the worthless word for the day is: hypotyposis [Gk hypotyposis sketch, outline] /hy po ty PO sus/ vivid picturesque description "Simple and suitable language,...
the worthless word for the day is: grassation [fr. L. grassari : to go about, attack, rage against] obs. : an act of attacking violently; a lying in wait to...
the worthless word for the day is: jactancy [fr. L. jactare, to throw] boastfulness; boasting "He does not strut in innocent pride and open jactancy and crow...
the worthless word for the day is: anecdotage [anecdote + -age] or [anecdote + dotage] 1) anecdotes collectively 2) facetious : garrulous old age <Grandfather...
the worthless word for the day is: idiolalia [NL fr. idio-, private + -lalia, speech] an idiosyncratic language, one invented and spoken by only one or a very...
the worthless word for the day is: deipnetic [fr. Gk deipnon, the principal meal + -etic] obs. rare : pertaining to dinner; fond of eating from time to time...
the worthless word for the day is: doryphore [F. doryphore, Colorado beetle (a pest)] /dor i fo(r)/ (coined by Sir Harold Nicholson) also doriphore one who...
the worthless word for the day is: illaqueation [fr. L. laqueare, to snare] /i lak wi A shon/ obs. : the act of entangling in a snare; esp. an entangling...
the worthless word for the day is: dartle [dim. of dart] /DART ul/ (cf. sparkle) archaic, rare : to dart or shoot forth repeatedly "My star that dartles the...
the worthless word for the day is: cacestogenous [fr. Gk kakestos, ill-being + -genous, of or relating to origin or development] /kak us TOJ un us/? very rare...
the worthless word for the day is: mutuatitial [fr. L. mutuatio, a borrowing] /myoo choo uh TISH ul/ obs. rare : [adj] borrowed [n] something borrowed ...
the worthless word for the day is: percribrate [fr. L. percribro, to sift thoroughly < cribrum, sieve] obs. rare : to sift; pass through a sieve "The...
the worthless word for the day is: schrecklichkeit [G. Schrecklichkeit, a deliberate policy of terrorizing the enemy (esp. non-combatants) as a military asset]...
the worthless word for the day is: imparlibidinous [impar, unequal + libidinous] /im PAHR li BID i nus/ very rare : relating to an unequal state of desire ...
the worthless word for the day is: obaceration [fr. L. obacerare, to contradict, interrupt] /oh BASS uh RAY shun/? obs. rare : the act of shutting someone's...
the worthless word for the day is: disquiparant [fr. med. L. disquiparantia] Logic obs. : pertaining to the relation of two correlates which are heteronymous,...
the worthless word for the day is: onomasticon [fr. Gk onomazein, to name] /ON uh MAE stik on/ a vocabulary or lexicon of proper names or place names "[The]...
the worthless word for the day is: polyonymosity [fr. polyonymous + -osity] rare : the use of several different names for the same person or thing "In rural...
the worthless word for the day is: micronymy [micro-, small + -onymy, method of denotation] obs. nonce word the use of short terms or names in scientific...
the worthless word for the day is: imborsation [ad. It. imborsazione] /im bur SAY shun/ an Italian mode of election in which the names of the candidates were...
the worthless word for the day is: organonymy [organo- + -onymy] /OR guh NAH nuh me/ 1) Anat. obs. rare : the nomenclature of the body organs 2) rare : the...
the worthless word for the day is: cliosophic [fr. Gk kleiein : to tell of, celebrate + -sophic, of wisdom] rare : in praise of wisdom (usu. capitalized) "The...
the worthless word for the day is: sicarian [fr. L. sicarius < sica, dagger] // rare : (relating to) a murderer, esp. an assassin "In a nation which produced...
the worthless word for the day is: idiotism [(1) fr. L. idiotismus, common or vulgar manner of speaking (2) idiot + -ism] 1) a peculiarity of phrase: idiom 2)...
the worthless word for the day is: obambulate [fr. L. obambulare, to walk to] /oh BAM byuh late/ archaic : to walk about; wander aimlessly "[T]hey do not...
the worthless word for the day is: mountweazel [see quote] a bogus entry purposely inserted into a reference work: a copyright trap "Turn to page 1,850 of the...
the worthless word for the day is: abacot [see OED2 quote] a corruption of the word bycoket, a kind of cap or head-dress "Through a remarkable series of...
the worthless word for the day is: kelemenopy [fr. the alpha sequence klmnop] /kay el em EN oh pee/ a sequential straight line through the middle of ...
the worthless word for the day is: phantomnation [misinterpretation of 1725 quot.] appearance as of a phantom; illusion. (Obs. and rare.) Pope. {Webster 1864} ...
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