20 new vocabulary
1.zephyr
ZEF-er, noun a gentle, mild breeze.
any of various things of fine, light quality, as fabric, yarn, etc.
Quotes:
Every time a customer opened a department store's big doors, a perfumed zephyr blew over the shoots of crocuses, narcissus, hyacinths, and tulips in garden boxes near the entrance, which seemed to be the only breath of spring sustaining them.
2.meliorism
MEEL-yuh-riz-uhm,noun
the doctrine that the world tends to become better or may be made better by human effort.
Quotes:
1. For a life worthy to be lived is one that is full of active aspiration, for something higher and better; and such a contemplation of the world we call meliorism.
2. The leaders rejected the soft meliorism of more secular activists, the idea that significant progress could be made through consciousness-raising and education campaigns, through consensus and gradual reform.
meaning "better."
3.boondoggle
BOON-dog-uhl, verb
1. to do work of little or no practical value merely to keep or look busy.
2. to deceive or attempt to deceive: to boondoggle investors into a low-interest scheme.
3. a product of simple manual skill, as a plaited leather cord for the neck or a knife sheath, made typically by a camper or a scout.
4. work of little or no value done merely to keep or look busy.
5. a project funded by the federal government out of political favoritism that is of no real value to the community or the nation.
Quotes:
To the cowboy it meant the making of saddle trappings out of odds and ends of leather, and they boondoggled when there was nothing else to do on the ranch.
4. indelible
in-DEL-uh-buhl, adjective
1. that cannot be eliminated, forgotten, changed, or the like: the indelible memories of war; the indelible influence of a great teacher.
2. making marks that cannot be erased, removed, or the like: indelible ink.
Quotes:
1. Alone among the celebrity journalists of the sixties… he has both given us indelible portraits of living people and brought ideas to vivid, eccentric life.
2. How had she remembered it all? She hadn't made an effort--how had every dish remained so indelible after all conversations and glances had faded?
Indelible meaning "indestructible."
5. bel-esprit
bel-es-PREE, noun
a person of great wit or intellect.
Quotes:
1. She was the most hospitable and jovial of old vestals, and had been a beauty in her day, she said… She was a bel esprit, and a dreadful Radical for those days.
2. A man of genius will only write a history, or a romance; moral, or poetical essays; but his performances remain with the language, while the reputation of a bel esprit, like some artificial fires, become suddenly extinct.
Bel-esprit meaning "spirit."
6. meta
MET-uh, adjective
1. pertaining to or noting a story, conversation, character, etc., that consciously references or comments upon its own subject or features, often in the form of parody: A movie about making movie is just so meta—especially when the actors criticize the acting.
2. pertaining to or noting an abstract, high-level analysis or commentary, especially one that consciously references something of its own type.
3. a consciously and playfully self-referential story, conversation, etc.
4. to analyze or comment on something in a meta way: I spend more time metaing about the show than actually watching it.
Quotes:
This is all meant to be very meta. In one arc, the Doom Patrol is able to stop an imaginary world from taking over the real world when the team finds a black book that tells the story of a black book about an imaginary world taking over the real world.
meaning "with," "after," "between."
7. wildling
WAHYLD-ling, noun
a wild plant, flower, or animal.
Quotes:
1. It is well to remember that when a fruit tree has its vital power weakened and the necessities of culture results in this, the tree is much more liable to disease, than when it is as healthy as a wildling in a place where the art of the fruit grower has never been called into play.
2. This little wildling that looked like a hill pony made the fastest horse Albrin had bred seem a plodding workhorse in comparison.
8. dyad
DAHY-ad, noun
1. a group of two; couple; pair.
2. Biology. a. a secondary morphological unit, consisting of two monads: a chromosome dyad. b. the double chromosomes resulting from the separation of the four chromatids of a tetrad.
3. Chemistry. an element, atom, or group having a valence of two.
4. Mathematics. two vectors with no symbol connecting them, usually considered as an operator.
5. Sociology. a. two persons involved in an ongoing relationship or interaction. b. the relationship or interaction itself.
6. of two parts; dyadic.
