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Click hereWhenever I read, I keep a pencil handy and I underline words that I don't know and dog ear the page so that I can go back and look them up in the dictionary. I have always been interested in etymology and even took Latin for three years. I hope that these words can help all of us in our writings. Be sure to check out your dictionary for additional usages of the words and spellings associated with changing the word from adjective to adverb to noun ... etc.
ASSIDUOUS
adjective
Pronounced: ah-SID-due-uss
Meaning: Constant, unremitting; Working diligently at a task; persevering, industrious.
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BALEFUL
adjective
Pronounced: BAIL-full
Meaning: Menacing or malign; threatening evil.
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CONTUMACIOUS
adjective
Pronounced: kon-too-MAY-shus
Meaning: Stubbornly perverse or rebellious; willfully disobedient.
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DROSS
noun
Pronounced: DRAWSS
Meaning: Waste matter or refuse; A waste product taken off molten metal during smelting, essentially metallic in character.
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EQUIPOISE
noun
Pronounced: EH-qwi-poiz
Meaning: An equal distribution of weight; even balance; equilibrium.
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FERVID
adjective
Pronounced: FUR-vid
Meaning: Heated or vehement in spirit, enthusiasm, etc.; burning, glowing.
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GARNER
verb
Pronounced: GARR-nur
Meaning: To gather or deposit in or as if in a granary or other storage place; to get, acquire or earn.
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HARROW
verb
Pronounced: HARE-row
Meaning: To disturb painfully or keenly; to distress the mind or feelings of.
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IMPASSIVE
adjective
Pronounced: em-PA-siv
Meaning: Showing or feeling no emotion; unmoved; not subject to suffering.
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JABBERWOCKY
noun
Pronounced: JAH-bur-wock-kee
Meaning: Writing or speech with nonsensical words.
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KANJI
noun
Pronounced: KAHN-jee
Meaning: A system of Japanese writing using Chinese-derived characters.
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LOQUACIOUS
adjective
Pronounced: low-KWAY-shus
Meaning: Talking or tending to talk much freely; talkative; characteristic of excessive talk; wordy.
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MOROSE
adjective
Pronounced: MORE-ohs
Meaning: Gloomily or sullently ill-humored, as a person or mood; characterized by or expressing gloom.
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NOISOME
adjective
Pronounced: NOY-sum
Meaning: Offensive or disgusting, as in odor; harmful or injurious to health; noxious.
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OSTENSIBLE
adjective
Pronounced: oss-TEN-sih-bull
Meaning: Outwardly appearing as such; professed; pretended.
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PRECEPT
noun
Pronounced: PREE-sept
Meaning: A commandment or direction given as a rule of action or conduct; an injunction as to moral conduct; a maxim.
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QUIESCENT
adjective
Pronounced: kwee-ESS-cent
Meaning: Being at rest; quiet;still; inactive or motionless.
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REFRACTORY
adjective
Pronounced: ree-FRACK-tore-ree
Meaning: Hard or impossible to manage; stubbornly disobedient.
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SQUALID
adjective
Pronounced: SKWA-lid
Meaning: Filthy or repulsive as from neglect; degraded; sordid.
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TRUCULENT
adjective
Pronounced: TRUCK-cue-lunt
Meaning: Aggressively hostile; belligerent; brutally harsh; scathing or savagely brutal.
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UNTOWARD
adjective
Pronounced: un-too-WARD
Meaning: Unfavorable or unfortunate; improper.
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VERISIMILITUDE
noun
Pronounced: vair-ih-sim-MIL-lih-tood
Meaning: The appearance or semblance of truth; likelihood; probability.
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WANE
noun
Pronounced: WAIN
Meaning: To decrease in strength and intensity, etc.; to decline in power, importance, etc.
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XENOBIOTIC
noun
Pronounced: ZEN-o-buy-ot-tick
Meaning: A chemical or substance that is foreign to an organism or biological system.
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YAMMER
noun
Pronounced: YAMM-mur
Meaning: To whine or complain; to talk loudly or persistently.
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ZEN
noun
Pronounced: ZIN
Meaning: A movement of Buddhism, introduced into China in the 6th century and into Japan in the 12th century, that emphasizes enlightenment by means of meditation and direct, intuitive insights.
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AVER
verb
Pronounced: ah-VURR
Meaning: To assert or affirm with confidence; declare in a positive or peremptory manner.
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BLITHE
adjective
Pronounced: BLYTH
Meaning: Lighthearted in disposition; cheerful; carefree; heedless.
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CREDULOUS
adjective
Pronounced: KRED-yoo-luss
Meaning: Willing to believe or trust to readily; gullible.
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DEMUR
verb
Pronounced: dih-MURR
Meaning: To make objection, especially on the grounds of scruples; take exception; object.
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EPITOME
noun
Pronounced: ee-PIT-toh-mee
Meaning: A person or thing that is typical of or possesses to a high degree the features of a whole class; embodiment.
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FROWARD
adjective
Pronounced: FRO-word
Meaning: Willfully contrary; not easily managed.
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GRIEVOUS
adjective
Pronounced: GREE-vuss
Meaning: Causing grief or great sorrow; causing serious harm; characterized by great pain or suffering.
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HEDONISM
noun
Pronounced: HEE-dun-izm
Meaning: The doctrine that pleasure or happiness is the highest good; devotion to pleasure and self-gratification as a way of life.
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INTRANSIGENT
adjective
Pronounced: in-TRAN-sih-gent
Meaning: Refusing to agree or compromise; uncompromising; inflexible.
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JEREMIAD
noun
Pronounced: jair-ih-MY-add
Meaning: A prolonged lament; compliant.
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KECK
verb
Pronounced: KECK
Meaning: To retch; to feel or show disgust or strong dislike.
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LUBRICIOUS
adjective
Pronounced: loo-BRISH-uss
Meaning: Arousing or expressive of sexual desire; lustful; lecherous.
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MENDACITY
noun
Pronounced: min-DAH-city
Meaning: The quality of being false or untrue; lie or falsehood.
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NEXUS
noun
Pronounced: NECKS-uss
Meaning: A means of connection, tie or link; a connected series or group; the core or center, as of a matter or situation.
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OBVIATE
verb
Pronounced: OBB-vee-ate
Meaning: To anticipate and prevent or render unnecessary by effective measures.
I really like what you're doing here on this site, but I think you need to check up on "Jeremiad..." you wrote compliant when I think you meant complaint.