• lambaste | [Adult Video News] lambasted Hustler↗ [porn mag] for having the temerity to question AVN's awards.
• debacle | Sony's $3 billion Hollywood debacle is the latest in a series of setbacks for Japanese firms in the U.S.
• fetid | he visualizes the landscape of Pauline's and Juliet's minds as a fetid garden... [review of film Heavens in Time mag., i think.]
• chide | ...In all likelihood, Frost was not trying merely to evade the question but to chide his questioner into thinking for himself.
• concoct | ... the dreamer concocted his vision of grandeur...
• misgiving | qualm, scruple, compunction
• expound | ... expounded my ideas forthwith.
• cogent | ...But those authors have been a select group, who both have had something to say, and have been fluent enough to say it more or less cogently.
• avarice | It's a seedy, cynical world view: people are motivated by greed, stupidity and sexual avarice.
• contentious | belligerent, pugnacious
• critique | I consider it required research for my critique of her manifesto... [Time Mag. ~1993, Carlin Romano sneering on a superbly moronic feminist (Catherine MacKinnon) who hates porn.]
• effrontery | temerity, audacity, nerve, cheek, gall
• hiatus | After a seven-year hiatus,...
• pompous | pretentious, grandiose, puffy, stuffy, bloated
• protean | ... many people of protean interests,...
• protocol | etiquette, propriety, decorum
• quaint | The church's ideals of family, for example, strike me as, by turns, heroic, profound or quaint.
• commend | The judge commended the jury for their patience and hard work.
| He has done a commendable job of trying to sell his proposal to the audience.
• gore | Americans now wallow in the horror and gore and take a guilty delight in killer's eluding capture. [Time Mag.]
| Here we go again — another gore gourmand acting out fantasies of aggression for the grind-house trade. [describing a violent movie]
• pithy | ...Insert pithy maxim here... [an Internet signature]
• randy | ... she was hoping to remind the world of her randy reputations...
• repository | He is the ultimate repository of arcane information.
• squeamish | ...which squeamish readers may find hard to get through without wincing...
• unassuming | “By day they [vampires] walk around unassuming then boom! By night they turn into monsters.”
• prurient | When Hubert Selby Jr. wrote the book [Last Exit to Brooklyn] that inspired this movie 25 years ago, it was attacked in some quarters as pornographic, but it failed the essential test: It didn't arouse my prurient interest, only sadness and despair.
• crony | ...his father and two cronies played cards.
• lynch | public hangings and lynchings...
• confound | They [smilies or emoticons] have since become (depending on your point of view) either an essential part of the on-line messaging process, a minor irritation, or a confounded nuisance that pollutes the world's communications channels.
• riposte | his [Bart Simpson] ripostes “Eat my shorts” became T-shirt slogans.
• stipend | Later, another stipend enabled him to attend Brooklyn's Pratt Institute...
• indomitable | the indomitable Captain James Tiberius Kirk from the original TV series [Star Trek]...
• foray | Sony's Hollywood foray began, as so many sour business deals do, with bold rhetoric and grand strategies.
• predicament | That predicament seems likely to change in the next few years, as scientists learn more about the biochemistry of behavior.
• plight | Gregory's plight attracted national attention and even reached the podium of G.O.P. convention, where conservative Pat Buchanan cited the case in his attack on Hillary Clinton...
• emeritus | Died. Paul Darber, 93, historian emeritus of the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum.
• mendacity | Never has there been a politician so candid about his own mendacity as Earl Long, the fabled drinking, carousing and hog hunting 1950s Governor of Louisiana.
• repentant | Repentant drinkers, meanwhile, are helping organize Alcoholics anonymous groups on campus.
• slugging | Almost every college graduate can spin at least a few tales about a boisterous night of carousing that culminated in slugging shots of tequila at sunrise or tossing drained kegs into the president's pool.
• betroth | But am betrothed unto your enemy (from a poem by John Donne)
• mow | “If people want cheesecake, they don't want ‘lite,’” he says. “They come to our restaurant to mow.”
• corpulent | ...[she is] referring to the corpulent King of England who lived so well off the labor of his peasantry.
• taciturn | Over dinner, a taciturn staff gave him a quick primer on how to direct a movie.
• detract | Or maybe, as its detractors contend, Therapeutic Touch is a form of New Age mumbo jumbo, a no-touch laying on of hands that has no legitimate place in medicine.
• canny | a canny (movie) producer.
• contrived | That answer is probably just as good as the so called “correct” answer, which always seemed a bit contrived to me.
• exonerate | Here is where NeXT's doleful record cannot be entirely exonerated by the biological metaphor, which is after all a figure of speech, not an explanation.
