Word of the day

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Inculcate

1. Instill (an attitude, idea, or habit) by persistent instruction.

2.Teach (someone) an attitude, idea, or habit by persistent instruction.

 

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Gallivant

Go around from one place to another in the pursuit of pleasure or entertainment.

 

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Flabbergastercating Spizzernictum
The amazing will to succeed.

 

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Hardscape

The man-made features used in landscape architecture, e.g., paths or walls, as contrasted with vegetation.

 

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Ontic

Relating to entities and the facts about them; relating to real as opposed to phenomenal existence.

 

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Miscellany

A group or collection of different items; a mixture.

 

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Hoghmanay
Hagman(a)e
Hagmonay
Hagmonick
Hanginay
Hangmanay
Hogernoany
Hogminay/Hogmenay/Hogmynae
Hoguemennay
Huggeranohni
Hu(i)gmanay

Hogmanay [etc.] is the Scots word for the last day of the old year and is synonymous with the celebration of the New Year in the Scottish manner.

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Cavalcade

A formal procession of people walking, on horseback, or riding in vehicles.

 

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Borborygmus

The sound of a stomach rumbling

 

[Tom Bomb]

bathos

1

a: the sudden appearance of the commonplace in otherwise elevated matter or style

b: anticlimax
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2:

exceptional commonplaceness : triteness​

3:

insincere or overdone pathos : sentimentalism

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The English use of the word bathos allegedly originates with the satirical essay "ΠΕΡΙ ΒΑΘΟΥΣ / or Of the Art of Sinking in Poetry / Written in the Year 1727" (first published March, 1728), by "Martinus Scriblerus," a fictional literary hack created by Alexander Pope, John Arbuthnot, Jonathan Swift, and other members of the Scriblerus Club; authorship of the essay is usually ascribed to Pope. The Greek title (Perì báthous, "Concerning depth") echoes the title of the classical treatise "On the Sublime" (Perì hýpsous, literally, "Concerning height"), dated to the 1st century a.d. and formerly attributed to the 3rd century rhetorician Cassius Longinus. In Pope's essay, bathos—which, in the inverted perspective of the hack author, is a favorable quality—is used broadly to characterize literary passages deemed coarse or pedestrian for a genre such as epic poetry. The idea that bathos involves a shift from elevated to low is never stated explicitly—rather, a genre such as epic is by its nature elevated and the poetic execution (ironically praised by Scriblerus) is of low quality.
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Contretemps

1. A minor dispute or disagreement.

2. An unexpected and unfortunate occurrence.

 

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Cetology

The branch of zoology that deals with whales, dolphins, and porpoises.

 

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Propinquity

1. The state of being close to someone or something; proximity.

2. Close kinship.

 

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Hoarfrost

A grayish-white crystalline deposit of frozen water vapor formed in clear still weather on vegetation, fences, etc.

 

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Obstreperous

Noisy and difficult to control.

 

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Andragogy

The method and practice of teaching adult learners.

 

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Veridical

Truthful

 

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Legerity

Alert quickness of mind or body.

 

[StatesideRambler]

Apricity

The warmth of the sun in winter.

 

[Groove Doctor]

sesquipedalian
sĕs″kwĭ-pĭ-dāl′yən/

noun

1. A long word.
2. A person who uses long words.

adjective

1. Given to or characterized by the use of long words

Etymology
Latin sesquipedalis, literally, a foot and a half long, from sesqui- + ped-, pes foot