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Click hereWhenever I read, I keep a pencil handy and I underline words that I don’t know and dog ear the page so that I can go back and look them up in the dictionary. I have always been interested in etymology and even took Latin for three years. I hope that these words can help all of us in our writings. Be sure to check out your dictionary for additional usages of the words and spellings associated with changing the word from adjective to adverb to noun … etc.
ABNEGATION
noun
Pronounced: ab-nih-GAY-shun
Meaning: Renunciation or denial.
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BEDIZEN
verb
Pronounced: BEH-dih-zen
Meaning: To dress or adorn with gaudy and showy vulgarity.
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CORPS
noun
Pronounced: CORE
Meaning: The ensemble or chorus of a ballet company as distinguished from soloists and principals.
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DEFALCATION
noun
Pronounced: deh-ful-KAY-shun
Meaning: The misappropriation of money in one’s keeping.
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ENCULTURATE
verb
Pronounced: in-CUL-ture-rate
Meaning: Modify or condition by the process by which an individual learns the traditional content of a culture and assimilates its practices and values.
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FASTING
noun
Pronouced: FASS-ting
Meaning: The act of abstaining from food, especially for an unusual time and often as a form of religious observance or for therapeutic purposes.
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GNOSIS
noun
Pronouced: NO-siss
Meaning: The act or process of cognition or knowing.
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HADEAN
adjective
Pronounced: HAY-dee-enn
Meaning: Of, relating to or characteristic of hell.
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IGNOBLE
adjective
Pronounced: ig-KNOW-bull
Meaning: Displaying or characterized by baseness or meanness; despicable.
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JORNADA
noun
Pronounced: hor-NA-da
Meaning: An arduous, usually one-day, journey across a stretch of desert.
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KORRIGAN
noun
Pronounced: KORE-ree-gun
Meaning: A long-haired noctural, often malevolent, fairy sorceress.
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LIAISE
verb
Pronounced: LEE-aze
Meaning: To establish communication for purposes of mutual understanding.
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MALVERSATION
noun
Pronounced: mal-ver-SAY-shun
Meaning: Misbehavior and especially corruption in an office, trust or commission.
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NETHER
adjective
Pronounced: NEH-thur
Meaning: Below; lower.
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OBROTUND
adjective
Pronounced: OB-roh-tunned
Meaning: Nearly spherical, but with one diameter slightly exceeding the others.
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PERLINGUAL
adjective
Pronounced: per-LING-gwal
Meaning: Through or by way of the tongue.
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QUITTANCE
noun
Pronounced: KWIH-tunce
Meaning: The act of freeing or releasing, specifically, discharge from a debt or an obligation.
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REPARATIONS
noun, plural: singular version, REPARATION
Pronouced: reh-pa-RAY-shuns
Meaning: The act of making amends, offering expiation or giving satisfaction for a wrong or injury.
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SPOOR
noun
Pronounced: SPOOR
Meaning: A mark, a trail, a scent, a sound or droppings left by one that has passed.
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THEURGY
noun
Pronounced: THEE-ur-gee
Meaning: The act of compelling or persuading a god or beneficent supernatural power to do or refrain from doing something, specifically, an occult art in which the operator is held to be capable of evoking or utilizing the aid of divine and beneficent spirits.
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UNAPPEASABLE
adjective
Pronounced: un-uh-PEAS-uh-bull
Meaning: Not capable of being brought to a state of ease or content.
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VICENNIAL
adjective
Pronounced: vi-SIN-knee-ul
Meaning: Occurring once every 20 years.
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WHEATEN
noun
Pronounced: WHEE-tun
Meaning: The color of wheat, specifically, a pale yellow or fawn characteristic of certain breeds of dogs.
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XYSTI
noun
Pronounced: ZISS-tee
Meaning: Long, open porticoes, used especially by ancient Greeks or Romans for athletic exercises in wintry or stormy weather.
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YINGLISH
noun
Pronounced: YING-glish
Meaning: English marked by numerous borrowings from Yiddish.
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ZENDO
noun
Pronounced: ZEN-doh
Meaning: A place used for Zen meditation.
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ABSOLUTION
noun
Pronounced: ab-so-LOO-shun
Meaning: A rite, ceremony or form of words in which a remission of sins is pronounced, proclaimed or prayerfully implored by a priest or minister.
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BERSERK
adjective
Pronounced: bih-ZERK
Meaning: Marked by a display of violent erratic behavior indicative of extreme excitement or agitation and suggestive of sudden mental unbalance.
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CASTE
noun
Pronounced: KAYST
Meaning: One of the hereditary classes into which the society of India is divided in accordance with a system fundamental in Hinduism.
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DISCERNED
verb
Pronounced: dih-SERN-d
Meaning: Sensed or came to know or recognize mentally, especially something that is obscure.
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EMENDATION
noun
Pronounced: ee-min-DAY-shun
Meaning: The word or the matter substituted for incorrect or unsuitable matter in a work that has been altered.
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FUSIFORM
adjective
Pronounced: FUE-zee-form
Meaning: Shaped like a spindle, tapering toward each end.
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GARBOLOGY
noun
Pronounced: garr-BOLL-o-gee
Meaning: The study of modern culture through the analysis of what is thrown away as garbage or trash.
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HOARY
adjective
Pronounced: HOAR-ree
Meaning: Gray or white with age.
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IMAM
noun
Pronounced: ih-MOM
Meaning: The prayer leader of a mosque.
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JERKWATER
adjective
Pronounced: JEERK-wah-turr
Meaning: Insignificant and out of the way.
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KNELL
noun
Pronounced: NELL
Meaning: A sound or sign announcing someone’s death or the end or failure of something.
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LUMINARIA
noun
Pronounced: loo-men-ARE-ree-uh
Meaning: A Mexican Christmas lantern consisting of a lighted candle set in sand inside a paper bag.
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MISO
noun
Pronounced: MEE-soh
Meaning: A paste used in preparing soups and other foods that is made by grinding a mixture of steamed rice, cooked soybeans and salt and then fermenting it in brine.
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The definition of the word spoor - I would suggest saying "...left by one that has passed by." instead of just "...left by one that has passed." The way you have it makes one wonder if it's because the one who has passed has died, if he is deceased or passed away. Just a suggestion.