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A goal of Shelly Lorrain Durkee on their 101 Things in 1001 Days: Take 2! list with a status of Done.
1 - Amanuensis - A literary or artistic assistant, in particular, one who takes dictation or copies manuscripts.
2 - Donnybrook - A scene of uproar and disorder; a heated argument
3 - Venial - Easily excused or forgivable
4 - Aflattus - A devise creative impulse or inspiration
5 - Agnoistic - Combative, polemical
6 - Oligopsony - A state of the market in which only a small number of buyers exists for a product
7 - Canorous - Melodious or resonant
8 - Clinquant - Glittering with gold and silver; tinseled.
9 - Pilose - Covered with long soft hairs.
10 - Tintinnabulation - The ringing or sounding of bells. A jingling or tinkling sound as if of bells.
11 - Gibe - A remark that is intended to hurt someone or make them feel stupid.
12 - Bibulous - Excessively fond of drinking alcohol.
13 - Regnant - Reigning; ruling.
14 - Susurrus - A whispering or rustling sound.
15 - Snowclone - a verbal formula that is adapted for reuse by changing only a few words so that the allusion to the original phrase remains clear
16 - Absquatulate - Run away; usually includes taking taking something or somebody along.
17 - Mythomane - A person with a strong or irresistible propensity for fantasizing, lying or exaggerating.
18 - Panegyric - A public speech or published text in praise of someone or something.
19 - Aspersion - An attack on the reputation or integrity of someone or something.
20 - Cereology - The study or investigation of crop circles.
21 - Vitiate - To make (something) less effective; to ruin or spoil (something).
22 - Nemophilist - Someone with a love or fondness for forests, woods or woodland scenery, or someone who often visits them.
23 - Contumacious - Stubbornly or willfully disobedient to authority
24 - Canorous - melodious or resonant
25 - Macerate - soften or become softened by soaking in liquid
26 - Hobbledehoy - A clumsy or awkward youth
27 - Indite - Write; compose
28 - Poltroon - An utter coward
29 - Neologism - A newly created word, meaning, phrase or doctrine
30 - Hortatory - Tending or aiming to exhort
31 - Casuistry - Argumentation that is specious or excessively subtle and intended to be misleading. Moral philosophy based on the application of general ethical principles to resolve moral dilemmas.
32 - Minatory - Expressing or conveying a threat
33 - Inveterate - Having a particular habit, activity or interest that is long-established and unlikely to change.
34 - Cavil - Make petty or unnecessary objections
35 - Vulpine - Relating to a fox or foxes. Crafty; cunning.
36 - Athanasy - An absence of death or the condition of everlasting life, deathless, immortality
37 - Transpontine - Situated on the other side of a bridge Similar to or characteristic of melodramas once performed in London theaters located South of the Thames River.
38 - Capacious - Capable of holding much; spacious or roomy.
39 - Pabulum - A substance that gives nourishment, food. Intellectual nourishment.
40 - Ineluctable - Unable to be resisted or avoided. inescapable.
41 - Raffish - Unconventional and slightly disreputable, especially in an attractive manner
42 - Greenmail - The practice of buying enough of a company's stock to threaten a hostile takeover and reselling it to the company at a price above market value.
43 - Nonage - The state or condition of being under legal age. The period during which one is under legal age. A period of immaturity.
44 - Bon vivant - A person who enjoys a sociable and luxurious lifestyle.
45 - Jingoism - Extreme patriotism
46 - Captious - Marked by an often ill-natured inclination to stress faults and raise objections. Calculated to confuse, entrap or entangle in an argument.
47 - Debouch - Emerge from a narrow or confined space into a wide, open area.
48 - Blandishment - A flattering or pleasing statement or action used to persuade someone gently to do something.
49 - Aposiopesis - A sudden breaking off of a thought in the middle of a sentence, as though the speaker were unwilling or unable to continue.
50 - Bonzer - Excellent; first-rate.
51 - Coeval - Having the same age or date of origin; contemporary.
52 - Stridulation - To produce a shrill, grating sound, as a cricket does, by rubbing together certain parts of the body.
