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Term
forbearance
Definition

Good-natured tolerance of delay or incompetence.

Antonyms: anger, impatience, intolerance, irritability, shortness, impetuosity

Term
vituperation
Definition

Abusive or venomous language used to express blame or censure or bitter, deep-seated ill will.

Antonyms: praise, approval, acclaim, tribute, flattery, eulogycommendation

Term
ascendancy
Definition

The state that exists when one person or group has power over another.

Antonyms: weakness, inferiority, subordination, subjection, servility

Term
ingress
Definition

The act of going or coming in; an entering.

 

 

 

Term
febrifuge
Definition

Any medicine that lowers body temperature to prevent or alleviate fever.

Synonyms: antipyretic

 

Usage: The doctor gave me a febrifuge to take if my temperature spiked.

Term
iniquity
Definition

Morally objectionable behavior.

Synonyms: evil, wickedness, immorality

 

Usage: Each member of the congregation, the most innocent girl, and the man of hardened breast, felt as if the preacher had crept upon them ... and discovered their hoarded iniquity of deed or thought.

Term
poltroon
Definition

An abject coward.

Synonyms: craven, recreant

 

Usage: What a miserable little poltroon had fear, engendered of unjust punishment, made of me in those days.

Term
peccadillo
Definition

a petty sin or trifling fault

 

Term
craven
Definition

 adjective

1.contemptibly lacking in courage; cowardly.

"a craven abdication of his moral duty"

 

synonyms: cowardly, lily-livered, faint-hearted, chicken-hearted, spineless, timid, timorous, fearful, pusillanimous, weak, feeble

antonyms:brave

 

noun archaic: craven; plural noun: cravens

1.a cowardly person.

Term
recreant
Definition

adj.

1. Unfaithful or disloyal to a belief, duty, or cause: "Consider the man who stands by his duty and goes to the stake rather than be recreant to it" (Mark Twain).

2. Archaic Craven or cowardly.

n.

1. A faithless or disloyal person.

2. Archaic A coward.

Term

Erratum

Definition

1. an error in writing or printing

2. another name for corrigendum

 

Term

Tremulous

Definition

adj.

1.

a. Marked by trembling, quivering, or shaking: tremulous hands.

b. Marked by a rapid varying between pitches or tones: a tremulous voice.

2. Timid or fearful: "the tremulous daughter who never left her father's house" (Margo Jefferson).

[From Latin tremulus, from tremere, to tremble.]

trem′u·lous·ly adv.

trem′u·lous·ness n.

Term

Pedicab

Definition

n.

A small three-wheeled vehicle having a seat, pedals, and handlebars for the operator and a usually hooded cab for passengers.

Term

emerge

Definition

v: move out of or away from something and come into view.

 

 

become apparent, important, or prominent.

 

(of facts or circumstances) become known.

 

 

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aberrant
Definition
abnormal; different from the accepted norm
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abeyance
Definition
state of suspension; temporary inaction
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abstemious
Definition
Characterized by a state of self-denial, particularly in the area of food or drink
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abstruse
Definition
difficult to comprehend
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acquiescent
Definition
Agreeing without protest
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acrid
Definition
Bitter, harsh
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acrimonious
Definition
bitter in temper, manner, and speech
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acumen
Definition
keenness; quickness of intellectual insight
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admonition
Definition
a gentle reproof
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aggrandize
Definition
to widen in scope or make bigger or greater
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aggregate
Definition
ammounting to a whole
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allay
Definition
to reduce the intensity of
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amalgamate
Definition
to mix or blend together in a homogenous body
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ameliorate
Definition
to make abetter or improve
Term
anachronous
Definition
out of place in time
Term
anecdote
Definition
A short account of an interesting  incident
Term
archipelago
Definition
A large group of islands
Term
articulate
Definition
Well-spoken, eloquent
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artifice
Definition
Cleverness or skill
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artless
Definition
without deceit or cunning; sincere
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ascetic
Definition
given to severe self-denial; practicing excessive abstinence
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assiduous
Definition
persistent, unceasing
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astute
Definition
keen; wise
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audacious
Definition
fearless, bold
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austere
Definition
unadorned; severely simple
Term
Prefix: a-/an-
Definition
not or without
Term
Prefix: ante-
Definition
before
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Prefix: contra-
Definition
against
Term
prefix: de-
Definition
down from, away from (to put down)
Term
Prefix: eu
Definition
good
Term
Prefix: ex-
Definition
out of, away from
Term
Prefix: im- in-
Definition
not
Term
Prefix: ne-/mal-
Definition
bad
Term
odium
Definition

