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  1. A preliminary sketch for a painting or other work of art; a rough drawing; a cartoon.

Adjective

  1. difficult to penetrate; incomprehensible to one of ordinary understanding or knowledge; “the professor’s lectures were so abstruse that students tended to avoid them”; “a deep metaphysical theory”; “some recondite problem in historiography”

Adjective

  1. relating to ocean depths from 2000 to 5000 meters
  2. resembling an abyss in depth; so deep as to be unmeasurable; “the abyssal depths of the ocean”

Verb

  1. speak to someone
  2. approach with an offer of sexual favors; “he was solicited by a prostitute”; “The young man was caught soliciting in the park”

Word of the Day: ACCOY (v.) to make calm or serene; to quieten -@HaggardHawks

Verb

  1. to agree or express agreement; “The Maestro assented to the request for an encore”

Adjective

  1. eager to acquire and possess things especially material possessions or ideas; “an acquisitive mind”; “an acquisitive society in which the craving for material things seems never satisfied”

Noun

  1. a rough and bitter manner

Verb

  1. advise or counsel in terms of someone’s behavior; “I warned him not to go too far”; “I warn you against false assumptions”; “She warned him to be quiet”
  2. warn strongly; put on guard
  3. take to task; “He admonished the child for his bad behavior”

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  1. warn or reprimand someone firmly she admonished me for appearing at breakfast unshaven | “You mustn't say that, Shiona,” Ruth admonished her

[with object and infinitive] advise or urge (someone) earnestly she admonished him to drink no more than one glass of wine

Archaic warn (someone) of something to be avoided he admonished the people against the evil of such practices

Verb

  1. describe roughly or briefly or give the main points or summary of; “sketch the outline of the book”; “outline his ideas”
  2. give to understand; “I insinuated that I did not like his wife”
  1. Formal report or represent in outline they have adumbrated the importance of education as a means of social transformation

indicate faintly the walls were not more than adumbrated by the meager light

foreshadow or symbolize what qualities in Christ are adumbrated by the vine?

overshadow her happy reminiscences were adumbrated by consciousness of something else

Origin

late 16th century: from Latin adumbrat- ‘shaded’, from the verb adumbrare, from ad- ‘to’ (as an intensifier) + umbrare ‘cast a shadow’ (from umbra ‘shade’)

Noun

  1. kindly endorsement and guidance; “the tournament was held under the auspices of the city council”
  2. armor plate that protects the chest; the front part of a cuirass

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  1. the protection, backing, or support of a particular person or organization negotiations were conducted under the aegis of the UN

Roman History Greek History (in classical art and mythology) an attribute of Zeus and Athena (or their Roman counterparts Jupiter and Minerva) usually represented as a goatskin shield.

Adjective

  1. resembling air or having the form of air
  2. characterized by lightness and insubstantiality; as impalpable or intangible as air; “figures light and aeriform come unlooked for and melt away”- Thomas Carlyle; “aerial fancies”; “an airy apparition”; “physical rather than ethereal forms”

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  1. Aggregating; of or involved in aggregation.

Noun

  1. liveliness and eagerness; “he accepted with alacrity”; “the smartness of the pace soon exhausted him”

Adjective

  1. (of seeds or insects) having winglike extensions; “alate leaves”; “alate seeds of a maple tree”

Adjective

  1. having no definite form or distinct shape; “amorphous clouds of insects”; “an aggregate of formless particles”; “a shapeless mass of protoplasm”
  2. lacking the system or structure characteristic of living bodies
  3. (of a group of people or an organization) unorganized or unfocused; “A mob is an amorphous crowd of people without ideals, a sum of individuals in which each lives for himself”
  4. unclear because vague or badly organized; “Her vague, amorphous statement of her predicament was part of what made it so hard for her to solve it”
  5. without real or apparent crystalline form; “an amorphous mineral”; “amorphous structure”

Noun

  1. one retired from society for religious reasons

In Christianity, an anchorite or anchoret (female: anchoress) is someone who, for religious reasons, withdraws from secular society so as to be able to lead an intensely prayer-oriented, ascetic, or Eucharist-focused life. Whilst anchorites are frequently considered to be a type of religious hermit, unlike hermits they were required to take a vow of stability of place, opting for permanent enclosure in cells often attached to churches. Also unlike hermits, anchorites were subject to a religious rite of consecration that closely resembled the funeral rite, following which they would be considered dead to the world, a type of living saint. Anchorites had a certain autonomy, as they did not answer to any ecclesiastical authority other than the bishop.The anchoritic life is one of the earliest forms of Christian monasticism. In the Catholic Church today, it is one of the "Other Forms of Consecrated Life" and governed by the same norms as the consecrated eremitic life. In medieval England, the earliest recorded anchorites existed in the 11th century. Their highest number—around 200 anchorites—were recorded in the 13th century.From the 12th to the 16th centuries, female anchorites consistently outnumbered their male counterparts, sometimes by as many as four to one (in the 13th century), dropping eventually to two to one (in the 15th century). The sex of a high number of anchorites, however, is not recorded for these periods.Between 1536 and 1539, the dissolution of the monasteries ordered by Henry VIII of England effectively brought the anchorite tradition to an end.

Noun

  1. showing characteristics of both sexes

Noun

  1. an inability to experience pleasure

Verb

  1. declare invalid; “The contract was annulled”; “void a plea”
  2. cancel officially; “He revoked the ban on smoking”; “lift an embargo”; “vacate a death sentence”

Adjective

  1. indicating opposition or resistance
  2. characterized by antagonism or antipathy; “slaves antagonistic to their masters”; “antipathetic factions within the party”
  3. arousing animosity or hostility; “his antagonistic brusqueness”; “Europe was antagonistic to the Unites States”
  4. used especially of drugs or muscles that counteract or neutralize each other’s effect
  5. incapable of harmonious association

Adjective

  1. of or relating to the study of the origins and development of human beings

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  1. Ecology (chiefly of pollution or environmental change) originating in human activity anthropogenic emissions of sulfur dioxide | belief in anthropogenic climate change

Origin

late 19th century (in sense ‘relating to the study of human development’): from anthropo- + -genic

(n.) absolute incontrovertible proof; the state of being provably true -@HaggardHawks

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Noun

  1. a final climactic stage; “their achievements stand as a culmination of centuries of development”
  2. apoapsis in Earth orbit; the point in its orbit where a satellite is at the greatest distance from the Earth

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  1. the highest point in the development of something; a climax or culmination the White House is considered the apogee of American achievement

  2. Astronomy the point in the orbit of the moon or a satellite at which it is furthest from the earth. • The opposite of perigee

Noun

  1. identifying word or words by which someone or something is called and classified or distinguished from others
  2. a geographical indication used to identify where the grapes for a wine are grown
  1. Formal a name or title the city fully justifies its appellation “the Pearl of the Orient.”

the action of giving a name to a person or thing.

Noun

  1. Wine an appellation contrôlée about 20 percent of French wines with an appellation come from Alsace

Wine a wine bearing an appellation contrôlée the top appellations Saint-Émilion and Pomerol

Wine the district in which a wine bearing an appellation contrôlée is produced the northeast corner of the appellation

Origin

late Middle English: via Old French from Latin appellatio(n-), from the verb appellare (see appeal)

abbreviation of appellation (d'origine) contrôlée

Adjective

  1. being of striking appropriateness and pertinence; “the successful copywriter is a master of apposite and evocative verbal images”; “an apt reply”

Adjective

  1. curved down like an eagle’s beak

Noun

  1. a group of many islands in a large body of water

Noun

  1. a farewell remark; “they said their good-byes”

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Noun

  1. an ambitious and aspiring young person; “a lofty aspirant”; “two executive hopefuls joined the firm”; “the audience was full of Madonna wannabes”

Adjective

  1. desiring or striving for recognition or advancement

Adjective

  1. freeing from fear and anxiety

Noun

  1. a reappearance of an earlier characteristic

Adjective

  1. irritable as if suffering from indigestion

Noun

  1. erosion by friction
  2. the wearing down of rock particles by friction due to water or wind or ice
  3. sorrow for sin arising from fear of damnation
  4. a wearing down to weaken or destroy; “a war of attrition”
  5. the act of rubbing together; wearing something down by friction

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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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

(v.) to bear a heavy burden -@HaggardHawks

Verb

  1. divide a territory into small, hostile states

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

Noun

  1. navigable deep diving vessel for underwater exploration

a strongly built steel diving sphere for deep-sea observation

Noun

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

Noun

  1. relevant relation or interconnection; “those issues have no bearing on our situation”
  2. the direction or path along which something moves or along which it lies
  3. dignified manner or conduct
  4. characteristic way of bearing one’s body; “stood with good posture”
  5. heraldry consisting of a design or image depicted on a shield
  6. a rotating support placed between moving parts to allow them to move easily

Adjective

  1. (of a structural member) withstanding a weight or strain

Noun

  1. a state of supreme happiness
  2. one of the eight sayings of Jesus at the beginning of the Sermon on the Mount; in Latin each saying begins with beatus’ (blessed); “her favorite Beatitude isBlessed are the meek for they shall inherit the earth’”

Verb

  1. regret strongly; “I deplore this hostile action”; “we lamented the loss of benefits”

Verb

  1. cause to be confused emotionally

Noun

  1. a contribution of money or assistance
  2. an act intending or showing kindness and good will

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”

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  1. Literature a novel dealing with one person's formative years or spiritual education the book is a bildungsroman of sorts, as Tull overcomes his abused childhood and learns about love

In literary criticism, a Bildungsroman (German pronunciation: [ˈbɪldʊŋs.ʁoˌmaːn], plural Bildungsromane, German pronunciation: [ˈbɪldʊŋs.ʁoˌmaːnə]) is a literary genre that focuses on the psychological and moral growth of the protagonist from childhood to adulthood (coming of age), in which character change is important. The term comes from the German words Bildung ("education", alternatively "forming") and Roman ("novel").

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

An ideology centered around the proliferation of lighter-than-air craft.

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  1. Photography the visual quality of the out-of-focus areas of a photographic image, especially as rendered by a particular lens a quick, visual survey of the foreground and background bokeh of a variety of lenses

Noun

  1. a soft oily clay used as a pigment (especially a reddish brown pigment)
  2. the main stem of a tree; usually covered with bark; the bole is usually the part that is commercially useful for lumber
  3. a Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria and closely related to Hausa

Adjective

  1. ostentatiously lofty in style; “a man given to large talk”; “tumid political prose”

Verb

  1. make a buzzing sound; “bees were buzzing around the hive”

Noun

  1. informal terms for money
  2. a gambling card game in which chips are placed on the ace and king and queen and jack of separate suits (taken from a separate deck); a player plays the lowest card of a suit in his hand and successively higher cards are played until the sequence stops; the player who plays a card matching one in the layout wins all the chips on that card

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

"Just messing around with your friends, having a good time. Just as the 🅱️ emoji goes it can refer to 'foolin' or 'boolin' both are practicly the same meaning but 'boiling' is used by the Bloods.

Person 1: 'What are you doing tonight?'

Person 2: 'You know, probably 🅱️oolin with my homes'" -Urban Dictionary: 🅱️oolin

Noun

  1. a woman’s hairstyle in which the hair gives a puffy appearance

Adjective

  1. being puffed out; used of hair style or clothing; “a bouffant skirt”

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”

Noun

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

Noun

  1. a man who is a stupid incompetent fool
  2. an informal term for a youth or man; “a nice guy”; “the guy’s only doing it for some doll”; “the poor sod couldn’t even buy a drink”

Adjective

  1. lacking funds; “`skint’ is a British slang term”

Adjective

  1. marked by rude or peremptory shortness; “try to cultivate a less brusque manner”; “a curt reply”; “the salesgirl was very short with him”

Noun

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

Adjective

  1. showing self-interest and shrewdness in dealing with others; “a cagey lawyer”; “too clever to be sound”
  2. characterized by great caution and wariness; “a cagey avoidance of a definite answer”; “chary of the risks involved”; “a chary investor”

Adjective

  1. smooth and flowing

Verb

  1. surrender under agreed conditions

Noun

  1. the lean flesh of a fish that is often farmed; can be baked or braised
  2. any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae

Verb

  1. raise trivial objections

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  1. Fish a deep-bodied freshwater fish, typically with barbels around the mouth. Carp are farmed for food in some parts of the world and are widely kept in large ponds.

Technical Note: Family Cyprinidae (the minnow family): several genera and species, including the common carp (Cyprinus carpio) and silver carp (Hypophthalmichthys molitrix). The family includes the majority of freshwater fishes in Eurasia, Africa, and North and Central America

Verb

Verb

  1. complain or find fault continually about trivial matters I don't want to carp about the way you did it | he was constantly carping at me

Noun

Noun

  1. persistent petty and unjustified criticism

Noun

`cas·​tra·​me·​ta·​tion |  ˌkastrəmə̇ˈtāshən `

plural -s

the making or laying out of a military camp

Noun

  1. a procession of people traveling on horseback

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  1. a formal procession of people walking, on horseback, or riding in vehicles the royal cavalcade proceeded through the city

Origin

late 16th century (denoting a ride or raid on horseback): from French, from Italian cavalcata, from cavalcare ‘to ride’, based on Latin caballus ‘horse’

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A cavalcade is a procession or parade on horseback, or a mass trail ride by a company of riders. The focus of a cavalcade is participation rather than display. Often, the participants do not wear costumes or ride in formation. Often, a cavalcade re-enacts an important historical event and follows a long-distance trail. A cavalcade may also be a pilgrimage. Many cavalcades involve ceremonial entries into and departures from towns and villages along the way. A small version of such a ceremonial entry is the "grand entry" that is traditional in many rodeos. Long-distance cavalcades may acquire more riders who join from populated places along its route.

The term cavalcade comes from the classical Latin word caballus, used to describe a strong work horse. This developed into the word caballicare, "to ride horseback," which in Italian became cavalcare. In Spanish the term for cavalcade is cabalgata.

Noun

  1. a rate that is rapid

Noun

  1. material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds
  2. foil in thin strips; ejected into the air as a radar countermeasure

Verb

  1. be silly or tease one another; “After we relaxed, we just kidded around”
  1. the husks of corn or other seed separated by winnowing or threshing.

chopped hay and straw used as fodder.

worthless things; trash.

Air Force strips of metal foil or metal filings released in the atmosphere from aircraft, or deployed as missiles, to obstruct radar detection or confuse radar-tracking missiles.

Verb

Noun

  1. lighthearted joking; banter we used to come in for a fair amount of ribbing and good-natured chaff

Verb

  1. tease.

