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POSP stringer Tim's new list...
anthophilous
an-THAH-fuh-lus
adjective
Feeding upon or living among flowers.
aphotic
ey-FOH-tik
adjective
Lightless, dark.
apoplectic
ap-uh-plek-tik
adjective
1. Intense enough to threaten or cause a stroke.
2. Of or pertaining to apoplexy.
3. Having or inclined to apoplexy.
noun
1. A person having or predisposed to apoplexy.
argot
AHR-goh
noun
An often more or less secret vocabulary and idiom peculiar to a particular group.
armamentarium
ahr-muh-muhn-TAIR-ee-uhm
noun
1. A fruitful source of devices or materials available or used for an undertaking.
2. The aggregate of equipment, methods, and techniques available to one for carrying out one's duties.
banausic
an-THAH-fuh-lus
adjective
Feeding upon or living among flowers.
aphotic
ey-FOH-tik
adjective
Lightless, dark.
apoplectic
ap-uh-plek-tik
adjective
1. Intense enough to threaten or cause a stroke.
2. Of or pertaining to apoplexy.
3. Having or inclined to apoplexy.
noun
1. A person having or predisposed to apoplexy.
argot
AHR-goh
noun
An often more or less secret vocabulary and idiom peculiar to a particular group.
armamentarium
ahr-muh-muhn-TAIR-ee-uhm
noun
1. A fruitful source of devices or materials available or used for an undertaking.
2. The aggregate of equipment, methods, and techniques available to one for carrying out one's duties.
banausic
buh-NAW-sik
adjective
Serving utilitarian purposes only; mechanical; practical: architecture that was more banausic than inspired.
Bildungsroman
BIL-doongz-roh-mahn
noun
A type of novel concerned with the education, development, and maturing of a young protagonist.
borborygmus
bor-buh-RIG-mus
noun, plural borborygmi
Intestinal rumbling caused by moving gas.
chrestomathy
kres-TOM-uh-thee
noun
A collection of selected literary passages.
compeer
kuhm-PEER
noun
1. Close friend, comrade.
2. An equal in rank, ability, accomplishment, etc., peer, colleague.
divulse
dahy-VUHLS
verb
To tear away or apart.
ectopic
ek-TOP-ik
adjective
Occurring in an abnormal position or place; displaced.
fugacious
fyoo-GAY-shus
adjective
Lasting a short time, evanescent.
imbriferous
im-bri-fe-ris
adjective
Rainy, showery, rain-bearing, auguring rain.
incondite
in-KON-dit
adjective
1. Ill-constructed, unpolished, incondite prose.
2. Crude, rough, unmannerly.
ingeminate
in-JEM-uh-neyt
verb
To repeat, reiterate.
integument
in-TEG-yuh-muhnt
noun
1. A natural covering, as a skin, shell, or rind.
2. Any covering, coating, enclosure, etc.
intrapreneur
in-truh-pruh-NUR
noun
An employee of a large corporation who is given freedom and financial support to create new products, services, systems, etc., and does not have to follow the corporation's usual routines or protocols.
larrup
LAR-uhp
verb
To beat or thrash.
levigate
LEV-i-geyt
verb
1. To rub, grind, or reduce to a fine powder.
2. Chemistry. To make a homogeneous mixture of, as gels.
adjective
Botany. Having a smooth, glossy surface; glabrous.
lookism
LOOK-iz-um
noun
Prejudice or discrimination based on physical appearance and especially physical appearance believed to fall short of societal notions of beauty.
luciferin
loo-SIF-uh-rin
noun
Any of various organic substances in luminescent organisms (as fireflies) that upon oxidation produce a virtually heatless light.
maffick
MAF-ik
verb
To celebrate with boisterous rejoicing and hilarious behavior.
matrilineal
ma-truh-LIN-ee-uhl
adjective
Inheriting or determining descent through the female line.
noctilucent
adjective
Serving utilitarian purposes only; mechanical; practical: architecture that was more banausic than inspired.
Bildungsroman
BIL-doongz-roh-mahn
noun
A type of novel concerned with the education, development, and maturing of a young protagonist.
borborygmus
bor-buh-RIG-mus
noun, plural borborygmi
Intestinal rumbling caused by moving gas.
chrestomathy
kres-TOM-uh-thee
noun
A collection of selected literary passages.
compeer
kuhm-PEER
noun
1. Close friend, comrade.
2. An equal in rank, ability, accomplishment, etc., peer, colleague.
divulse
dahy-VUHLS
verb
To tear away or apart.
ectopic
ek-TOP-ik
adjective
Occurring in an abnormal position or place; displaced.
fugacious
fyoo-GAY-shus
adjective
Lasting a short time, evanescent.
