normal socioeconomic class: mupenl
31. Relating to, or involving both economic and social factors: necosmooioicc
32. One roaming about in search of amusement or social activity: uadtbaog
33. Mental or physical weariness or fatigue: rulonag
34. To impose oneself or one's idea on others without request: rbouedt
35. One that serves as a model or example: arpmxeel
36. A strong liking; a strong inclination: hptcnane
37. Not harmonious; inconsistent: nsuirooucng
38. Dependent on circumstances beyond one's control: ripceaousr
39. Intended only for a particular group: icetsoer
40. Distressing: stixvaoue
41. Monetary: rciapneyu
42. Presenting favorable conditions: iptiropsuo
43. Deception by trickery or sophistry: hyeacrnci
44. Merry: ojucdn
45. To be or become feeble: nagilush
46. A crafty action intended to accomplish a sinister end: inaochimtan
47. To desist from action: eruaecss
48. Cast down in spirit: laflphcena
49. Worship of the sun: ltyroalihe
50. To dispute something angrily: nraewlg
51. Something such as money, food, etc. given freely to relieve the poor: ivasmgingl
52. Being beyond the world or the limits of the universe: lautarduemnn
53. Ask for and get free as being a parasite: ochom
54. Charlatanism: rakequyc
55. The state of a fluid in swirling or vortical motion: yicrvtito
56. Mediation by an umpire; refereeing : ermipaug
57. Loving; an advocate of a political reform movement : ogo ogo
58. Heady; reckless : adoforlyh
59. One with 60 zeros: elondneivcloim
60. Someone awkward and clumsy: booly
61. Prescience; awareness of something before its existence or occurrence: elgenworkeof
62. A great quantity; a great amount; lots: elodos
63. Figuratively oppressed; subjugated : dedodwtnnro
64. Pair; couple; unit of two objects: dadu
65. A man who philanders; to be sexually promiscuous with women: nezrmowai
66. To deprive of a necessary part of the body: iamm
67. Disturb; annoy : xve
68. A dictionary especially for of an ancient language: olcnixe
69. A step by step procedure to solve a problem: loghimart
70. Surrounding with troops; harassment: rnelebmgeatue
71. Upside down; in confusion or disorder: ytstyur-pvo
72. Relating to or resembling an epigram: aaimetpgicrm
73. A pompous ostentatious official especially one that holds many offices and jobs but fulfills none of them: opoh ahb
74. The state of forgetting or being forgotten : obiniovl
75. A state of extreme commotion; tumult: lruimot
76. Always; used in music directions as without varying : erepsm
77. A person who frequently speaks wildly and irrationally : raver
78. To utter a loud and long mournful cry of grief or distress; wail: lwyo
79. A gangster; a thug; a ruffian : luohmod
80. Destruction of property or obstruction of normal operations in time of war: ebaatosg
81. A person who does hard, menial, tedious, or unpleasant work: rudedg
82. A female sheep especially when mature : eew
83. Physical or sexual attractiveness, magnetism or personal charm; glamour : ompoh
84. Leave out; suppress; omit; ignore; to strike out: leedi
85. To cause a child or a young animal to get accustomed gradually to food other than its mother's milk: newa
86. A writer or speaker who uses words pretentiously: odwrgoremn
87. Rumour; gossip : lutttctuebs
88. An irregularly shaped hill or mound composed of sand, gravel and till: meka
89. Father (also title of a bishop in some Arabic churches): baab
90. Good-humored, hearty convivial, or genial : ojivla
91. the control of physical desires and bodily passions and appetites by self-denial, abstinence, fasting, etc.: foimarinittoc
92. an unimportant contrary movement or trend: deyd
93. originally referred to the day of the full moon; but then, in the ancient Roman calendar, refers to the 15th day of March, May, July, or October, or the 13th of the other months: edsi
94. very dry: tbur
95. tending or enjoying to be in crowds and socializing: iaegorgusr
96. in accordance with the laws or the actions of the state: ed urje
97. a religious recluse; hermit: retmeie
98. to make or set free from obligation or service: fehniasfcar
99. of the same age or antiquity; contemporary: vcleao
100. allowing for the passage of light without diffusion; transparent: lpedlicu
101. the part of leg between knee and ankle in human or other vertebrates: askhn
102. to make a careful investigation for information : ldvee
103. a sorghum cultivated for the sweet juice in its stems (to make sugar and syrup) : rsoog
104. a small usually triangular piece of land (as where two roads diverge): rgoe
105. a gnawing distress for wrongdoing; compunction; self-reproach : esmreor