53 - Oblation - A thing presented or offered to God or a god. The presentation of bread and wine to God in the Eucharist.
54 - Xeriscape - A landscaping method developed especially for arid and semiarid climates that utilizes water-conserving techniques such as the use of drought-tolerant plants, mulch and efficient irrigation.
55 - Loutish - Uncouth and aggressive.
56 - Nemophilist - Someone with a love or fondness for forests, woods or woodland scenery, or someone who often visits them.
57 - Interregnum - The time between two reigns, governments, etc.
58 - Extirpate - Root out and destroy completely.
59 - Ersatz - A substitute product, not real or genuine and usually inferior.
60 - Leitmotif - a recurrent theme throughout a musical or literary composition, assocated with a particular person, idea or situation.
61 - Imbroglio - An extremely confused, complicated, embarrassing situation.
62 - Camarilla - a small group of people, especially a group of advisers to a ruler or politician, with a shared, typically nefarious purpose.
63 - Footle - To act or talk in a foolish or silly way
64 - Solipsim - A theory holding that the self can know nothing but its own modifications and that the self is the only existent thing
65 - Uxorious - Having or showing an excessive or submissive fondness for one's wife
66 - Perspicacity - The quality of having a ready insight into things; shrewdness
67 - Esculent - Suitable for eating
68 - Otiose - Serving no practical purpose or result.
69 - Disputatious - Fond of or causing heated arguments
70 - Plangent - Of a sound: loud, deep, and often sad.
71 - Gelid: Icy; extermely cold
72 - Inchmeal - By inches; little by little
73 - Deliquesce - Become liquid, typically during decomposition. Become liquid by absorbing moisture from the air.
74 - Alexithymia - Inability to express one's feelings
75 - Perspicuous - transparently clear; easily understandable
76 - Tergiversate - Make conflicting or evasive statements; equivocate
77 - Coeval - Having the same age or date of origin; contemporary
78 - Coruscate - Flash or sparkle
79 - Fervid - Intensely enthusiastic or passionate
80 - Meretricious - Apparently attractive but having in reality no value or integrity
81 - Burgeon - Begin to grow or increase rapidly
82 - Execrable - Deserving to be execrated; detestable
83 - Vexillology - The study of flags
84 - Diaphanous - Light, delicate and translucent
85 - Insuperable - Impossible to overcome
86 - Bumf - Reading materials that is not important or interesting
87 - Sententious - Given to moralizing in a pompous or affected manner
88 - Magniloquent - Using high-flown or bombastic language
89 - Axiomatic - Self-evident or unquestionable
90 - Crabwise - sideways. In a sidling or cautiously indirect manner
91 - Boustrophedon - Of written words, from right to left and from left to right in laternate lines
92 - Salubrious - Health-giving; healthy
93 - Onomasticon - A list or collection of proper names or specialized terms
94 - Sheeple - People compared to sheep in being docile, foolish or easily led
95 - Lineament - a distinctive feature or characteristic; especially of the face
96 - Neoteric - Belonging to recent times
97 - Martinet - A strict disciplinarian; someone who insists on absolutely adherence to the rules
98 - Cockade - A decoration (usually circular) that is worn on a hat especially as a part of a uniform to show a person's status, rank, etc.
99 - Chimerical - Existing only as the product of unchecked imagination
100 - Benison - A blessing
101 - Tautology - The saying of the same thing twice in different words; generally considered to be a fault of style
102 - Inglenook - a Cozy place by the hearth; a space or corner by an open fireplace
103 - Hoi Polloi - Ordinary people; people who are not rich, famous, etc.,
104 - Bloviate - Talk at length; especially in infalted or empty ways
105 - Legerity - Lightness in movement or action
106 - Imbroglio - An extremely confused, complicated embarrassing situation
107 - Autochthonous - INdigenous rather than descended from migrants or colonists
108 - Concatenation - A series of interconnected things or events.
109 - Abstruse - Difficult to understand.
