WAYWORN

wayworn: wearied or tired by traveling

(Example: These beautiful and verdant recesses, running through and softening the rugged mountains, were cheering and refreshing to the wayworn travellers. [Reference: Washington Irving, Astoria])

PROPITIATE

propitiate: to appease; to conciliate someone offended

(Example: Cultivated pagans long survived but retreated to form private societies, practicing secret rites to propitiate the gods to avert drought or earthquake from their home cities. [Reference: Henry Chadwick, "Greasing the 4th-Century Palm", New York Times, November 15, 1992])

BOULEVERSEMENT

bouleversement:

- reversal; overthrow
- a violent disturbance

(Example: It requires a complete bouleversement in your whole attitude, a process of adjustment that anyone who's been in this position understands; but you need to go through it. [Reference: "Two years' hard Labour", Independent, July 13, 1996])

FORCIBLE

forcible:

- characterized by using force against opposition or resistance
- characterized by force, energy, or efficiency; powerful

(Example: Robbery, the forcible taking of property from the person of the victim, is the crime most likely to be committed by a stranger; 75 percent of victims are robbed by strangers. [Reference: Adam Walinsky, "The Crisis of Public Order", The Atlantic, July 1995])

CAVALCADE

cavalcade:

- a procession of riders or horse-drawn carriages
- a procession of ships
- a procession of vehicles
- any type of procession
- a sequence; a series

(Example 1: There was a cavalcade of bad economic news in 2009. Example 2: Behind him he sensed the progress of the cavalcade as one by one the carriages wheeled off the Dublin road. [Reference: Stella Tillyard, Citizen Lord: The Life of Edward Fitzgerald, Irish Revolutionary])

TECHNOPHOBIA

The fear or dislike of advanced technology especially computers:

Technophobia

CONDIGN

condign: deserved (to fault or crime)

(Example: He is a violent criminal and, like other criminals, he should be brought to condign punishment. [Reference: Kwasi Kwarteng, "The boy from Brazil should be behind bars", Daily Telegraph, November 14, 1997])

ADMONITION

admonition:
- friendly reproof
- warning or counsel against fault or oversight; friendly warning

(Example: After debating whether Keayne should be excommunicated, the congregation concluded that an admonition would suffice. [Reference: Patricia O'Toole, Money & Morals in America])

SLUGABED

slugabed: a person who stays in bed until a late hour; a sluggard; a lazy person

(Example: Nemecek's business is not for slugabeds. He opens for business every weekday at 4 a.m. [Reference: Drew Fetherston, "He Can Really Make Pigs Fly", Newsday, December 12, 1994])

VALEDICTION

valediction:
- the act of saying farewell
- something said for farewell

(Example: Few careers have such self-appointed endings, and his speech was a fine valediction. [Reference: Howard's dignified end, Daily Telegraph, 10/7/2005])

VICTUAL

victual:

name:
food (plural: victuals: supplies of food; provisions)

transitive verb:

- to supply with food

intransitive verb:

- to eat
- to put (lay) in provisions

LAMPOON

lampoon:

noun:

- a composition that imitates or misrepresents someone's style, usually in a humorous way
- a light, good-humored satire

verb:

- ridicule with satire

(Example: Attendees typically lampoon US presidents with grotesque puppets and caricatures. [Reference: LA Times])

JAPE

jape:

noun:

- a joke or jest
- a trick or prank

intransitive verb:

- to joke; to jest

transitive verb:

- to make fun of; to mock

RISIBLE

risible:
- capable of laughing
- laughable; amusing

(Example: He is not a risible character, even though people often call him as crazy man.)

PENURY

penury:
- extreme poverty; destitution.
- absence of resources; insufficiency

(Example: He was a cooper by trade, a native of Rio de Janeiro, where he would have died in penury and obscurity had he limited himself to the work of barrel-making. [Reference: Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas])

ARCANE

arcane: understood or known by only a few
(Example: While addressing a problem in the arcane field of mathematical logic, he imagined a machine that could mimic human reasoning. [Reference: Paul Gray, "Alan Turing", Time Pacific, March 29, 1999])

FECUND

fecund:
- capable of producing offspring or vegetation; fruitful; prolific
- intellectually productive or inventive

(Example: In her first novel she portrays a lush, fecund landscape palpable in its sultriness and excess. [Reference: Barbara Crossette, "Seeking Nirvana", New York Times, April 29, 2001])

ADJUVANT

adjuvant:

adjective:

