Vocabulary

As of 03052022-151120

acrimony

Noun

  1. a rough and bitter manner

anhedonia

Noun

  1. an inability to experience pleasure

atavism

Noun

  1. a reappearance of an earlier characteristic

atrabilious

Adjective

  1. irritable as if suffering from indigestion

automation

Noun

  1. the act of implementing the control of equipment with advanced technology; usually involving electronic hardware; “automation replaces human workers by machines”
  2. the condition of being automatically operated or controlled; “automation increases productivity”
  3. equipment used to achieve automatic control or operation; “this factory floor is a showcase for automation and robotic equipment”

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axiomatic

Adjective

  1. evident without proof or argument; “an axiomatic truth”; “we hold these truths to be self-evident”
  2. containing aphorisms or maxims; “axiomatic wisdom”
  3. of or relating to or derived from axioms; “axiomatic physics”; “the postulational method was applied to geometry”- S.S.Stevens

bandylan

Word of the Day: BANDYLAN (n.) an outcast, an unpleasant person shunned by others [19thC dial.]

bauble

Noun

  1. a mock scepter carried by a court jester
  2. cheap showy jewelry or ornament on clothing

bevy

Noun

  1. a large gathering of people of a particular type; “he was surrounded by a bevy of beauties in bathing attire”; “a bevy of young beach boys swarmed around him”
  2. a flock of birds (especially when gathered close together on the ground); “we were visited at breakfast by a bevy of excited ducks”

bitch

Noun

  1. an unpleasant difficulty; “this problem is a real bitch”
  2. a person (usually but not necessarily a woman) who is thoroughly disliked; “she said her son thought Hillary was a bitch”
  3. informal terms for objecting; “I have a gripe about the service here”
  4. female of any member of the dog family

Verb

  1. complain; “What was he hollering about?”
  2. say mean things

boolean

Adjective

  1. of or relating to a combinatorial system devised by George Boole that combines propositions with the logical operators AND and OR and IF THEN and EXCEPT and NOT

bout

Noun

  1. (sports) a division during which one team is on the offensive
  2. a period of illness; “a bout of fever”; “a bout of depression”
  3. a contest or fight (especially between boxers or wrestlers)
  4. an occasion for excessive eating or drinking; “they went on a bust that lasted three days”

bowdlerizer

Noun

  1. a person who edits a text by removing obscene or offensive words or passages; “Thomas Bowdler was a famous expurgator”

bugaboo

Noun

  1. an imaginary monster used to frighten children
  2. a source of concern; “the old bugaboo of inflation still bothers them”

capitulate

Verb

  1. surrender under agreed conditions

classificatory

Adjective

  1. relating to or involving classification; “classificatory criteria”

collocation

Noun

  1. a grouping of words in a sentence
  2. the act of positioning close together (or side by side); “it is the result of the juxtaposition of contrasting colors”

concatenate

Verb

  1. combine two strings to form a single one
  2. add by linking or joining so as to form a chain or series; “concatenate terms”; “concatenate characters”

crimp

Noun

  1. an angular or rounded shape made by folding; “a fold in the napkin”; “a crease in his trousers”; “a plication on her blouse”; “a flexure of the colon”; “a bend of his elbow”
  2. someone who tricks or coerces men into service as sailors or soldiers
  3. a lock of hair that has been artificially waved or curled

Verb

  1. make ridges into by pinching together
  2. curl tightly; “crimp hair”

dereliction

Noun

  1. a tendency to be negligent and uncaring; “he inherited his delinquency from his father”; “his derelictions were not really intended as crimes”; “his adolescent protest consisted of willful neglect of all his responsibilities”
  2. willful negligence

dinkus

In typography, a dinkus is a typographic symbol which often consists of three spaced asterisks in a horizontal row, i.e.   ∗ ∗ ∗  . The symbol has a variety of uses, and it usually denotes an intentional omission or a logical "break" of varying degree in a written work. This latter use is similar to a subsection, and it indicates to the reader that the subsequent text should be re-contextualized. When used this way, the dinkus typically appears centrally aligned on a line of its own with vertical spacing before and after the symbol. The dinkus has been in use in various forms since c. 1850. Historically, the dinkus was often represented as an asterism, ⁂, though this use has fallen out of favor and is now nearly obsolete.

