Vocabulary list--#11

Again, thanks to POSP stringer Tim...the "word man".


alate

EY-leyt

adjective

1. Having wings, winged.
2. Having membranous expansions like wings.

noun

The winged form of an insect when both winged and wingless forms occur in the species.


anamnesis

an-am-NEE-sis

noun

1. The recollection or remembrance of the past.
2. Platonism. Recollection of the Ideas, which the soul had known in a previous existence, especially by means of reasoning.
3. The medical history of a patient.
4. Immunology. A prompt immune response to a previously encountered antigen, characterized by more rapid onset and greater effectiveness of antibody and T cell reaction than during the first encounter, as after a booster shot in a previously immunized person.
5. (Often initial capital letter) a prayer in a Eucharistic service, recalling the Passion, Resurrection, and Ascension of Christ.


arbalest

AHR-buh-list

noun

A crossbow especially of medieval times.


bleb

bleb

noun

1. A bubble.
2. Medicine/medical: A blister or vesicle.


birr

bur

noun

1. A whirring sound.
2. Emphasis in statement, speech, etc.
3. A whirring sound.


bright-line

BRYTE-lyne

adjective

Providing an unambiguous criterion or guideline especially in law.


calvous

KAL-vuhs

adjective

Lacking all or most of the hair on the head, bald.


canticle

KAN-ti-kuhl

noun

1. A song, poem, or hymn especially of praise.
2. One of the non-metrical hymns or chants, chiefly from the Bible, used in church services.


conciliate

kuhn-SIL-ee-eyt

verb

1. To overcome the distrust or hostility of, placate, win over.
2. To win or gain (goodwill, regard, or favor).
3. To make compatible, reconcile.
4. To become agreeable or reconciled.


desinence

DES-uh-nuhns

noun

1. A termination or ending, as the final line of a verse.
2. Grammar. A termination, ending, or suffix of a word.


deucedly

DOO-sid-lee

adverb

Devilishly, damnably.


doyenne

doi-EN

noun

1. A woman who is the senior member of a group, class, or profession.
2. Main bitch in charge.


duckboard

DUK-bord

noun

A boardwalk or slatted flooring laid on a wet, muddy, or cold surface -- usually used in plural.


elixir

ih-LIK-ser

noun

1a. A substance held to be capable of changing metals into gold.
1b. A substance held to be capable of extending life.
1c. Cure-all.
1d. A medicinal concoction.
2. A sweetened usually alcoholic liquid.


expostulate

ik-SPOS-chuh-leyt

verb

To reason earnestly with someone against something that person intends to do or has done.


fetial

FEE-shuhl

adjective

Concerned with declarations of war and treaties of peace.


fustian

FUSS-chun

noun

1. A strong cotton and linen fabric.
2. High-flown or affected writing or speech; broadly; anything high-flown or affected in style.


fusty

FUHS-tee

adjective

1. Having a stale smell; moldy, musty.
2. Old-fashioned or out-of-date, as architecture, furnishings, or the like.
3. Stubbornly conservative or old-fashioned, fogyish.


gasconade

gas-kuh-NEYD

noun

Extravagant boasting, boastful talk.

verb

To boast extravagantly, bluster.


heterotelic

het-er-uh-TEL-ik

adjective

Having the purpose of its existence or occurrence apart from itself.


hiemal

HAHY-uh-muhl

adjective

Of or pertaining to winter, wintry.


idoneous

ahy-DOH-nee-uhs

adjective

Appropriate, fit, suitable, apt.


intercalate

in-TER-kuh-layt

verb

1. To insert (as a day) in a calendar.
2. To insert between or among existing elements or layers.


interpolation

in-tur-puh-LEY-shuhn

noun

1. The act or process of introducing something additional or extraneous between other parts.
2. Something interpolated, as a passage introduced into a text.
3. Mathematics:
A. The process of determining the value of a function between two points at which it has prescribed values.
B. A similar process using more than two points at which the function has prescribed values.
C. The process of approximating a given function by using its values at a discrete set of points.


malversation

mal-ver-sat-shun

noun

Misconduct or malfeasance in public office, at one time also known asjobbery.


mettle

MET-l

noun

1. Courage and fortitude.
2. Disposition or temperament.


mordant

MOR-dunt

adjective

1. Biting and caustic in thought, manner, or style, incisive.
2. Burning, pungent.


neoterism

nee-OT-uh-riz-uhm

noun

1. An innovation in language, as a new word, term, or expression.
2. The use of new words, terms, or expressions.


novation

noh-VEY-shuhn

noun

1. The introduction of something new; innovation.
2. Law: The substitution of a new obligation for an old one, usually by the substitution of a new debtor or of a new creditor.


ort

ort

noun

1. Leftover, scrap of food that remains after a meal is finished.
2. A scrap, a piece of trash that is left over from any job, as cleaning up the orts on a construction site.


ostensible

ah-STEN-suh-bul

adjective

1. Intended for display, open to view.
2. Being such in appearance, plausible rather than demonstrably true or real.


panegyrize

PAN-i-juh-rahyz

verb

1. To eulogize; to deliver or write a panegyric about.
2. To indulge in panegyric, bestow praises.


paregmenon

puh-REG-muh-non

noun

The juxtaposition of words that have a common derivation, as in “sense and sensibility.”


perspicacious

pur-spi-KEY-shuhs

adjective

1. Having keen mental perception and understanding, discerning.
2. Archaic. Having keen vision.


portmanteau

port-men-to

noun

1. A suitcase that opens into two compartments connected at the bottom by a hinge.
2. (Language) A blend, two words or morphemes that have been smushed together, as smog is a portmanteau word made up of smoke and fog.


profligacy

PROF-li-guh-see

noun

1. Reckless extravagance.
2. Shameless dissoluteness.
3. Great abundance.

raffish

raef-ish

adjective

1. Vulgarly showy, cheap and tacky, tawdry.
2. Rakish, devilishly attractive, seductively disreputable with a 'devil-may-care' attitude .


rapporteur

ra-por-TER

noun

A person who gives reports (as at a meeting of a learned society).


remora

REM-er-uh

noun

1. An obstacle, hindrance, or obstruction.
2. Any of several fishes of the family Echeneididae, having on the top of the head a sucking disk by which they can attach themselves to sharks, turtles, ships, and other moving objects.


solatium

soh-LEY-shee-uhm

noun

1. Something given in compensation for inconvenience, loss or injury.
2. Law. Damages awarded to a plaintiff as compensation for personal suffering or grief arising from an injury.


solecism

SOL-uh-siz-uhm

noun

1. A breach of good manners or etiquette.
2. A nonstandard or ungrammatical usage, as unflammable and they was.
3. Any error, impropriety, or inconsistency.


thole

THOHL

verb

Chiefly dialect, endure.


viscid

VIS-id

adjective

1. Having a glutinous consistency, sticky, adhesive.
2. Botany: Covered by a sticky substance.


weltschmerz

VELT-shmairts

noun (often capitalized)

1. Mental depression or apathy caused by comparison of the actual state of the world with an ideal state.
2. A mood of sentimental sadness.


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