- serving to help or assist; auxiliary
- assisting in the prevention, amelioration, or cure of disease

noun:

- a person or thing that aids or helps
- anything that aids in removing or preventing a disease, esp. a substance added to a prescription to aid the effect of the main ingredient
- in immunology, a substance admixed with an immunogen in order to elicit a more marked immune response

IRENIC

irenic: tending to promote peace; conciliatory
(Example: With an irenic spirit they join the debate, at times ugly and vicious, about the historicity of the Bible. [Reference: Phyllis Trible, "God's Ghostwriters", New York Times, February 4, 2001])

INTREPID

intrepid: fearless; bold; brave; undaunted; courageous
(Example: But the stubborn descendants of the twenty-one intrepid people who plowed through the mountains in search of the sea to the west avoided the reefs of the melodic mix up and dancing went on until dawn. [Reference: Gabriel Garcia Marquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude])

PANOPLY

panoply:
- a splendid or impressive array
- ceremonial attire
- a full suit of armor; a complete defense or covering
(Example: The gratifying thing about McCourt is that he can drop his professional character act and segue into a smart, emotionally direct conversation faster than you can say "Top o' the morning." [Reference: "Malachy Mccourt: How a Rogue Becomes a Saint", New York Times, July 29, 1998])

APOGEE

apogee:
- the point in the orbit of the moon or of an artificial satellite that is at the greatest distance from the center of the earth
- the farthest or highest point; culmination
(Example: But in retrospect, this period would prove to be the apogee of O'Sullivan's career, although he always felt bigger and better things were on his way. [Reference: Edward L. Widmer, Young America])

BERATE

berate: to scold severely or angrily
(Example: Mayer Amschel went on to berate Nathan for failing to calculate his profits net (as opposed to gross). [Reference: Niall Ferguson, The House of Rothschild])

RETICENT

reticent:
- inclined to keep silent; reserved; uncommunicative
- restrained or reserved in style
- reluctant; unwilling

EXALT

exalt:
- to praise, glorify, or honor
- to heighten or intensify
- to raise in rank, character, or status; as, "exalted the humble shoemaker to the rank of King's adviser."

DILATORY

dilatory:
- tending to put off what ought to be done at once; given to procrastination
- marked by procrastination or delay; intended to cause delay
(Example: I am inclined to be dilatory, and if I had not enjoyed extraordinary luck in life and love I might have been living with my mother at that very moment, doing nothing. [Reference: Carroll O'Connor, I Think I'm Outta Here])

GNOMIC

gnomic:
uttering, containing, or characterized by maxims; wise and pithy
(Example: They consisted of strange, short, sometimes witty, sometimes gnomic, often semiautobiographical essays about architecture. [Reference: Geoff Nicholson, Female Ruins])

AGOG

agog:
full of excitement or interest; in eager desire; eager, keen
(Example: He was now so interested, quite so privately agog, about it, that he had already an eye to the fun it would be to open up to her afterwards. [Reference: Henry James, The Ambassadors])

CANOROUS

canorous:
richly melodious; pleasant sounding; musical
(Example: But birds that are canorous and whose notes we most commend, are of little throats, and short necks, as Nightingales, Finches, Linnets, Canary birds and Larks. [Reference: Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica])

MIRAGE

mirage:
- an illusion sometimes seen at sea, in the desert, or over hot pavement that looks like a pool of water or a mirror in which distant objects are seen inverted
- something illusory and unattainable like a mirage

(Example: Over the sunny dunes, those distant childhood promises of a better tomorrow shimmer like a mirage in the desert heat. [Reference: Condé Nast Traveler, September 1994])

ARRIVISTE

arriviste: a person who has recently attained success, wealth, or high status but not general acceptance or respect; an upstart (Example: He excavates enough dirt that, midway through the book, the reader loses sympathy with Bernays, who comes across as an insufferable egotist and insecure, name-dropping arriviste. [Reference: Ron Chernow, "First Among Flacks", New York Times, August 16, 1998])

DIGERATI

digerati: persons knowledgeable about computers and technology (Example: This week, over 3,000 digerati will converge at a swank theater where chef Julia Child and pundit Arianna Huffington, among others, will judge 135 Web sites. [Reference: David Whitman, "The calm before the storms", U.S.News & World Report, May 15, 2000])