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disruption

Noun

  1. an act of delaying or interrupting the continuity; “it was presented without commercial breaks”; “there was a gap in his account”
  2. a disorderly outburst or tumult; “they were amazed by the furious disturbance they had caused”
  3. an event that results in a displacement or discontinuity
  4. the act of causing disorder

dubitable

Adjective

  1. open to doubt or suspicion; “the candidate’s doubtful past”; “he has a dubious record indeed”; “what one found uncertain the other found dubious or downright false”; “it was more than dubitable whether the friend was as influential as she thought”- Karen Horney

ensconce

Verb

  1. fix firmly; “He ensconced himself in the chair”

erudite

Adjective

  1. having or showing profound knowledge; “a learned jurist”; “an erudite professor”

exigent

Adjective

  1. demanding attention; “clamant needs”; “a crying need”; “regarded literary questions as exigent and momentous”- H.L.Mencken; “insistent hunger”; “an instant need”
  2. requiring precise accuracy; “an exacting job”; “became more exigent over his pronunciation”

explicate

Verb

  1. make plain and comprehensible; “He explained the laws of physics to his students”
  2. elaborate, as of theories and hypotheses; “Could you develop the ideas in your thesis”

expression

Noun

  1. the feelings expressed on a person’s face; “a sad expression”; “a look of triumph”; “an angry face”
  2. expression without words; “tears are an expression of grief”; “the pulse is a reflection of the heart’s condition”
  3. the communication (in speech or writing) of your beliefs or opinions; “expressions of good will”; “he helped me find verbal expression for my ideas”; “the idea was immediate but the verbalism took hours”
  4. a word or phrase that particular people use in particular situations; “pardon the expression”
  5. the style of expressing yourself; “he suggested a better formulation”; “his manner of expression showed how much he cared”
  6. a group of symbols that make a mathematical statement
  7. (genetics) the process of expressing a gene
  8. a group of words that form a constituent of a sentence and are considered as a single unit; “I concluded from his awkward constructions that he was a foreigner”
  9. the act of forcing something out by squeezing or pressing; “the expression of milk from her breast”

expurgate

Verb

  1. edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate; “bowdlerize a novel”

farad

Noun

  1. the capacitance of a capacitor that has an equal and opposite charge of 1 coulomb on each plate and a voltage difference of 1 volt between the plates

faux pas

Noun

  1. a socially awkward or tactless act

foppish

Adjective

  1. affecting extreme elegance in dress and manner

foregleam

a hint or glimpse of the future. -@HaggardHawks

forelooker

A FORELOOKER is someone who thinks about or is concerned for the future. -@HaggardHawks

glisk

A GLISK is a glimpse of warm sunshine. HaggardHawks

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grubby

Noun

  1. small sculpin of the coast of New England

Adjective

  1. infested with grubs
  2. thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot; “a miner’s begrimed face”; “dingy linen”; “grimy hands”; “grubby little fingers”; “a grungy kitchen”

henceforward

Adverb

  1. from this time forth; from now on; “henceforth she will be known as Mrs. Smith”

hew

Verb

  1. make or shape as with an axe; “hew out a path in the rock”
  2. strike with an axe; cut down, strike; “hew an oak”

homunculus

Noun

  1. a person who is very small but who is not otherwise deformed or abnormal
  2. a tiny fully formed individual that (according to the discredited theory of preformation) is supposed to be present in the sperm cell

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idiom

Noun

  1. a manner of speaking that is natural to native speakers of a language
  2. the usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people; “the immigrants spoke an odd dialect of English”; “he has a strong German accent”; “it has been said that a language is a dialect with an army and navy”
  3. the style of a particular artist or school or movement; “an imaginative orchestral idiom”
  4. an expression whose meanings cannot be inferred from the meanings of the words that make it up

idiomatic

Adjective

  1. of or relating to or conforming to idiom; “idiomatic English”

impecunious

Adjective

  1. not having enough money to pay for necessities

inexorable

Adjective

  1. not to be placated or appeased or moved by entreaty; “grim determination”; “grim necessity”; “Russia’s final hour, it seemed, approached with inexorable certainty”; “relentless persecution”; “the stern demands of parenthood”
  2. impervious to pleas, persuasion, requests, reason; “he is adamant in his refusal to change his mind”; “Cynthia was inexorable; she would have none of him”- W.Churchill; “an intransigent conservative opposed to every liberal tendency”

