Aa
absquatulate - flee, make off; abscond.
agelast - one who never laughs.
aglet - the plastic tip on the end of a shoelace.
agrestic - characteristic of the country, rustic; also, unpolished or uncouth.
akimbo - of the arms, with the hands on the hips and elbows bent outward. "He stood akimbo and surveyed the wreckage."
anadromous - of fish, migrating up rivers from the sea to spawn in fresh water.
anile - like a doddering, foolish old woman.
anserine - goose-like; also, silly, foolish, or stupid.
anthropophagy - cannibalism.
apolaustic - wholly devoted to the seeking of enjoyment.
arcadian - idyllically pastoral, simple, or untroubled.
avuncular - of or pertaining to an uncle; also, uncle-like.
Bb
barratry - the offense of frequently stirring up lawsuits or quarrels; also, in maritime law, fraud or gross criminal negligence by a captain or crew at the expense of a ship's owner or of the owner of a ship's cargo.
bastinado - torture by beating on the soles of the feet.
bezonian - a scoundrel.
bibcock a faucet that is bent downward
bibliobibuli - those who read too much.
biffy - a toilet or outhouse.
bodewash - dried buffalo dung, used as fuel for fire.
boeotian - stupid, dull, obtuse; also, such a person.
bolus - a large medicinal pill; also, a mass of chewed food.
boondoggle - an unnecessary activity or wasteful expenditure.
borborygmic - pertaining to the rumbling of one's stomach or intestines.
bosky - having an abundance of trees or shrubbery.
brobdingnagian - enormous, immense.
brummagem - cheap and showy but inferior and worthless.
buccal - of or pertaining to the cheek or the mouth.
bugaboo - something that causes baseless fear or worry; also, a false belief used to intimidate.
bumf - toilet paper; also, worthless paperwork, literature, or junk mail.
Cc
callipygian - having shapely buttocks. See also: steatopygic.
captious - apt to raise objections to trivial faults or defects; given to fault-finding; difficult to please.
caryatid - a draped female figure supporting an entablature.
caseifaction - the act of turning into cheese.
cataglottism - kissing with the tongue.
cerumen - earwax.
chatoyant - changing in luster or color, as cat's eyes.
chiaroscuro - distribution of light and shade in a picture
chthonic - dwelling in the underworld.
cicisbeo -a male escort or lover of a married woman.
collation - a light meal.
contumelious - insolently abusive and humiliating.
corrigendum - a mistake to be corrected, especially an error in a printed book.
corybantic - frenzied or agitated.
crapulous - given to, characterized by, or suffering from gross excess in eating and drinking.
cynosure - a center of attraction or admiration.
Dd
dandle - to dance (a child) on one's knees; the action taken by a dandler.
deasil - clockwise. See also: widdershins.
defenestrate - to throw out of a window
dendrochronology - the study of growth rings on trees.
dipsomania - uncontrollable craving for alcohol.
discalced - barefooted.
doddle - something easy or requiring little effort.
donnybrook - a brawl or heated public dispute.
dottle - the plug of unburned tobacco left in a pipe after smoking.
draggle - make wet and dirty by dragging on the ground.
duff - decaying matter in a forest
Ee
ecdysiast - stripper.
edacious - devouring, consuming, voracious.
eesome - pleasing to the eye.
emollient - characteristic of that which softens or soothes the skin.
enantiodromic - characteristic of something that has become its opposite.
energumen - one who is possessed by a demonic entity.
epeolatry - worship of words.
epigone - an undistinguished imitator or descendant of an illustrious person or family.
eructation - belching; also, discharge of a volcano.
esprit d'escalier - a remark that occurs to someone later, after it should have been said (often a witty retort that occurs after the moment to use it has passed).
estivate - to spend the summer.
esurient - hungry.
evancalous - pleasant to embrace.
expiscate - to learn through laborious investigation.
exsanguinate - to drain blood from.
Ff
factotum - employee or assistant who does just about everything.
fantods - a state of nervous irritability; the fidgets; the willies. "Waiting for this semester's report card is giving me the fantods."
fernticle - freckle.
fescue - a small stick used to point out letters to a child learning to read.
flews - the pendulous corners of the upper lip of certain dogs, such as the bloodhound.
floccinaucinihilipilification - the categorizing of something as worthless.
flummery - meaningless chatter; also, deceptive language.
footle - to talk or act foolishly; to waste time.
foudroyant - dazzling, flashing; also, thunderous, noisy.
friable - easily crumbled; crumbly.
frisson - an emotional thrill; a shudder of emotion.
frowzy - ill-smelling, musty; also, slovenly, unkempt.
fugacious - fleeting, transitory; difficult to capture.