Origin

Old English cæf, ceaf, probably from a Germanic base meaning ‘gnaw’; related to Dutch kaf, also to chafer

early 19th century: perhaps from chafe

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separate the wheat from the chaff

Wikipedia

Chaff (; also UK: ) is the dry, scaly protective casing of the seeds of cereal grains or similar fine, dry, scaly plant material (such as scaly parts of flowers or finely chopped straw). Chaff is indigestible by humans, but livestock can eat it. In agriculture it is used as livestock fodder, or is a waste material ploughed into the soil or burned.

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Noun

  1. a machine that separated the chaff from the grain

Similar Words: husks hulls bran pods seed cases shells capsules sheaths shucks

  1. the proposals were characterized as so much chaff

Similar Words: refuse waste garbage litter discarded matter debris detritus scrap dross flotsam and jetsam lumber sweepings leavings leftovers remains scraps dregs offscourings odds and ends muck rubbish trash mullock dreck junk grot gash debitage draff raff raffle cultch orts

Noun

  1. we used to come in for a fair amount of good-natured chaff

Similar Words: banter repartee raillery ripostes sallies quips wisecracks crosstalk wordplay teasing ragging badinage witty conversation witty remarks witticism witticisms joking jesting jocularity drollery bons mots kidding kidology ribbing joshing wisecracking persiflage

Verb

  1. the pleasures of drinking and betting and chaffing your mates

Similar Words: tease make fun of poke fun at rag mock laugh at guy deride ridicule scoff at jeer at jibe at taunt bait goad pick on take the mickey out of send up rib josh kid wind up have on pull someone's leg make a monkey out of goof on rag on put on pull someone's chain razz fun shuck poke mullock at poke borak at sling off at chiack take the piss out of make sport of twit quiz smoke flout at rally

Noun

  1. a written order directing a bank to pay money; “he paid all his bills by check”

Verb

  1. withdraw money by writing a check

Noun

  1. the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)

Verb

  1. annoy continually or chronically; “He is known to harry his staff when he is overworked”; “This man harasses his female co-workers”

Noun

  1. any undertaking that is easy to do; “marketing this product will be no picnic”
  2. stable gear consisting of a band around a horse’s belly that holds the saddle in place
  3. a form of all fours in which the players bid for the privilege of naming trumps

Verb

  1. tie a cinch around; “cinch horses”
  2. make sure of
  3. get a grip on; get mastery of

Adjective

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

Noun

  1. informal terms for personal possessions; “did you take all your clobber?”

Verb

  1. strike violently and repeatedly; “She clobbered the man who tried to attack her”
  2. beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight; “We licked the other team on Sunday!”
  1. Informal hit (someone) hard if he does that I'll clobber him!

treat or deal with harshly the recession clobbered other parts of the business

defeat heavily the Braves clobbered the Cubs 23–10

Verb

Verb

  1. add enameled decoration to (porcelain).

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In software engineering and computer science, clobbering a file, processor register or a region of computer memory is the process of overwriting its contents completely, whether intentionally or unintentionally, or to indicate that such an action will likely occur. The Jargon File defines clobbering as

To overwrite, usually unintentionally: "I walked off the end of the array and clobbered the stack." Compare mung, scribble, trash, and smash the stack.

Verb

  1. mix together different elements; “The colors blend well”
  2. fuse or cause to grow together

Verb

  1. consider carefully and deeply; reflect upon; turn over in one’s mind
  2. use or exercise the mind or one’s power of reason in order to make inferences, decisions, or arrive at a solution or judgments; “I’ve been thinking all day and getting nowhere”

Noun

  1. a familiar name for a person (often a shortened version of a person’s given name); “Joe’s mother would not use his nickname and always called him Joseph”; “Henry’s nickname was Slim”
  2. the name used to identify the members of a family (as distinguished from each member’s given name)

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”

Noun

  1. a feeling of deep regret (usually for some misdeed)

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”

Noun

  1. the state of being linked together as in a chain; union in a linked series
  2. the linking together of a consecutive series of symbols or events or ideas etc; “it was caused by an improbable concatenation of circumstances”
  3. a series of things depending on each other as if linked together; “the chain of command”; “a complicated concatenation of circumstances”
  4. the act of linking together as in a series or chain

Verb

  1. make a concoction (of) by mixing
  2. prepare or cook by mixing ingredients; “concoct a strange mixture”
  3. invent; “trump up charges”
  4. devise or invent; “He thought up a plan to get rich quickly”; “no-one had ever thought of such a clever piece of software”

Verb

  1. mix together different elements; “The colors blend well”

Noun

  1. healing process involving the growing together of the edges of a wound or the growing together of broken bones
  2. the union of diverse things into one body or form or group; the growing together of parts

Adjective

  1. occurring with or following as a consequence; “an excessive growth of bureaucracy, with attendant problems”; “snags incidental to the changeover in management”; “attendant circumstances”; “the period of tension and consequent need for military preparedness”; “the ensuant response to his appeal”; “the resultant savings were considerable”; “collateral target damage from a bombing run”

Noun

  1. fear resulting from the awareness of danger
  1. feelings of anxiety or dismay, typically at something unexpected I always welcomed clover, much to the consternation of the neighbors

Origin

early 17th century: from Latin consternatio(n-), from the verb consternare ‘lay prostrate, terrify’ (see consternate)

Thesaurus

Noun

  1. much to the consternation of his detractors, he emerged as a management guru

Similar Words: dismay perturbation anxiety distress disquiet disquietude discomposure angst trepidation surprise amazement astonishment stupefaction alarm panic hysteria fear fearfulness fright shock

Opposites: satisfaction

Adjective

  1. occurring in the same period of time; “a rise in interest rates is often contemporaneous with an increase in inflation”; “the composer Salieri was contemporary with Mozart”
  2. of the same period

Adjective

  1. occurring in the same period of time; “a rise in interest rates is often contemporaneous with an increase in inflation”; “the composer Salieri was contemporary with Mozart”
  2. of the same period

Noun

  1. the attribute of being so near as to be touching

Adjective

  1. feeling or expressing pain or sorrow for sins or offenses

Adjective

  1. occupied with or fond of the pleasures of good company; “a convivial atmosphere at the reunion”; “a woman of convivial nature”; “he was a real good-time Charlie”
  1. (of an atmosphere or event) friendly, lively, and enjoyable a convivial cocktail party

(of a person) cheerful and friendly; jovial she was relaxed and convivial

Origin

mid 17th century (in the sense ‘fit for a feast, festive’): from Latin convivialis, from convivium ‘a feast’, from con- ‘with’ + vivere ‘live’

Thesaurus

Adjective

  1. he was always a convivial host | the convivial after-dinner atmosphere

Similar Words: friendly genial affable amiable congenial agreeable good-humoured cordial warm sociable outgoing gregarious clubbable companionable hail-fellow-well-met cheerful jolly jovial merry lively enjoyable festive couthy backslapping chummy pally matey clubby buddy-buddy conversable

Opposites: unfriendly unsociable

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Adjective

  1. completely satisfactory; “his smile said that everything was copacetic”; “You had to be a good judge of what a man was like, and the English was copacetic”- John O’Hara

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  1. Informal North American in excellent order he said to tell you everything is copacetic

In a looser but related sense, "cosmopolitan" is also used to describe places where people of various ethnic, cultural and/or religious backgrounds live together and interact with each other.

Cottagecore is a fashion aesthetic popularised by teenagers and young adults celebrating an idealized rural life. Traditionally based on a rural English and European life, it was developed throughout the 2010s and was first named cottagecore on Tumblr in 2018. The aesthetic centres on traditional rural clothing, interior design, and crafts such as drawing, baking, and pottery, and is related to similar aesthetic movements such as grandmacore, farmcore, goblincore, and fairycore.Some sources describe cottagecore as a subculture of Millennials and Generation Z.

Noun

  1. the appearance conveyed by a person’s face; “a pleasant countenance”; “a stern visage”
  2. formal and explicit approval; “a Democrat usually gets the union’s endorsement”
  3. the human face (kisser’ andsmiler’ and mug’ are informal terms forface’ and `phiz’ is British)

Verb

  1. consent to, give permission; “She permitted her son to visit her estranged husband”; “I won’t let the police search her basement”; “I cannot allow you to see your exam”

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  1. a person's face or facial expression his impenetrable eyes and inscrutable countenance give little away

  2. support she was giving her specific countenance to the occasion

Verb

  1. admit as acceptable or possible he was reluctant to countenance the use of force

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”

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  1. Slang Of software: poorly designed, especially unnecessarily or unintentionally complex; containing redundant code.

Cruft is a jargon word for anything that is left over, redundant and getting in the way. It is used particularly for defective, superseded, useless, superfluous, or dysfunctional elements in computer software.

Noun

  1. a crusty irascible cantankerous old person full of stubborn ideas

Noun

  1. a cynical feeling of distrust

Cynicism is an attitude characterized by a general distrust of others' motives. A cynic may have a general lack of faith or hope in people motivated by ambition, desire, greed, gratification, materialism, goals, and opinions that a cynic perceives as vain, unobtainable, or ultimately meaningless and therefore deserving of ridicule or admonishment. -Cynicism (contemporary) | Wikipedia

Adjective

  1. affecting extreme elegance in dress and manner

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  1. showing excessive concern about ones clothes or appearance (typically used of a man) we watched the boat races among crowds of elegant and dandified young men

self-consciously sophisticated or elaborate he writes a dandified prose

Adjective

  1. having spots or patches of color

Adjective

  1. having a sophisticated charm; “a debonair gentleman”
  2. having a cheerful, lively, and self-confident air; “looking chipper, like a man…diverted by his own wit”- Frances G. Patton; “life that is gay, brisk, and debonair”- H.M.Reynolds; “walked with a jaunty step”; “a jaunty optimist”

(n.) someone whose fortunes are waning or declining [18thC] -@HaggardHawks

Adjective

  1. harmful to the mind or morals; “corrupt judges and their corrupting influence”; “the vicious and degrading cult of violence”
  2. used of conduct; characterized by dishonor

Adjective

  1. harmful to living things; “deleterious chemical additives”

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  1. Formal causing harm or damage divorce is assumed to have deleterious effects on children

Verb

  1. determine the essential quality of
  2. be opposite to; of angles and sides, in geometry
  3. set, mark, or draw the boundaries of something

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

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  1. Physiology Sex the process of subsiding from a state of tension, swelling, or (especially) sexual arousal.

Origin

late 17th century: from Latin detumescere, from de- ‘down, away’+ tumescere ‘to swell’

Noun

  1. the temperature at which the water vapor in the air becomes saturated and condensation begins

Adjective

  1. skillful in physical movements; especially of the hands; “a deft waiter”; “deft fingers massaged her face”; “dexterous of hand and inventive of mind”

Adjective

  1. used of the study of a phenomenon (especially language) as it changes through time; “diachronic linguistics”

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  1. Linguistics concerned with the way in which something, especially language, has developed and evolved through time. • Often contrasted with synchronic the census is also a diachronic data set | linguistic change is the diachronic aspect of linguistic variation

Adjective

  1. belonging to or characteristic of a dialect; “dialectal variation”

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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Noun

  1. a steerable self-propelled aircraft

Adjective

  1. capable of being steered or directed

Verb

  1. expend, as from a fund

Adjective

  1. having or revealing keen insight and good judgment; “a discerning critic”; “a discerning reader”
  2. unobtrusively perceptive and sympathetic; “a discerning editor”; “a discreet silence”
  3. quick to understand; “a kind and apprehensive friend”- Nathaniel Hawthorne
  4. able to make or detect effects of great subtlety; sensitive; “discerning taste”; “a discerning eye for color”

Adjective

  1. not in agreement or harmony; “views discordant with present-day ideas”
  2. lacking in harmony
  1. disagreeing or incongruous the principle of meritocracy is discordant with claims of inherited worth

characterized by quarreling and conflict a study of children in discordant homes

  1. (of sounds) harsh and jarring because of a lack of harmony bombs, guns, and engines mingled in discordant sound

  2. Biology (of a matched pair of subjects, especially twins) not having the same trait or disease studies with data from discordant twins will be useful to confirm our findings

Origin

late Middle English: from Old French descordant, present participle of descorder (see discord)

Thesaurus

Adjective

  1. the messages from Washington and London were discordant

Similar Words: in disagreement at variance at odds disagreeing differing divergent discrepant contradictory contrary in conflict conflicting opposite opposed opposing clashing incompatible inconsistent irreconcilable inconsonant incongruous oppugnant

Opposites: in agreement harmonious compatible

  1. discordant sounds

Similar Words: inharmonious unharmonious unmelodic unmusical tuneless off-key dissonant harsh jarring grating jangling jangly strident shrill screeching screechy cacophonous sharp flat absonant horrisonant

Opposites: harmonious dulcet

Adjective

  1. proceeding to a conclusion by reason or argument rather than intuition
  2. (of e.g. speech and writing) tending to depart from the main point or cover a wide range of subjects; “amusingly digressive with satirical thrusts at women’s fashions among other things”; “a rambling discursive book”; “his excursive remarks”; “a rambling speech about this and that”
  1. digressing from subject to subject students often write dull, secondhand, discursive prose

Literature (of a style of speech or writing) fluent and expansive rather than formulaic or abbreviated the short story is concentrated, whereas the novel is discursive

  1. Linguistics relating to discourse or modes of discourse the attempt to transform utterances from one discursive context to another

  2. Philosophy Archaic proceeding by argument or reasoning rather than by intuition.

Origin

late 16th century: from medieval Latin discursivus, from Latin discurs-, literally ‘gone hastily to and fro’, from the verb discurrere (see discourse)

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

Adjective

  1. characterized by assertion of unproved or unprovable principles
  2. of or pertaining to or characteristic of a doctrine or code of beliefs accepted as authoritative
  3. relating to or involving dogma; “dogmatic writings”

Noun

  1. a state of inactivity (in business or art etc); “economic growth of less than 1% per year is considered to be economic stagnation”
  2. a belt of calms and light winds between the northern and southern trade winds of the Atlantic and Pacific

Noun

  1. a person who is not very bright; “The economy, stupid!”

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Origin

mid 16th century: perhaps a variant of dulled, past participle of dull

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Noun

  1. he makes me feel like a dolt

Similar Words: fool nincompoop clown simpleton idiot ninny dope dimwit chump goon dumbo dummy halfwit nitwit dum-dum loon jackass cretin imbecile jerk nerd fathead blockhead numbskull dunderhead dunce dipstick bonehead chucklehead clod goop knucklehead lamebrain pea-brain pudding-head thickhead wooden-head pinhead airhead birdbrain dumb-bell donkey stupe noodle nit twit numpty clot plonker berk prat pillock wally git wazzock divvy nerk twerp charlie mug muppet nyaff balloon sumph gowk gobdaw schmuck bozo boob lamer turkey schlepper chowderhead dumbhead dumbass goofball goof goofus galoot dork lummox klutz putz schlemiel sap meatball gink cluck clunk ding-dong dingbat wiener weeny dip simp spud coot palooka poop squarehead yo-yo dingleberry drongo dill alec galah nong bogan poon boofhead mompara arse arsehole knobhead twat wanker ass asshole asshat tomfool muttonhead noddy clodpole loggerhead spoony mooncalf

Noun

  1. the recipient of funds or other benefits

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  1. a person who receives a gift.