110 - Legerity - Lightness in movement or action
111 - Collywobbles - Pain in the abdomen and especially in the stomach
112 - Extremophile - A microorganism, especially an archaean, that lives in conditions of extreme temperature, acidity, alkalinity or chemical concentration.
113 - Blithesome - Lighthearted
114 - Pari passu - At an equal rate or pace.
115 - Supposititious - Substituted for the real thing; not genuine
116 - Privy Purse - Allowance for a monarch's personal expenses
117- Cavil - Make petty or unnecessary objections
118 - Suasion - Persuasion as opposed to force or compulsion
119 - Consanguineous - Of the same blood or origin; descended from the same ancestor
120 - Meliorism - The belief that the world tends to improve and that humans can aid its betterment
121 - Degust - Taste carefully, so as to appreciate it fully
122 - Boulevardier - A wealthy, fashionable socialite
123 - Icarian - Relating to or characteristic of Icarus, especially in being excessively ambitious
124 - Chelonian - Of or relating to or resembling or being a turtle or tortoise
125 - Vertiginous - Characterized by or suffering from vertigo or dizziness
126 - Atavastic - Primitive feelings or behavior
127 - Kyoodle - To make loud, useless noises
128 - Subfusc - Dark or dull in color; drab, dusky
129 - Opprobrium - Something that brings disgrace
130 - Uxorious - Having or showing an excessive or submissive fondness for one's wife
131 - Descry - Catch sight of
132 - Sesquipedalian - Polysyllabic; long. Characterized by long words; long-winded.
133 - Pilose - Covered with long soft hairs
134 - Irrupt - Enter forcibly or suddenly
135 - Mansuetude - Meekness, gentleness
136 - Crepuscular - Of, resembling or relating to twilight
137 - Faineant - Lazy, idle, do-nothing, ineffectual, inactive. A person who has these features.
138 - Meliorism - The belief that the world tends to improve and that humans can aid this betterment.
139 - Compendious - Containing or presenting the essential facts of something in a comprehensive but concise way
140 - Penurious - Extremely poor; poverty-stricken.
141 - Regicide - The action of killing a king
142 - Caesura - A break or pause in the middle of a verse line
143 - Stentorian - Loud and powerful
144 - Antimacassar - Chair back, a small cloth placed over the backs or arms of chairs, to prevent soiling of the permanent fabric
145 - Footle - To act or talk in a foolish or silly way
146 - Bedaub - Smear or daub with a sticky substance
147 - Perspicacious - Having a ready insight into and understanding of things
148 - Oligopsony - A state of the market in which only a small number of buyers exists for a product
149 - Subaltern - Of lower status
150 - Fatidic - Relating to or characterized by prophecy; prophetic
151 - Eremite - A Christian hermit or recluse.
152 - Pertinacious - HOlding firmly to an opinion or a course of action
153 - Galanthophile - A person who collects snowdrops
154 - Insouciant - Showing a casual lack of concern; indifferent
155 - Cavil - Make petty or unnecessary objections
156 - Dubiety - The state or quality of being doubtful; uncertainty
157 - Piacular - Making or requiring atonement
158 - Lenity - Kindness; gentleness
159 - Millefleur - A pattern of flowers and leaves used in tapestry, on porcelain or in other decorative items.
160 - Behst - A person's orders or commands
161 - Regicide - the action of killing a king
162 - Absquatulate - Run awa; usually includes taking something or somebody along
163 - Abstemious - Not self-indulgent, especially when eating and drinking
164 - Fuliginous - Sooty; dusky
165 - Pellucid - Translucently clear; Easily understood; lucid
165 - Irenic - Aiming or aimed at peace
166 - Exordium - A beginning or introduction especially to a discourse or composition
167 - Frisson - A sudden, strong feeling of excitement
168 - Usufruct - The right of enjoying all the advantages derivable from the use of something that belongs to another
169 - Esculent - Suitable for eating; edible
170 - Asserverate - State categorically
171 - Fetor - A strong, foul smell
172 - Earcon - A brief, structured, abstract sound pattern used to represent a specific item or event
173 - Nomothetic - Relating to the study or discovery of general scientific laws
174 - Wetanschauung - A particular philosophy or view of life; the worldview of an individual or group
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2 - Donnybrook - A scene of uproar and disorder; a heated argument
3 - Venial - Easily excused or forgivable
4 - Aflattus - A devise creative impulse or inspiration
5 - Agnoistic - Combative, polemical
6 - Oligopsony - A state of the market in which only a small number of buyers exists for a product
7 - Canorous - Melodious or resonant
8 - Clinquant - Glittering with gold and silver; tinseled.
