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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.
ASPERITY
noun
Pronounced: ah-SPER-ih-tee
Meaning: Harshness or sharpness of tone, temper or manner; severity; hardship; acrimony.
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BLANDISHMENT
noun
Pronounced: BLAN-dish-mint
Meaning: Something, as an action or speech, that tends to flatter, coax or entice.
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CONSTERNATE
verb
Pronounced: KON-stir-nate
Meaning: To dismay, confuse or terrify; to unsettle or throw into confusion.
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DEBACLE
noun
Pronounced: deh-BAHK-l
Meaning: A disaster or fiasco; a general rout or dispersal of troops.
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EVINCE
verb
Pronounced: ee-VINCE
Meaning: To show clearly; make evident or manifest; prove;to reveal the possession of a quality, trait, etc.
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FLORID
adjective
Pronounced: FLOOR-id
Meaning: Reddish; ruddy; rosy; flowery or excessive ornate.
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GELID
adjective
Pronounced: JEL-id
Meaning: Very cold; icy.
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HARANGUE
noun
Pronounced: huh-RANG
Meaning: A scolding or a verbal attack; diatribe; a long, passionate and vehement speech, especially one delivered before a public gathering.
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INVOLUTE
adjective
Pronounced: IN-vol-oot
Meaning: Intricate; complex; curled or curved inward or spirally; rolled inward from the edge as a leaf.
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JITNEY
noun
Pronounced: JIT-knee
Meaning: A small bus or car following a regular route along which it picks up and discharges passengers.
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KLEPTOMANIA
noun
Pronounced: KLEP-toe-main-ee-ah
Meaning: A compulsion to steal having no relation to need or the monetary value of the object.
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LUCULENT
adjective
Pronounced: LOO-cue-lent
Meaning: Clear or lucid; convincing or cogent.
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MALLEABLE
Adjective
Pronounced: MAL-ee-uh-bull
Meaning: Capable of being extended or shaped by hammering or by pressure from rollers; adaptable.
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NUTATION
noun
Pronounced: noo-TAY-shun
Meaning: An act or instance of nodding one's head, especially involuntarily or spasmodically.
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OBTRUSIVE
adjective
Pronounced: ahb-TROO-siv
Meaning: Having a disposition to impose oneself or one's opinions on others.
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PALLIATE
verb
Pronounced: PAL-lee-ate
Meaning: To relieve without curing; mitigate; alleviate; to try to conceal the gravity of an offense by excuses, apologies, etc.
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QUODLIBET
noun
Pronounced: KWOAD-lih-bet
Meaning: A subtle or elaborate argument or point of debate, usually on a theological or scholastic subject.
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ROISTER
verb
Pronounced: ROY-stir
Meaning: To act in a swaggering, boisterous or uproarious manner; to revel noisily or without restraint.
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STENTORIAN
adjective
Pronounced: sten-TORE-ree-en
Meaning: very loud or powerful in sound.
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TAUTOLOGY
noun
Pronounced: tah-TOL-oh-gee
Meaning: Needless repetition of an idea in different words; an instance of such repetition.
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UBIQUITOUS
adjective
Pronounced: you-BICK-kwit-tuss
Meaning: Existing or being everywhere, especially at the same time; omnipresent.
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VINTNER
noun
Pronounced: VENT-ner
Meaning: A person who sells or makes wines.
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WORRYWART
noun
Pronounced: WORRY-whart
Meaning: A person who tends to worry habitually and often needlessly.
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XERISCAPE
noun
Pronounced: ZEAR-rih-scape
Meaning: The environmental design of residential and park land using various methods for minimizing the need for water use.
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YELLOW DOG
noun
Pronounced: YELL-oh dog
Meaning: A cowardly, despicable person; craven.
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ZAIBATSU
noun
Pronounced: zai-BAHT-su
Meaning: A great industrial or financial combination of Japan.
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PREVARICATE
verb
Pronounced: pre-VARE-ih-kate
Meaning: To speak falsely, misleadingly, or so as to avoid the truth; deliberately misstate; equivocate; lie.
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QUIDDITY
noun
Pronounced: KWIH-dih-tee
Meaning: The quality that makes a thing what it is; essential nature.
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REDOUBTABLE
adjective
Pronounced: ree-DOW-tuh-bull
Meaning: Evoking fear; fearsome; formidable; commanding respect or reverence.
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STAUNCH (also STANCH)
verb
Pronounced: STAW-nch
Meaning: To stop the flow of a liquid, especially blood from a wound, leak, etc.
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TEMERITY
noun
Pronounced: the-MER-ih-tee
Meaning: Reckless boldness; rashness; an instance of reckless boldness.
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UXORIOUS
adjective
Pronounced: ooks-SORE-ree-uss
Meaning: Doting upon or affectionately submissive toward one's wife.
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VOLANT
adjective
Pronounced: VO-lant
Meaning: Engaged in or having the power of flight; moving lightly, nimble.
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WYVERN
noun
Pronounced: WEE-vern
Meaning: A mythical creature often depicted heraldically as a two-legged winged dragon with a barbed tail.
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ABJURE
verb
Pronounced: ab-JOOR
Meaning: To repudiate or retract, especially with formal solemnity; recant; to renounce or give up under oath.
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BURNISH
verb
Pronounced: BURR-nish
Meaning: To polish a surface by friction; to make smooth and bright especially by rubbing with a tool.
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CONTEMN
verb
Pronounced: kon-TEM
Meaning: To treat or regard with contempt.
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DEPRECATE
verb
Pronounced: DEPP-ree-kate
Meaning: To express earnest disapproval of; to urge reasons again; protest against a scheme, purpose, etc.; to belittle or depreciate.