funambulist - a tightrope walker
Gg
gallimaufry - jumble or medley; hodgepodge.
geck - a dupe.
genuflect - bend the knee and lower the body, especially in reverence.
gleek - to joke or jest.
gobbledygook - windy gibberish or jargon.
gorbellied - corpulent.
gormless - dull, stupid, clumsy.
gound - the gunk that collects in the corners of the eyes during sleep.
gowpen - two hands placed together to form a bowl-shape; also, the amount that can be contained in a pair of cupped hands.
graustark - an imaginary place of high romance.
grimthorpe - remodel or restore an old building without proper grounding or knowledge of its authentic character or without exercising care to remain faithful to its original quality and uniqueness; after Baron Grimthorpe, English lawyer and architect, restorer of St. Alban's cathedral.
Hh
hallux - big toe.
hangdog - shamefaced, browbeaten, or intimidated.
hebdomedal - weekly.
hircine - goat-like; also, lustful.
hirple - to hobble or walk lamely.
hornswoggle - bamboozle, deceive.
hoyden - a boisterous, carefree girl; a tomboy.
Ii
infucate - to apply cosmetics.
inglenook - a nook by a fireplace.
insouciant - blithely unconcerned.
insufflate - to blow on or breathe into.
izzat - honor, prestige, reputation.
Jj
jillick - to skip a stone across water.
jocoserious - combining serious and humorous matters.
jugulate - to slit the throat.
Kk
kalopsia - the delusion that things are more beautiful than they really are.
katzenjammer - a loud, discordant noise; also, a hangover; also, a state of depression or bewilderment.
kibitz - to look on and offer unsolicited, meddlesome advice; to make wisecracks when others are trying to work or speak seriously.
kickshaw - a trinket or bauble; a culinary delicacy.
Ll
lambent - softly radiant; of a light or flame, playing on a surface without burning it; also, dealing lightly and gracefully with a subject of discussion.
lapidate - to stone to death.
latrinalia - graffiti found in restrooms.
legerdemain - slight of hand; magic tricks.
liripipe - a long scarf or cord attached to and hanging from a hood.
ludic - characterized by playfulness.
Mm
macerate - to make or become soft by steeping in a liquid; also, to waste away by fasting.
madefy - moisten.
maffick - to rejoice with an extravagant and boisterous public celebration.
malinger - pretend to be ill in order to avoid work or shirk duty.
marmoreal - resembling marble.
mawkish - excessively or feebly sentimental; also, having a faint, sickly taste.
meldrop - a drop of mucus at the end of the nose.
mendacious - telling lies, especially habitually; untruthful.
miasma - a noxious atmosphere or influence; unpleasant or unwholesome air.
misprision - neglect or wrongful action committed by a public official.
moiety - about half of something.
monomania - obsession with one idea or interest.
moonglade - the bright reflection of the moon on a body of water.
mordant - bitingly sarcastic.
mosh - to engage in uninhibited, frenzied activities with others near the stage at a rock concert. See also: mosh pit.
mosh pit - the place near the stage at a rock concert where moshing occurs. See also: mosh.
mulct - to take money from, by taxation or by trickery.
mundungus - stinky tobacco.
myrmidon - an unscrupulously faithful follower; henchman.
Nn
napiform - resembling a turnip.
neologist - one who makes up new words.
nidify - to build a nest.
noctambulist - a sleepwalker; somnambulist.
nosocomephrenia - depression due to a prolonged hospital stay.
nothosonomia - the act of calling someone a bastard.
nudiustertian - pertaining to the day before yesterday.
nyctalopia - night blindness.
Oo
obdormition - numbness caused by pressure on a nerve, as when one's foot is "asleep."
obnubilate - cloud over, darken, or obscure.
ochlocracy - mob rule.
octothorpe - the '#' symbol; also, "octothorp."
omphalopsychite - one who contemplates his navel. See also: omphaloskepsis.
omphaloskepsis - contemplation of one's navel. See also: omphalopsychite.
opsimath - one who begins to learn late in life.
ort - a scrap of food left after a meal is completed.
osculate - kiss.
ovoviviparous - producing eggs that hatch within the female's body without obtaining nourishment from it.
oxter - armpit.