106. to refrain deliberately and often with an effort of self-denial from something regarded as improper or unhealthy : niaabst
107. to set forth in detail; to state in detail: xdnopue
108. a person who has been an employee, member, soldier or resident for a long time: -tolrdeim
109. an ugly, slatternly, wizened, evil-looking old woman; witch: gha
110. to drive, walk or move along in a leisurely manner; amble : ottoel
111. a small private room on a railroad sleeping car or in a railroad passenger train : mretooet
112. festivity; merrymaking; revelry; conviviality : ilfotjcnolaii
113. a scolding woman or wife; an ill-tempered woman or wife; a shrewish woman or wife : atxnphepi
114. a defensive encampment protected by a circle of armored vehicles or wagons: aeragl
115. to amuse; to entertain: odsprti
116. full of gaiety; full of high-spirited fun; playful; sportive; rollicking: orclesiofm
117. the loyalty that people owe to their country; the loyalty that people owe to their sovereign: eytlaf
118. in the Middle Ages: a feudal tenant; a person under protection of the feudal lord to whom she or he has vowed fealty and homage: salsva
VASSAL
vassal:
- in the Middle Ages: a feudal tenant; a person under protection of the feudal lord to whom she or he has vowed fealty and homage
- a person in a subordinate position
- a person in a subservient position
- in the Middle Ages: a feudal tenant; a person under protection of the feudal lord to whom she or he has vowed fealty and homage
- a person in a subordinate position
- a person in a subservient position
FEALTY
fealty:
- the loyalty that people owe to their country; the loyalty that people owe to their sovereign
- the fidelity that vassals owe to their feudal lord
- the oath of fidelity or loyalty to country, sovereign, or feudal lord
- faithfulness; allegiance
- the loyalty that people owe to their country; the loyalty that people owe to their sovereign
- the fidelity that vassals owe to their feudal lord
- the oath of fidelity or loyalty to country, sovereign, or feudal lord
- faithfulness; allegiance
LAAGER
laager:
- a defensive encampment protected by a circle of armored vehicles or wagons
- a defensive policy; a defensive position
- to camp in a defensive circle of armored vehicles or wagons
- to form (armoured vehicles or wagons) into a laager
- to park (armoured vehicles or wagons) in a laager
- a defensive encampment protected by a circle of armored vehicles or wagons
- a defensive policy; a defensive position
- to camp in a defensive circle of armored vehicles or wagons
- to form (armoured vehicles or wagons) into a laager
- to park (armoured vehicles or wagons) in a laager
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
XANTHIPPE / XANTIPPE
Xanthippe (also: Xantippe) :
- Xanthippe was the wife of Socrates
- a scolding woman or wife; an ill-tempered woman or wife; a shrewish woman or wife
- Xanthippe was the wife of Socrates
- a scolding woman or wife; an ill-tempered woman or wife; a shrewish woman or wife
TOOTLE
tootle:
- to toot gently, softly, repeatedly, or continuously on a flute or some musical instrument like that
- to drive, walk or move along in a leisurely manner; amble
- to toot gently, softly, repeatedly, or continuously on a flute or some musical instrument like that
- to drive, walk or move along in a leisurely manner; amble
HAG
hag:
- an ugly, slatternly, wizened, evil-looking old woman; witch
- a kind of fairy or goddess, often found in folklore and children's tales, who is ugly, slatternly, wizened, or evil-looking
- an ugly, slatternly, wizened, evil-looking old woman; witch
- a kind of fairy or goddess, often found in folklore and children's tales, who is ugly, slatternly, wizened, or evil-looking
Monday, March 1, 2010
OLD-TIMER
old-timer:
- a person who has been an employee, member, soldier or resident for a long time
- an old-fashioned person
- oldster
- veteran
- a person who has been an employee, member, soldier or resident for a long time
- an old-fashioned person
- oldster
- veteran
EXPOUND
expound:
- to set forth in detail; to state in detail
- to explain, interpret, clarify or defend by setting forth in careful and often elaborate detail
- to set forth in detail; to state in detail
- to explain, interpret, clarify or defend by setting forth in careful and often elaborate detail
ABSTAIN
abstain:
to refrain deliberately and often with an effort of self-denial from something regarded as improper or unhealthy (Example: He abstains from eating meat.)
to refrain deliberately and often with an effort of self-denial from something regarded as improper or unhealthy (Example: He abstains from eating meat.)
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