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disambiguate

dis-am-big-yoo-eyt

verb

To remove the ambiguity from; make unambiguous.


duplicity

doo-pliss-uh-tee

noun

The disguising of true intentions by deceptive words or action.


euthenics

yoo-then-iks

noun

A science concerned with bettering the condition of human beings through the improvement of their environment.


execrate

ek-suh-krayt

verb

1. To declare to be evil or detestable, denounce.
2. To detest utterly.

   
favonian

fuh-voh-nee-uhn

adjective

1. Of or pertaining to the West.
2. Mild or favorable, propitious.


grok

grok

verb

1. To understand thoroughly and intuitively.
2. To communicate sympathetically.


hemidemiseemiquaver

hem-ee-dem-ee-sem-ee-kwey-ver

noun

1. [Music]. Chiefly British. a sixty-fourth note.


hobbyhorse

hah-bee-horss

noun

A topic to which one constantly reverts.


hypocroism

hahy-pok-uh-riz-uhm

noun

1. A pet name.
2. The practice of using a pet name.


lacinate

luh-sin-ee-eyt

adjective

[Botany, Zoology]. Cut into narrow. irregular lobes, slashed, jagged.


lese-majeste

vay-maj-uh-stee

noun

1. An offense violating the dignity of a sovereign.
2. A detraction from or an affront to dignity or importance.


mot juste

moh-zhyst

noun

The exact appropriate word.


noosphere

noh-uh-sfeer

noun

[Ecology]. The biosphere including and modified by such human activities as agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry, urbanization, and industrialization.


previse

pri-vahyz

verb

1. To foresee.
2. To forewarn.


panegyric

pan-i-jir-ik

noun

1. A lofty oration or writing in praise of a person or thing, eulogy.
2. Formal or elaborate praise.


philosophaster

noun

A person who pretends to know more than they do to impress others.


philosophunculist

noun

A person who pretends to know more than they do to impress others.


philososphincter

noun

A person who has an inability to discern the difference between education and intelligence.


steampunk

steem-punk

noun

Science fiction dealing with 19th-century societies dominated by historical or imagined steam-powered technology.


tautology

taw-tol-uh-jee

noun

1. Needless repetition of an idea, especially in words other than those of the immediate context, without imparting additional force or clearness, as in "widow woman."
2. An instance of such repetition.


tumultuary

too-muhl-choo-er-ee

adjective

1. Confused, disorderly, haphazard, tumultuary habits of studying.
2. Tumultuous, turbulent.


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