imbriferous
im-bri-fe-ris
adjective
Rainy, showery, rain-bearing, auguring rain.
incondite
in-KON-dit
adjective
1. Ill-constructed, unpolished, incondite prose.
2. Crude, rough, unmannerly.
ingeminate
in-JEM-uh-neyt
verb
To repeat, reiterate.
integument
in-TEG-yuh-muhnt
noun
1. A natural covering, as a skin, shell, or rind.
2. Any covering, coating, enclosure, etc.
intrapreneur
in-truh-pruh-NUR
noun
An employee of a large corporation who is given freedom and financial support to create new products, services, systems, etc., and does not have to follow the corporation's usual routines or protocols.
larrup
LAR-uhp
verb
To beat or thrash.
levigate
LEV-i-geyt
verb
1. To rub, grind, or reduce to a fine powder.
2. Chemistry. To make a homogeneous mixture of, as gels.
adjective
Botany. Having a smooth, glossy surface; glabrous.
lookism
LOOK-iz-um
noun
Prejudice or discrimination based on physical appearance and especially physical appearance believed to fall short of societal notions of beauty.
luciferin
loo-SIF-uh-rin
noun
Any of various organic substances in luminescent organisms (as fireflies) that upon oxidation produce a virtually heatless light.
maffick
MAF-ik
verb
To celebrate with boisterous rejoicing and hilarious behavior.
matrilineal
ma-truh-LIN-ee-uhl
adjective
Inheriting or determining descent through the female line.
noctilucent
nok-tuh-LOO-suhnt
adjective
Visible during the short night of the summer.
numen
NOO-min
noun
Divine power, especially one who inhabits a particular object.
obtest
ob-TEST
verb
1. To supplicate earnestly, beseech.
2. To invoke as witness.
3. To protest.
4. To make supplication, beseech.
omphalos
OM-fuh-luhs
noun
1. The central point.
2. The navel; umbilicus.
3. Greek Antiquity. A stone in the temple of Apollo at Delphi, thought to mark the center of the earth.
orectic
aw-REK-tik
adjective
Of or pertaining to desire, appetitive.
pelagic
puh-LAJ-ik
adjective
1. Of or pertaining to the open seas or oceans.
2. Living or growing at or near the surface of the ocean, far from land, as certain organisms.
pochismo
poh-CHEEZ-moh
noun
1. An English word or expression borrowed into Spanish.
2. A form of speech employing many such words.
3. An adopted U.S. custom, attitude, etc.
pother
POTH-er
noun
1. A heated discussion, debate, or argument, fuss; to-do.
2. Commotion, uproar.
3. A choking or suffocating cloud, as of smoke or dust.
prorogue
proh-ROHG
verb
1. To defer, postpone.
2. To discontinue a session of (the British Parliament or a similar body).
putative
PYOO-tuh-tiv
adjective
1. Commonly accepted or supposed.
2. Assumed to exist or to have existed.
spruik
sprook
verb
To make or give a speech, especially extensively, spiel.
tawpie
TAW-pee
noun
A foolish or thoughtless young person.
usageaster
adjective
Of or pertaining to desire, appetitive.
pelagic
puh-LAJ-ik
adjective
1. Of or pertaining to the open seas or oceans.
2. Living or growing at or near the surface of the ocean, far from land, as certain organisms.
pochismo
poh-CHEEZ-moh
noun
1. An English word or expression borrowed into Spanish.
2. A form of speech employing many such words.
3. An adopted U.S. custom, attitude, etc.
pother
POTH-er
noun
1. A heated discussion, debate, or argument, fuss; to-do.
2. Commotion, uproar.
3. A choking or suffocating cloud, as of smoke or dust.
prorogue
proh-ROHG
verb
1. To defer, postpone.
2. To discontinue a session of (the British Parliament or a similar body).
putative
PYOO-tuh-tiv
adjective
1. Commonly accepted or supposed.
2. Assumed to exist or to have existed.
spruik
sprook
verb
To make or give a speech, especially extensively, spiel.
tawpie
TAW-pee
noun
A foolish or thoughtless young person.
usageaster
YOO-sij-as-ter
noun
A self-styled authority on language usage.
varlet
VAHR-lit
noun
1. A knavish person, rascal.
2A. An attendant or servant.
2B. A page who serves a knight.
ventose
VEN-tohs
adjective
Given to empty talk, windy.
vicinage
VIS-uh-nij
noun
1. The region near or about a place, vicinity.
2. A particular neighborhood or district, or the people belonging to it.
3. Proximity.
vilipend
VIL-uh-pend
verb
1. To hold or treat as of little worth or account.
2. To express a low opinion of, disparage.
welkin
WEL-kin
noun
1A. The vault of the sky, firmament
1B. Heaven.
2. The upper atmosphere.
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