Posts Tagged ‘vocabulary’

Sacrosanct
Meaning – Regarded as sacred and inviolable; very sacred or holy

Procrastinate
Meaning – to put off doing something; to hestitate; to delay unnecessarily.
Example – I know I should be writing this article, but I’ll just write it tomorrow. After all, I’ve already written an article this week. These are the kind of thoughts that enter the mind of a procastinator.

Clobbered
Meaning – 1. To strike violently and repeatedly; batter or maul.2. To defeat decisively.3. To criticize harshly.
Examples – “She clobbered the man who tried to attack her”
“I don’t want to end up getting clobbered.”

Cajole
Meaning – To persuade with flattery, repeated appeals, or soothing words; to coax.
Example – ”

Whiz kept to himself and spent long hours every day studying financials and technical charts and reading impenetrable economic publications. Even the warden had tried to cajole him into sharing market tips.
– Belfry Holdings, The Brethren”

Semordnilap
Meaning - A word that spells a different word when written backwards (”semordnilap” is “palindromes” spelled backwards).
Example – “Drawer” is a semordnilap, because backwards it spells reward.
I found this rather cool!!

Wordle
Meaning – a piece of text which has been rearranged into a visual pattern of words. Also referred to as word clouds or text clouds.
Example - 
‘Here’s a wordle of the G20 communique, with support, financial and agreed especially prominent.’

Algid
Meaning – cold or chilly
Example – “a person who is algid is marked by prostration and has cold clammy skin and low blood pressure”

Fantod
Meaning – A state of nervous irritability; Nervous movements caused by tension.
Example – “Of course, when we cranked the 70-horse Evinrude into life to go ripping to another part of the lake, Mr. (Izaak) Walton might have the fantods.” — Ned Crabb, Bugs, Bass and Loons in Moonlight, The Wall Street Journal (New York), Aug [...]

Obscurity
Meaning – not clear, the condition of being unknown; opposite to transparent; hidden motives.
Example – “The obscurity of purpose behind his visit was what confused me”.

Gallimaufry
Meaning – A medley of varied things; a hotchpoch or mixture of different substances.
Example – You’ll always find a gallimaufry of opinions in any Parliament session.