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languor

Noun

  1. a relaxed comfortable feeling
  2. oppressively still air; “the afternoon was hot, quiet, and heavy with languor”; “Summer shows all the languor of a hot, breezeless day as the dancer lazily brushes her hand over her brow”
  3. a feeling of lack of interest or energy
  4. inactivity; showing an unusual lack of energy; “the general appearance of sluggishness alarmed his friends”

lapse

Noun

  1. a mistake resulting from inattention
  2. a break or intermission in the occurrence of something; “a lapse of three weeks between letters”
  3. a failure to maintain a higher state

Verb

  1. pass into a specified state or condition; “He sank into nirvana”
  2. end, at least for a long time; “The correspondence lapsed”
  3. drop to a lower level, as in one’s morals or standards
  4. go back to bad behavior; “Those who recidivate are often minor criminals”
  5. let slip; “He lapsed his membership”
  6. pass by; “three years elapsed”

lucre

Noun

  1. informal terms for money
  2. the excess of revenues over outlays in a given period of time (including depreciation and other non-cash expenses)

macro

Noun

  1. a single computer instruction that results in a series of instructions in machine language

Adjective

  1. very large in scale or scope or capability

marginalia

Noun

  1. notes written in the margin

miasma

Noun

  1. an unwholesome atmosphere; “the novel spun a miasma of death and decay”
  2. unhealthy vapors rising from the ground or other sources; “the miasma of the marshes”; “a miasma of cigar smoke”

missive

Noun

  1. a written message addressed to a person or organization; “mailed an indignant letter to the editor”

oleophilic

Adjective

  1. having a strong affinity for oils rather than water

parlance

Noun

  1. a manner of speaking that is natural to native speakers of a language

parlous

Adjective

  1. fraught with danger; “dangerous waters”; “a parlous journey on stormy seas”; “a perilous voyage across the Atlantic in a small boat”; “the precarious life of an undersea diver”; “dangerous surgery followed by a touch-and-go recovery”

patois

Noun

  1. a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves); “they don’t speak our lingo”
  2. a regional dialect of a language (especially French); usually considered substandard

peregrinate

Verb

  1. travel around, through, or over, especially on foot; “peregrinate the bridge”

pertinent

Adjective

  1. having precise or logical relevance to the matter at hand; “a list of articles pertinent to the discussion”; “remarks that were to the point”
  2. being of striking appropriateness and pertinence; “the successful copywriter is a master of apposite and evocative verbal images”; “an apt reply”

pious

Adjective

  1. having or showing or expressing reverence for a deity; “pious readings”

portent

Noun

  1. a sign of something about to happen; “he looked for an omen before going into battle”

portmanteau

Noun

  1. a new word formed by joining two others and combining their meanings; “smog’ is a blend ofsmoke’ and fog’”; “motel’ is a portmanteau word made by combining motor’ andhotel’”; “`brunch’ is a well-known portmanteau”
  2. a large travelling bag made of stiff leather

posy

Noun

  1. an arrangement of flowers that is usually given as a present

relegate

Verb

  1. refer to another person for decision or judgment; “She likes to relegate difficult questions to her colleagues”
  2. assign to a lower position; reduce in rank; “She was demoted because she always speaks up”; “He was broken down to Sergeant”
  3. expel, as if by official decree; “he was banished from his own country”
  4. assign to a class or kind; “How should algae be classified?”; “People argue about how to relegate certain mushrooms”

repudiate

Verb

  1. cast off; “She renounced her husband”; “The parents repudiated their son”
  2. refuse to acknowledge, ratify, or recognize as valid; “The woman repudiated the divorce settlement”
  3. refuse to recognize or pay; “repudiate a debt”
  4. reject as untrue, unfounded, or unjust; “She repudiated the accusations”

riffle

Noun

  1. a small wave on the surface of a liquid
  2. shuffling by splitting the pack and interweaving the two halves at their corners

