exigency

exigency (n)

1. The quality or state of requiring immediate aid or action; urgency.

2. A case demanding immediate action or remedy; a pressing or urgent situation.

3. That which is demanded or required in a particular situation -- usually used in the plural.

bedaub

bedaub (vt)

1. to smear all over; besmear; soil.

2. to ornament gaudily or excessively.

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palanquin

palanquin (n)

1. A covered type of litter for a stretched-out passenger, carried on four poles on the shoulders of four or more bearers, as formerly used (also by colonials) in eastern Asia.

antidisestablishmentarianism

antidisestablishmentarianism (n)

1. A political philosophy opposed to the separation of church and state, esp. opponents in 19th century England against separating the Anglican church from the state.

2. Referred to as an atypically long word for showing intellectual pretence.

pedantic

pedantic (adj)

1. Like a pedant, overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning.

2. Being showy of one’s knowledge, often in a boring manner.

3. Often used to describe a person who emphasizes his/her knowledge through the use of vocabulary; ostentatious in one’s learning.

4. Being finicky or picky with language.

eschew

eschew (vt)

1. To avoid; to shun (usually applied to ideas or concepts and not to concrete objects).

sanguine

sanguine (adj)

1. (color) Having the color of blood; red.

2. Characterized by abundance and active circulation of blood.

3. Warm; ardent.

4. Anticipating the best; not despondent; confident; full of hope.

5. (Obsolete): irresponsibly mirthful; indulgent in pleasure to the exclusion of important matters.

sanguine (n)

1. (colour) Blood color; red.

2. Anything of a blood-red color, as cloth.

3. Bloodstone.

4. Red crayon.

sanguine (vt)

1. To stain with blood; to impart the color of blood to; to ensanguine.

lilliputian

lilliputian (adj)

1. Very small, diminutive.

2. Trivial, petty.

lilliputian (n)

A very small person or being.

tintinnabulation

tintinnabulation (n)

A tinkling sound, as of a bell or bells.

eleemosynary

eleemosynary (adj)

1. Relating to charity, alms, or almsgiving; intended for the distribution of charity.

2. Given in charity or alms; having the nature of alms; as, eleemosynary assistance.

3. Supported by charity; as, eleemosynary poor.

Verfremdungseffekt

Verfremdungseffekt (plural Verfremdungseffekte) (n)

1. Brecht's alienation effect, sometimes translated as the estrangement effect.

2. (theater) Distance between the audience and the performers.

apraxia

apraxia (n)

1. Total or partial loss of the ability to perform coordinated movements or manipulate objects in the absence of motor or sensory impairment; specifically, a disorder of motor planning.

bellicose

bellicose (adj)

1. Warlike in nature; aggressive; hostile.

2. Showing or having the impulse to be combative.

hypertrophy

hypertrophy (n)

1. (medicine) An increase in the size of an organ due to swelling of the individual cells.

2. (bodybuilding) Increase in muscle size through increased numbers of muscle fibers; a result of strict diet, weightlifting, and other exercise.

orrery

orrery (n)

1. A clockwork model of the solar system.

coruscate

coruscate (vi)

1. To give off light; to reflect in flashes; to sparkle.

2. To exhibit brilliant technique or style.

excrescence

excrescence (n)

1. Something, usually abnormal, which grows out of something else.

2. A disfiguring or unwanted mark or adjunct

defenstrate

defenstrate (vi)

1. (computing) (slang) To stop using the Windows operating system.

defenestrate (vt)

1. To eject or throw (someone or something) from a window.

anaphora

anaphora (n)

1. The repetition of a phrase at the beginning of phrases, sentences, or verses, used for emphasis.

2. (linguistics) An expression that refers to another expression, especially a preceding one. An example is a pronoun that refers to its antecedent.

anthropomorphic

anthropomorphic (adj)

1. (of inanimate objects, animals, or other non-human entities) Given human attributes.

catafalque

catafalque (n)

1. A platform used to display or convey a coffin during a funeral, often ornate.

qualia

qualia (n)

1. Properties not defineable with numbers. A quality.

2. Properties, as redness, which are considered independent from things having the property.

3. Plural form of quale

heterophenomenology

heterophenomenology (n)

1. Phenomenology of the Other.

2. The method of studying the consciousness of other people.

satyriasis

satyriasis (n)

1. Uncontrollable sexual desire, found in a man (contrast to nymphomania).

2. The quality of excessive sexual passion in a male.