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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.
AESOPIAN
adjective
Pronounced: ay-SOP-pee-in
Meaning: Conveying an innocent meaning to an outsider but a concealed meaning to an informed member of a conspiracy or underground movement.
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BILIOUS
adjective
Pronounced: BILL-yuss
Meaning: Peevish; irritable; cranky; unattractive or distasteful.
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CEVICHE
noun
Pronounced: suh-VEE-chay
Meaning: An appetizer of small pieces of raw fish marinated in lime or lemon juice, often with onions, peppers and spices.
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DAMASK
noun
Pronounced: DAH-mask
Meaning: An elaborately patterned, usually reversible fabric of linen, silk, cotton, wool or synthetic fibers, woven on a Jacquard loom.
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EBONIZE
verb
Pronounced: EH-boh-nyz
Meaning: Make or stain black in imitation of ebony.
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FORBEARANCE
noun
Pronounced: four-BEAR-rinse
Meaning: Patient endurance; willingness to wait; self-control; an abstaining from the enforcement of a right.
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GAINSAY
verb
Pronounced: GAIN-say
Meaning: To deny or dispute; contradict; to speak or act against; oppose.
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HAPLESS
adjective
Pronounced: HAPP-less
Meaning: Unlucky; luckless; unfortunate.
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INTREPID
adjective
Pronounced: in-TREP-id
Meaning: Fearless; dauntless.
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JALOUSIE
noun
Pronounced: JAL-low-see
Meaning: A blind or shutter made with horizontal slats that can be adjusted to admit light and air but exclude rain and sun.
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K RATION
noun
Pronounced: KAY RAH-shun
Meaning: An emergency military field ration for use under combat conditions, consisting of three separate packaged meals.
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LASSITUDE
noun
Pronounced: LAH-sih-tood
Meaning: Weariness of body or mind from strain, oppressive climate, etc.; indifference.
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METTLESOME
adjective
Pronounced: MEH-tull-sum
Meaning: Spirited, courageous.
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NADIR
noun
Pronounced: NAY-derr
Meaning: The lowest point; point of greatest adversity or despair.
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OBDURATE
adjective
Pronounced: AHB-dure-ret
Meaning: Unmoved by persuasion or pity; unyielding. Stubbornly resistant to moral influence; impenitent.
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PHLEGMATIC
adjective
Pronounced: fleg-MA-tick
Meaning: Not easily excited to action or display of emotion; having a calm temperament.
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QUAFF
verb
Pronounced: KWAF
Meaning: To drink copiously and with hearty enjoyment.
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RAFFISH
adjective
Pronounced: RAW-fish
Meaning: Disreputable or nonconformist; rakish.
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SYCOPHANT
noun
Pronounced: SICK-oh-fant
Meaning: A self-seeking, servile flatterer; a fawning parasite.
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TRACTABLE
adjective
Pronounced: TRACK-tah-bull
Meaning: Easily managed or controlled; docile; yielding; easily worked, shaped or otherwise handled; malleable.
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URBANE
adjective
Pronounced: ur-BAIN
Meaning: Having polish and suavity in manner or style; sophisticated.
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VITUPERATE
verb
Pronounced: vi-TOO-per-ate
Meaning: To use harsh and abusive language; to censure harshly.
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WUNDERKIND
noun
Pronounced: VOON-dur-kend
Meaning: A child prodigy; a person who succeeds, especially in business, at a comparatively early age.
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XANTHOUS
adjective
Pronounced: ZAN-thuss
Meaning: Yellowish.
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YAWP
verb
Pronounced: YAWP
Meaning: To utter a loud, harsh cry; yelp, squawk; to talk noisily or complainingly.
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ZAPPY
adjective
Pronounced: ZAH-pee
Meaning: Energetic, lively or fast-moving.
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WELL-HEALED
adjective
Pronounced: WELL HEALD
Meaning: Well-off, rich.
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XERIC
adjective
Pronounced: ZEAR-ick
Meaning: Of, pertaining to or adapted to a dry environment.
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YARDBIRD
noun
Pronounced: YARD-burd
Meaning: A soldier assigned to cleaning the grounds or other menial tasks as punishment.
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ZONIAN
noun
Pronounced: ZOH-nee-en
Meaning: A United States citizen living in the Canal Zone.
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ATTENUATE
verb
Pronounced: ah-TEN-yoo-ate
Meaning: To weaken or reduce in force, intensity, effect, quantity or value; to make thin, slender or fine.
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BOISTEROUS
adjective
Pronounced: BOY-stir-russ
Meaning: Rough and noisy; turbulent and stormy.
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CONUNDRUM
noun
Pronounced: ko-NUN-drum
Meaning: A riddle whose answer involves a pun; a puzzle.
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DISABUSE
verb
Pronounced: DISS-ah-byooz
Meaning: To free from deception or error.
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ENERVATE
adjective
Pronounced: IN-ur-vate
Meaning: To deprive of force or strength; destroy the vigor of; weaken.
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FULMINATE
verb
Pronounced: FULL-men-ate
Meaning: To explode with a loud noise; detonate; to issue denunciations.
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GUILELESS
adjective
Pronounced: GUYL-less
Meaning: Sincere; straightforward.
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HALLOW
verb
Pronounced: HAL-low
Meaning: To make holy, sanctify or consecrate; to honor as holy; to consider sacred.
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IMPAIR
verb
Pronounced: em-PEAR
Meaning: To make or cause to become worse, weaken or damage.
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JINGO
noun
Pronounced: JEENG-go
Meaning: A person who professes belligerent patriotism and favors an aggressive foreign policy.
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KWANZA
noun
Pronounced: KWAN-zah
Meaning: A harvest festival celebrated from December 26 to January 1 in some African-American communities.
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LASSITUDE
noun
Pronounced: LAH-sit-tood
Meaning: Weariness of body or mind from strain, oppressive climate, etc., listlessness, languor.
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MALINGER
verb
Pronounced: muh-LING-ger
Meaning: To pretend illness, especially in order to shirk duty or work.