Interesting words there, djy!
contumely :
- noun
1. insulting display of contempt in words or actions; contemptuous or humiliating treatment.
2. a humiliating insult.
- Synonyms : abuse, scorn, disdain, rudeness
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Interesting words there, djy!
contumely :
- noun
1. insulting display of contempt in words or actions; contemptuous or humiliating treatment.
2. a humiliating insult.
- Synonyms : abuse, scorn, disdain, rudeness
arrant :
- adjective
1. downright; thorough; unmitigated; notorious: an arrant malefactor
2. wandering; errant
- Synonyms : thoroughgoing, utter, confirmed, flagrant
dearth)
noun: an insufficient quantity or number
What I like about this forum is the dearth of boring people! :D
hubris :
-noun
1. overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.
Origin : Greek > hybris = insolence.
locum :
- noun
1. someone (esp. doctor, dentist, clergyman) who substitutes temporarily for another member of the same profession.
effete :
- adjective
1. marked by self-indulgence, triviality; lacking in wholesome vigor; degenerate; decadent: an effete society.
2. worn out; no longer productive.
- Synonyms : enervated, debilitated
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Currently reading : Six Young Filipino Martyrs (edited by Asuncion David Maramba)
peroration :
- noun
1. a long speech characterized by lofty and pompous language.
verboten :
- adj.
1. forbidden, prohibited.
2. excluded from use or mention.
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When we're all gone at last then there'll be nobody here but death and his days will be numbered too. He'll be out in the road there with nothing to do and nobody to do it to. He'll say: Where did everybody go?
~ from The Road (by Cormac McCarthy)
caliginous :
-adj.
1. misty, dim, dark.
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Currently reading : Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture (by Apostolos Doxiadis)
mundanity: the quality of being ordinary
I know the word mundane, but I didn't know for sure if it was an accepted suffix; apparently it is (although my spell check is a bit wary of it!)
One of the mundanities of life is looking things up in the dictionary.
And wow, bouquin, I am deeply impressed with your voracious curiosity about words!
muliebrity :
- noun
1. womanly nature or qualities.
2. womanhood.
[Origin : Latin; deriv. of mulier = woman]
hi qimissung! I'm glad that you have the same curiosity!
Hi Bouquin! I love words, too!
I did not know that peroration was a long speech characterized by lofty and pompous language! Although I did know that you can give a speech about nothing at all and people will nod and clap-it's been done and studied, although I've forgotten the particulars I'm sure peroration figured in it somewhere! :)
Where are you finding all these unusual words-in books your reading? Curious minds want to know.
a priori (adj.)-from a general law to a particular instance. Valid independently.
Here's the sentence I read it in:
I think that a reading is as legitimate as it is useful or convincing; there doesn't have to be some kind of proof that the reading is a priori legitimized by the text.
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Originally Posted by qimissung
I pick up these words from books I read. So far, the book from which i culled the most new words (for me, anyway) was Nabokov's Lolita.
lucerne
noun
important European leguminous forage plant with trifoliate leaves and blue-violet flowers grown widely as a pasture and hay crop [syn: alfalfa]