Law a person who is given a power of appointment.1

A doof or bush doof is a type of outdoor dance party generally held in a remote country area, or outside a large city in surrounding bush or rainforest. Originating in the post-punk electronic music scene of Melbourne, Australia in the early 1990s, events referred to as doofs are now held worldwide and have built from a small set of social groups to a subculture with millions of active members worldwide, considered by some as a full blown culture similar to raves or teknivals. Doofs generally have healing workshops, speakers, art, live artists and DJs playing a range of electronic music, commonly goa, house, dub techno, Techno, acid heavy sounds and psychedelic trance. -Doof - Wikipedia

Noun

  1. one who works hard at boring tasks
  2. a laborer who is obliged to do menial work

Verb

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

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

Adjective

  1. joyously unrestrained

  1. cheerful and full of energy she sounded ebullient and happy

  2. Archaic (of liquid or matter) boiling or agitated as if boiling misted and ebullient seas

Adjective

  1. devouring or craving food in great quantities; “edacious vultures”; “a rapacious appetite”; “ravenous as wolves”; “voracious sharks”

Adjective

  1. conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible; “a crying shame”; “an egregious lie”; “flagrant violation of human rights”; “a glaring error”; “gross ineptitude”; “gross injustice”; “rank treachery”

Word of the Day: EMBRANGLEMENT (n.) an intricate state of confusion or disorder -@HaggardHawks

Noun

  1. the apparent surface of the imaginary sphere on which celestial bodies appear to be projected

Adjective

  1. of or relating to the sky or heavens; “the empyrean sphere”
  2. inspiring awe; “well-meaning ineptitude that rises to empyreal absurdity”- M.S.Dworkin; “empyrean aplomb”- Hamilton Basso; “the sublime beauty of the night”

Noun

  1. a formal expression of praise

Verb

  1. fix firmly; “He ensconced himself in the chair”
  1. Logic Archaic equal or equivalent in power, effect, or significance.

Origin

late Middle English: from Old French equipolent, from Latin aequipollent- ‘of equal value’, from aequi- ‘equally’ + pollere ‘be strong’

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Adjective

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

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  1. having or showing great knowledge or learning Ken could turn any conversation into an erudite discussion | she was very erudite

Origin

late Middle English: from Latin eruditus, past participle of erudire ‘instruct, train’ (based on rudis ‘rude, untrained’)

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Adjective

  1. he was so erudite that only men who were his equals in scholarship could understand him | erudite editions of minor classical writers

Similar Words: learned scholarly well educated knowledgeable well read widely read well versed well informed lettered cultured cultivated civilized intellectual intelligent clever academic literary bookish highbrow studious sage wise sagacious discerning donnish cerebral enlightened illuminated sophisticated pedantic esoteric obscure recondite brainy genius sapient

Opposites: ignorant ill-educated

Adjective

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

Noun

  1. a long steep slope or cliff at the edge of a plateau or ridge; usually formed by erosion
  2. a steep artificial slope in front of a fortification

Noun

  1. the branch of theology that is concerned with such final things as death and Last Judgment; Heaven and Hell; the ultimate destiny of humankind

From Wikipedia Eschatology concerns expectations of the end of the present age, human history, or of the world itself. The end of the world or end times is predicted by several world religions, which teach that negative world events will reach a climax. Belief that the end of the world is imminent is known as apocalypticism, and over time has been held both by members of mainstream religions and by doomsday cults. In the context of mysticism, the term refers metaphorically to the end of ordinary reality and to reunion with the divine. Various religions treat eschatology as a future event prophesied in sacred texts or in folklore.

The Abrahamic religions maintain a linear cosmology, with end-time scenarios containing themes of transformation and redemption. In later Judaism, the term "end of days" makes reference to the Messianic Age and includes an in-gathering of the exiled Jewish diaspora, the coming of the Messiah, the resurrection of the righteous, and the world to come. Some forms of Christianity depict the end time as a period of tribulation that precedes the second coming of Christ, who will face the rise of the Antichrist along with his power structure and false prophets, and usher in the Kingdom of God. In Islam, the Day of Judgment is preceded by the appearance of the Masīḥ ad-Dajjāl, and followed by the descending of ʿĪsā (Jesus), which shall triumph over the false Messiah or Antichrist; his defeat will lead to a sequence of events that will end with the sun rising from the west and the beginning of the Qiyāmah (Judgment Day).

Dharmic religions tend to have more cyclical worldviews, with end-time eschatologies characterized by decay, redemption, and rebirth (though some believe transitions between cycles are relatively uneventful). In Hinduism, the end time occurs when Kalki, the final incarnation of Vishnu, descends atop a white horse and brings an end to the current Kali Yuga, completing a cycle that starts again with the regeneration of the world. In Buddhism, the Buddha predicted his teachings would be forgotten after 5,000 years, followed by turmoil. It says a bodhisattva named Maitreya will appear and rediscover the teachings of the Buddha Dharma, and that the ultimate destruction of the world will then come through seven suns.

Since the development of the concept of deep time in the 18th century and the calculation of the estimated age of planet Earth, scientific discourse about end times has considered the ultimate fate of the universe. Theories have included the Big Rip, Big Crunch, Big Bounce, and Big Freeze (heat death). Social and scientific commentators also worry about global catastrophic risks and scenarios that could result in human extinction.

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  1. Formal fit to be eaten; edible.

Noun

  1. Formal a thing, especially a vegetable, which is fit to be eaten.

Verb

  1. catch sight of
  1. Literary catch sight of she espied her daughter rounding the corner

Origin

Middle English: from Old French espier, ultimately of Germanic origin and related to Dutch spieden and German spähan. Compare with spy

Adjective

  1. deserving of respect or high regard
  2. deserving of esteem and respect; “all respectable companies give guarantees”; “ruined the family’s good name”
  3. may be computed or estimated; “a calculable risk”; “computable odds”; “estimable assets”

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  1. worthy of great respect she was shown into that estimable woman's presence

Adjective

  1. extremely hungry; “they were tired and famished for food and sleep”; “a ravenous boy”; “the family was starved and ragged”; “fell into the esurient embrance of a predatory enemy”
  2. (often followed by `for’) ardently or excessively desirous; “avid for adventure”; “an avid ambition to succeed”; “fierce devouring affection”; “the esurient eyes of an avid curiosity”; “greedy for fame”
  3. devouring or craving food in great quantities; “edacious vultures”; “a rapacious appetite”; “ravenous as wolves”; “voracious sharks”
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Adjective

  1. characterized by lightness and insubstantiality; as impalpable or intangible as air; “figures light and aeriform come unlooked for and melt away”- Thomas Carlyle; “aerial fancies”; “an airy apparition”; “physical rather than ethereal forms”
  2. of or containing or dissolved in ether; “ethereal solution”
  3. of heaven or the spirit; “celestial peace”; “ethereal melodies”; “the supernal happiness of a quiet death”
  4. characterized by unusual lightness and delicacy; “this smallest and most ethereal of birds”; “gossamer shading through his playing”

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  1. extremely delicate and light in a way that seems too perfect for this world her ethereal beauty | a singer who has a weirdly ethereal voice

heavenly or spiritual ethereal, otherworldly visions

  1. Chemistry (of a solution) having diethyl ether as a solvent sodium is dissolved in ethereal solutions of aromatic ketones

Noun

  1. the branch of anthropology that provides scientific description of individual human societies

Noun

  1. the branch of anthropology that provides scientific description of individual human societies

Noun

An EXCOURSE is a grand outgoing or exodus of people.

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”

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”

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”

Verb

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

Verb

  1. praise, glorify, or honor; “extol the virtues of one’s children”; “glorify one’s spouse’s cooking”

Adjective

  1. extraordinary in a particular capacity; “a woodworker extraordinaire”; “a self-starter extraordinaire”

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

Adjective

  1. broadly or extravagantly humorous; resembling farce; “the wild farcical exuberance of a clown”; “ludicrous green hair”

Noun

  1. a socially awkward or tactless act

Adjective

  1. having turns or windings; “the flexuous bed of the stream”

Adjective

  1. affecting extreme elegance in dress and manner

a hint or glimpse of the future. -@HaggardHawks

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

To FORTOGGLE someone is to distract them. -@HaggardHawks

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Adjective

  1. lasting a very short time; “the ephemeral joys of childhood”; “a passing fancy”; “youth’s transient beauty”; “love is transitory but it is eternal”; “fugacious blossoms”

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  1. Literary tending to disappear; fleeting she was acutely conscious of her fugacious youth
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Adjective

  1. amazingly impressive; suggestive of the flashing of lightning; “the skater’s dazzling virtuosic leaps”; “these great best canvases still look as astonishing and as invitingly new as they did…when…his fulgurant popularity was in full growth”- Janet Flanner; “adventures related…in a style both vivid and fulgurous”- Idwal Jones

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  1. Literary resembling or filled with lightning the deep fulgurous color in Rembrandt's portrait | endless purple fulgurous sky

Verb

  1. treat with fumes, expose to fumes, especially with the aim of disinfecting or eradicating pests

Noun

  1. one of many families or subfamilies into which some classification systems subdivide the Liliaceae but not widely accepted; includes genus Hosta

A fursona is a personalized animal character created by someone in the furry fandom. The term fursona is a portmanteau furry and persona. The vast majority of furries have fursonas; the Anthropomorphic Research Project states that nearly every furry has a fursona, and The New Science of Narcissism estimates the amount at 95%. The Anthropomorphic Research Project additionally states that the average furry has 2.12 fursonas over the course of their life.Fursonas may be anthropomorphic personas, idealized versions of their owners, fleshed out roleplay characters, or simply digital mascots. A small minority of furries express a desire to become, or already see themselves as, their fursona's species. These people may additionally identify as therians or otherkin.Individuals' fursonas are acted out primarily online, but also at furry conventions and in other public spaces. Acting out one's fursona in person may involve wearing a fursuit. -Fursona - Wikipedia

Galumph means "to move with a clumsy heavy tread." // After long days at his landscaping job, their teenage son galumphs into the house and flings himself onto the couch, sighing heavily. See the entry >

galumph in Context

"One moment he'd be pitter-pattering…; the next he'd be whirling and galumphing about the stage." — Jeffrey Gantz, The Boston Globe, 8 Feb. 2022

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Bump, thump, thud. There's no doubt about it—when someone or something galumphs onto the scene, ears take notice. Galumph first lumbered onto the English scene in 1872 when Lewis Carroll used the word to describe the actions of the vanquisher of the Jabberwock in Through the Looking Glass: "He left it dead, and with its head / He went galumphing back." Carroll likely constructed the word by splicing _gallop_ and _triumphant_ (galumph did in its earliest uses convey a sense of exultant bounding). Other 19th-century writers must have liked the sound of galumph, because they began plying it in their own prose, and it has been clumping around our language ever since.

Quiz

Unscramble the letters to create a word meaning "to walk, tread, or step especially heavily": MRPAT. VIEW THE ANSWER

-"Word of the Day: Galumph"

Adjective

  1. full of trivial conversation; “kept from her housework by gabby neighbors”

Adjective

  1. extremely cold; “an arctic climate”; “a frigid day”; “gelid waters of the North Atlantic”; “glacial winds”; “icy hands”; “polar weather”

Noun

  1. someone who has exceptional intellectual ability and originality; “Mozart was a child genius”; “he’s smart but he’s no Einstein”
  2. unusual mental ability
  3. someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field
  4. exceptional creative ability
  5. a natural talent; “he has a flair for mathematics”; “he has a genius for interior decorating”

Adjective

  1. marked by lack of intellectual depth; “glib generalizations”; “a glib response to a complex question”
  2. having only superficial plausibility; “glib promises”; “a slick commercial”
  3. artfully persuasive in speech; “a glib tongue”; “a smooth-tongued hypocrite”

A GLISK is a glimpse of warm sunshine. HaggardHawks

Noun

  1. the time of day immediately following sunset; “he loved the twilight”; “they finished before the fall of night”

Noun

  1. a small globe or ball

Origin

mid 17th century: from French, or from Latin globulus, diminutive of globus ‘spherical object, globe’

Something that is GLOMEROUS is wound into a ball, like wool or string. -@HaggardHawks

Noun

  1. an awkward stupid person
  2. an aggressive and violent young criminal

Noun

  1. an opaque watercolor prepared with gum
  2. a watercolor executed with opaque watercolors mixed with gum

Gouache (; French: [ɡwaʃ]), body color, or opaque watercolor, is a water-medium paint consisting of natural pigment, water, a binding agent (usually gum arabic or dextrin), and sometimes additional inert material. Gouache is designed to be opaque. Gouache has a considerable history, having been used for at least twelve centuries. It is used most consistently by commercial artists for posters, illustrations, comics, and other design work.

Gouache is similar to watercolor in that it can be re-wetted and dries to a matte finish, and the paint can become infused into its paper support. It is similar to acrylic or oil paints in that it is normally used in an opaque painting style and it can form a superficial layer. Many manufacturers of watercolor paints also produce gouache, and the two can easily be used together. -Gouache - Wikipedia

WTF

Noun

  1. informal terms for objecting; “I have a gripe about the service here”

Verb

  1. complain; “What was he hollering about?”

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  1. Informal [no object] complain about something in a persistent, irritating way “Holidays don't make any difference to Simon,” Pat griped | they gripe about the busywork

  2. Archaic [with object] grasp tightly; clutch Hilyard griped his dagger

  3. Nautical [with object] secure (a boat) with gripes.

  4. Nautical [no object] (of a ship) turn to face the wind in spite of the helm.

Noun

  1. Informal a minor complaint his biggest gripe is that he has lost his sense of privacy

  2. Medicine usually "gripes" gastric or intestinal pain; colic if your baby has gripe or is teething, we have the medication to help them

  3. Archaic an act of grasping something tightly he seized me by the arms with a rude gripe

  4. Nautical "gripes" lashings securing a boat in its place on deck or in davits.

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”

GULLY-FLUFF was 19th century slang for the dust and lint that gathers in a pocket. -@HaggardHawks

Noun

  1. a child who spends most of his time in the streets especially in slum areas
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Verb

  1. to wind or move in a spiral course; “the muscles and nerves of his fine drawn body were coiling for action”; “black smoke coiling up into the sky”; “the young people gyrated on the dance floor”
  2. revolve quickly and repeatedly around one’s own axis; “The dervishes whirl around and around without getting dizzy”

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  1. move or cause to move in a circle or spiral, especially quickly their wings gyrate through the water like paddle wheels

[no object] dance in a wild or suggestive manner strippers gyrated to rock music on a low stage

Noun

  1. one who works hard at boring tasks
  2. a politician who belongs to a small clique that controls a political party for private rather than public ends
  3. a mediocre and disdained writer
  4. a tool (as a hoe or pick or mattock) used for breaking up the surface of the soil
  5. a car driven by a person whose job is to take passengers where they want to go in exchange for money
  6. an old or over-worked horse
  7. a horse kept for hire
  8. a saddle horse used for transportation rather than sport etc.