• preclude | avert, obviate, forestall
• predilection | partiality, penchant, prejudice, proclivity, propensity
• apocryphal | There are lots of apocryphal stories floating on the internet. For example, i was reading an article on the story of casino in the early days (http://www.quatloos.com/gamble/parhedg.htm); about how they murdered a man who was using some nuclear-physicist kids's stratagem to win away some 10 million dollars. Urban legends are either completely baseless, or distorted true stories. [xahlee.org, 2003]
• fickle | capricious, volatile, mercurial, whimsical
• supercilious | disdainful
• resplendent | sublime
• rescind | abolish, annihilate, void, annul, repeal, revoke
• abrogate | ... the university had ignored decades of constitutional law and abrogated its responsibility as a center for free inquiry.
• ascendancy | dominant, predominant, preponderant, paramount, preeminent, supremacy, preponderance, pre-eminence
• contiguous | abutting, adjoining, conterminous, juxtaposed
• covert | He believed that art must be analyzed for both its overt and covert meaning: Beneath its explicit content there exists a vast reservoir of latent social and psychic information. [time mag.] | ... piggy gossip seekers overtly and hoggish knowledge seekers covertly [web]
• covet | envy, begrudge
• culpable | censurable, reprehensible
• cursory | superficial, shallow
• deprecate | Note: The first and fully accepted meaning of deprecate is “to express disapproval of.” But the word has steadily encroached on the meaning of depreciate. It is now used, almost to the exclusion of depreciate, in the sense “to belittle or mildly disparage,” as in He deprecated his own contribution. In an earlier survey, this newer sense was approved by a majority of the Usage Panel. [American Heritage Dictionary, 1992].
• ebullient | exuberant, vivacious, sparkling, effervescent
• exhort | urge, press, prod, prick | His [moralist] ostensible method [for improving men's behavior] is moral exhortation; his real method (if he is orthodox) is a system of economic rewards and punishments. [Bertrand Russell in What I Believe.]
• profligate | To make enjoyment the chief end of research was to corrupt the research, for then one acquired “a greed or lust for learning, a profligate appetite for knowledge... Such as study of science sprang from a prior concern for self as the center of things rather than a concern for seeking out, amid all surrounding natural phenomena, the presence of God and His glory.” —Blaise Pascal.
• rapacious | voracious, gluttonous, ravenous
• stricture | The strictures [of a religion] involving family and divorce were fine print that I was too young to care about. [Time Mag. on scientology, i think.]
• unconscionable | unscrupulous
• instigate | foment, abet
• caveat | ...further soul searching and the insertion of more caveats.
• ineffable | ...or they [emotions] were seen as the ineffable ingredients of the human spirit, too elusive for capture. [article on study of the brain]
• hallow | she... on tennis' most hallowed turf. [Time mag article on tennis. www.time.com/time/magazine/archive/1994/940711/940711.sport.html ]| In addition to illustrated stories by Gord, JG-Leathers and other notable pervs [perverts], you'll also find high-quality art from the brushes and pens of such hallowed names as Stargraves, Benson, Kagan and Adrian Langley. [sells pitch from an SM “art” porn site on the internet, 2001.]
• divisive | “I'm warning you: don't be divisive in this meeting.” | Muasher said Jordan “made it very clear to everyone in the United States government and around the world” that Chalabi is divisive. [online news after USA invaded Iraq in 2003. 2003-04-29. Chalabi is some bigshot who is a candidate for new Iraq leader, and Muasher is some bigshot commenting on it.]
• sanctimonious | The report is quite sanctimonious ...
• abstruse | stop pestering me with your abstruse theories...
• accentuate | Dresses are often designed to accentuate the curvaceous female body.
• exacerbate | the shortness of her skirt exacerbated my nerdiness of demeanor
• unobtrusive | TV is obtrusive, obnoxious too. A muted TV can be unobtrusive.
• vise | smorking is a vice. Coveting thy neighor's wives is a classic, biblical vise. -e visionary
• vociferous | talking and talking. e.g. missionaries are vociferous. They vociferously compaign for the beliefs in the Christian God and conflicting varieties of principles. “Missionary position” refers to the “man on top woman at bottom with spreaded legs” sexual position. It's called missionary because that was what European Missionaries taught to native American tribes to divert their doggy style perceived as animalistic. (this tidbit is from my American History teacher. Don't quote me on it. Verify facts yourself.)
• watershed | “watershed victory” — prominent, decisive.
