Word of the Day

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Effluvium
(noun)

1. A gaseous or vaporous emission, especially a foul-smelling one.
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Disconsolate
(adjective)

1. Cheerless, dreary.

2. Seemingly beyond consolation; inconsolable.​

 

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Reliquary
(noun)

A container to hold or display religious relics.​

 

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Eviscerate
(verb)

1. (transitive) To disembowel, to remove the Viscera(guts).

2. (transitive) To destroy or make ineffectual or meaningless.​

 

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Bowdlerize
(Verb)

To remove those parts of text considered offensive, vulgar, or otherwise unseemly.​

 

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Leeward
(adjective)

Away from the direction from which the wind is blowing downwind.​

 

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bevy
(noun)

1. A large group of animals, in particular quail.

2. A large group or collection.​

 

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desiderium
(noun)

an ardent longing, as for something lost.

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Nowise
(adverb)

(In) no way, (in) no manner, Definitely not.​

 

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remuneration

1. Something given in exhange for goods or services rendered.

2. A payment for work done; wages, salary, emolument.​

 

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clemency
(noun)

1. The gentle or kind exercise of power; leniency, mercy; compassion in judging or punishing.

2. (now rare) Mildness of weather.

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accismus
(noun)

(rhetoric) Feigning disinterest in something while actually desiring it.​

 

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sheeple

(derogatory slang) People who unquestioningly accept as true whatever their political leaders say or who adopt
popular opinion as their own without scrutiny.​

 

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malleate
(verb)

To beat into shape with a hammer.


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draculin
(noun)

(organic chemistry) A glycoprotein with anticoagulant properties, found in the saliva in bats.​

 

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skyclad
(adjective)

(Wicca) Naked outdoors.​

 

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leech
(verb)

1.(transitive) To apply a leech medicinally, so that it sucks blood from the patient.

2.(transitive) To drain (resources) without giving back.​

 

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punctilio
(noun)

A fine point in exactness of conduct, ceremony, or procedure. Strictness in observance of formalities.​

 

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pratfall
(noun)

1. a fall in which one lands on the buttocks, often regarded as comical or humiliating.

2. a humiliating blunder or defeat​