Verb

  1. cut with a hacking tool
  2. be able to manage or manage successfully; “I can’t hack it anymore”; “she could not cut the long days in the office”
  3. cut away; “he hacked his way through the forest”
  4. kick on the arms
  5. kick on the shins
  6. fix a computer program piecemeal until it works; “I’m not very good at hacking but I’ll give it my best”
  7. significantly cut up a manuscript
  8. cough spasmodically; “The patient with emphysema is hacking all day”

Adjective

  1. affectedly dramatic; overacted
  1. Theatre Informal (of acting or an actor) exaggerated or overly theatrical there is some hammy acting

Noun

  1. a scolding (even vicious) old woman

Noun

  1. the dominance or leadership of one social group or nation over others; “the hegemony of a single member state is not incompatible with a genuine confederation”; “to say they have priority is not to say they have complete hegemony”; “the consolidation of the United States’ hegemony over a new international economic system”

Adverb

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

Noun

  1. the abode of a hermit

“Hermitage (religious retreat)” - Wikipedia

A hermitage most authentically refers to a place where a hermit lives in seclusion from the world, or a building or settlement where a person or a group of people lived religiously, in seclusion. Particularly as a name or part of the name of properties its meaning is often imprecise, harking to a distant period of local history, components of the building material, or recalling any former sanctuary or holy place. Secondary churches or establishments run from a monastery were often called "hermitages".

In the 18th century, some owners of English country houses adorned their gardens with a "hermitage", sometimes a Gothic ruin, but sometimes, as at Painshill Park, a romantic hut which a "hermit" was recruited to occupy. The so-called Ermita de San Pelayo y San Isidoro is the ruins of a Romanesque church of Ávila, Spain that ended up several hundred miles away, to feature in the Buen Retiro Park in Madrid.

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”

When referring to computer processors, hexa-core is a term used to describe a multi-core CPU containing six cores.

Verb

  1. move hurridly; “He rushed down the hall to receive his guests”; “The cars raced down the street”

Noun

  1. a very loud utterance (like the sound of an animal); “his bellow filled the hallway”
  2. a small valley between mountains; “he built himself a cabin in a hollow high up in the Appalachians”

Verb

  1. shout out; “He hollered out to surrender our weapons”
  2. utter a sudden loud cry; “she cried with pain when the doctor inserted the needle”; “I yelled to her from the window but she couldn’t hear me”
  3. complain; “What was he hollering about?”

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

homunculus

How I Maintain a Vocabulary List in Drafts with Terminology

Terminology URL Scheme and Vocabulary Workspace
Terminology URL Scheme and Vocabulary Workspace

As I wrote in my app store review of Terminology (which is not shown publicly, I’ve since learned,) I prefer it over popular dictionary apps like LookUp (which I also have and use regularly) because it allows me to add new terms that don’t show up in search results. Somehow, the idea that one might store words that don’t necessarily appear in any dictionary seems a foreign one to the creators of LookUp, which I’ve since found out to be the cause of its Siri Shortcuts actions failing on me.

https://twitter.com/NeoYokel/status/1477323450549219328

Terminology does support adding “custom” terms, if unintentionally, through its “notes” function. Because it’s related to Drafts (they’re from the same creator,) it was quite easy to “integrate” the two in order to form the workflow you see demonstrated in the video below.

https://imgur.com/gallery/Q04Kxrg

First, I use the Lookup in Terminology action paired with a keyboard shortcut (^⇧D) in Drafts to search a selected word in Terminology. There, I “like” the word and - if needed - add a definition via the notes button (immediately to the left of the heart in the upper right corner.) I’ve configured a custom button - “Drafts-definition” - (which you should be able to import with that hyperlink) that sends the term including its notes back to Drafts with the following configuration:

drafts://create?text=[[definitions]]%0A[[note]]

That button results in a new Draft in a specific format, demonstrated by this example:

Antagonistic Vocabulary Draft Example
Antagonistic Vocabulary Draft Example

I then manually add the “Vocabulary” tag to the Draft, completing the process and placing it within the parameters defined by my Vocabulary workspace, which shows only drafts with that tag, sorted alphabetically.

Publication

For the past few weeks, I’ve been wreaking havoc on NeoCities’ global activity feed using the action group I created on the /drafts directory of davidblue dot wtf. Specifically, the action that uploads HTML files to that directory named by the UUID of the draft. (Here’s the corresponding link for this post, for example.) With consequent draft_open_urls left in the footer of each as per my current, more or less universal HTML template, I’m able to immediately open the appropriate draft locally.

Vocabulary Index Shortcut
Vocabulary Index Shortcut

In order to maintain an updated index of the whole list, I’ve created a Siri Shortcut which transforms the UUIDs of the drafts in the vocabulary workspace into markdown-formatted hyperlinks of their web-dwelling counterparts.

Terminology Favorites List
Terminology Favorites List

Even if you’ve no intention of publishing your personal vocabulary - or integrating it with Drafts - Terminology is still the dictionary app I’d recommend over any others.

#configuration #software #automation

Word of the Day: HUFFCAP (n.) a swaggering, overbearing blusterer -@HaggardHawks

Adverb

  1. by a factor of one hundred; “they money increased a hundredfold”

Noun

  1. extravagant exaggeration

Noun

  1. extravagant exaggeration

LookUp Noun

  1. Rhetoric exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally he vowed revenge with oaths and hyperboles | you can't accuse us of hyperbole
hypnagogic LookUp
hypnagogic LookUp

Adjective

  1. sleep inducing

From LookUp: Adjective

  1. Psychology Physiology relating to the state immediately before falling asleep.

Something that is HYPOMNESTIC causes you to remember something. -@HaggardHawks

iconographic cannibalism

2022.03.22 20:15 T - bx as far as im aware "iconographic cannibalism" is a phrase that im gur first to put into use, i came up with it to describe a specific phenomenon where i dont want to eat things that looks too much like inocent or other wise joy filled human beings, this includes ginger bread people, some kinds of cake(m&s sells one that looks like a plump anropomorphised catipillar named collin) and also gur licorice allsort that looks like gur mascot, which is just a person shaped collection of licorice allsorts (and in gur actual pack its a smaller piece of single licorice shaped gur same way).

ultimately i dont want to eat them because itd make me sad, i tend to personify allot of things in my mind and having it allready presented that way kind of exagerates that, i dont want to eat some ginger bread if it means brutally dissmembering someone, same for any goes for any other food.

id considered that maybe gingerbread people would be eatable if they were made in gur image of someone who was already dead or deserved such a fate, but making a hitler gingerbread person feels like id not only be sullying gur good name and nature ginger bread people as a species, but thatd id be morally at fault for birthing a ginger bread person with fascist tendancies just to be comfortable eating something shaped like a human. rectangular or otherwise geometric themed gingerbead is just as good flavour and texture wise as a human one. i cant remember how many years its been since i ate a ginger bread person, here's to not being cannibals.

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

Adjective

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

Adjective

  1. not having enough money to pay for necessities

To be IMPLUVIOUS is to be soaked with rain.

— Haggard Hawks 🦅 (@HaggardHawks) October 7, 2022

To be IMPLUVIOUS is to be soaked with rain.

Noun

  1. formal and explicit approval; “a Democrat usually gets the union’s endorsement”

Adjective

  1. (of a substance) incapable of being dissolved
  2. used of decisions and contracts

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”

From LookUp: Adjective

  1. so good or unusual as to be impossible to copy; unique the inimitable ambience of Hawaii

Adjective

  1. not friendly; “an unfriendly act of aggression”; “an inimical critic”
  1. tending to obstruct or harm actions inimical to our interests

unfriendly; hostile an inimical alien power

Origin

early 16th century: from late Latin inimicalis, from Latin inimicus (see enemy)

Thesaurus

Adjective

  1. actions inimical to our interests

Similar Words: harmful injurious detrimental deleterious pernicious damaging hurtful dangerous destructive ruinous calamitous antagonistic contrary antipathetic unfavourable adverse opposed hostile at odds not conducive prejudicial malefic maleficent

Opposites: helpful advantageous

  1. he fixed her with an inimical gaze

Similar Words: hostile unfriendly antagonistic ill-disposed unkind unsympathetic malevolent malign inhospitable unwelcoming cold icy frosty glacial

Opposites: friendly warm

@breadotop on Twitter

Adjective

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

Adjective

  1. beguiling but harmful; “insidious pleasures”
  2. intended to entrap
  3. working or spreading in a hidden and usually injurious way; “glaucoma is an insidious disease”; “a subtle poison”
interdict LookUp
interdict LookUp

Noun

  1. an ecclesiastical censure by the Roman Catholic Church withdrawing certain sacraments and Christian burial from a person or all persons in a particular district
  2. a court order prohibiting a party from doing a certain activity

Verb

  1. destroy by firepower, such as an enemy’s line of communication
  2. command against; “I forbid you to call me late at night”; “Mother vetoed the trip to the chocolate store”; “Dad nixed our plans”

From LookUp: Noun

  1. an authoritative prohibition an interdict against marriage of those of close kin

Roman Catholic Church (in the Roman Catholic Church) a sentence barring a person, or especially a place, from ecclesiastical functions and privileges a papal interdict

Verb

  1. North American prohibit or forbid (something) society will never interdict sex

"interdict someone from" prohibit someone from (doing something) I have not been interdicted from consuming or holding alcoholic beverages

  1. North American intercept and prevent the movement of (a prohibited commodity or person) the police established roadblocks throughout the country for interdicting drugs

Military impede (an enemy force), especially by aerial bombing of lines of communication or supply.

From LookUp:

Verb

  1. (of two or more things) interlock like the fingers of two clasped hands the scales at the shell margins of opposing valves frequently interdigitate

"Word of the Day: INTERDIGITATE (v.) to interlock the fingers" -@HaggardHawks

Noun

  1. the performer in the middle of a minstrel line who engages the others in talk
  2. a person who takes part in a conversation

Noun

  1. rise and fall of the voice pitch
  2. singing by a soloist of the opening piece of plainsong
  3. the act of singing in a monotonous tone
  4. the production of musical tones (by voice or instrument); especially the exactitude of the pitch relations

From LookUp Noun

  1. the rise and fall of the voice in speaking she spoke English with a German intonation

the action of intoning or reciting in a singing voice.

  1. Music accuracy of pitch in playing or singing, or on a stringed instrument such as a guitar poor woodwind intonation at the opening

  2. Music the opening phrase of a plainsong melody.

Adjective

  1. invulnerable to fear or intimidation; “audacious explorers”; “fearless reporters and photographers”; “intrepid pioneers”

Adjective

  1. containing or implying a slight or showing prejudice; “discriminatory attitudes and practices”; “invidious comparisons”

Noun

  1. a laborer who moves from place to place as demanded by employment; “itinerant traders”

Adjective

  1. traveling from place to place to work; “itinerant labor”; “an itinerant judge”
  1. traveling from place to place itinerant traders

Noun

  1. a person who travels from place to place.

Origin

late 16th century (used to describe a judge traveling on a circuit): from late Latin itinerant- ‘traveling’, from the verb itinerari, from Latin iter, itiner- ‘journey, road’

Adjective

  1. of insufficient quantity to meet a need; “an inadequate income”; “a poor salary”; “money is short”; “on short rations”; “food is in short supply”; “short on experience”; “the jejune diets of the very poor”
  2. displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity; “adolescent insecurity”; “jejune responses to our problems”; “their behavior was juvenile”; “puerile jokes”
  3. lacking interest or significance or impact; “an insipid personality”; “jejune novel”

Noun

  1. music in three-four time for dancing a jig
  2. a fisherman’s lure with one or more hooks that is jerked up and down in the water
  3. a device that holds a piece of machine work and guides the tools operating on it
  4. any of various old rustic dances involving kicking and leaping

Verb

  1. dance a quick dance with leaping and kicking motions

Noun

  1. a sudden jarring impact; “the door closed with a jolt”; “all the jars and jolts were smoothed out by the shock absorbers”

Verb

  1. move up and down repeatedly

Noun

  1. dessert made of sweetened milk coagulated with rennet
  2. a journey taken for pleasure; “many summer excursions to the shore”; “it was merely a pleasure trip”; “after cautious sashays into the field”
  3. a trip taken by an official at public expense

Verb

  1. go on a pleasure trip
  2. provide a feast or banquet for
  3. partake in a feast or banquet

Verb

  1. stop from happening or developing; “Block his election”; “Halt the process”

Noun

  1. (Yiddish) a constant complainer
  2. (Yiddish) a nagging complaint

Verb

  1. express complaints, discontent, displeasure, or unhappiness; “My mother complains all day”; “She has a lot to kick about”

From LookUp: Noun

  1. Informal North American a person who complains a great deal she emerges as something of a kvetch, constantly nagging Rick

a complaint “They don't make 'em like they used to” has become an all-purpose kvetch

Verb

  1. Informal North American complain Jane's kvetching about her crummy existence

Adjective

  1. of or relating to or living near lakes
  1. Ecology Geology Technical Literary relating to or associated with lakes fluvial and lacustrine deposits | the boulders were beautiful in their lacustrine tranquillity

Origin

early 19th century: from Latin lacus ‘lake’ (the stem lacustr- influenced by Latin palustris ‘marshy’) + -ine–

Verb

  1. beat with a cane
  2. 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”
  1. criticize (someone or something) harshly they lambasted the report as a gross distortion of the truth

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”

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”

Noun

  1. an illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers

Noun

  1. a compiler or writer of a dictionary; a student of the lexical component of language

Verb

  1. trace the shape of
  2. make a portrait of; “Goya wanted to portray his mistress, the Duchess of Alba”

From LookUp: Verb

  1. Art Literary depict or describe in painting or words Miss Read limns a gentler world in her novels

suffuse or highlight (something) with a bright color or light a crescent moon limned each shred with white gold

Social

I made a simple Siri Shortcut for reformatting @lookup_ios share URLs to markdown. https://t.co/LqUXwmMfyR pic.twitter.com/if8jdoCk1C

— 𝗗 𝗔 𝗩 𝗢 𝗗 (@NeoYokel) October 2, 2022

I made a simple Siri Shortcut for reformatting @lookup_ios share URLs to markdown. https://routinehub.co/shortcut/13065

@lookup_ios it'd be so amazing if this worked. or is there another way of batch importing a list of terms to a collection? pic.twitter.com/QBASeQzyXO

— 𝗗 𝗔 𝗩 𝗢 𝗗 (@NeoYokel) January 1, 2022

just in case you want further thoughts from me (lol...)

