New Years Resoluation:
Posted: Sun Dec 17, 2006 3:17 pm
Words to add to my active vocabulary:
ab ovo
agrestic
apprise
badinage
bedizen
booboisie
cap-a-pie
claque
cockaigne
concupiscence
congeries
copse
crabwise
deipnosophist
defeasance
deformation
detraction
discomfit(ure)
discommode
discountenance
discursive
disinter
disjunctive
disobliging
disport
dispraise
dissemble - dissimulate
disservice (ill turn)
distingué
distrait
donnybrook
dormer
dubiety
eleemosynary
embonpoint
eremite
equable
etiolate
exculpate
exsanguinous
fatidic
favonian
flaneur
flummery
foist
foofaraw
gable
gambol
gastronome
gull
hugger-mugger
indelicacy
indite
inhere
inspissate
interstice
impute
imprimatur
improvident
irrefragable
jollification
labile
lineament
ludic
louche
macerate
maculate
manse
melange
mewl
misprize
motile
mulct
natorial
nebbish
ne plus ultra
neoteric
nugatory
obiter dictum
objugate
oblation
olla podrida
ogio
oneiric
outre
peccant
pensile
pied-a-terre
Potemkin village
preciosity
presentiment
pronunciamento
Promethean
proximal/proximate (close)
pule
punctilio
recherche
ripparian
robustious
ruse de guerre
rodomontade
sequacious
simpatico
somatic
subfusc
superlunary
supernumerary
surcease
supposititious
starveling
stupefy
tatterdemalion
tintinnabulation
titivate
uberty
ukase
undulant
velleity
virtu
Vitreous
vulcanian
winsome
woolgathering
ab ovo
agrestic
apprise
badinage
bedizen
booboisie
cap-a-pie
claque
cockaigne
concupiscence
congeries
copse
crabwise
deipnosophist
defeasance
deformation
detraction
discomfit(ure)
discommode
discountenance
discursive
disinter
disjunctive
disobliging
disport
dispraise
dissemble - dissimulate
disservice (ill turn)
distingué
distrait
donnybrook
dormer
dubiety
eleemosynary
embonpoint
eremite
equable
etiolate
exculpate
exsanguinous
fatidic
favonian
flaneur
flummery
foist
foofaraw
gable
gambol
gastronome
gull
hugger-mugger
indelicacy
indite
inhere
inspissate
interstice
impute
imprimatur
improvident
irrefragable
jollification
labile
lineament
ludic
louche
macerate
maculate
manse
melange
mewl
misprize
motile
mulct
natorial
nebbish
ne plus ultra
neoteric
nugatory
obiter dictum
objugate
oblation
olla podrida
ogio
oneiric
outre
peccant
pensile
pied-a-terre
Potemkin village
preciosity
presentiment
pronunciamento
Promethean
proximal/proximate (close)
pule
punctilio
recherche
ripparian
robustious
ruse de guerre
rodomontade
sequacious
simpatico
somatic
subfusc
superlunary
supernumerary
surcease
supposititious
starveling
stupefy
tatterdemalion
tintinnabulation
titivate
uberty
ukase
undulant
velleity
virtu
Vitreous
vulcanian
winsome
woolgathering