Post by Sp❣rit on Apr 15, 2012 11:13:00 GMT -5
Well I keep all of these in a word document dedicated for mod posts, and I'm always updating it. In case anyone is curious what any word I use means, this is probably the easiest way to look it up. Share some awesome words if you know any as well!
Abjure: to renounce, repudiate, or retract, especially with formal solemnity; recant: to abjure one's errors.
Abscond: to depart in a sudden and secret manner, especially to avoid capture and legal prosecution: The cashier absconded with the money.
Adroit: 1. Cleverly skillful, resourceful, or ingenious.
2. Expert or nimble in the use of the hands or body.
Afflatus: Epiphany, sudden burst of inspiration
Agley: off the right line; awry; wrong.
Alate: having wings; winged.
Ardor: great warmth of feeling; fervor; passion: She spoke persuasively and with ardor.
Armamentarium: 1. A fruitful source of devices or materials available or used for an undertaking.
2. The aggregate of equipment, methods, and techniques available to one for carrying out one’s duties.
Asperse: 1. To sprinkle; bespatter.
2. To attack with false, malicious, and damaging charges or insinuations; slander.
Banal: So lacking in originality as to be obvious and boring.
Birr: force; energy; vigor.
Brabble: To quarrel about trifles
Brannigan: A drinking bout; a spree or 'binge'
Catechize: To question closely
Conniption: a fit of hysterical excitement or anger.
Copacetic: fine; completely satisfactory; OK.
Corrade: To scrape together; to gather together from various sources. "A corraded Pokemon Team"
Cunctation: Delay; tardiness.
Cursory: going rapidly over something, without noticing details; hasty; superficial: a cursory glance at a newspaper article.
Dearth: An inadequate supply; scarcity; lack.
2. Scarcity and dearness of food; famine.
Deliciate: To take one's pleasure, enjoy oneself, revel, luxuriate
Disconcert: 1. to disturb the self-possession of; perturb; ruffle: Her angry reply disconcerted me completely.
2. to throw into disorder or confusion; disarrange: He changed his mind and disconcerted everybody's plans.
Educe: to draw forth or bring out, as something potential or latent.
Egress: the act or an instance of going, especially from an enclosed place. An exit.
Ephemeral - lasting a very short time.
Eudemonia: Happiness; well-being
Euphonious - pleasing; sweet in sound.
Fantast: Visionary or a dreamer
Freck: To move swiftly or nimbly
Flibbertigibbet: a chattering or flighty, light-headed person.
Foppish: dandified: affecting extreme elegance in dress and manner
Frenetic: Fast, frantic, harried, or frenzied; having extreme enthusiasm or energy; mentally deranged, insane; characterized by manifestations of delirium or madness
Gasconade: extravagant boasting; boastful talk.
Grouse: to grumble; complain.
Haimish: Homey; cozy and unpretentious.
Histrionics: 1. Behavior or speech for effect, as insincere or exaggerated expression of an emotion.
2. Dramatic representation; theatricals; acting.
Idoneous: appropriate; fit; suitable; apt.
Illecebrous: Alluring, enticing, attractive
Inexorable: unyielding; unalterable: inexorable truth; inexorable justice.
Iniquitous: characterized by injustice or wickedness; wicked; sinful.
Instauration: Renovation, Repair, Renewal, Restoration
Interrobang: a printed punctuation mark that combines the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!).
Jargogle: To confuse, to jumble. "These vocabulary words are going to jargogle my brain."
Kench: To laugh loudly
Loquacious: talking or tending to talk much or freely; talkative; chattering; babbling; garrulous: a loquacious dinner guest.
Ludibrious: Apt to be a subject of jest or mockery
Malagrugrous: Dismal/Gloomy
Malapropism: an act or habit of misusing words ridiculously, especially by the confusion of words that are similar in sound.
Morceau: piece; morsel.
Natch: Naturally, Of course
Ninnyhammer: a fool or simpleton; ninny.
Noctilucent: Visible during the short night of the summer.
Novation: the introduction of something new; innovation.
Oracular: ambiguous; obscure.
Pachyderm: a person who is not sensitive to criticism, ridicule, etc.
Parlance: a way or manner of speaking; vernacular (legal parlance).
Pejorative: A disparaging or belittling word or expression; having an unpleasant or disparaging connotation
Pensée: A reflection or a thought
Perissology: Use of more words than are necessary; redundancy or superfluity of expression.
Persnickety: overparticular; fussy.
Perspicacious: having keen mental perception and understanding; discerning.
Pettifog: to bicker or quibble over trifles or unimportant matters.
Plethora: overabundance; excess: a plethora of advice and a paucity of assistance.
Poignant: 1. keenly distressing to the feelings: (poignant regret)
2. Affecting or moving the emotions (a poignant scene).
Proliferated: 1. to grow or produce by multiplication of parts, as in budding or cell division, or by procreation.
2. to increase in number or spread rapidly and often excessively.
Profligacy: reckless extravagance.
Profluent: flowing smoothly or abundantly forth.
Prosody/Prosodic: The science or study of poetic meters and versification. A particular or distinctive system of metrics and versification: Milton's prosody. Linguistics . The stress and intonation patterns of an utterance.
Prostrate: Lying stretched out on the ground with one's face downward
Completely overcome or helpless, esp. with illness, distress, or exhaustion
- his wife was prostrate with shock
Pulchritude: physical beauty; comeliness.
Quagswagging: The action of shaking to and fro
Recalcitrant: resisting authority or control; not obedient or compliant; refractory.
Remora: an obstacle, hindrance, or obstruction.
Rife: of common or frequent occurrence; prevalent; in widespread existence, activity, or use: Crime is rife in the slum areas of our cities.
Saccade: jerk: an abrupt spasmodic movement
Saccharine: of the nature of or resembling that of sugar
Sagacious: having or showing acute mental discernment and keen practical sense; shrewd: a sagacious lawyer.
Salacious: 1. lustful or lecherous.
2. (of writings, pictures, etc.) obscene; grossly indecent.
Sanguinolency: Addiction to bloodshed. Do you think spending six hours a day playing Portal 2 actually fosters sanguinolency?”
Sardonic: grimly mocking or cynical: Starkey attempted a sardonic smile.
Schnozzola: A nose, especially one of unusually large size.
Scintillating: animated; vivacious; effervescent: a scintillating personality.
2. witty; brilliantly clever: a scintillating conversationalist; a play full of scintillating dialogue.
Selcouth: Strange/Uncommon
Sepulcher: a tomb, grave, or burial place.
Solecism: A breach of good manners or etiquette.
SYLLEPSIS: USING A WORD TO MEAN TWO DIFFERENT THINGS IN THE SAME SENTENCE
Syndetic: Serving to unite or connect; connective; copulative.
SYNECDOCHE:USING THE PART TO REPRESENT THE WHOLE
Tautology: using redundant descriptive words
Terse: abruptly concise; curt; brusque.
Truculent: fierce; cruel; savagely brutal.
Ugsome: horrid or loathsome
Vexatious: causing vexation; troublesome; annoying: a vexatious situation.
Viscous: Having a thick, sticky consistency between solid and liquid; having a high viscosity (adjective: sticky, viscid, glutinous, gluey, adhesive, gummy, ropy, tacky, slimy)
Whorl: a circular arrangement of like parts, as leaves or flowers, around a point on an axis; verticil.
Widdendream: A state of mental disturbance or confusion
Zedonk: the offspring of a zebra and a donkey.