9 - Pilose - Covered with long soft hairs.
10 - Tintinnabulation - The ringing or sounding of bells. A jingling or tinkling sound as if of bells.
11 - Gibe - A remark that is intended to hurt someone or make them feel stupid.
12 - Bibulous - Excessively fond of drinking alcohol.
13 - Regnant - Reigning; ruling.
14 - Susurrus - A whispering or rustling sound.
15 - Snowclone - a verbal formula that is adapted for reuse by changing only a few words so that the allusion to the original phrase remains clear
16 - Absquatulate - Run away; usually includes taking taking something or somebody along.
17 - Mythomane - A person with a strong or irresistible propensity for fantasizing, lying or exaggerating.
18 - Panegyric - A public speech or published text in praise of someone or something.
19 - Aspersion - An attack on the reputation or integrity of someone or something.
20 - Cereology - The study or investigation of crop circles.
21 - Vitiate - To make (something) less effective; to ruin or spoil (something).
22 - Nemophilist - Someone with a love or fondness for forests, woods or woodland scenery, or someone who often visits them.
23 - Contumacious - Stubbornly or willfully disobedient to authority
24 - Canorous - melodious or resonant
25 - Macerate - soften or become softened by soaking in liquid
26 - Hobbledehoy - A clumsy or awkward youth
27 - Indite - Write; compose
28 - Poltroon - An utter coward
29 - Neologism - A newly created word, meaning, phrase or doctrine
30 - Hortatory - Tending or aiming to exhort
31 - Casuistry - Argumentation that is specious or excessively subtle and intended to be misleading. Moral philosophy based on the application of general ethical principles to resolve moral dilemmas.
32 - Minatory - Expressing or conveying a threat
33 - Inveterate - Having a particular habit, activity or interest that is long-established and unlikely to change.
34 - Cavil - Make petty or unnecessary objections
35 - Vulpine - Relating to a fox or foxes. Crafty; cunning.
36 - Athanasy - An absence of death or the condition of everlasting life, deathless, immortality
37 - Transpontine - Situated on the other side of a bridge Similar to or characteristic of melodramas once performed in London theaters located South of the Thames River.
38 - Capacious - Capable of holding much; spacious or roomy.
39 - Pabulum - A substance that gives nourishment, food. Intellectual nourishment.
40 - Ineluctable - Unable to be resisted or avoided. inescapable.
41 - Raffish - Unconventional and slightly disreputable, especially in an attractive manner
42 - Greenmail - The practice of buying enough of a company's stock to threaten a hostile takeover and reselling it to the company at a price above market value.
43 - Nonage - The state or condition of being under legal age. The period during which one is under legal age. A period of immaturity.
44 - Bon vivant - A person who enjoys a sociable and luxurious lifestyle.
45 - Jingoism - Extreme patriotism
46 - Captious - Marked by an often ill-natured inclination to stress faults and raise objections. Calculated to confuse, entrap or entangle in an argument.
47 - Debouch - Emerge from a narrow or confined space into a wide, open area.
48 - Blandishment - A flattering or pleasing statement or action used to persuade someone gently to do something.
49 - Aposiopesis - A sudden breaking off of a thought in the middle of a sentence, as though the speaker were unwilling or unable to continue.
50 - Bonzer - Excellent; first-rate.
51 - Coeval - Having the same age or date of origin; contemporary.
52 - Stridulation - To produce a shrill, grating sound, as a cricket does, by rubbing together certain parts of the body.
53 - Oblation - A thing presented or offered to God or a god. The presentation of bread and wine to God in the Eucharist.
