Interesting Words

Usually made of marble or glass.

Should be capitalized for the first inhabitants of Australia

Especially as a symptom of mental illness. Frequently spelled abulia.

From Latin-later Shakespeare included it to refer to moderation in sex (Tempest)

From the Irish: ícuisle - O pulse (of my heart)

As in the lemon of a used car you bought

To facilitate its passing through eyelet holes.

Especially between the protagonist and antagonist in a literary work

Masculine personification of Nemesis. Frequently evoked in Greek tragedy

Composed of a silicate of alumina and soda. It is a common constituent of granite and of various igneous rocks.

An early chemical apparatus, consisting of two retorts connected by a tube, used to purify substances by distillation. A retort is a glassware device used for distillation or dry distillation of substances. It consists of a spherical vessel with a long downward-pointing neck.

Especially snow covered mountains

Having two left hands

To heal or solve a problem

A chronological mistake

This is distinct from anesthestia, which is the absence of all sensation (numbness), including touch and temperature.

Used for emphasis

Accompanied by excommunication

Pertaining to snakes or serpents. Synonym: ophidian.

'before the flood'

... though in fact diametric and opposite mean the same thing. This often used expression literally means oppositely opposite (which is redundant)

In the absence of motor or sensory impairment

As in a US President arrogating the power of Congress to declare war

One dressed in black

Greediness after wealth; covetousness; cupidity.

"Yet until middle age and avoirdupois overtook her, Mary was no slouch."-John Updike; From the French words: Avoir - to have, Du - "some" when preceded by a verb, Poids - pounds

One of the negative symptoms of schizophrenia.

Festival of Bacchus; Referring to the Roman God Bacchus, the god of wine

Described in Job 40:15-24, used to illustrate God's mightiness.

Also used as a transitive verb.

From the Latin 'bellum' meaning war.

More efficacious than "to brandish"

To divulge inconsiderately, to utter suddenly and unadvisedly.

A pointless activity; work of little or no value done merely to look busy

Reading direction changes from right-to-left to left-to-right each line.

Open and without shame

After Brobdingnag, a country in Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift, where everything was enormous

Not quite as much as a ruckus.

American origin

Dissonance

Slang

E.g. The Callipygian Venus

Also called vilification, slander or libel. A falsification or misrepresentation intended to disparage or discredit another

Often ornate

Or as an adverb: in a diagonal position.

As of monks or uni-cellular organisms

Usually made from flowers.

A person who pretends to more knowledge or skill than he or she possesses

By quibbling or sophistry

Spanish

A portmanteau word from Lewis Caroll's poem "Jabberwocky". It is made from the words "chuckle" and "snort".

Often referring to the gods of the underworld

Or - unbelievable audacity. From the Yiddish "khutspe".

Sometimes to conceal an illicit or improper purpose.

The Greek Colossus of Rhodes is one of the seven wonders of the ancient world.

A chain, a succession.

Usually of punishment

A general burning.

Can be used specifically to mean expose to radioactive material. Also, a noun meaning the same as contaminant.

Apologetic.

Surcharged with liquor; alcoholism; drunk; given to excesses

As of pneumonia patients

Following the direction of the sun's movement

Medical jargon. From the Latin Decalvare - to make bald

The word comes from the Latin de ("from; out of") and fenestra ("window").

Or bush or any plant, really. Also can be used as an adjective.

Such as youth

Esp. between nations

Obviously different from "defuse"

To deny responsibility for, approbation of, and the like; to disclaim; to disown

To befuddle or perplex

From a ship, or leave a vehicle or aircraft

Incongruous

For cutting or polishing

See: Java Jive

In classical literature, a poem featuring rural themes and structured as a dialogue among shepherds.

E.g. an egregious mistake; an egregious liar.

Especially writing

???

However, in Astronomy, it means one billion years. Which only seems like an eternity.

Especially the activation and deactivation of genes

As in, "alone, alone, all alone, alone on a wide wide sea" -- Coleridge

As in a tribe, place, crater, law that is named after a person etc.

A person, real or imaginary, from whom something e.g. a tribe, a nation or a place takes its name. Brut, the supposed grandson of Aeneas, is the eponym of the Britons

To cleanse; to purge.

A highly contagious disease of horses, mules, and donkeys -- caused by the bacterium Actinobacillus mallei.

Also the notation of such a prolongation, usually represented as a dot with a semi-circle above it, written above the clef.

E.g. Tabasco onions sprinkled on top, were an added fillip.

Such as a good meal, a good book, etc

To overwhelm with wonder; to stun or amaze. "He was flabbergasted to find that his work had been done for him before he began." synonyms: astound, astonish

Flok-sih-noh-see-Nee-hee-lee-Pee-lih-fih-Kay-shun

Also refers to vagrant populations.

Not necessarily fortunate

As opposed to eggs which are fryable

Unlike to gamble

Not to be confused with ganglion, which are not really that tall.

Glaucous leaves

From French, literally, with his mouth open swallowing flies

Floating in the air or caught on bushes etc.

Usually identified with the kingfisher, and derived from the Greek myth of Alcyone.

Anatomically

Literally translated as "belly cut". Hara-kiri is a informal term for seppuku.

Can be either a verb or a noun - you can harangue someone, or you can deliver a harangue.

As a beard on a woman or large breasts on a man

One who adheres to the doctrine of iconoclasm

Not flammable

Having the quality of being difficult to remove, wash away, blot out, or efface

As in to make stubborn, insensitive or callous

Careless, indifferent, unconcerned.

Or negotiator

Most often applied to warfare

Unreasonable; irreconcilable; stubborn.

Bothersome; annoying; irritating; wearisome; tedious.

Advanced chauvinism

E.g a coin or on a thumbscrew as an aid in gripping.

Sad, pertaining to tears, weeping, causing tears or crying

"magic" trickery

Characterized by lewdness; sensual; lascivious.

Comes from the diminutive inhabitants featured in "Gulliver's Travels"

In Medieval times, a play or poem using both Latin and vernacular languages.

To babble, prattle, or ramble.

As in a mellifluous voice

A boundary-marker

Fo shizzle.

Pacify; appease

Refers to the verse "They hae slain the Earl Amurray and laid him on the green".

Inferior pole of the horizon; point of the celestial sphere directly under the place where we stand.

After the satirical poem 'Namby Pamby' written by Henry Carey in 1725.

Generally within the thickness of a wall, for a statue, bust, or other erect ornament.

As in a party animal

Also somnambulism

To make consistent

Discovered by Lord Rutherford. From the Latin for little nut, or kernel.

Esp. in the seraglio of the Sultan of Turkey (now hist.). In extended use: an exotic, sexually attractive woman; a representation of a sexually attractive figure in art.

Retail Therapy!

Bang, boom etc

Having correct or accepted opinions; approved

Eg. a dyslexic english teacher

As formerly used in eastern Asia

Although, I wouldn’t try paring your beard.

Especially on foot; hence, to sojourn in foreign countries.

As in pidgin English; a linguistic effort to bridge the gap between peoples with no common language

Used by mountain climbers

Originally a pathological condition meaning excessive blood or other bodily fluids

Also can be used as an adjective.

A term from Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado. In this operetta, the haughty character Pooh-Bah holds numerous exalted offices, including Lord Chief Justice, Master of the Buckhounds, Lord High Auditor, Groom of the Back Stairs, and Lord High Everything Else. The name has come to be used as a mocking title for someone self-important or high-ranking and who exhibits an inflated self-regard. Also 'Grand Poobah'.