I have been intermittently noodling on the whole concept of automated dictionary interaction for the past year - my very first API call was to Merriam-Webster just 18 months ago and well... I'm sure you have some idea of just how hard it is to figure out a format/schema for automation when interacting with such ... varying API responses. I think LookUp's magic/greatest potential lies in the fact that you've figured out a way to present a wide variety of results from a fairly diverse set of sources in a truly usable manner. I think the opportunity to be a bridge/filter/parser between often impractical/untenable/overwhelming academic data and like... normal, reasonable, working, but still curious users is very exciting! honestly the elegance you've managed to achieve in that vein is extraordinary.

but

maybe - in the form of Siri Shortcuts actions, specifically - you could experiment with being just a bit less discriminating in terms of the data from your sources you're willing to provide to the user since one could argue that the use of automation sort of by its nature is explicit consent to/desire for more verbosity. I know it certainly is in my case.

also, I can't believe it took me this long to recall that I actually took the time to describe my vocabulary workflow not so long ago, if you're curious. https://bilge.world/drafts-terminology-vocabulary

oh and! here's my published vocabulary index. https://davidblue.wtf/vocabulary

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honestly, that's a big offer!

generally, being able to add custom terms with metadata/details and being able to retrieve more details would certainly benefit my workflow significantly. one of my very first hiccups with LookUp (and still sorta the reason I store my primary vocabulary list in Terminology (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/terminology-dictionary/id687798859) instead) is the fact that the Add Word to Collection action will fail (and interrupt a repeat loop) if passed a term that does not show up in search results.

that was the issue with this Tweet, btw: https://twitter.com/neoyokel/status/1477323450549219328

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Wow! This is Really useful! Please let me know if you'd like me to add specific Actions that'll help you improve this shortcut. Will Add them to Shortcuts.

Quickly copy markdown-formatted LookUp share hyperlinks from the share sheet.

LookUp URL Shortcut
LookUp URL Shortcut

This shortcut anticipates the upcoming addition of individual term share URLs to LookUp for iOS/iPadOS/macOS (and therefore requires one currently be running a Testflight build.)

By default, it should be present in the share sheet, from which it receives URLs, extracts the term from the URL format, formats the results as a markdown hyperlink, which it then copies to the system clipboard.

Example Input

https://learnwithlookup.com/share/index.html?word=hyperlink&definition=link%2520from%2520hypertext%2520document%2520to%2520another%2520location,%2520activated%2520by%2520clicking%2520on%2520highlighted%2520word%2520or%2520image&data=eyJpbWFnZSI6IiIsIndvcmQiOiJoeXBlcmxpbmsiLCJkZWZpbml0aW9uIjoibGluayBmcm9tIGh5cGVydGV4dCBkb2N1bWVudCB0byBhbm90aGVyIGxvY2F0aW9uLCBhY3RpdmF0ZWQgYnkgY2xpY2tpbmcgb24gaGlnaGxpZ2h0ZWQgd29yZCBvciBpbWFnZSJ9

Example Output

- [**hyperlink** - LookUp](https://learnwithlookup.com/share/index.html?word=hyperlink&definition=link%2520from%2520hypertext%2520document%2520to%2520another%2520location,%2520activated%2520by%2520clicking%2520on%2520highlighted%2520word%2520or%2520image&data=eyJpbWFnZSI6IiIsIndvcmQiOiJoeXBlcmxpbmsiLCJkZWZpbml0aW9uIjoibGluayBmcm9tIGh5cGVydGV4dCBkb2N1bWVudCB0byBhbm90aGVyIGxvY2F0aW9uLCBhY3RpdmF0ZWQgYnkgY2xpY2tpbmcgb24gaGlnaGxpZ2h0ZWQgd29yZCBvciBpbWFnZSJ9)

Noun

  1. a slow pace of running
  2. a smooth three-beat gait; between a trot and a gallop

Verb

  1. run easily

From LookUp: Verb [no object, with adverbial of direction]

  1. run or move with a long bounding stride the dog was loping along by his side

Noun [in singular]

  1. a long bounding stride they set off at a fast lope

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)

A LUCUBATORY is a room used for nighttime study. -@HaggardHawks

Noun

  1. any plant of the genus Lupinus; bearing erect spikes of usually purplish-blue flowers

Adjective

  1. of or relating to or characteristic of wolves

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
maculate LookUp
maculate LookUp

Verb

  1. make dirty or spotty, as by exposure to air; also used metaphorically; “The silver was tarnished by the long exposure to the air”; “Her reputation was sullied after the affair with a married man”
  2. spot, stain, or pollute; “The townspeople defiled the river by emptying raw sewage into it”

Adjective

  1. morally blemished; stained or impure
  2. spotted or blotched

From LookUp: Adjective

  1. Literary spotted or stained.

Verb

  1. Literary mark with a spot or spots; stain a dirty white T-shirt maculated with barbecue sauce

Of or pertaining to Madagascar or its inhabitants.

Adjective

  1. having or exerting a malignant influence; “malevolent stars”; “a malefic force”

Adjective

  1. wishing or appearing to wish evil to others; arising from intense ill will or hatred; “a gossipy malevolent old woman”; “failure made him malevolent toward those who were successful”
  2. having or exerting a malignant influence; “malevolent stars”; “a malefic force”

Noun

  1. a military training exercise
  2. a plan for attaining a particular goal
  3. a deliberate coordinated movement requiring dexterity and skill; “he made a great maneuver”; “the runner was out on a play by the shortstop”
  4. a move made to gain a tactical end
  5. an action aimed at evading an opponent

Verb

  1. direct the course; determine the direction of travelling
  2. act in order to achieve a certain goal; “He maneuvered to get the chairmanship”; “She maneuvered herself into the directorship”
  3. perform a movement in military or naval tactics in order to secure an advantage in attack or defense

*From LookUp

maneuvers Noun

  1. a movement or series of moves requiring skill and care spectacular jumps and other daring maneuvers

a carefully planned scheme or action, especially one involving deception shady financial maneuvers

the fact or process of taking carefully planned or deceptive action the economic policy provided no room for maneuver

  1. Military "maneuvers" a large-scale military exercise of troops, warships, and other forces the vessel was on maneuvers

Verb

  1. move skillfully or carefully the truck was unable to maneuver comfortably in the narrow street | I'm maneuvering a loaded tray around the floor

  2. [with object and adverbial] carefully guide or manipulate (someone or something) in order to achieve an end they were maneuvering him into a betrayal of his countryman

[no object] carefully manipulate a situation to achieve an end two decades of political maneuvering

Noun

  1. notes written in the margin

Adverb

  1. in a clearly noticeable manner; “sales of luxury cars dropped markedly”

Adjective

  1. based on or tracing descent through the female line; “matrilineal inheritance”
maw LookUp
maw LookUp

Noun

  1. informal terms for the mouth

From LookUp: Noun

  1. the jaws or throat of a voracious animal a gigantic wolfhound with a fearful, gaping maw

Informal the mouth or gullet of a greedy person I was cramming large pieces of toast and cheese down my maw

Adjective

  1. effusively or insincerely emotional; “a bathetic novel”; “maudlin expressions of sympathy”; “mushy effusiveness”; “a schmaltzy song”; “sentimental soap operas”; “slushy poetry”

Noun

  1. the belief that the world can be made better by human effort

Wiki

Meliorism (Latin melior, better) is the idea that progress is a real concept leading to an improvement of the world. It holds that humans can, through their interference with processes that would otherwise be natural, produce an outcome which is an improvement over the aforementioned natural one.

Meliorism, as a conception of the person and society, is at the foundation of contemporary liberal democracy and human rights and is a basic component of liberalism.Another important understanding of the meliorist tradition comes from the American Pragmatic tradition. One can read about it in the works of Lester Frank Ward, William James, and John Dewey. In James' works, however, meliorism does not pinpoint to progressivism and/or optimism. For James meliorism stands in the middle between optimism and pessimism, and treats the salvation of the world as a probability rather than a certainty or impossibility. In the case of a meliorist praxis, the activist contemporary of the Pragmatists Jane Addams stripped progressive ideals of any elitist privilege calling for a "lateral progress" whose concern was squarely with the common people.Meliorism has also been used by Arthur Caplan to describe positions in bioethics that are in favor of ameliorating conditions which cause suffering, even if the conditions have long existed (e.g. being in favor of cures for common diseases, being in favor of serious anti-aging therapies as they are developed).

A closely related concept discussed by Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Marquis de Condorcet is that of perfectibility of man.

Condorcet's statement, "Such is the object of the work I have undertaken; the result of which will be to show, from reasoning and from facts, that no bounds have been fixed to the improvement of the human faculties; that the perfectibility of man is absolutely indefinite; that the progress of this perfectibility, henceforth above the control of every power that would impede it, has no other limit than the duration of the globe upon which nature has placed us." anticipates James' meliorism.

Rousseau's treatment is somewhat weaker.Modern thinkers in this tradition are Hans Rosling and Max Roser. Roser expressed a melioristic position in the mission statement for Our World in Data. He said that all three statements are true at the same time "The world is much better. The world is awful. The world can be much better." Like William James before him Rosling held a halfway position between optimism and pessimism that emphasized humanity's capacity to improve their world.

Noun

  1. a cultural unit (an idea or value or pattern of behavior) that is passed from one person to another by non-genetic means (as by imitation); “memes are the cultural counterpart of genes”

From LookUp: Noun

  1. Computing an image, video, piece of text, etc., typically humorous in nature, that is copied and spread rapidly by internet users, often with slight variations celebrity gossip and memes often originate on the site | the concept originally started as an internet meme

  2. Sociology an element of a culture or system of behavior passed from one individual to another by imitation or other nongenetic means.

Verb

  1. Computing create an internet meme from (an image, video, piece of text, etc.) there's always one audience reaction shot at the Oscars that gets memed | on social media she was mocked and memed

Adjective

  1. attracting and holding interest as if by a spell; “read the bedtime story in a hypnotic voice”; “she had a warm mesmeric charm”; “the sheer force of his presence was mesmerizing”; “a spellbinding description of life in ancient Rome”

Noun

  1. a figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally denote in order to suggest a similarity

Adjective

  1. having a proud and unbroken spirit
  2. willing to face danger

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”

Noun

  1. the environmental condition

From LookUp:

Noun

  1. a person's social environment he grew up in a military milieu

Adjective

  1. threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments; “a baleful look”; “forbidding thunderclouds”; “his tone became menacing”; “ominous rumblings of discontent”; “sinister storm clouds”; “a sinister smile”; “his threatening behavior”; “ugly black clouds”; “the situation became ugly”

Transitive Verb

1 : to use wrongly : make an improper use of : ABUSE has misimproved and wasted his talents 2 archaic : to make worse in an attempt to improve

Noun

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

Noun

  1. an auxiliary verb (such as can’ orwill’) that is used to express modality

Adjective

  1. relating to or constituting the most frequent value in a distribution; “the modal age at which American novelists reach their peak is 30”
  2. of or relating to a musical mode; especially written in an ecclesiastical mode
  3. relating to or expressing the mood of a verb; “modal auxiliary”

Noun

  1. an auxiliary verb (such as can’ orwill’) that is used to express modality

Adjective

  1. relating to or constituting the most frequent value in a distribution; “the modal age at which American novelists reach their peak is 30”
  2. of or relating to a musical mode; especially written in an ecclesiastical mode
  3. relating to or expressing the mood of a verb; “modal auxiliary”

Noun

  1. a classification of propositions on the basis of whether they claim necessity or possibility or impossibility
  2. verb inflections that express how the action or state is conceived by the speaker
  3. a particular sense
  4. a method of therapy that involves physical or electrical therapeutic treatment

Adjective

  1. not growing or changing; without force or vitality
  2. being on the point of death; breathing your last; “a moribund patient”
  1. (of a person) at the point of death on examination she was moribund and dehydrated

(of a thing) in terminal decline; lacking vitality or vigor the moribund commercial property market

Thesaurus

Adjective

  1. the patient was moribund

Similar Words: dying expiring on one's deathbed near death near the end at death's door breathing one's last fading fast sinking fast not long for this world failing rapidly on one's last legs in extremis with one foot in the grave

Opposites: thriving recovering

  1. the country's moribund shipbuilding industry

Similar Words: declining in decline on the decline waning dying stagnating stagnant decaying crumbling atrophying obsolescent on its last legs on the way out

Opposites: flourishing

Noun

  1. fortitude and determination; “he didn’t have the guts to try it”

Adjective

  1. having many aspects or qualities; “a many-sided subject”; “a multifaceted undertaking”; “multifarious interests”; “the multifarious noise of a great city”; “a miscellaneous crowd”

Adjective

  1. unable to see distant objects clearly
  2. lacking foresight or scope; “a short view of the problem”; “shortsighted policies”; “shortsighted critics derided the plan”; “myopic thinking”

Noun

  1. an extreme state of adversity; the lowest point of anything
  2. the point below the observer that is directly opposite the zenith on the imaginary sphere against which celestial bodies appear to be projected

Noun

  1. a plant that is found in an area where it had not been recorded previously
  2. any new participant in some activity
  3. a new convert being taught the principles of Christianity by a catechist

Noun

  1. favoritism shown to relatives or close friends by those in power (as by giving them jobs)
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Adjective

  1. causing or able to cause nausea; “a nauseating smell”; “nauseous offal”; “a sickening stench”
  2. offensively malodorous; “a foul odor”; “the kitchen smelled really funky”

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  1. Literary having an extremely offensive smell noisome vapors from the smoldering waste

disagreeable; unpleasant noisome scandals

Noun

  1. (Yiddish) a snack or light meal

Verb

  1. eat a snack; eat lightly; “She never loses weight because she snacks between meals”

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Noun

  1. Informal British food filling the freezer with all kinds of nosh

North American a snack or small item of food have plenty of noshes and nibbles conveniently placed

Verb

  1. Informal eat food enthusiastically or greedily there are several restaurants, so you can nosh to your heart's content | there I sat, noshing my favorite food

North American eat between meals today's grazing is different from what we used to call noshing or snacking

Adjective

  1. evincing the presence of a deity; “a numinous wood”; “the most numinous moment in the Mass”
  2. of or relating to or characteristic of a numen
  1. having a strong religious or spiritual quality; indicating or suggesting the presence of a divinity the strange, numinous beauty of this ancient landmark

Origin

mid 17th century: from Latin numen, numin- ‘divine will’+ -ous

Wikipedia

Numinous () is a term derived from the Latin numen, meaning "arousing spiritual or religious emotion; mysterious or awe-inspiring." The term was given its present sense by the German theologian and philosopher Rudolf Otto in his influential 1917 German book The Idea of the Holy. He also used the phrase mysterium tremendum as another description for the phenomenon. Otto's concept of the numinous influenced thinkers including Carl Jung, Mircea Eliade, and C. S. Lewis. It has been applied to theology, psychology, religious studies, literary analysis, and descriptions of psychedelic experiences.