REPLETION

repletion:
- the condition of being completely filled or supplied
- excessive fullness, as from overeating
(Example: He lay like a filthy leech, exhausted with his repletion.
[Reference: Jeff Guinn, "The Ghoul, the Bad, the Ugly", Arizona Republic, June 7, 1999])

ALFRESCO

alfresco:
- in the open air; outdoors; taking place or located in the open air (Example: Outdoor sitting areas all have LAN connections, so that employees can work alfresco.
[Reference: Scott Kirsner, "Digital Competition - Laurie A. Tucker", Fast Company, December 1999])

INANITION

inanition:
- the condition or quality of being empty
- exhaustion, as from lack of nourishment
- lack of vitality or spirit

(Example: The problem that faces British universities is not that they have become fat and lazy, but that they have been starved beyond lean efficiency into inanition. [Reference: John Sutherland, "A contest that no one can really win", The Guardian, August 14, 2000])

VERBIAGE

verbiage:
- an overabundance of words; wordiness
- manner or style of expression; diction.

(Example: The sheer volume of verbiage he has expelled over eight years is enough to make John Updike look blocked. [Reference: Andrew Sullivan, "Sounds of Silence", New Republic, January 15, 2001])

LIMN

limn:
- to depict by drawing or painting
- to portray in words; to describe

(Example: Oh, yes, I write, as I limn the familiar perfections of his profile, "you look very well." [Reference: Kimberly Elkins, "What Is Visible", The Atlantic, March 2003])

INDELIBLE

indelible:
- that cannot be removed, erased, or washed away
- making marks that cannot easily be removed or erased
- incapable of being forgotten; memorable

(Example: In a sense, these years were like a blur of hunger, a time without roots or a sense of stability that made an indelible mark and colored his every move years later. [Reference: Marcos Bretón and José Luis Villegas, Away Games])

STOIC

stoic:

Noun:

- (Capitalized) a member of a school of philosophy founded by Zeno holding that one should be free from passion, unmoved by joy or grief, and should submit without complaint to unavoidable necessity
-one who is apparently or professedly indifferent to or unaffected by pleasure or pain, joy or grief

Adjective:

- of or pertaining to the Stoics; resembling the Stoics or their doctrines
- not affected by passion; being or appearing indifferent to pleasure or pain, joy or grief

ZEITGEIST

zeitgeist: the spirit of the time; the general intellectual and moral state or temper characteristic of any period of time (Example: The best writers of that predawn era were originals who had the zeitgeist by the tail. [Reference: Gary Giddins, Visions of Jazz: The First Century])

PUERILE

puerile:
- juvenile
- childish, silly (Example: Though Laura enjoys a good practical joke, she finds some of the gags pulled by her co-workers on April Fool’s Day to be merely puerile.)

AFFRAY

affray: a tumultuous assault or quarrel; a brawl (Example: Mounted encounters by armored knights locked in desperate hand-to-hand combat, stabbing and wrestling in tavern brawls, deceits and brutalities in street affrays, balletic homicide on the dueling field - these were the martial arts of Renaissance Europe. [Reference: Sydney Anglo, The Martial Arts of Renaissance Europe])

NASCENT

nascent: beginning to exist or having recently come into existence; coming into being
(Example: But there are other nascent technologies that are widely predicted to play a major part in moving the world from a dependence on oil, nuclear energy and coal. [Reference: "Out of thin air", The Guardian, October 31, 2001])

DOULA

doula: a woman experienced in childbirth who provides advice and information, and assists and provides support to the mother, her child and the family before, during, and just after childbirth

DISMAL

dismal:

- dark and depressing; showing or causing gloom (Example: When the weather is very dismal my grandma stays in bed all day.)

- lacking merit; characterized by ineptitude (Example: Her dismal performance disappointed me last night.)

TACT

tact:
- acute sensitivity or aesthetic perception (Example: He could convert the play into a movie script with remarkable skill and tact.)
- ability to say or do the right thing without offending in dealing with others (Example: By the use of tact, I could calm my jealous girlfriend.)

MYRMIDON

myrmidon:
- a loyal follower who executes orders unquestioningly or unscrupulously
- (Capitalized) a member of the legendary Thessalian people who followed Achilles on the expedition against Troy

ERSATZ

ersatz: inferior substitute; inferior imitation (Example: I looked it over to show I was alert, not because I'd know an ersatz from the real thing. [Reference: NEUTRON STAR by Larry Niven])

CUPIDITY

cupidity:
- strong desire for wealth; greed; avarice
- strong desire