Words August 2025

Appliqué

decorate (a garment or large piece of fabric) with pieces of fabric to form pictures or patterns

Prandial

during or relating to a meal

Assuasive

soothing, calming, or easing (typically to grief, anger, or fear).

Luxuriant

(of vegetation) rich and profuse in growth; lush

Zenith

the time at which something is most powerful or successful

Bouffant

of a persons hair, styled so as to puff out in a rounded shape. (like jackie kennedy, margaret thatcher, etc.)

Rococo

of furniture or architecture, of or characterized by intricately elaborately ornamental late baroque style decoration

Saprogenic

producing or resulting from decay

Fusty

smelling stale, damp, or stuffy

Veneer

a thin decorative covering of fine wood applied to something (like a tooth, too)

Carie

medical term for tooth decay or cavities

Avuncular

relating to an uncle

Coquette

a woman who flirts

Ephebic

pertaining to or characteristic of a youth or young man (particularly a young man in Ancient Greece undergoing training)

Ennui

a feeling of lethargy and dissatisfaction arising from a lack of occupation or excitement

Idyll

an extremely happy, peaceful, or picturesque episode or scene, typically an idealized or unsustainable one

Chiaroscuro

the treatment of light and shade in drawing and painting

Cuirass [queer-ass]

a piece of armor consisting of breastplate and backplate fastened together

Peristyle

a series of columns surrounding a building or enclosing a court. Temple shit. 

Pricket

a spike for holding a candle. Skyrim shit.

Astrolabe

instrument formerly used to make astronomical measurements in ancient times; looks like a disc, gold.

Vestry

a room or building attached to a church, used as an office and for changing into vestments (which is a robe worn by the clergy)

Throng

a large, densely packed crowd of people or animals.

Styptic

(a substance OR OF a substance) capable of stopping bleeding when applied to a wound.

Anorak

a waterproof jacket, typically with a hood and used in polar regions, a la an eskimo

Lassitude

a state of physical or mental weariness; lack of energy

Catalepsy

a medical condition characterized by a trance or seizure with a loss of sensation and consciousness accompanied by stiffness of the body

Sub rosa

happening or done in secret.

Fulcrum

the point of support in which a lever sits; more generally can be used to describe something that plays an essential role or serves as the center of an activity or situation.

Fantod

a state or attack of uneasiness

Anomolous

deviating from what is standard, normal, or expected.

Gestalt

something that is made of many parts and yet is somehow more than or different from the combination of its parts, e.g., a flock of birds flying in the same direction is seen as one unified group, not individual birds.

Haunch

a buttock and thigh considered together, in a human or animal

Sod

the upper layer of turf that is harvested for transplanting.

Pireouette

(ballet) an act of spinning on one foot, typically with the raised foot touching the knee of the supporting leg.

Glean

extract (information) from various sources.

Proprioception

sense of self-movement, force, and body position

Bricolage

a construction made of whatever materials are at hand; DIY

Annulate

having rings; marked with or formed of rings

Gerrymander

o divide election districts to give one political party an electoral majority in a large number of districts while concentrating the voting strength of the opposition in as few districts as possible.

Lordosis

an exaggerated inward curve of the spine that typically affects the lower back.

Impost

a tax or similar compulsory payment. E.g., fanduel has imposed a $0.50 fee for every bet that i place.

Sinistral

of, relating to, or on the left side.

Chronaxie

the minimum time required for an electric current twice the strength of the rheobase to stimulate a muscle or a neuron.