vocabularian lucubrian floccinaucinihilipilification vol. 3

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Uncouth
rude; impolite
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Liaison
a person who helps groups or organizations work together; an illicit sexual relationship
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Exculpate
prove that someone is not guilty of something
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Bumptious
rudely over confident or assertive
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Apotropaic
designed or intended to avert evil
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Junket
a sojourn made at another’s or the public’s expense
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Mercurial
changing frequently(typically of a mood); lively and quick
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Antithetical
in direct and unambiguous opposition
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Chagrin
frustration or annoyance caused by failure or dissapointment
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Proscribe
to condemn or forbid
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Tutelage
instruction or guidance by a guardian or teacher
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Festoon
to cover or decorate with many small things
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Minutia
small or minor detail
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Impute
to assert a person undesirable or guilty of something
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Progeny
descendant
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Garrulous
very talkative; wordy
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Apologia
a defense of one’s opinion, position, or actions
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Litmus test
a criteria used to judge something or someone as acceptable or not
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Bemuse
to bewilder and amuse simultaneously
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Wherewithal
means, skills, or resources required to do something
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Noisome
highly obnoxious or objectionable
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Floatsam
waveson
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Steez/Steeze
iconic and/or effortless style
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Adumbrate
indicate; represent; symbolize
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Dyspeptic
bad tempered
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Interminable
having or seeming to have no end(due to continuing for a very long time)
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Prima facie
based on a first impression
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Surly
bad tempered; unfriendly
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Chary
cautious
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Travail
a difficult or challenging experience
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Risible
things that deserved to be mocked because they are flagrantly absurd
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Christen
to give a name to
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Puerile
childishly silly and trivial
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Questmonger
one whose occupation is to conduct inquests
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Deleterious
harmful to body or mind
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Utinam
earnest wish or desire
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Oligophrenia
feeble-mindedness
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Brumal
of, like or pertaining to winter
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Aeviternal
Everlasting; endless
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Morne
dismal; gloomy; sombre
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Theolepsy
seizure or possession by a god
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Gimcrack
trick; trivial mechanism
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Illutation
mud bath
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Mizmaze
labyrinth; bewilderment
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Zakuska
snack
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Alar
relating to the wing or shoulder
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Augean
(of a task or problem) requiring so much effort to complete or solve as to seem impossible
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Subtopia
suburbs of a city
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Yealing
person of the same age
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Jovialist
a convivial person
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Proligerous
bearing offspring
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Unbosom
to pour out; to tell freely
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Casuimancy
Divination by means of fire
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Saponifiable
able to be converted into soap
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Pestilence
a fatal epidemic disease, esp. bubonic plague
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Regrate
to buy and sell again in or near the same market
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Cataphysical
unnatural
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Lorgnon
an eyeglass
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Whinger
dirk or short sword
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Hierography
description of sacred things
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Omniferous
bearing everything
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Sophism
a fallacious argument, especially one used to deliberately to deceive
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Ballyhoo
bombastic or pretentious nonsense
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Exsufflate
to blow away; to exorcise
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Restiform
shaped like a cord
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Kraurosis
shrivelling of the skin
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Furcular
shaped like a fork
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Supplicate
ask or beg for something earnestly or humbly
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Litany
prayer of supplication in responsive style
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Xerophagy
a diet of bread and water
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Sciapodous
having huge feet
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Sgiomlareached
the habit of dropping in at mealtime
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Eccedentesiast
one who fakes a smile
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Qualtagh
the first person you see after leaving your house
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Jumentous
smelling like horse urine
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Gossypiboma
a surgical sponge accidentally left inside a patients body
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Cancatervate
to heap up into a pile
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Charientism
an artfully veiled insult
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Estrapade
a horse’s attempt to remove its rider
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Abliguriton
excessive spending on food and drink
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Dephlogisticate
to make something fireproof
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Ginglyform
hinge-shaped
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Adoxography
skilled writing on an unimportant subject
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Gargalesthesia
the sensation caused by tickling
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Pandiculation
stretching and yawning before going to bed or after waking up
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Gowpen
a double handful
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Cacoethes
a bad habit or insatiable urge
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Autotonsorialist
one who cuts their own hair
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Ultracrepidarian
of one who speaks or offers opinions on matters beyond their knowledge
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Prospography
the description of a person’s appearance
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Yclept
by the name of; called
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Nudiustertian
pertaining to the day before yesterday
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Scacchic
pertaining to the game of chess or to chess pieces
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Grapholagnia
the urge to stare at obscene pictures
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Batrachophagous
one who eats frogs
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Aeolist
A pompus windy bore who pretends to have inspiration
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Lascivious
(of a person, manner, or gesture) feeling or revealing an overt and often offensive sexual desire
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Hamartithia
the quality of being likely to make a mistake
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Accubation
the practice of eating or drinking while lying down
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Tarantism
An urge to overcome melancholy by dancing