Words
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LAST UPDATE: 15/02/06
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Words:
- emolument: the wages or perquisites arising from office, employment, or labor.
- palindrome: a word, verse, phrase, or sentence that reads the same backward or forward.
- deprecate: to disapprove of; also, to belittle.
- bivouac: a usually temporary encampment; also, to encamp.
- umbrage: offense; resentment.
- incipient: beginning to exist or appear or emerge.
- pugnacious: combative; quarrelsome.
- capitulate: to surrender under agreed conditions.
- susurrus: a whispering or rustling sound.
- thaumaturgy: the performing of magic.
- glower: to stare angrily or with a scowl or angry look.
- canorous: melodious; musical.
- repast: a meal.
- spoonerism: the transposition of usually initial sounds in a pair of words.
- tenebrous: dark; gloomy.
- nescience: lack of knowledge or awareness.
- gewgaw: a trinket; a bauble.
- effulgence: the state of being bright and radiant.
- assuage: to soften; or ease.
- exiguity: smallness; thinness.
- seriatim: in a series; one after another.
- tmesis: in grammar and rhetoric, the separation of the parts of a compound word.
- chthonic: dwelling in or under the earth; -- pertaining to the underworld.
- objurgate: to scold.
- plethora: excess - excessive
- lissom: supple; nimble.
- badinage: light, playful talk.
