Plutocracy

America could be described as a Plutocracy.

plutocracy

\ploo-TOK-ruh-see\

noun 1. the rule or power of wealth or of the wealthy. 2. a government or state in which the wealthy class rules.

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Stentorian

stentorian

\sten-TAWR-ee-uh n, -TOHR-\ adjective 1. very loud or powerful in sound: a stentorian voice.

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Corybantic

corybantic

\kawr-uh-BAN-tik, kor-\ adjective 1. frenzied; agitated; unrestrained. 2. (initial capital letter) of or relating to a Corybant.

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Vagarious

vagarious

\vuh-GAIR-ee-uh s\ adjective 1. characterized by vagaries; erratic; capricious: a vagarious foreign policy. 2. roving; wandering: vagarious artists.

Happy Jolabokafloo!

OMG, let's move to Iceland!

Spinebash

I think I'll spinebash right now.

spinebash

\SPAHYN-bash\

verb 1. Australian Slang. to rest; loaf.

Gone Be

Seriously, do we even have schools anymore?

Lief

lief

\leef\

adverb 1. gladly; willingly: I would as lief go south as not. adjective 1. Archaic. willing; desirous. 2. Archaic. dear; beloved; treasured.

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Bumptious

bumptious

\BUHMP-shuh s\ adjective 1. offensively self-assertive: a bumptious young upstart.

Ghost of Future Imprecfect Conditional

Fletcherize

I think I know why Angela Lanbury's character is named Jessica Fletcher on Murder, She Wrote.

Fletcherize

\FLECH-uh-rahyz\ verb 1. to chew (food) slowly and thoroughly.

Sleep is Good

Galluses

There's another kind of suspenders?

galluses

\GAL-uh-siz\

noun 1. Older Use. a pair of suspenders for trousers.

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Inculcate

inculcate

\in-KUHL-keyt, IN-kuhl-keyt\ verb 1. to implant by repeated statement or admonition; teach persistently and earnestly (usually followed by upon or in ): to inculcate virtue in the young. 2. to cause or influence (someone) to accept an idea or feeling (usually followed by with): Socrates inculcated his pupils with the love of truth.

Books & Movies

Pleonasm

pleonasm

\PLEE-uh-naz-uh m\ noun 1. the use of more words than are necessary to express an idea; redundancy. 2. an instance of this, as free gift or true fact.

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Duende

duende

\DWEN-de\

noun 1. Spanish. charm; magnetism. 2. Spanish. a goblin; demon; spirit.

Proper English . . .

Hagiography

For St. Nicolas's Day. hagiography

\hag-ee-OG-ruh-fee, hey-jee-\ noun 1. the writing and critical study of the lives of the saints; hagiology.

Bailiwick

bailiwick

\BEY-luh-wik\ noun 1. a person's area of skill, knowledge, authority, or work: to confine suggestions to one's own bailiwick. 2. the district within which a bailie or bailiff has jurisdiction.

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Ignominy

ignominy

\IG-nuh-min-ee, ig-NOM-uh-nee\ noun 1. disgrace; dishonor; public contempt. 2. shameful or dishonorable quality or conduct or an instance of this.

Cats & Books tees

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Logophobia

logophobia

\law-guh-FOH-bee-uh, log-uh-\ noun 1. an obsessive fear of words.

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Infra dig

Can ya dig it? You have to dig something beneath you. This completely jives with Latin, man.

infra dig

\IN-fruh DIG\ adjective 1. beneath one's dignity.

Dreams vs. Reality

Galimatias

That's irony. A word that means confused or unintelligible talk is confusing and probably unrecognizable to 99% of the population.

galimatias

\gal-uh-MEY-shee-uh s, -MAT-ee-uh s\

noun 1. confused or unintelligible talk.

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Obdurate

obdurate

\OB-doo-rit, -dyoo-\

adjective 1. unmoved by persuasion, pity, or tender feelings; stubborn; unyielding. 2. stubbornly resistant to moral influence; persistently impenitent: an obdurate sinner.

Dangerously Close

Syncretism

Recently, dictionary.com has been having a lot of political terms which I already know, but finally one I don't . . .

syncretism

\SING-kri-tiz-uh m, SIN-\ noun 1. the attempted reconciliation or union of different or opposing principles, practices, or parties, as in philosophy or religion. 2. Grammar. the merging, as by historical change in a language, of two or more categories in a specified environment into one, as, in nonstandard English, the use of was with both singular and plural subjects, while in standard English was is used with singular subjects (except for you in the second person singular) and were with plural subjects.

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Frowzy

A good word for my house . . . and many full-time working women undoubtedly share the problems.

frowzy

\FROU-zee\ adjective 1. dirty and untidy; slovenly. 2. ill-smelling; musty.

Reading is an Adventure

Eximious

eximious

\eg-ZIM-ee-uh s\ adjective 1. Obsolete. distinguished; eminent; excellent.

Bathos

If you get dirtios, you should take a bathos . . .

bathos

\BEY-thos, -thaws, -thohs\

noun 1. insincere pathos; sentimentality; mawkishness. 2. a ludicrous descent from the exalted or lofty to the commonplace; anticlimax.

Lexicon

Another word I already know. I tend to skip them when I know them. I even use lexicon regularly.

lexicon

\LEK-si-kon, -kuh n\

noun 1. the vocabulary of a particular language, field, social class, person, etc. 2. a wordbook or dictionary, especially of Greek, Latin, or Hebrew.

FB Friends

It saddens me to no end when I see my friends make posts like this. I'll hope all the errors was because she was upset by a hostile sales person.

Apotheosis

apotheosis

\uh-poth-ee-OH-sis, ap-uh-THEE-uh-sis\

noun 1. the ideal example; epitome; quintessence: This poem is the apotheosis of lyric expression. 2. the elevation or exaltation of a person to the rank of a god.

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