WOD 12/6/04-12/30/04
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- riposte
- a quick and effective reply by word or act (from fencing)
- sedition
- conduct or language inciting resistance to or rebellion against lawful authority
- raillery
- good-humored banter or teasing
- brackish
- somewhat salty; distasteful; unpalatable
- punctilious
- strictly attentive to the details of form in action or conduct; precise
- benison
- blessing; benediction
- cornucopia
- the horn of plenty; an overflowing supply, abundance
- exegesis
- exposition; explanation; especially, a critical explanation of a text
- motil
- to work with painful effort; to labor; to toil; to drudge; to churn or swirl about continuously
- etiolate
- to make pale or sickly; to make weak by stunting the growth or development of (botany: to bleach and alter the natural develpoment of by excluding sunlight)
- languid
- drooping of flagging from or as is from exhaustion
- disconsolate
- inspiring dejection; saddening; deeply degected and dispirited
- germane
- appropriate or fitting; relevant
- permeate
- to spread or diffuse through; to pass through the pores or openings of
- recherche
- uncommon; exotic; rare; exquisite, choice; excessively refined, affected; pretentious, overblown
- hoi polloi
- the common people generally; the masses
- dulcet
- pleasing to the ear, melodious; generally pleasing, soothing, or agreable
- aborning
- while being produced or born
- raiment
- clothing in general; garments
- forgo
- to obstain from; to do without
- extemporaneous
- composed, performed, or uttered on the spur of the moment
- solecism
- a nonstandard usage or grammatical construction; a breach of good manners or etiquette; an inconsistency, mistake or imporpriety
- perfervid
- ardent, impassioned, marked by exaggerated or overwrought emotion
- demur
- to object; to take exception; to delay
- genuflect
- to bend the knee or touch one knee to the ground; as in worship; to grovel