54 - Xeriscape - A landscaping method developed especially for arid and semiarid climates that utilizes water-conserving techniques such as the use of drought-tolerant plants, mulch and efficient irrigation.
55 - Loutish - Uncouth and aggressive.
56 - Nemophilist - Someone with a love or fondness for forests, woods or woodland scenery, or someone who often visits them.
57 - Interregnum - The time between two reigns, governments, etc.
58 - Extirpate - Root out and destroy completely.
59 - Ersatz - A substitute product, not real or genuine and usually inferior.
60 - Leitmotif - a recurrent theme throughout a musical or literary composition, assocated with a particular person, idea or situation.
61 - Imbroglio - An extremely confused, complicated, embarrassing situation.
62 - Camarilla - a small group of people, especially a group of advisers to a ruler or politician, with a shared, typically nefarious purpose.
63 - Footle - To act or talk in a foolish or silly way
64 - Solipsim - A theory holding that the self can know nothing but its own modifications and that the self is the only existent thing
65 - Uxorious - Having or showing an excessive or submissive fondness for one's wife
66 - Perspicacity - The quality of having a ready insight into things; shrewdness
67 - Esculent - Suitable for eating
68 - Otiose - Serving no practical purpose or result.
69 - Disputatious - Fond of or causing heated arguments
70 - Plangent - Of a sound: loud, deep, and often sad.
71 - Gelid: Icy; extermely cold
72 - Inchmeal - By inches; little by little
73 - Deliquesce - Become liquid, typically during decomposition. Become liquid by absorbing moisture from the air.
74 - Alexithymia - Inability to express one's feelings
75 - Perspicuous - transparently clear; easily understandable
76 - Tergiversate - Make conflicting or evasive statements; equivocate
77 - Coeval - Having the same age or date of origin; contemporary
78 - Coruscate - Flash or sparkle
79 - Fervid - Intensely enthusiastic or passionate
80 - Meretricious - Apparently attractive but having in reality no value or integrity
81 - Burgeon - Begin to grow or increase rapidly
82 - Execrable - Deserving to be execrated; detestable
83 - Vexillology - The study of flags
84 - Diaphanous - Light, delicate and translucent
85 - Insuperable - Impossible to overcome
86 - Bumf - Reading materials that is not important or interesting
87 - Sententious - Given to moralizing in a pompous or affected manner
88 - Magniloquent - Using high-flown or bombastic language
89 - Axiomatic - Self-evident or unquestionable
90 - Crabwise - sideways. In a sidling or cautiously indirect manner
91 - Boustrophedon - Of written words, from right to left and from left to right in laternate lines
92 - Salubrious - Health-giving; healthy
93 - Onomasticon - A list or collection of proper names or specialized terms
94 - Sheeple - People compared to sheep in being docile, foolish or easily led
95 - Lineament - a distinctive feature or characteristic; especially of the face
96 - Neoteric - Belonging to recent times
97 - Martinet - A strict disciplinarian; someone who insists on absolutely adherence to the rules
98 - Cockade - A decoration (usually circular) that is worn on a hat especially as a part of a uniform to show a person's status, rank, etc.
99 - Chimerical - Existing only as the product of unchecked imagination
100 - Benison - A blessing
101 - Tautology - The saying of the same thing twice in different words; generally considered to be a fault of style
102 - Inglenook - a Cozy place by the hearth; a space or corner by an open fireplace
103 - Hoi Polloi - Ordinary people; people who are not rich, famous, etc.,
104 - Bloviate - Talk at length; especially in infalted or empty ways
105 - Legerity - Lightness in movement or action
106 - Imbroglio - An extremely confused, complicated embarrassing situation
107 - Autochthonous - INdigenous rather than descended from migrants or colonists
108 - Concatenation - A series of interconnected things or events.
109 - Abstruse - Difficult to understand.
110 - Legerity - Lightness in movement or action
111 - Collywobbles - Pain in the abdomen and especially in the stomach
112 - Extremophile - A microorganism, especially an archaean, that lives in conditions of extreme temperature, acidity, alkalinity or chemical concentration.