Definition:

(noun) Strong dislike, contempt, or aversion.

Synonyms:

abhorrence, detestation, execration, loathing, abomination

Usage:

He rather deserved the odium which he had incurred.

Term
execration
Definition

n.

1. The act of cursing.
2. curse.
3. Something that is cursed or loathed.

Noun 1. [image]execration - hate coupled with disgust    
abhorrence, detestation, loathing, odium, abomination
disgust - strong feelings of dislike
hate, hatred - the emotion of intense dislike; a feeling of dislike so strong that it demands action
  2. execration - an appeal to some supernatural power to inflict evil on someone or some group
curse, condemnation
denouncement, denunciation - a public act of denouncing
anathema - a formal ecclesiastical curse accompanied by excommunication
imprecation, malediction - the act of calling down a curse that invokes evil (and usually serves as an insult);"he suffered the imprecations of the mob"
  3. execration - the object of cursing or detestation; that which is execrated
object - the focus of cognitions or feelings; "objects of thought"; "the object of my affection"
Term
monomania 
Definition

Definition:

(noun) Pathological obsession with one idea or subject.

Synonyms:

possession

Usage:

He thought of it constantly, so that it became a monomania.

Term
inglenook 
Definition

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Definition:

(noun) A nook or corner beside an open fireplace.

Synonyms:

chimney corner

Usage:

Yet no one had retired, except the children and "old Feyther Taft," who being too deaf to catch many words, had some time ago gone back to his inglenook.

Term
annulus 
Definition

Definition:

(noun) A toroidal shape.

Synonyms:

doughnut, anchor ring, halo, ring

Usage:

He was reclining on the red couch, blowing annuli of smoke that would slowly ascend and disappear into wisps.

Term
toroid
Definition

n.

1. Mathematics
a. surface generated by a closed curve rotating about, but not intersecting or containing, an axis in its own plane.
b. solid having such a surface.
2. body having the shape of a toroid.
Term
lentigo
Definition

Definition:

(noun) A small, flat, pigmented spot on the skin.

Synonyms:

freckle

Usage:

The dermatologist advised the patient to keep an eye on the large lentigo near her lip and to alert him if there was a change in its size or shape.

Term
solecism 
Definition

Definition:

(noun) A socially awkward or tactless act.

Synonyms:

faux pas, gaffe, slip, gaucherie

Usage:

She smiled again, turned, and walked away, leaving George to reckon up all the social solecisms he had contrived to commit in the space of a single moment.

Term
quietude
Definition

Definition:         (noun) A state of peace and quiet.

Synonyms:         tranquility, quietness

 

Usage:  Who can tell how scenes of peace and quietude sink into the minds of pain-worn dwellers in close and noisy places.

Term

Compunction

Definition

Definition:         (noun) A strong uneasiness caused by a sense of guilt.

Synonyms:         remorse, self-reproach

 

Usage:  This child had taken and lost her treasured amethyst brooch and now sat there calmly without the least apparent compunction or repentance.

Term
presentiment
Definition

Definition:         (noun) A sense that something is about to occur; a premonition.

Synonyms:         boding, foreboding, premonition

 

 

Usage:  We've gone and lost your father's flat, Diana, and I have a presentiment that we'll not be allowed to row on the pond any more.

Term
tractable
Definition

Definition:         (adjective) Easily managed or controlled; governable.

Synonyms:         manipulable

 

 

Usage:  I felt him become suddenly tractable again like an animal, like a good-tempered horse when the object that scares him is removed.