Quotes:
she stayed close by imitating his distance from her with an equal and identical distance from him and, extending out into the world beyond the father-daughter dyad, from all of humanity.
meant "pair, equivalent."
9. guile
gahyl, noun. insidious cunning in attaining a goal; crafty or artful deception; duplicity.
Quotes:
The infernal Serpent; he it was whose guile, / Stirred up with envy and revenge, deceived / The mother of mankind.
10. prelusive
pri-LOO-siv, adjective
introductory.
Quotes:
Hepzibah involuntarily thought of the ghostly harmonies, prelusive of death in the family, which were attributed to the legendary Alice.
meant "a prelude."
11. passe-partout
pas-pahr-TOO; Fr. pahs-par-TOO, noun
1. something that passes everywhere or provides a universal means of passage.
2. a master key; skeleton key.
3. an ornamental mat for a picture.
4. a method of framing in which a piece of glass is placed over a picture and is affixed to a backing by means of adhesive strips of paper or other material pasted over the edges.
5. paper prepared for this purpose.
Quotes:
Sophie's little passe-partout enabled her to pass almost anywhere, and if it were shown or hinted at, to have effect in the interviewing of superior servants or of any other police officer.
12. august
aw-GUHST, adjective
1. venerable; eminent: an august personage.
2. inspiring reverence or admiration; of supreme dignity or grandeur; majestic: an august performance of a religious drama.
Quotes:
Lafayette spoke, and bade farewell to Lamarque: it was a touching and august moment,--all heads were uncovered, and all hearts beat.
13. albumen
al-BYOO-muhn, noun
1. the white of an egg.
2. Botany. the nutritive matter around the embryo in a seed.
Quotes:
Tannic acid hardens albumen into a leathery substance of which the most courageous stomach is rightfully suspicious.
14. diction
DIK-shuhn, noun
1. style of speaking or writing as dependent upon choice of words: good diction.
2. the accent, inflection, intonation, and speech-sound quality manifested by an individual speaker, usually judged in terms of prevailing standards of acceptability; enunciation.
Quotes:
But the main characters themselves are not credible, with their mythic passions, expressed in diction more formal and flowery than would ever issue from a boy of the slums and a girl from the world of pampered inanity.
15. frippery
FRIP-uh-ree, noun
1. finery in dress, especially when showy, gaudy, or the like.
2. empty display; ostentation.
3. gewgaws; trifles.
Quotes:
Like certain writers of our own, Mr. Chapman is so anxious to put off the frippery of conventional literary diction, that he assumes with undue readiness the frippery of slang.
16. coterie
KOH-tuh-ree, noun
1. a group of people who associate closely.
2. an exclusive group; clique.
3. a group of prairie dogs occupying a communal burrow.
Quotes:
The coterie world of Bloomsbury or the Strand is vicarious, but all reading provides vicarious participation in a social group.
17. withershins
WITH-er-shinz, adverb
1. Chiefly Scot. in a direction contrary to the natural one, especially contrary to the apparent course of the sun or counterclockwise: considered as unlucky or causing disaster. Also, widdershins.
Quotes:
There, as the moon rises, walk three times withershins round the riven trunk, and cast the broth on the ground before her.
18. effloresce
ef-luh-RES, verb
1. to burst into bloom; blossom.
2. Chemistry. a. to change either throughout or on the surface to a mealy or powdery substance upon exposure to air, as a crystalline substance through loss of water of crystallization. b. to become incrusted or covered with crystals of salt or the like through evaporation or chemical change.
Quotes:
Remember that, whether for liberty or whether for love, passion effloresces in the human being—no matter when, where, or how—with every spring's return.
19. spumescent
spyoo-MES-uhnt, adjective
1. foamy; foamlike; frothy.
Quotes:
Within the mud and rock enclave, a waterfall, clear and spumescent, cascades forcefully down one side.
20. agnize
ag-NAHYZ, AG-nahyz, verb
to recognize; acknowledge; own.
Quotes:
Well, I do agnize something of the sort. I confess that it is my humour, my fancy — in the forepart of the day, when the mind of your man of letters requires some relaxation.
