Word of the day

calcify
/ˈkalsəˌfīd/
adjective
Harden by deposition of or conversion into calcium carbonate or another insoluble calcium compound.

 

ossify
(ˈɒs əˌfaɪ)

v. -fied, -fy•ing.
v.t.
1. to convert into or cause to harden like bone.
v.i.
2. to become bone or harden like bone.
3. to become rigid or inflexible in habits, opinions, etc.

 

Vulpine

Relating to a fox or foxes.

 

Epithalamium

A song or poem celebrating a marriage

 

Phrontistery

A place for thinking.

 

Conversazione

A scholarly social gathering held for discussion of literature and the arts.

 

Realia

Objects and material from everyday life, especially when used as teaching aids.

 

Succedaneum

A substitute, especially for a medicine or drug.

 

succor

n.
help given to someone, especially to someone in need

v. (transitive)
to help someone, especially someone who is suffering or in need

 

Resipiscence

Repentance combining acknowledgment of wrongdoing and wish to do better in the future.

 

Lissome

(Of a person or their body) thin, supple, and graceful.

 

stichomythia

In stichomythia terse, contentious, and often biting lines are bandied back and forth. Characters engaged in stichomythia may alternately voice antithetical positions, or they may play on one another's words, each repartee twisting or punning on words just spoken to make a new point. Classical Greek dramatists, such as Aeschylus and Sophocles (who wrote Agamemnon and Oedipus the King, respectively), used this device in some of their dialogues. Shakespeare also used it in exchanges in his plays. For instance, in the Closet scene in Hamlet (Act III, scene iv), the Queen tells Hamlet "Come, come, you answer with an idle tongue" to which Hamlet retorts "Go, go, you question with a wicked tongue." Not to be idle with the origin of "stichomythia": the word is from Greek stichos (meaning "row," "line," or "verse") and "mythos" ("speech" or "myth").
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The Phrontistery: Obscure Words and Vocabulary Resources

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occulcation
n 1656 -1656
- act of treading on or trampling.

Repeated occulcations of this field by soldiers have left it useless for agriculture.

 

Connubial

Of or relating to the married state.

 

Farctate

Stuffed; filled solid.

 

rejigger
[ ree-jig-er ]

verb (used with object)Informal.

- to change or rearrange in a new or different way, especially by the use of techniques not always considered ethical.

 

Gaslighting – Merriam- Webster Dictionary word of the year.

Behavior that’s mind manipulating, grossly misleading, downright deceitful.

 

Scrutator

A person who scrutinizes or investigates.

 

Deucedly

Quite; extremely; utterly.