Thesaurus

Adjective

  1. the strange, numinous beauty of this ancient landmark

Similar Words: spiritual religious divine holy sacred mysterious other-worldly unearthly awe-inspiring transcendent

Verb

  1. express strong disapproval of; “We condemn the racism in South Africa”; “These ideas were reprobated”
  2. censure severely; “She chastised him for his insensitive remarks”

Noun

  1. state of disgrace resulting from public abuse
  2. a false accusation of an offense or a malicious misrepresentation of someone’s words or actions

Adjective

  1. attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery
  2. attentive in an ingratiating or servile manner; “obsequious shop assistants”

Adjective

  1. noisily and stubbornly defiant; “obstreperous boys”
  2. boisterously and noisily aggressive; “kept up an obstreperous clamor”

Verb

  1. do away with
  2. prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening; “Let’s avoid a confrontation”; “head off a confrontation”; “avert a strike”

Noun

  1. the total output of a writer or artist (or a substantial part of it); “he studied the entire Wagnerian oeuvre”; “Picasso’s work can be divided into periods”

Adjective

  1. having a strong affinity for oils rather than water

Noun

  1. (economics) a market in which control over the supply of a commodity is in the hands of a small number of producers and each one can influence prices and affect competitors

An oligopoly (from Greek ὀλίγος, oligos "few" and πωλεῖν, polein "to sell") is a market structure in which a market or industry is dominated by a small number of large sellers or producers. Oligopolies often result from the desire to maximize profits, leading to collusion between companies. This reduces competition, leading to higher prices for consumers and lower wages for employees.

Many industries have been cited as oligopolistic, including civil aviation, electricity providers, the telecommunications sector, Rail freight markets, food processing, funeral services, sugar refining, beer making, pulp and paper making, and automobile manufacturing.

Most countries have laws outlawing anti-competitive behavior. EU competition law prohibits anti-competitive practices such as price-fixing and manipulating market supply and trade among competitors. In the US, the United States Department of Justice Antitrust Division and the Federal Trade Commission are tasked with stopping collusion. However, corporations can evade legal consequences through tacit collusion, as collusion can only be proven through actual and direct communication between companies.

It is possible for oligopolies to develop without collusion and in the presence of fierce competition among market participants. This is a situation similar to perfect competition, where oligopolists have their own market structure. In this situation, each company in the oligopoly has a large share in the industry and plays a pivotal, unique role.

Noun

  1. the branch of lexicology that studies the forms and origins of proper names

From LookUp: Onomastics (or, in older texts, onomatology) is the study of the etymology, history, and use of proper names. An orthonym is the proper name of the object in question, the object of onomastic study.

Onomastics can be helpful in data mining, with applications such as named-entity recognition, or recognition of the origin of names. It is a popular approach in historical research, where it can be used to identify ethnic minorities within wider populations and for the purpose of prosopography.

Adjective

  1. out of fashion; “a suit of rather antique appearance”; “demode (or outmoded) attire”; “outmoded ideas”

Noun

  1. systematic arrangement of all the inflected forms of a word
  2. a standard or typical example; “he is the prototype of good breeding”; “he provided America with an image of the good father”
  3. the class of all items that can be substituted into the same position (or slot) in a grammatical sentence (are in paradigmatic relation with one another)
  4. the generally accepted perspective of a particular discipline at a given time; “he framed the problem within the psychoanalytic paradigm”

Noun

  1. systematic arrangement of all the inflected forms of a word
  2. a standard or typical example; “he is the prototype of good breeding”; “he provided America with an image of the good father”
  3. the class of all items that can be substituted into the same position (or slot) in a grammatical sentence (are in paradigmatic relation with one another)
  4. the generally accepted perspective of a particular discipline at a given time; “he framed the problem within the psychoanalytic paradigm”

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Noun

  1. Philosophy a typical example or pattern of something; a model there is a new paradigm for public art in this country

Philosophy a worldview underlying the theories and methodology of a particular scientific subject the discovery of universal gravitation became the paradigm of successful science

  1. Grammar a set of linguistic items that form mutually exclusive choices in particular syntactic roles • Often contrasted with syntagm English determiners form a paradigm: we can say “a book” or “his book” but not “a his book.”

  2. Grammar (in the traditional grammar of Latin, Greek, and other inflected languages) a table of all the inflected forms of a particular verb, noun, or adjective, serving as a model for other words of the same conjugation or declension.

Noun

  1. suggesting by deliberately concise treatment that much of significance is omitted

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Noun

  1. Rhetoric the device of giving emphasis by professing to say little or nothing about a subject, as in not to mention their unpaid debts of several million.

Noun

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

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”

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

Noun

  1. a regular customer
  2. the proprietor of an inn
  3. someone who supports or champions something

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  1. a person who gives financial or other support to a person, organization, cause, or activity a celebrated patron of the arts | Charles became a patron of Rubens and van Dyck

  2. Retail Restaurants a customer, especially a regular one, of a store, restaurant, or theater we surveyed the plushness of the hotel and its sleek, well-dressed patrons

  3. Roman History (in ancient Rome) a patrician in relation to a client. • See also client (sense 3)

Roman History (in ancient Rome) the former owner and (frequently) protector of a freed slave.

  1. Ecclesiastical Historical British a person or institution with the right to grant a benefice to a member of the clergy.

• short for patron saint

Noun

  1. a family name derived from name of your father or a paternal ancestor (especially with an affix (such as -son in English or O’- in Irish) added to the name of your father or a paternal ancestor)

Adjective

  1. of or derived from a personal or family name

Noun

  1. a poor chess player
  1. Chess Informal a poor chess player I won a low-level tournament of patzers

Origin

1940s: perhaps related to German patzen ‘to bungle’

Noun

  1. informal terms for money

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  1. Archaic money, especially when gained in a dishonest or dishonorable way damnation dog thee and thy wretched pelf!

Adjective

  1. having or characterized by or consisting of five syllables

Noun

  1. a person who becomes aware (of things or events) through the senses

Adjective

  1. characterized by ease and quickness in perceiving; “clear mind”; “a percipient author”

Verb

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

  1. a person who walks from place to place
  2. a follower of Aristotle or an adherent of Aristotelianism

Adjective

  1. of or relating to Aristotle or his philosophy; “Aristotelean logic”
  2. traveling especially on foot; “peripatetic country preachers”; “a poor wayfaring stranger”

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Adjective

  1. traveling from place to place, in particular working or based in various places for relatively short periods the peripatetic nature of military life

  2. Philosophy (also Peripatetic) Aristotelian.

Noun

  1. a person who travels from place to place peripatetics have been cut under local management of schools

  2. Philosophy (also Peripatetic) an Aristotelian philosopher.

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”

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  1. Poetic Rare Of, relating to, or resembling the mythical fiery river Phlegethon; specifically blazing, burning.

Noun

  1. apathy demonstrated by an absence of emotional reactions
  2. expectorated matter; saliva mixed with discharges from the respiratory passages; in ancient and medieval physiology it was believed to cause sluggishness
  3. inactivity; showing an unusual lack of energy; “the general appearance of sluggishness alarmed his friends”

Noun

  1. a hypothetical substance once believed to be present in all combustible materials and to be released during burning

Noun

  1. (linguistics) one of a small set of speech sounds that are distinguished by the speakers of a particular language
  1. Phonetics any of the perceptually distinct units of sound in a specified language that distinguish one word from another, for example p, b, d, and t in the English words pad, pat, bad, and bat. • Compare with allophone

A PHONOAESTHEME is a pattern of sounds in a language that has come to be associated with a particular meaning. In English, for instance, the sequence SL– is associated with ease of movement (slip, slide, slick), while GL– is associated with light (glitter, glisten, gleam, glow). -@HaggardHawks

Verb

as in fumigate with furious fucking phlegm.

Adjective

  1. having sections or patches colored differently and usually brightly; “a jester dressed in motley”; “the painted desert”; “a particolored dress”; “a piebald horse”; “pied daisies”

Adjective

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

Verb

  1. cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of; “She managed to mollify the angry customer”

Noun

  1. extreme excess; “an embarrassment of riches”

Noun

  1. anything that resembles a feather in shape or lightness; “a plume of smoke”; “grass with large plumes”
  2. a feather or cluster of feathers worn as an ornament
  3. the light horny waterproof structure forming the external covering of birds

Verb

  1. rip off; ask an unreasonable price
  2. be proud of; “He prides himself on making it into law school”
  3. deck with a plume; “a plumed helmet”
  4. clean with one’s bill; “The birds preened”
  5. form a plume; “The chimneys were pluming the sky”; “The engine was pluming black smoke”
  6. dress or groom with elaborate care; “She likes to dress when going to the opera”
  1. Zoology a long, soft feather or arrangement of feathers used by a bird for display or worn by a person for ornament a hat with a jaunty ostrich plume

Zoology a part of an animal's body that resembles a feather the antennae are divided into large feathery plumes

a long cloud of smoke or vapor resembling a feather as it spreads from its point of origin as he spoke, the word was accompanied by a white plume of breath

a mass of material, typically a pollutant, spreading from a source a radioactive plume

Geology (also mantle plume) a localized column of hot magma rising by convection in the mantle, believed to cause volcanic activity in hot spots, such as the Hawaiian Islands, away from plate margins.

Verb

  1. [no object] spread out in a shape resembling a feather smoke plumed from the chimneys

[with object] decorate with or as if with feathers I plumed the hat with a couple of soft feathers from the tail of a hawk

  1. Zoology Archaic "plume oneself" (of a bird) preen itself.

feel a great sense of self-satisfaction about something she plumed herself on being cosmopolitan

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  1. Literary Creative production, especially of a work of art; an instance of this.

Noun

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

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

Noun

  1. all of the offspring of a given progenitor; “we must secure the benefits of freedom for ourselves and our posterity”
  2. all future generations

Noun

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

Noun

  1. a sketchy summary of the main points of an argument or theory

Verb

  1. make a summary (of)

Noun

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

Verb

  1. indicate, as with a sign or an omen; “These signs bode bad news”

Adjective

  1. of or relating to the Roman Catholic philosophy of probabilism
  2. of or relating to or based on probability; “probabilistic quantum theory”

Noun

  1. a dissolute man in fashionable society
  2. a recklessly extravagant consumer

Adjective

  1. recklessly wasteful; “prodigal in their expenditures”
  2. unrestrained by convention or morality; “Congreve draws a debauched aristocratic society”; “deplorably dissipated and degraded”; “riotous living”; “fast women”

Noun

  1. the property of being close together

Adjective

  1. presenting favorable circumstances; likely to result in or show signs of success; “propitious omens”; “propitious gales speeded us along”; “a propitious alignment of planets for space exploration”

Verb

  1. put forward, as of an idea

Noun

  1. a conductor of souls to the afterworld; “Hermes was their psychopomp”
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  1. Informal Dialect Us To hand over or come up with (money); to ‘shell out’. Also without object. Usually with down or up.

Origin mid 19th century; earliest use found in Alta California (San Francisco). From Spanish póngale put it (sc the money) down from ponga, 3rd person present subjunctive of poner to put, to place, to wager, to bet + le, 3rd person singular direct object pronoun (now nonstandard with reference to non-human objects: see note)

Noun

  1. a person who meddles in the affairs of others

A race incident is something that is the result of the inherently chaotic nature of auto racing, rather than the result of a blatant mistake or an intentional attack. In a racing incident, neither driver bears the majority of the blame.

Noun

  1. a person with a prejudiced belief that one racial group is superior to others

Adjective

  1. noisy and lacking in restraint or discipline; “a boisterous crowd”; “a social gathering that became rambunctious and out of hand”; “a robustious group of teenagers”; “beneath the rumbustious surface of his paintings is sympathy for the vulnerability of ordinary human beings”; “an unruly class”

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Adjective

  1. Informal North American uncontrollably exuberant; boisterous a rambunctious tyke

Verb

  1. have or develop complicating consequences; “These actions will ramify”
  2. grow and send out branches or branch-like structures; “these plants ramify early and get to be very large”
  3. divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork; “The road forks”

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  1. Technical Formal form branches or offshoots the shrub ramifies almost from the base and can grow 1 to 3 meters high

spread or branch out; grow and develop in complexity or range the methods and applications have ramified, generating many new insights along the way | the consequences of an act ramify and multiply

Noun

  1. a deceitful and unreliable scoundrel
  2. one who is playfully mischievous

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Noun

  1. a mischievous or cheeky person, especially a child or man (typically used in an affectionate way) a lovable rascal | you are such a rascal!

Verb

  1. reason methodologically and logically

Verb

  1. reimburse or compensate (someone), as for a loss
  2. regain or make up for; “recuperate one’s losses”
  3. retain and refrain from disbursing; of payments; “My employer is withholding taxes”

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”
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Adjective

  1. feeling or expressing remorse for misdeeds

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  1. expressing or feeling sincere regret and remorse; remorseful he is truly repentant for his incredible naivety and stupidity

Adjective

  1. Nancy looked suitably repentant and said she was sorry

Similar Words: penitent contrite regretful full of regret sorrowful rueful remorseful apologetic conscience-stricken ashamed guilt-ridden chastened self-reproachful shamefaced guilty compunctious

Opposites: unrepentant impenitent

Noun

  1. a person without moral scruples

Verb

  1. reject (documents) as invalid
  2. abandon to eternal damnation; “God reprobated the unrepenting sinner”
  3. express strong disapproval of; “We condemn the racism in South Africa”; “These ideas were reprobated”

Adjective

  1. deviating from what is considered moral or right or proper or good; “depraved criminals”; “a perverted sense of loyalty”; “the reprobate conduct of a gambling aristocrat”

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”

Noun

  1. (law) the act of rescinding; the cancellation of a contract and the return of the parties to the positions they would have had if the contract had not been made; “recission may be brought about by decree or by mutual consent”

Verb

  1. spread negative information about; “The Nazi propaganda vilified the Jews”

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

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”

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Noun

  1. a cruel and brutal fellow

Adjective

  1. disturbing the public peace; loud and rough; “a raucous party”; “rowdy teenagers”

adjective reddish brown in color: handsome rufous plumage. noun a reddish-brown color: pale southern races of peregrine have some rufous on nape. ORIGIN late 18th century: from Latin rufus ‘red, reddish’ + -ous.