113 - Blithesome - Lighthearted
114 - Pari passu - At an equal rate or pace.
115 - Supposititious - Substituted for the real thing; not genuine
116 - Privy Purse - Allowance for a monarch's personal expenses
117- Cavil - Make petty or unnecessary objections
118 - Suasion - Persuasion as opposed to force or compulsion
119 - Consanguineous - Of the same blood or origin; descended from the same ancestor
120 - Meliorism - The belief that the world tends to improve and that humans can aid its betterment
121 - Degust - Taste carefully, so as to appreciate it fully
122 - Boulevardier - A wealthy, fashionable socialite
123 - Icarian - Relating to or characteristic of Icarus, especially in being excessively ambitious
124 - Chelonian - Of or relating to or resembling or being a turtle or tortoise
125 - Vertiginous - Characterized by or suffering from vertigo or dizziness
126 - Atavastic - Primitive feelings or behavior
127 - Kyoodle - To make loud, useless noises
128 - Subfusc - Dark or dull in color; drab, dusky
129 - Opprobrium - Something that brings disgrace
130 - Uxorious - Having or showing an excessive or submissive fondness for one's wife
131 - Descry - Catch sight of
132 - Sesquipedalian - Polysyllabic; long. Characterized by long words; long-winded.
133 - Pilose - Covered with long soft hairs
134 - Irrupt - Enter forcibly or suddenly
135 - Mansuetude - Meekness, gentleness
136 - Crepuscular - Of, resembling or relating to twilight
137 - Faineant - Lazy, idle, do-nothing, ineffectual, inactive. A person who has these features.
138 - Meliorism - The belief that the world tends to improve and that humans can aid this betterment.
139 - Compendious - Containing or presenting the essential facts of something in a comprehensive but concise way
140 - Penurious - Extremely poor; poverty-stricken.
141 - Regicide - The action of killing a king
142 - Caesura - A break or pause in the middle of a verse line
143 - Stentorian - Loud and powerful
144 - Antimacassar - Chair back, a small cloth placed over the backs or arms of chairs, to prevent soiling of the permanent fabric
145 - Footle - To act or talk in a foolish or silly way
146 - Bedaub - Smear or daub with a sticky substance
147 - Perspicacious - Having a ready insight into and understanding of things
148 - Oligopsony - A state of the market in which only a small number of buyers exists for a product
149 - Subaltern - Of lower status
150 - Fatidic - Relating to or characterized by prophecy; prophetic
151 - Eremite - A Christian hermit or recluse.
152 - Pertinacious - HOlding firmly to an opinion or a course of action
153 - Galanthophile - A person who collects snowdrops
154 - Insouciant - Showing a casual lack of concern; indifferent
155 - Cavil - Make petty or unnecessary objections
156 - Dubiety - The state or quality of being doubtful; uncertainty
157 - Piacular - Making or requiring atonement
158 - Lenity - Kindness; gentleness
159 - Millefleur - A pattern of flowers and leaves used in tapestry, on porcelain or in other decorative items.
160 - Behst - A person's orders or commands
161 - Regicide - the action of killing a king
162 - Absquatulate - Run awa; usually includes taking something or somebody along
163 - Abstemious - Not self-indulgent, especially when eating and drinking
164 - Fuliginous - Sooty; dusky
165 - Pellucid - Translucently clear; Easily understood; lucid
165 - Irenic - Aiming or aimed at peace
166 - Exordium - A beginning or introduction especially to a discourse or composition
167 - Frisson - A sudden, strong feeling of excitement
168 - Usufruct - The right of enjoying all the advantages derivable from the use of something that belongs to another
169 - Esculent - Suitable for eating; edible
170 - Asserverate - State categorically
171 - Fetor - A strong, foul smell
172 - Earcon - A brief, structured, abstract sound pattern used to represent a specific item or event
173 - Nomothetic - Relating to the study or discovery of general scientific laws
174 - Wetanschauung - A particular philosophy or view of life; the worldview of an individual or group
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