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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.
DOLOROUS
adjective
Pronounced: dough-LORE-us
Meaning: Expressive of sorrow or affliction.
Example: In adolorous voice, the reporter described the scene of the disaster.
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SAGACIOUS
adjective
Pronounced: suh-GAY-shus
Meaning: Possessing quick intellectual perceptions.
Example: The neighbors often came to thesagacious old man for advice about investments.
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ERUBESCENT
adjective
Pronounced: air-ru-BES-cent
Meaning: becoming red; reddening.
Example: Cheryl’serubescent complexion made her embarrassment obvious.
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PIACULAR
adjective
Pronounced: pie-AC-ular
Meaning: Of, relating to or involving sacrifice; sacrificial.
Example: While visiting the island of Patmos, the tourists saw an ancient altar where the Greeks burnedpiacular offerings to the gods.
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SOLILOQUY
noun
Pronounced: so-LIL-o-quee
Meaning: A speech made by one in solitude to oneself.
Example: At the talent contest, Angelo stepped into the spotlight and recited Hamlet’s famoussoliloquy “To be or not to be, … “
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ACICULAR
adjective
Pronounced: ay-SICK-u-lar
Meaning: Slender and pointed; like a needle in shape.
Example: Under the microscope, the crystals appear as singleacicular structures.
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LEVITY
noun
Pronounced: LEV-it-tee
Meaning: Excessive or unseemly frivolity.
Example: The minister’slevity during the eulogy was inappropriate.
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TANGIBLE
adjective
Pronounced: TAN-gi-bull
Meaning: Capable of being touched.
Example: The black darkness of the night seemed to have atangible quality.
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BELLIPOTENT
adjective
Pronounced: bell-LIP-o-tent
Meaning: Mighty in war.
Example: The nation’s desire to become abellipotentpower resulted in a drastic increase in its defense budget.
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VITRIOLIC
adjective
Pronounced: VIT-tree-olick
Meaning: Possessing a caustic, biting quality.
Example: Howard had to be reprimanded for hisvirtriolic outbursts against the referees and opposing players.
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JUBILANT
adjective
Pronounced: JOO-bill-ent
Meaning: Manifesting or expressing exultation or gladness.
Example: Fans werejubilant when the batter hit the winning home run in the bottom of the ninth inning.
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OSCULATORY
adjective
Pronounced: OSS-kue-la-tore-ee
Meaning: Of, relating to or characterized by kissing.
Example: Julie had no idea Shaun was talking about kissing when he asked if she would help him refine hisosculatory skill.
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WHISPERER
noun
Pronounced: WHIS-per-rer
Meaning: One that speaks softly with the aim of preserving secrecy.
Example: Reverend Loomis scanned the congregation in vain, searching for thewhisperer.
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NARCOLEPTIC
adjective
Pronounced: NAR-co-lep-tick
Meaning: Of, relating to or affected with a transient compulsive tendency to attacks of deep sleep usually of unknown causes.
Example: Steve becomesnarcoleptic whenever he is under deep stress.
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RAPPROCHEMENT
noun
Pronounced: RA-prosh-maunt
Meaning: Establishment or a state of cordial relations.
Example: Therapprochement between the country’s two religious groups suffered a setback when members of one group bombed a church that belonged to the other group.
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HERETICAL
adjective
Pronounced: herr-ET-ti-kal
Meaning: Of, relating to or characterized by departure from accepted beliefs or standards; unorthodox.
Example: A free society allows the expression of all opinions, howeverheretical they may seem.
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MORES
noun
Pronounced: MORE-ayz
Meaning: The fixed customs or folkways of a particular group which are morally binding upon all members of the group and necessary to its welfare and preservation.
Example: Some religious groups have developed a society of their own with strict and distinctmores.
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ILLTH
noun
Pronounced: ILL-th
Meaning: The condition of being economically unprosperous or miserable.
Example: Sharon didn’t mind her family’sillth as much as she minded the fact that they had all simply given up on any possibility of prosperity.
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QUAINT
adjective
Pronounced: KWAINT
Meaning: Uncommon, old-fashioned or unfamiliar but often agreeable or attractive in character, appearance or action.
Example: In the middle of the ultramodern mall was aquaint tearoom that drew customers from miles around.
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KAIROS
noun
Pronounced: KI-ross
Meaning: A time when conditions are right for the accomplishment of a crucial action.
Example: Feeling that thekairos would never be better, Barbara approached her boss and demanded a raise.
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UNCONSCIONABLE
adjective
Pronounced: un-CON-shun-abull
Meaning: Not guided or controlled by an internal sense of right or wrong; unscrupulous.
Example: The governor was denounced for hisunconscionable indifference to the plight of the homeless.
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FLIPPANT
adjective
Pronounced: FLIP-pent
Meaning: Treating or tending to treat with unsuitable levity that which is serious or to which respect is due.
Example: The principal chastised Clyde and his friends for theirflippantbehavior during the memorial service.