Adjective

  1. full of flavor

Noun

  1. (physics) a flash of light that is produced in a phosphor when it absorbs a photon or ionizing particle
  2. a rapid change in brightness; a brief spark or flash
  3. a brilliant display of wit
  4. the quality of shining with a bright reflected light
  5. the twinkling of the stars caused when changes in the density of the earth’s atmosphere produce uneven refraction of starlight

Noun

  1. a wicked or evil person; someone who does evil deliberately

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

Noun

  1. dense vegetation consisting of stunted trees or bushes
  2. the act of cleaning a surface by rubbing it with a brush and soap and water

Verb

  1. clean with hard rubbing; “She scrubbed his back”
  2. wash thoroughly; “surgeons must scrub prior to an operation”
  3. postpone indefinitely or annul something that was scheduled; “Call off the engagement”; “cancel the dinner party”; “we had to scrub our vacation plans”; “scratch that meeting–the chair is ill”

Adjective

  1. (of domestic animals) not selectively bred

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  1. rub (someone or something) hard so as to clean them, typically with a brush and water he had to scrub the floor | she was scrubbing herself down at the sink | she scrubbed furiously at the plates

"scrub something away/off" remove dirt by rubbing hard it took ages to scrub off the muck

Surgery [no object] "scrub up" thoroughly clean one's hands and arms, especially before performing surgery the doctor scrubbed up and put on a protective gown

Informal cancel or abandon (something) they aren't going to want to scrub the mission

Chemistry remove impurities from (gas or vapor).

Racing [no object] (of a rider) rub the arms and legs urgently on a horse's neck and flanks to urge it to move faster.

Noun

  1. an act of scrubbing something or someone

          give the floor a good scrub

  2. Cosmetics a semiabrasive cosmetic lotion applied to the face or body in order to cleanse the skin don't use facial scrubs if your skin is sensitive

Surgery Informal "scrubs" • another term for scrub suit Bill emerged from the delivery room in green scrubs

Noun

  1. vegetation consisting mainly of brushwood or stunted forest growth a desert plain dotted with scrub

Geography land covered with scrub the wind tore across scrub and heathland | his courageous explorations in the scrubs

  1. Botany [as modifier] denoting a shrubby or small form of a plant scrub apple trees

Farming North American denoting an animal of inferior breed or physique a scrub bull

  1. Informal Derogatory an insignificant or contemptible person you are a mean scrub

Sport North American (in sports) a player not among the best or most skilled a former All-Star reduced to the role of scrub

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Noun

  1. the act of moving along swiftly (as before a gale)

Verb

  1. run or move very quickly or hastily; “She dashed into the yard”
  2. run before a gale

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  1. move fast in a straight line because or as if driven by the wind we lie watching the clouds scudding across the sky | three small ships were scudding before a brisk breeze

Noun

  1. Meteorology Literary a formation of vapory clouds driven fast by the wind the water is glassy under a scud of mist | the picturesque shoreline disappeared into low-cloud scud and rain

a mass of windblown spray.

Meteorology a driving shower of rain or snow; a gust scuds of rain gave way to sun

Meteorology the action of moving fast in a straight line when driven by the wind the scud of the clouds before the wind

  1. Weapons (also Scud) a type of long-range surface-to-surface guided missile able to be fired from a mobile launcher.

Origin

mid 16th century (as a verb): perhaps an alteration of the noun scut, thus reflecting the sense ‘race like a hare’

early 19th century: of uncertain origin

Phrases

in the scud

Thesaurus

Verb

  1. a few dark clouds scudded across the sky

Similar Words: speed race sail streak shoot sweep skim whip whizz whoosh buzz zoom flash blast career hare fly wing kite skite scurry flit scutter hurry hasten rush belt scoot scorch tear zap zip bomb bucket shift boogie hightail clip drag ass haul ass tear ass cut along

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  1. British (especially of a small animal) move hurriedly with short steps a little dog scuttered up from the cabin

Noun [in singular]

  1. British an act or sound of scuttering there was no sound in the wood, no scutter of tiny beast

Adjective

  1. marked by care and persistent effort; “her assiduous attempts to learn French”; “assiduous research”; “sedulous pursuit of legal and moral principles”

Noun

  1. good luck in making unexpected and fortunate discoveries

Noun

  1. work done by one person or group that benefits another; “budget separately for goods and services”
  2. an act of help or assistance; “he did them a service”
  3. the act of public worship following prescribed rules; “the Sunday service”
  4. a company or agency that performs a public service; subject to government regulation
  5. employment in or work for another; “he retired after 30 years of service”
  6. a force that is a branch of the armed forces
  7. Canadian writer (born in England) who wrote about life in the Yukon Territory (1874-1958)
  8. a means of serving; “of no avail”; “there’s no help for it”
  9. tableware consisting of a complete set of articles (silver or dishware) for use at table
  10. the act of mating by male animals; “the bull was worth good money in servicing fees”
  11. (law) the acts performed by an English feudal tenant for the benefit of his lord which formed the consideration for the property granted to him
  12. (sports) a stroke that puts the ball in play; “his powerful serves won the game”
  13. the act of delivering a writ or summons upon someone; “he accepted service of the subpoena”
  14. periodic maintenance on a car or machine; “it was time for an overhaul on the tractor”
  15. the performance of duties by a waiter or servant; “that restaurant has excellent service”

Verb

  1. be used by; as of a utility; “The sewage plant served the neighboring communities”; “The garage served to shelter his horses”
  2. make fit for use; “service my truck”; “the washing machine needs to be serviced”
  3. mate with; “male animals serve the females for breeding purposes”
  1. the action of helping or doing work for someone millions are involved in voluntary service

an act of assistance he has done us a great service | he volunteered his services as a driver

a period of employment with a company or organization he retired after 40 years' service

the use that can be made of a machine the computer should provide good service for years

employment as a servant the pitifully low wages gained from domestic service

  1. Commerce assistance or advice given to customers during and after the sale of goods they aim to provide better quality of service

the action or process of serving food and drinks to customers they complained of poor bar service

Restaurants • short for service charge service is included in the final bill

  1. Commerce a piece of work done for a client or customer that does not involve manufacturing goods highly customized goods and services | the provision of banking services to small and medium-sized businesses | the growth of employment in the services sector

  2. a system supplying a public need such as transport, communications, or utilities such as electricity and water a regular bus service

a public department or organization run by the government the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

Military "the services" the armed forces he saw a friend in army uniform, telling tales of his adventures in the services | service personnel | troops from all branches of the services

Roads British "services" an area with parking beside a major road supplying gasoline, refreshments, and other amenities to motorists.

  1. Religion a ceremony of religious worship according to a prescribed form; the prescribed form for such a ceremony a funeral service

  2. Mechanics a periodic routine inspection and maintenance of a vehicle or other machine he took his car in for service | they phoned for service on their air conditioning

  3. [with modifier] a set of matching dishes and utensils used for serving a particular meal a dinner service

  4. Tennis (in tennis and other racket sports) the action or right of serving to begin play.

Tennis a serve.

  1. Law the formal delivery of a document such as a writ or summons.

Verb

  1. Mechanics perform routine maintenance or repair work on (a vehicle or machine) have your car serviced regularly

supply and maintain systems for public utilities and transportation and communications in (an area) the town is small but well serviced

perform a service or services for (someone) the state's biggest health maintenance organization servicing the poor

Finance pay interest on (a debt) taxpayers are paying $250 million just to service that debt

  1. Zoology (of a male animal) mate with (a female animal) one dog could presumably service several bitches in a day

Sex Vulgar Slang have sex with or give sexual gratification to (someone).

Origin

late Old English serfise (denoting religious devotion or a form of liturgy), from Old French servise or Latin servitium ‘slavery’, from servus ‘slave’. The early sense of the verb (mid 19th century) was ‘be of service to, provide with a service’

Thesaurus

Noun

  1. there has been an improvement in pay and conditions of service

Similar Words: work employment employ labour performance of one's duties

  1. he has done us a great service | Josie offered her services as a babysitter

Similar Words: act of assistance good turn favour kindness helping hand assistance help aid offices ministrations

  1. both the food and the service were excellent

Similar Words: waiting waitressing waiting at table serving of food and drink attendance serving

  1. high quality products which will give many years of reliable service

Similar Words: use usage

  1. he took his car in for a service

Similar Words: overhaul servicing maintenance check routine check check

  1. he will be cremated tomorrow after a private funeral service | the first words of the marriage service

Similar Words: ceremony ritual rite observance ordinance liturgy sacrament office

  1. the provision of a wide range of local services | the national telephone service

Similar Words: amenity facility resource utility solution system

  1. if you're about to leave the services, the prospect of Civvy Street can be daunting

Similar Words: armed forces armed services forces military army navy air force marines

Verb

  1. ensure that gas appliances are serviced regularly

Similar Words: overhaul check check over go over give a maintenance check to maintain keep in good condition repair mend recondition

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Noun

  1. a quick look around (originally military slang); “take a shufti while you’re out there”

From LookUp: Noun

  1. Informal British a look or reconnoiter, especially a quick one I'll take a shufti round the wood while I'm about it

Noun

  1. a passage by which a bodily fluid (especially blood) is diverted from one channel to another; “an arteriovenus shunt”
  2. a conductor having low resistance in parallel with another device to divert a fraction of the current
  3. implant consisting of a tube made of plastic or rubber; for draining fluids within the body

Verb

  1. transfer to another track, of trains
  2. provide with or divert by means of an electrical shunt

Noun

  1. a person (especially a lawyer or politician) who uses unscrupulous or unethical methods

Adjective

  1. of or relating to the stars or constellations; “sidereal bodies”; “the sidereal system”
  2. (of divisions of time) determined by daily motion of the stars; “sidereal time”

Verb

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

From LookUp: Adjective

  1. (of a person) likable and easy to get along with the inspector was a charming man, so simpatico | an elegant, simpatico boy whom I often saw and talked to

having or characterized by shared attributes or interests; compatible a simpatico relationship

Adjective

  1. marked by great carelessness; “a most haphazard system of record keeping”; “slapdash work”; “slipshod spelling”; “sloppy workmanship”

Adverb

  1. in a careless or reckless manner; “the shelves were put up slapdash”
  2. directly; “he ran bang into the pole”; “ran slap into her”

Adjective

  1. marked by great carelessness; “a most haphazard system of record keeping”; “slapdash work”; “slipshod spelling”; “sloppy workmanship”

Noun

  1. necrotic tissue; a mortified or gangrenous part or mass
  2. a hollow filled with mud
  3. a stagnant swamp (especially as part of a bayou)
  4. any outer covering that can be shed or cast off (such as the cast-off skin of a snake)

Verb

  1. cast off hair, skin, horn, or feathers; “our dog sheds every Spring”

Noun

  1. a collection of small fragments considered as a whole; “Berlin was bombed to smithereens”; “his hopes were dashed to smithereens”; “I wanted to smash him to smithereens”; “the toilet bowl ws blown to smithereens”

Noun

  1. a small secluded room

A SNUGGERY is a cosy, comfortable place.

Noun

  1. (philosophy) the philosophical theory that the self is all that you know to exist

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

Adjective

  1. inclined to or marked by drowsiness; “slumberous (or slumbrous) eyes”; “`slumbery’ is archaic”; “the sound had a somnolent effect”

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”

t

Noun

  1. foam or froth on the sea

Verb

  1. make froth or foam and become bubbly; “The river foamed”

Noun

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

Noun

  1. a small arch built across the interior angle of two walls (usually to support a spire)

Verb

  1. crouch down
  2. draw back, as with fear or pain; “she flinched when they showed the slaughtering of the calf”
  3. cross one’s eyes as if in strabismus; “The children squinted so as to scare each other”

Verb

  1. prove to be of unsound mind or demonstrate someone’s incompetence; “nobody is legally allowed to stultify himself”
  2. cause to appear foolish; “He stultified himself by contradicting himself and being inconsistent”
  3. deprive of strength or efficiency; make useless or worthless; “This measure crippled our efforts”; “Their behavior stultified the boss’s hard work”

Noun

  1. the name used to identify the members of a family (as distinguished from each member’s given name)

Verb

(especially when operating an automobile)

a methodology of travel defined by extreme oscillation (...swanging from lane to lane) at relatively minimal velocity.

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Reference

See the lyrics of Guerilla Maab's "We Gone Swang" (from Resurrected) in their entirety, below.

