Pump up the Vocabulary

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Luciferous [adj. - illuminating, literally and figuratively]
Logolepsy [n. - an obsession with words]

In other words: an illuminating obsession with words

Five new words/phrases every day will be posted here.

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1. a cheval
   phr. - 'on horseback'; astride; straddling.
2. a corps perdu
   phr. - 'with lost body'; impetuously; in desperation.
3. a fond
   phr. - 'to the bottom'; thoroughly.
4. a la belle étoile
   phr. - 'under the beautiful star'; in the open air at night.
5. a la mort
   phr. - 'to the death'; mortally.

 

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1. a mensa et thoro
   adj. - 'from table and bed'; applied to judicial separation of husband and wife.
2. a outrance
   phr. - 'to the utmost'; to the death.
3. ab initio
   phr. - from the beginning; from the very start or outset
4. ab irato
   phr. - from an angry man: hence, not to be taken too seriously
5. ab ovo
   phr. - from the egg: from the very beginning, hence completely and in great detail; throughly or voluminously

 

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1. abderian
   adj. - pertaining to foolish or excessive laughter
2. abdominous
   adj. - having or pertaining to a distended stomach
3. abliguration
   n. - extravagance in cooking and serving
4. ablutomania
   n. - a mania for washing oneself
5. abscissin
   n. - hormone which triggers the fall of autumn leaves in certain trees

 

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1. absquatulate
   v. - to leave hurriedly, suddenly, or secretly
2. abstersive
   adv. - serving to cleanse or purge
3. acalculia
   n. - the inability to work with numbers
4. acapnotic
   n. - person who doesn't smoke
5. acariasis
   n. - infestation with mites or ticks; the itch.

 

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1. acaricide
   n. - substance killing mites. acaricidal, adj.
2. acarpous
   adj. - Botany, not yielding fruit.
3. acatalepsy
   n. - state of being impossible to understand; Philosophy, sceptic doctrine that knowledge cannot be certain. acataleptic, adj.
4. acataleptic
   adj. - incomprehensible
5. acaudate
   adj. - lacking tail.

 

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1. acaulescent
   adj. - lacking a stem.
2. accensor
   n. - Roman Catholic, acolyte.
3. acceptilation
   n. - the settlement of a debt without payment
4. accessit
   n. - honourable mention of one who comes nearest to a prize.
5. acciaccatura
   n. - Music, very short note played before a longer note; short appoggiatura.

 

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1. accismus
   n. - rhetorical device of pretending to refuse.
2. acclivity
   n. - slope upward. acclivitous, acclivous, adj.
3. accolent
   adj. - neighbouring.
4. accouchement
   n. - childbirth. accoucheur, accoucheuse, n. male and female midwife respectively
5. accrementition
   n. - Biology growth by addition of similar matter.