20 new vocabulary
1.zephyr
ZEF-er, noun a gentle, mild breeze.
any of various things of fine, light quality, as fabric, yarn, etc.
Quotes:
Every time a customer opened a department store's big doors, a perfumed zephyr blew over the shoots of crocuses, narcissus, hyacinths, and tulips in garden boxes near the entrance, which seemed to be the only breath of spring sustaining them.
2.meliorism
MEEL-yuh-riz-uhm,noun
the doctrine that the world tends to become better or may be made better by human effort.
Quotes:
1. For a life worthy to be lived is one that is full of active aspiration, for something higher and better; and such a contemplation of the world we call meliorism.
2. The leaders rejected the soft meliorism of more secular activists, the idea that significant progress could be made through consciousness-raising and education campaigns, through consensus and gradual reform.
meaning "better."
3.boondoggle
BOON-dog-uhl, verb
1. to do work of little or no practical value merely to keep or look busy.
2. to deceive or attempt to deceive: to boondoggle investors into a low-interest scheme.
3. a product of simple manual skill, as a plaited leather cord for the neck or a knife sheath, made typically by a camper or a scout.
4. work of little or no value done merely to keep or look busy.
5. a project funded by the federal government out of political favoritism that is of no real value to the community or the nation.
Quotes:
To the cowboy it meant the making of saddle trappings out of odds and ends of leather, and they boondoggled when there was nothing else to do on the ranch.
4. indelible
in-DEL-uh-buhl, adjective
1. that cannot be eliminated, forgotten, changed, or the like: the indelible memories of war; the indelible influence of a great teacher.
2. making marks that cannot be erased, removed, or the like: indelible ink.
Quotes:
1. Alone among the celebrity journalists of the sixties… he has both given us indelible portraits of living people and brought ideas to vivid, eccentric life.
2. How had she remembered it all? She hadn't made an effort--how had every dish remained so indelible after all conversations and glances had faded?
Indelible meaning "indestructible."
5. bel-esprit
bel-es-PREE, noun
a person of great wit or intellect.
Quotes:
1. She was the most hospitable and jovial of old vestals, and had been a beauty in her day, she said… She was a bel esprit, and a dreadful Radical for those days.
2. A man of genius will only write a history, or a romance; moral, or poetical essays; but his performances remain with the language, while the reputation of a bel esprit, like some artificial fires, become suddenly extinct.
Bel-esprit meaning "spirit."
6. meta
MET-uh, adjective
1. pertaining to or noting a story, conversation, character, etc., that consciously references or comments upon its own subject or features, often in the form of parody: A movie about making movie is just so meta—especially when the actors criticize the acting.
2. pertaining to or noting an abstract, high-level analysis or commentary, especially one that consciously references something of its own type.
3. a consciously and playfully self-referential story, conversation, etc.
4. to analyze or comment on something in a meta way: I spend more time metaing about the show than actually watching it.
Quotes:
This is all meant to be very meta. In one arc, the Doom Patrol is able to stop an imaginary world from taking over the real world when the team finds a black book that tells the story of a black book about an imaginary world taking over the real world.
meaning "with," "after," "between."
7. wildling
WAHYLD-ling, noun
a wild plant, flower, or animal.
Quotes:
1. It is well to remember that when a fruit tree has its vital power weakened and the necessities of culture results in this, the tree is much more liable to disease, than when it is as healthy as a wildling in a place where the art of the fruit grower has never been called into play.
2. This little wildling that looked like a hill pony made the fastest horse Albrin had bred seem a plodding workhorse in comparison.
8. dyad
DAHY-ad, noun
1. a group of two; couple; pair.
2. Biology. a. a secondary morphological unit, consisting of two monads: a chromosome dyad. b. the double chromosomes resulting from the separation of the four chromatids of a tetrad.
3. Chemistry. an element, atom, or group having a valence of two.
4. Mathematics. two vectors with no symbol connecting them, usually considered as an operator.
5. Sociology. a. two persons involved in an ongoing relationship or interaction. b. the relationship or interaction itself.
6. of two parts; dyadic.
