Word of the day

[Tom Bomb]

xenonym

An exonym (from Greek: éxō, 'outer'; also known as xenonym) is a common, external name for a geographical place, group of people, individual person, or a language/dialect, that is used only outside that particular place, group, or linguistic community. Exonyms exist not only for historico-geographical reasons, but also in consideration of difficulties when pronouncing foreign words.

For instance, Deutschland is the endonym for the country that is also known by the exonym Germany in English and Allemagne in French. Marcel Aurousseau, an Australian geographer, first used the term exonym in his work The Rendering of Geographical Names (1957). The term endonym was subsequently devised as an antonym for the term exonym.
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[Chad Michael]

pinzgauer

 

[Richland123]

Perfidious

1. Deliberately faithless; treacherous; deceitful

 

[Richland123]

Ostensible

1. Stated or appearing to be true, but not necessarily so:

 

[Richland123]

Voluble

1. Someone who speaks fluently; talkative

 

[Richland123]

Paucity

1. An insufficient quantity

 

[Richland123]

Fussbudget

1. A fussy or needlessly fault-finding person

 

[Richland123]

Breviloquent

1. Speaking or expressed in a concise or terse style; using brevity of speech

 

[Tom Bomb]

pass
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[Richland123]

Profundity

1. Deep insight; great depth of knowledge or thought.

2. Great depth or intensity of a state, quality, or emotion.

 

[Richland123]

Parsimonious

1. Unwilling to spend money or use resources

 

[Richland123]

Quantitative

1. Relating to, measuring, or measured by the quantity of something rather than its quality

 

[Richland123]

Antipathy

1. A deep-seated feeling of dislike

 

[-Asdfgh-]

Paucity

1. An insufficient quantity

Surfeit - an excess. Example: "He died from a surfeit of lampreys"

Lamprey - a really disgusting, jawless fish that will slime you like something out of Ghostbusters.

 

[Richland123]

Zonk

1. Fall or cause to fall suddenly and heavily asleep or lose consciousness

2. Hit or strike.

 

[Richland123]

Chiaroscuro

1. The treatment of light and shade in drawing and painting

 

[StatesideRambler]

Chiaroscuro

1. The treatment of light and shade in drawing and painting

My fave!

 

[Richland123]

Obstreperous

1. Noisy and difficult to control

 

[Groove Doctor]

1. mumpsimus(Noun)
   
   A person who obstinately adheres to old ways in spite of clear evidence that they are wrong; an ignorant and bigoted opponent of reform.
   
   
2. mumpsimus(Noun)
   
   An obvious error that is obstinately repeated despite correction.
   

 

[Groove Doctor]

septillion
noun

US :
a number equal to 1 followed by 24 zeros.
A trillion trillion.

[British :
a number equal to 1 followed by 42 zeros].