[Hook - 2x]
We gone swang, lane to lane
Still gripping the wood grain, collecting my change
We gone swang, lane to lane
In the wide frame, on Fondren and Main
 
[Dougie D]
Fucking with G, the skating Escalade
Flossing all through the city, swanging from lane to lane
Gripping wooden grain, that's the way we do it mayn
On a constant grind working jelly, collecting change
In a wide frame, big body overloading the road
Hogging the street, just like they always be out of control
Roll with us, or you bitches get rolled over
Ain't no chip on my shoulder, I just got money to fold up
It's the Dougie Deezie, off of the heezy please believe me
Gotta be keeping it greasy, for me to see the cheesy
Doing it like it go, and there's one thing I know fa sho
We gon shine and gon hold, because the 3rd Coast is our home

[Trae]
See I'm a grain gripping, 83 swanger
Chromy glass, nigga you in danger
Got a sawed off, that'll repaint you
In a wide body, like the Lone Ranger
I'ma stop and drop, when I wanna roll
I got a big four do', with a big fo'-fo'
Sitting solo, Doug-O wrecked
Now Trae done backdo'
Ghetto superstar, menage tois
Candy paint, done wet up the car
Lane to lane, my drop'll get raw
Running red lights, and don't bar the law
Gotta get paid, stacking my change
Gripping the grain, gliding mayn
Turn out the back, and I'ma gon swang
Untamed, fin to do my thang
Now Trae done wrecked it, world respected
Out the Southside, of Houston Texas
Living wreckless, don't neglect it
Moving on, and ain't baring plexas
Bubble eyed, fin to lead the way
Diamonds shining, like a heat wave
Back it up, 'fore I blind your face
Slow Loud And Bangin', fin to lead the race

[Hook - 2x]

[Jay'Ton]
I swing blocks, when I'm in the drop
Where the throwed bops, and the haters jock
It's Jay'Ton on 84's, Volvos fin to glide the road
I'm 16 all in your face, braided up and I'm out of sight
With a bad dyke on a motor bike, screened up lighting up the night
I'm blue red coming out the I, turning heads on the boulevard
My AK'll make a nigga know, when I cock it back I'm fin to hit you hard
Southside fin to go get it, all about stacking a mill ticket
I'm still playa don't get it twisted, sideways with the trunk lifted

[Lil' B]
The window tinter, wood grain gripper
Wet candy paint, and a chrome pistol
Eyes on me, like a thoed stripper
Showing naked, better take a picture
On the boulevard we don't guard
84's and vogues, down to South Park
Cause I'm Lil' B, and I don't barge
Slow Loud And Bangin', we'll pull your car
That's on the Lord, we'll leave a stain
Hogging lanes, in a wide frame
With my nigga too, all against the grain
On the Dirty South, is where we gon swang
Riding two deep, or solo
Platinum FUBU, or Polo
With a bad hoe, rocking J-Lo
Skating up the block, I'm crawling slow

[Hook - 2x]

[Z-Ro]
Solid, as a rock
Profiling in the turning lane, banging down your block
Hell naw it just don't stop, matter fact it never slow down
When I'm in the kitchen whipping, my prices tend to go down
Then I dog my Intrepid, mash on the gas on down to the flo'
Till I hit my block and set up shop, anything you need come to the Ro
Might got prices on my head but I'm not scared, I'm gon shine
Relaxing in Rolls Royces, attempting to pass time
I be smoking on that stink, had to retire from that ink
Cause you just can't think, when your mind goes blank
Full tank of unleaded, then I'm head to Probilla
Fucking with that Big Mello, because my click require killas
You ain't gotta holla at me, when you see me outside
Cause when I go to my ride, I got your woman inside
She got her mouth open wide, ready for me to drop it in
My shine is unstoppable, but you wanna stop it here we go again

[Hook - 4x]

Noun

  1. the semantic relation that holds between two words that can (in a given context) express the same meaning

Adjective

  1. tastelessly showy; “a flash car”; “a flashy ring”; “garish colors”; “a gaudy costume”; “loud sport shirts”; “a meretricious yet stylish book”; “tawdry ornaments”
  2. made of inferior workmanship and materials; “cheapjack moviemaking…that feeds on the low taste of the mob”- Judith Crist

Noun

  1. a person who uses scientific knowledge to solve practical problems

Noun

  1. an inhabitant of the earth

Adjective

  1. of or relating to or inhabiting the land as opposed to the sea or air

Noun

  1. someone who pays rent to use land or a building or a car that is owned by someone else; “the landlord can evict a tenant who doesn’t pay the rent”
  2. a holder of buildings or lands by any kind of title (as ownership or lease)
  3. any occupant who dwells in a place

Verb

  1. occupy as a tenant

Adjective

  1. easily irritated or annoyed; “an incorrigibly fractious young man”; “not the least nettlesome of his countrymen”

“A Germanophile, Teutonophile or Teutophile is a person who is fond of German culture, German people and Germany in general or who exhibits German patriotism in spite of not being either an ethnic German or a German citizen.”

  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.

Noun

  1. a political unit governed by a deity (or by officials thought to be divinely guided)
  2. the belief in government by divine guidance

From Wikipedia: '''Theocracy''' is a form of government in which one or more [[deity|deities]] of some type are recognized as supreme ruling authorities, giving divine guidance to human intermediaries who manage the day-to-day affairs of the government.Webster's Encyclopedic Unabridged Dictionary of the English Language (1989 edition)."[https://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/theocracy Theocracy, n.]" in ''Oxford English Dictionary'' (2015); Retrieved 28 June 2015

==Etymology== The word theocracy originates from the [[Greek language|Greek]] word θεοκρατία (''theocratia'') meaning "the rule of God". This, in turn, derives from [[:wikt:θεός|θεός]] (theos), meaning "god", and [[:wikt:κρατέω|κρατέω]] (''krateo''), meaning "to rule". Thus the meaning of the word in Greek was "rule by god(s)" or human [incarnation] of god(s).

The term was initially coined by [[Flavius Josephus]] in the first century AD to describe the characteristic government of the [[Jew]]s. Josephus argued that while mankind had developed many forms of rule, most could be subsumed under the following three types: [[monarchy]], [[oligarchy]], and [[democracy]]. However, according to Josephus, the government of the Jews was unique. Josephus offered the term "theocracy" to describe this polity in which God was sovereign and His word was law.cite%20book%7Curl%3Dhttp%3A//www.gutenberg.org/files/2849/2849-h/2849-h.htm%7Ctitle%3DAgainst%20Apion%20by%20Flavius%20Josephus%2C%20Book%20II%2C%20Chapter%2017%7Cwork%3Dgutenberg.org%7Cdate%3DOctober%202001

Josephus' definition was widely accepted until the [[The Age of Enlightenment|Enlightenment]] era, when the term took on negative [[connotation]]s and was barely salvaged by [[Hegel]]'s commentary.Cite%20journal%7Clast%3DMoked%7Cfirst%3DOran%7Cdate%3D2004%7Ctitle%3DThe%20Relationship%20between%20Religion%20and%20State%20in%20Hegel%27s%20Thought%7Cjournal%3DHegel%20Bulletin%7Clanguage%3Den%7Cvolume%3D25%7Cissue%3D1%E2%80%932%7Cpages%3D96%E2%80%93112%7Cdoi%3D10.1017/S0263523200002032%7Cissn%3D2051-5367%7Cdoi-access%3Dfree The first recorded English use was in 1622, with the meaning "sacerdotal government under divine inspiration" (as in Biblical Israel before the rise of kings); the meaning "priestly or religious body wielding political and civil power" was recorded in 1825.

==Definition== tone%7Csection%7Cdate%3DDecember%202016 The term ''theocracy'' derives from the [[Koine Greek]] lang%7Cgrc%7C%CE%B8%CE%B5%CE%BF%CE%BA%CF%81%CE%B1%CF%84%CE%AF%CE%B1, "rule of God", a term used by [[Josephus]] for the [[kingdoms of Israel and Judah]],English form the 17th century (''[[OED]]''). The Greek term is explicitly coined by Josephus and isn't attested elsewhere in Ancient Greek; Josephus marks it as a [[Nonce word|nonce]] coinage by calling it a "strained expression". W. Whiston tr. [[Josephus]], ''Against Apion'' ii. §17 (1814) IV. 340: "He [Moses] ordained our government to be what, by a strained expression, may be termed a Theocracy", translating lang%7Cgrc%7C%E1%BD%A1%CF%82%20%CE%B4%27%E1%BC%84%CE%BD%20%CF%84%CE%AF%CF%82%20%CE%B5%E1%BC%B4%CF%80%CE%BF%CE%B9%2C%20%CE%B2%CE%B9%CE%B1%CF%83%CE%AC%CE%BC%CE%B5%CE%BD%CE%BF%CF%82%20%CF%84%E1%BD%B8%CE%BD%20%CE%BB%CF%8C%CE%B3%CE%BF%CE%BD%2C%20%CE%B8%CE%B5%CE%BF%CE%BA%CF%81%CE%B1%CF%84%CE%AF%CE%B1%CE%BD reflecting the view that "God himself is recognized as the head" of the state.[http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14568a.htm Catholic Encyclopedia] "A form of civil government in which God himself is recognized as the head." The common, generic use of the term, as defined above in terms of rule by a church or analogous religious leadership, would be more accurately described as an ecclesiocracy.Stephen Palmquist, [http://www.hkbu.edu.hk/ppp/bth ''Biblical Theocracy: A vision of the biblical foundations for a Christian political philosophy''] (Hong Kong: Philopsychy Press, 1993), introduced these more precise uses of the terms in arguing that theocracy (in this pure sense) is the only political system defended in the Bible. While Palmquist defends theocracy in this pure form as a viable (though "non-political") political system, he warns that what normally goes by this name is actually ecclesiocracy, the most dangerous of all political systems.

In a pure theocracy, the civil leader is believed to have a personal connection with the deity or deities of that civilization's religion or belief, such as [[Muhammad]]'s leadership of the early Muslims with prophecies from [[God in Islam|Allah]]. In an ecclesiocracy, the religious leaders assume a leading role in the state, but do not claim that they are instruments of divine revelation.

A related phenomenon is a secular government co-existing with a state religion or delegating some aspects of civil law to religious communities. For example, in Israel, [[Marriage in Israel|marriage]] is governed by officially recognized religious bodies who each provide marriage services for their respected adherents, yet no form of civil marriage (free of religion) exists, nor marriage by non-recognized minority religions.

Noun

  1. a thrumming sound; “he could hear the thrum of a banjo”

Verb

  1. sound with a monotonous hum
  2. sound the strings of (a stringed instrument); “strum a guitar”
  3. make a rhythmic sound; “Rain drummed against the windshield”; “The drums beat all night”
  1. make a continuous rhythmic humming sound the boat's huge engines thrummed in his ears

[with object] strum (the strings of a musical instrument) in a rhythmic way he thrums the strings | blind men thrum and hum in the soft air

Noun [usually in singular]

  1. a continuous rhythmic humming sound the steady thrum of rain on the windows

Noun

  1. Textiles (in weaving) an unwoven end of a warp thread, or a fringe of such ends, left in the loom when the finished cloth is cut away.

any short loose thread.

Verb

  1. Textiles cover or adorn (cloth or clothing) with ends of thread.

Noun

  1. a hard blow with a flat object

Verb

  1. deliver a hard blow to; “The teacher smacked the student who had misbehaved”

From LookUp:

Verb

  1. strike forcefully with a sharp blow she thwacked the back of their knees with a cane

Noun

  1. a sharp blow he hit it with a hefty thwack

Thesaurus

Verb

  1. Pedro thwacked the backs of the man's legs with his crutch

Similar Words: hit strike beat batter pound attack assault knock rap smack slap pummel thump punch cudgel thrash bang drub welt cuff crack buffet box someone's ears bash clobber clout clip wallop whack belt tan biff bop lay into pitch into lace into let someone have it knock into the middle of next week sock lam whomp stick one on slosh boff bust slug light into whale dong quilt smite swinge

Noun

  1. he was given a painful thwack with a rolled-up magazine

Similar Words: blow hit punch thump smack slap bang welt cuff box crack bash clobber clout clip wallop whack belt tan biff bop sock lam whomp slosh boff bust slug whale dong buffet

From LookUp: Residual (Abbreviation)

  1. Computing Informal today I learned TIL something interesting

Noun

  1. a clan or tribe identified by their kinship to a common totemic object
  2. emblem consisting of an object such as an animal or plant; serves as the symbol of a family or clan (especially among American Indians)

From LookUp: Noun

  1. Anthropology a natural object or animal that is believed by a particular society to have spiritual significance and that is adopted by it as an emblem.

a person or thing regarded as being symbolic or representative of a particular quality or concept the fast food chains have become totems of Western economic development | the newspaper is seen as a totem of media independence and integrity

Verb

  1. speak unfavorably about; “She badmouths her husband everywhere”

In computer science, transclusion is the inclusion of part or all of an electronic document into one or more other documents by hypertext reference. Transclusion is usually performed when the referencing document is displayed, and is normally automatic and transparent to the end user. The result of transclusion is a single integrated document made of parts assembled dynamically from separate sources, possibly stored on different computers in disparate places.

Transclusion facilitates modular design: a resource is stored once and distributed for reuse in multiple documents. Updates or corrections to a resource are then reflected in any referencing documents. Ted Nelson coined the term for his 1980 nonlinear book Literary Machines, but the idea of master copy and occurrences was applied 17 years before, in Sketchpad. -Wikipedia

Adjective

  1. through the unbroken skin; refers to medications applied directly to the skin (creams or ointments) or in time-release forms (skin patches); “transdermal estrogen”; “percutaneous absorption”

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”

From LookUp: Noun

  1. [treated as plural] small domestic wooden objects, especially antiques.

Adjective

  1. Archaic wooden a treen snuffbox

Noun

  1. a mutual promise to marry
  2. a solemn pledge of fidelity

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”

Noun

  1. a corrupt or depraved or degenerate act or practice; “the various turpitudes of modern society”

Abbreviation of obtuse. Not "a slang term for vagina."

Ex:

tuse goose.

Noun

  1. a native of Yorkshire
  2. a crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or refinement
  3. a young person of either sex; “she writes books for children”; “they’re just kids”; “`tiddler’ is a British term for youngster”

Noun

  1. someone new to a field or activity

Adverb

  1. to a remarkable degree or extent; “she was unusually tall”; “Notably missing from the network’s fall line-up are any half-hour scripted comedies”

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.

Some prime examples:

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

Adjective

  1. not liable to error; “the Church was…theoretically inerrant and omnicompetent”-G.G.Coulton; “lack an inerrant literary sense”; “an unerring marksman”

Adjective

  1. not pretended; sincerely felt or expressed; “genuine emotion”; “her interest in people was unfeigned”; “true grief”

Adjective

  1. incapable of being controlled; “the little boy’s parents think he is spirited, but his teacher finds him unruly”

Adjective

  1. showing a high degree of refinement and the assurance that comes from wide social experience; “his polished manner”; “maintained an urbane tone in his letters”

Adjective

  1. of or relating to or similar to bears

Noun

  1. extravagant self-praise

Verb

  1. show off

From LookUp: Verb

  1. boast about or praise (something), especially excessively he was initially vaunted by the West for his leadership of the country | an autobiographer is simultaneously vaunted and castigated for revealing more than is deemed proper

Noun

  1. Archaic a boast.

Noun

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

Noun

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

Noun

  1. something that covers or cloaks like a garment; “fields in a vesture of green”
  2. a covering designed to be worn on a person’s body

Verb

  1. provide or cover with a cloak

noun derogatory the public expression of opinions or sentiments intended to demonstrate one's good character or social conscience or the moral correctness of one's position on a particular issue: it's noticeable how often virtue signaling consists of saying you hate things | standing on the sidelines saying how awful the situation is does nothing except massage your ego by virtue signaling.º

Noun

  1. the human face (kisser’ andsmiler’ and mug’ are informal terms forface’ and `phiz’ is British)
  2. the appearance conveyed by a person’s face; “a pleasant countenance”; “a stern visage”

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.

-Dinkus - Wikipedia

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

homunculus

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”

injuredly

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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.

Some prime examples:

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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

Vocabulary

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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

Adjective

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

To WHEWT is to whistle tunelessly or feebly. -@HaggardHawks

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”

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”

Noun

  1. garden consisting of a small cultivated wood without undergrowth

Noun

  1. vigorous and enthusiastic enjoyment
  2. a tart spicy quality

Verb

  1. add herbs or spices to

Noun

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

verisimilitude

Noun

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