Verb

  1. twitch or flutter; “the paper flicked”
  2. look through a book or other written material; “He thumbed through the report”; “She leafed through the volume”
  3. stir up (water) so as to form ripples
  4. shuffle (playing cards) by separating the deck into two parts and riffling with the thumbs so the cards intermix

risible

Adjective

  1. arousing or provoking laughter; “an amusing film with a steady stream of pranks and pratfalls”; “an amusing fellow”; “a comic hat”; “a comical look of surprise”; “funny stories that made everybody laugh”; “a very funny writer”; “it would have been laughable if it hadn’t hurt so much”; “a mirthful experience”; “risible courtroom antics”

screed

Noun

  1. a long monotonous harangue
  2. a long piece of writing
  3. an accurately levelled strip of material placed on a wall or floor as guide for the even application of plaster or concrete

sidle

Verb

  1. move unobtrusively or furtively; “The young man began to sidle near the pretty girl sitting on the log”
  2. move sideways

solubility

Noun

  1. the quantity of a particular substance that can dissolve in a particular solvent (yielding a saturated solution)
  2. the property (of a problem or difficulty) that makes it possible to solve
  3. the quality of being soluble and easily dissolved in liquid

splosh

Verb

  1. make a splashing sound; “water was splashing on the floor”
  2. walk through mud or mire; “We had to splosh across the wet meadow”
  3. cause (a liquid) to spatter about, especially with force; “She splashed the water around her”
  4. dash a liquid upon or against; “The mother splashed the baby’s face with water”

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squiggle

Noun

  1. a short twisting line
  2. an illegible scrawl; “his signature was just a squiggle but only he could make that squiggle”

text fucking

  1. Text Fucking verb a.) hardcore text manipulation. b.) destruction of usable digital text.

  2. Text Fuckery noun the discipline of text fucking.

  3. Text Fuckery noun the output... the result of the verb.

travail

Noun

  1. concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child; “she was in labor for six hours”
  2. use of physical or mental energy; hard work; “he got an A for effort”; “they managed only with great exertion”

Verb

  1. work hard; “She was digging away at her math homework”; “Lexicographers drudge all day long”

trounce

Verb

  1. beat severely with a whip or rod; “The teacher often flogged the students”; “The children were severely trounced”
  2. come out better in a competition, race, or conflict; “Agassi beat Becker in the tennis championship”; “We beat the competition”; “Harvard defeated Yale in the last football game”
  3. censure severely or angrily; “The mother scolded the child for entering a stranger’s car”; “The deputy ragged the Prime Minister”; “The customer dressed down the waiter for bringing cold soup”

undercovered

Adjective

(Of an individual, project, social dynamic, single event, etc.)

Less present in popular discourse than is contextually appropriate.

When I use the term "undercovered," I am describing something which "mainstream media" (technology journalism, most often) has not, is not, and/or is not likely to adequately amplify according to my own framework of relevance.

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Undercovered is an adjective meaning: less present in popular discourse than is contextually appropriate.

ursine

Adjective

  1. of or relating to or similar to bears

verdure

Noun

  1. green foliage
  2. the lush appearance of flourishing vegetation

verisimilitude

Noun

  1. the appearance of truth; the quality of seeming to be true

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voluble

Adjective

  1. marked by a ready flow of speech; “she is an extremely voluble young woman who engages in soliloquies not conversations”

whorl

Noun

  1. a round shape formed by a series of concentric circles (as formed by leaves or flower petals)
  2. a strand or cluster of hair
  3. a structure consisting of something wound in a continuous series of loops; “a coil of rope”

winnow

Noun

  1. the act of separating grain from chaff; “the winnowing was done by women”

Verb

  1. separate the chaff from grain by using air currents; “She stood there winnowing grain all day in the field”
  2. blow on; “The wind was winnowing her hair”; “the wind winnowed the grass”
  3. select desirable parts from a group or list; “cull out the interesting letters from the poet’s correspondence”; “winnow the finalists from the long list of applicants”
  4. blow away or off with a current of air; “winnow chaff”; “The speaker ceased to be an amusing little gnat to be fanned away and was kicked off the forum”

ziggurat

Noun

  1. a rectangular tiered temple or terraced mound erected by the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians

innumerable

innumerable

Adjective

  1. too numerous to be counted; “countless hours”; “an infinite number of reasons”; “innumerable difficulties”; “the multitudinous seas”; “myriad stars”

verisimilitude

verisimilitude

Noun

  1. the appearance of truth; the quality of seeming to be true