Term
catkin
Definition

Definition:         (noun) A usually dense, cylindrical, often drooping cluster of unisexual apetalous flowers found in willows, birches, and oaks.

Synonyms:         ament

 

 

Usage:  Walking some forty paces away, Sergey Ivanovitch, knowing he was out of sight, stood still behind a bushy spindle-tree in full flower with its rosy red catkins.

Term
rowlock
Definition

Definition:

(noun) A holder attached to the gunwale of a boat that holds the oar in place and acts as a fulcrum for rowing.

Synonyms:

thole, tholepin, peg, pin, oarlock

Usage:

It was that dull kind of a regular sound that comes from oars working in rowlocks when it's a still night.

Term
fiat
Definition

Definition:         (noun) A legally binding command or decision entered on the court record (as if issued by a court or judge).

Synonyms:         decree, edict, rescript, order

 

 

Usage:  The judge issued a fiat that was met with widespread protest.

Term
vesicle
Definition

Definition:

(noun) A small sac or cyst, especially one containing fluid.

Synonyms:

cyst

Usage:

All living things have much in common, in their chemical composition, their germinal vesicles, and their laws of growth and reproduction.

Term
commissariat  
Definition

Definition:         (noun) A stock or supply of foods.

Synonyms:         provisions, viands, victuals, provender

 

Usage:  During the war with Spain he was employed in the commissariat of the French army, and made a fortune

Term

atelier   

Definition

(noun) A studio especially for an artist or designer.

Synonyms:         artist's workroom

 

 

Usage:  Joe and Delia met in an atelier where a number of art and music students had gathered to discuss chiaroscuro, Wagner, music, wall paper, Chopin, and Oolong..

Term
Hegira
Definition

N: a flight to escape danger

Syn: exodus

Usage: The oppressed villagers secretly planned a hegira to escape...

 

Term
Halcyon
Definition

Calm, peaceful

Example: Fit in 5 halcyon minutes of meditation today.

Term
scintilla
Definition

n:  a minute amount:  an iota or trace

Use:  When the party was over, not a scintilla of food remained

Term

Badinage

Definition

noun

 

Definition: playful banter

 

Example: The light badinage on the group chat always brightens my day.

Term
bedeck
Definition
(verb) To adorn or ornament in a showy fashion.
Term
nonstarter
Definition
noun) An idea, proposal, or candidate with no chance of being accepted or successful.
Term
wharfage
Definition
(noun) A platform built out from the shore into the water and supported by piles; provides access to ships and boats.
Term
pyrexia
Definition
Fever
Term
Dovecote
Definition
noun) A compartmental structure, often raised on a pole, for housing domesticated pigeons
Term
deponent
Definition
A person who testifies or gives a deposition.
depose: testify to or give (evidence) on oath, typically in a written statement.
Term
docket
Definition
A list of things to be done.
Term
verruca
Definition
A firm abnormal elevated blemish on the skin; caused by a virus (wart)
Term
retinue
Definition
(noun) The group following and attending to some important person.
Term
exacta
Definition
A method of betting, as on a horse race, in which the bettor must correctly pick those finishing in the first and second places in precisely that sequence.
Term
Calumny
Definition
(noun) A false statement maliciously made to injure another's reputation.
Term
camion
Definition
(noun) A low heavy horse cart without sides; used for haulage.
Term
inveterate
Definition
(adjective) Persisting in an ingrained habit.

He was an inveterate gambler, though a poor loser.
Term
avarice
Definition
immoderate desire for wealth.
Term
zoophagous
Definition
Feeding on animal matter; carnivourous.
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perspicuous
Definition
Clearly expressed or presented; easy to understand
Term
pourboire
Definition
a relatively small amount of money given for services rendered
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criterion
Definition
A basis for comparison; a reference point against which other things can be evaluated.
Term
sagacity
Definition
(noun) The quality of being discerning, sound in judgment, and farsighted; wisdom
Term
abase
Definition
Cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of
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