Reply with interesting words!!! (Give meaning)
- Discombulated - confused
- Pneumoultramicroscopicsillicovolcanoconiosistic - A disease
- Tawdry - Meaning 'tacky' An interesting corruption of the old remark 'St Audrey's Lace'. Audrey was a woman who believed that God smote her for her material possessions.
- Myriads - Millions upon millions
Keep posting!
2007-01-06 07:00:05 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
precipitous: reckless, hasty,characterized by precipices
algophilist: One who enjoys pain
chalcedony: A family of colored quartz, usually with a milky or waxy appearance
anacreontic: jovial, festive and amorous; celebrating love and drinking.
penury: A state of extreme poverty; to be very poor, Dearth, barrenness
vitiate: to make faulty or defective; to impair the value or quality of; spoil
equivocal: deliberately ambiguous, with the intention to mislead or confuse
equivocate: to use equivocal language, especially with the intent to deceive
adduce: to cite as an example, reason, or proof in a formal discussion or analysis
pari passu: A banking term, meaning at an equal rate or pace. It implies fairness and impart
vicarious: An act fulfilled by the substitution of the actual offender or target with
welkin: The vault of heaven; the sky
warison: The act of anointing as part of a religious or healing ritual
uxorious: Excessively or irrationally devoted to one's wife.
trenchant: Keen; incisive; penetrating, Forceful; effective; vigorous
thrift: Personal wealth or savings.
tenesmus: A painful attempt or pain associated with urinating or defecating
tenebrous: Dark and gloomy. n. `tenebrosity' variation: tenebrious
sorrel: Brownish orange to light brown, A horse of this colour
sanguine: The colour of blood, Ruddy; florid. Said of the complexion
seraglio: A large harem, A sultan's palace.
sequacious: Disposed to follow others in a slavish or unquestioning way.
repugn: To resist or oppose
rubescent: Reddening; to go red.
quixotic: Caught up in the romance of noble deeds or unreachable ideals
rogation: A solemn prayer or supplication.
quietus: Anything that kills or eliminates; a deathblow; Release from life; death
procrastinate: To put off doing something until a future time. n. procrastination.
perspicacious: Acutely discerning, perceptive or understanding. adv. perspicacity
pleonasm: The use of more words than are required to express an idea; redundancy
perorate: To speak at great length, often in an inflated, pompous manner; declaim
palliate: to make (an offence or crime) seem less serious; extenuate
opprobrium: Disgrace inherent in or arising from shameful misconduct; ignominy
opine: to hold or state as an opinion; to think.
obdurate: Hardened against good or moral influence. Stubbornly impenitent.
moue: A sulky or disdainful expression; a pout.
morbific: Causing or producing disease; pathogenic.
meed: A merited gift or reward.
mawk: Maggot
margarite: A pearl.
lupine: Wolflike; Rapacious; ravenous.
lugubrious: Mournful or doleful, especially to an excessive degree
luculent: Easily understood; clear; lucid.
lucubrate: To write in a scholarly fashion
loose: To release the arrow. Note: the word `fire' was only used after the in
longueur: A boring or tedious period of time; A tedious, overlong
locus: A site considered to be the centre of a particular activity.
laciniate: Fringed, Having edges cut into narrow fringelike segments
lachrymose: Weeping or inclined to weep; tearful, Causing tears; sorrowful
2007-01-06 07:13:21 · answer #1 · answered by Grapy 2 · 2⤊ 5⤋
Synesthesia - when one type of stimulation evokes the sensation of another ( like smelling a colour, or hearing an image..weird!)
Fjord - (great sounding word!) a long, narrow arm of the sea bordered by steep cliffs
Somnolent - a kind of something that'll probably make you sleepy (ie dull film or boring sex!)
Summum bonum - the supreme good from which all others are derived (right on!!)
Finagle - to use devious or dishonest methods to achieve one's ends (you cheeky bugger!!)
Keep 'em coming folks!!
2007-01-06 07:32:43 · answer #2 · answered by Sight 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Infundibuliform
2016-05-22 23:32:03 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've always rather liked "tatterdemallion" for a raggedly dressed individual. Try it out, the next time a beggar asks you for a contribution to sustain his lifestyle.
2007-01-06 12:25:26 · answer #4 · answered by andrew f 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Shew. An alternative spelling of the word "show".
Schardenfreuder. A German word, meaning "To take joy from other peoples suffering"
2007-01-06 07:03:47 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
Punani !!!!
Never heard of it before, put it on as a question,(Blush)
It refers to a female WHOWHO!!!
Well we all live and learn I guess!
2007-01-06 08:46:21 · answer #6 · answered by SUPER-GLITCH 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
pulchritude - beauty
goobledegook - unclear use of language
effeminate - womanlike
bemused - bewildered and confused
2007-01-06 07:23:25 · answer #7 · answered by divagal08 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
onomatopoeia - a word that sound like the noise. Eg. bang, crash etc...
2007-01-06 07:10:45 · answer #8 · answered by Beckylou 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
surreptitious - underhand, clandestine
plethora - an abundance
probity - honesty
2007-01-06 07:06:51 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
castigate - To inflict severe punishment on.
2007-01-06 07:03:36 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