• whimsy
• whorl
• onslaught | the onslaught of a heart attack
• pissant | thank god we live in this quite, little, pissant, redneck, podunk, jerkwater, greenhorn, one-horse, mudhole, peckerwood, Right-wing, whistle-stop, hobnail, truck-driving, Old-fashioned, hayseed, inbred, unkempt, out-of-date, out-of-touch, white-trash, kick-ass mountain town. [South Park, the movie.]
• prowess | examples abound in this doc, demostrating the prowess of my readship
• rehash | that idea has been rehashed to death
• remittent | for younsters, exams are remittent cause of anguish, so is love.
• renascence | Renascence is period where renascence abound. Also: renascent, rebirth
• inflammatory | literally, wounds are inflammatory.
• acclimate
• admonish | mother admonished her son for smoking
• arsenal | weapon storehouse or the like
• atrophy | i haven't done weight lifting for years, and my muscles has atrophied | my Japanese atrophied
• auspices | i went to college under the auspices of my uncle
• balk | he balked at my idea
• berate | berate at children
• bilateral | bilateral symmetry
• bleat | cry of a goat
• blithe | blithely licking at her ice cream.
• bloat | his belly bloats like a baloon
• cogency | a writer of cogency
• deflect | dumb people deflect attacts, bright people reflect on attacts. Religious people crumble and genuflect.
• drudge | i was on the phone for over 5 hours, and near the end it's dreary and drudgery
• disservice | Perl and Unix are disservices to the computing world
• girth | the girth of her belly during pregnancy is ...
• grandiloquent | your grandiloquent sexual fantasy comes true
• extrude | my cock extruded well beyond her reach
• flop | my first performance at the theater was a flop
• laureate | Nobel Price laureate
• nirvana | death: the ultimate nirvana
• peasant | ... peasants in communism ... the laboring class
• relic | e.g. The Great Wall, The Pyramid
• remit, remission | The storm remitted its fury. | admission and remission
• splurge | splurge yourself and buy a diamond
• subvert | subvert government, subversive group
• unkempt | the world is full of unkempt things. Unkempt desk, unkempt house, unkempt lady, unkempt sex life ...
• ballistic | he went ballistic ever since i critized him
• unwitting | unwittingly, i made a joke
• machismo
• parole | such and such criminal is on parole... Larry Wall, Kernighan and Ritchie... are free rein on parole
• amenities | she provided me with amenities...
• intermittent, -l macabre, -l wrangle,
• resurgence
• penance | don't you have any penance?
• helmsman | he is a helmsman, i'm the driver of the ship
• monolith | monolithic penis envy
• peruse | ... i can only skim, no time to peruse...
• itinerary | big-tents (circus) has itineraries
• perturb | perturb is the keyword in the science of chaos (non-linear dynamics)
• inordinately | gorge inordinate amount of fish
• subpoena | she was subpoenaed by the court, what a stroke of luck
• bland | his rant was rather bland
• holistic | loook at those holistic man, holistically eschewing rationalism
• hubris | similar to that of a baloon: light, airy, and bloated
• colloquial | fuck is colloquial for copulate
• exacerbate | the incident exacerbate her hernia
• shrivel | the flower all shriveled up
• strident | scratching tin against glass
• accretion | accretion of knowledge
• furbish
• odious | something smells odious
• disseminate | disseminate information
• dissipate | dissipate energy and be spent, aptly as men in the process of procreation.
• exasperate | i was exasperated by that fire siren, dreaming the songs of Sirens.
• consecrate
• desecrate
• construe | stupid people construe lampoons as insults
• contiguous
• placate | placate me
• compendium | he made a compendium of syntactically ambiguous English phrases
• spoof | you are reading a spoof of spoof
• salient | her big-blue eyes, make an iron man watery towards her courtesy. (thus, her big-blue eyes is a salient feature)
• gist | the gist of this list is in fact not about English vocabulary, but me.
• forensic | “forensic science” — what a hateful phrase! It refers to the collection of techniques based on sciences that “proves things under law” mostly in criminal courts. For example, examing corps (autopsy) to determine cause of death, finger prints ... are forensic sciences.
• enthrall | she had me enthralled...
• untoward
• mollify | mollify one's wrath
• consummate | “I wish a divorce because our marriage is not consummated” [from film “white” circa 1997?]
• contrite | a criminal without contriteness
• brawn | brain and brawn
• abate | abate your indulgence...
• neophyte | a newbie...
• impersonate | try not to impersonate your brother
• stymie | consorship stymies the nutrients for ideas
• maudlin | the difference between an opera and a soap opera, is the difference between passion and maudlinness.
• parlance | ... technical parlance ...
• irradiate
• niche | recess in wall; cranny | Perl is a niche language
• morale | this is not the time for promoting morale [from a Vocan in Star Trek]
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