Quotes:
she stayed close by imitating his distance from her with an equal and identical distance from him and, extending out into the world beyond the father-daughter dyad, from all of humanity.
meant "pair, equivalent."
9. guile
gahyl, noun. insidious cunning in attaining a goal; crafty or artful deception; duplicity.
Quotes:
The infernal Serpent; he it was whose guile, / Stirred up with envy and revenge, deceived / The mother of mankind.
10. prelusive
pri-LOO-siv, adjective
introductory.
Quotes:
Hepzibah involuntarily thought of the ghostly harmonies, prelusive of death in the family, which were attributed to the legendary Alice.
meant "a prelude."
11. passe-partout
pas-pahr-TOO; Fr. pahs-par-TOO, noun
1. something that passes everywhere or provides a universal means of passage.
2. a master key; skeleton key.
3. an ornamental mat for a picture.
4. a method of framing in which a piece of glass is placed over a picture and is affixed to a backing by means of adhesive strips of paper or other material pasted over the edges.
5. paper prepared for this purpose.
Quotes:
Sophie's little passe-partout enabled her to pass almost anywhere, and if it were shown or hinted at, to have effect in the interviewing of superior servants or of any other police officer.
12. august
aw-GUHST, adjective
1. venerable; eminent: an august personage.
2. inspiring reverence or admiration; of supreme dignity or grandeur; majestic: an august performance of a religious drama.
Quotes:
Lafayette spoke, and bade farewell to Lamarque: it was a touching and august moment,--all heads were uncovered, and all hearts beat.
13. albumen
al-BYOO-muhn, noun
1. the white of an egg.
2. Botany. the nutritive matter around the embryo in a seed.
Quotes:
Tannic acid hardens albumen into a leathery substance of which the most courageous stomach is rightfully suspicious.
14. diction
DIK-shuhn, noun
1. style of speaking or writing as dependent upon choice of words: good diction.
2. the accent, inflection, intonation, and speech-sound quality manifested by an individual speaker, usually judged in terms of prevailing standards of acceptability; enunciation.
Quotes:
But the main characters themselves are not credible, with their mythic passions, expressed in diction more formal and flowery than would ever issue from a boy of the slums and a girl from the world of pampered inanity.
15. frippery
FRIP-uh-ree, noun
1. finery in dress, especially when showy, gaudy, or the like.
2. empty display; ostentation.
3. gewgaws; trifles.
Quotes:
Like certain writers of our own, Mr. Chapman is so anxious to put off the frippery of conventional literary diction, that he assumes with undue readiness the frippery of slang.
16. coterie
KOH-tuh-ree, noun
1. a group of people who associate closely.
2. an exclusive group; clique.
3. a group of prairie dogs occupying a communal burrow.
Quotes:
The coterie world of Bloomsbury or the Strand is vicarious, but all reading provides vicarious participation in a social group.
17. withershins
WITH-er-shinz, adverb
1. Chiefly Scot. in a direction contrary to the natural one, especially contrary to the apparent course of the sun or counterclockwise: considered as unlucky or causing disaster. Also, widdershins.
Quotes:
There, as the moon rises, walk three times withershins round the riven trunk, and cast the broth on the ground before her.
18. effloresce
ef-luh-RES, verb
1. to burst into bloom; blossom.
2. Chemistry. a. to change either throughout or on the surface to a mealy or powdery substance upon exposure to air, as a crystalline substance through loss of water of crystallization. b. to become incrusted or covered with crystals of salt or the like through evaporation or chemical change.
Quotes:
Remember that, whether for liberty or whether for love, passion effloresces in the human being—no matter when, where, or how—with every spring's return.
19. spumescent
spyoo-MES-uhnt, adjective
1. foamy; foamlike; frothy.
Quotes:
Within the mud and rock enclave, a waterfall, clear and spumescent, cascades forcefully down one side.
20. agnize
ag-NAHYZ, AG-nahyz, verb
to recognize; acknowledge; own.
Quotes:
Well, I do agnize something of the sort. I confess that it is my humour, my fancy — in the forepart of the day, when the mind of your man of letters requires some relaxation.
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