Pp
pandiculation - the stretching that accompanies yawning.
panjandrum - a pompous official or pretender; also, the mock title of a self-important person.
pantaloon - a man's close-fitting garment for the hips and legs, worn especially in the 19th century
pate - top of the head, usually a bald head.
penny-farthing - an old-fashioned kind of bicycle with a huge front wheel.
penultimate - next to last.
perendinate - to put off until the day after tomorrow; also, to keep postponing from day to day.
peripatetic - going from place to place; itinerant.
philtrum - the vertical groove between the nose and upper lip.
picaresque - of fiction, dealing with the adventures of a rogue.
pilose - covered with hair.
pilpul - a nitpicking, unproductive argument.
pinguid - fat; also, greasy.
placebo - a harmless substance given as medicine, usually to humor a patient.
poetaster - an inferior poet.
popinjay - a talkative and conceited person.
popliteal - of or pertaining to the back of the knee.
preponderate - to surpass others in numbers, intensity, force, or prowess.
prescind - turn aside.
psithurism - a low whispering sound, such as the rustle of leaves.
puckeroo - useless, broken.
pulchritude - attractiveness.
purulent - containing, consisting of, or discharging pus.
pusillanimous - timid, faint-hearted, or cowardly.
Qq
quidnunc - a busybody or a gossip.
quincunx - the pattern of five objects arranged such that four of the five objects form a square, while the fifth is positioned in the middle. "The dots on the '5' side of a die are arranged in a quincunx."
quisquilious - like rubbish; trashy, worthless.
Rr
raconteur - one skilled in telling stories.
rebarbative - causing aversion or irritation.
recension - an editorial revision of a literary work.
recidivist - one who continually commits crime and seems incurable of criminal tendencies.
recrudesce - of a disease, sore, or hostile feeling, to break out again.
renitent - resistant to pressure.
retroussé - turned up at the tip, especially a nose.
rhabdomantist - one who practices divination by means of a rod to locate underground water; a dowser.
riant - smiling.
Ss
sanguinary - bloodthirsty; murderous.
sanguine - cheerfully confident or optimistic; also, having a healthy, reddish color.
s
aturnine - characteristic of a person having a gloomy or forbidding appearance.
scuttlebutt - gossip.
seersucker - a light, thin fabric, such as cotton or rayon, with a crinkled surface and a usually striped pattern.
serendipity - the faculty of accidentally making happy, unexpected discoveries.
sericate - silky.
simous - having a very flat or snub nose, with the end turned up.
skosh - a small amount; a tad.
smithereens - fragments or splintered pieces.
snollygoster - a shrewd, unprincipled person.
sockdolager - a conclusive blow or remark; also, something outstanding.
somnambulist - a sleepwalker; noctambulist.
spanghew - to cause a frog or toad to fly up in the air.
spartle - to move the body or limbs in a sprawling or struggling manner.
specious - seeming good or sound at first but lacking real merit.
squabash - to crush with criticism.
squidger - the huge disc, or wink, used to propel other winks in the game of Tiddly-Winks.
squiffed - intoxicated.
steatopygic - having fat buttocks. See also: callipygian.
sternutation - the act of sneezing; also, a sneeze.
stymie - to thwart, stump, or obstruct.
subderisorious - ridiculing in moderation.
subfusc - drab, dusty.
suppurate - to form pus; to fester.
susurration - whispering, murmuring, or rustling.
sycophant - one who attempts to gain a personal advantage by servile flattery.
Tt
tantalolagnia - arousal caused by teasing.
tantivy - a headlong dash or rapid gallop; also, characteristic of one in a tantivy; also, the blare of a trumpet or horn. "The man was running tantivy after the thief."
tauromachy - the art of bullfighting.
tenebrific - producing darkness; obscuring.
tergiversate - to turn one's back on one's party or cause; also, to make evasive statements or equivocate.
termagant - a shrewish, bullying woman.
thewy - muscled, brawny.
tintinnabulous - of or relating to bells or the ringing of bells.
tizzy - a state of nervous excitement or confusion; a dither.
tohubohu - a state of chaos, disorder, and confusion.
tonsure - the shaving of the head of those entering certain priesthoods or monastic orders; also, the part of the head left bare after such a shaving.
tragus - the little flap of cartilage that projects over the hole in one's ear.
trollop - a promiscuous woman.
twee - affectedly cute or quaint; overly precious or nice.
Uu
ultra-crepidarian - giving opinions or criticism beyond one's own range of experience.
ululate - lament loudly and shrilly; wail.
umbrage - the feeling of being offended.
undulate - sway in place.
uvula - the thing that hangs down in the back of one's throat.
Vv
vermiculate - having wavy, wormlike lines or motion; sinuous, tortuous.
vexillologist - one who studies flags.
vicarious -characteristic of feelings or emotions felt or shared imaginatively through the feelings or emotions of another person.
vicissitude - a change of circumstances affecting one's life.
Ww
walla-walla - the unintelligible sound made by many people talking at once.
welter - wriggle, writhe.
whelm - to cover or engulf completely, usually with disastrous effect.
whinge - complain fretfully, whine.
widdershins - counterclockwise; also, in a contrary direction. Same as "withershins." See also: deasil.
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