Thursday, November 27, 2008
qugmire
It is difficult to walk on quagmire ground, as it is wet and loosely packed in mud and gravel. Figuratively quagmire means the situation very difficult to handle.
Thursday, October 9, 2008
boilerplate
Friday, August 29, 2008
Friday, May 2, 2008
dreadlock
A form of hair-style in which it is grouped in to number of thick bundles by natural or artificial way and is almost similar to cornrows except that is glued permanently into bundles as in natural form seen on most Hindu religious hermit's head from Himalayan valley or in artificial form on some Yankees like Bob Marley.
Monday, April 14, 2008
inchmeal
llivid
sacrilege
Transgression against virtues of religion. Recently polish pop culture magazine Machina has added to the spate of images that have caused consternation and anger by putting its cover the following image. The face of the woman is well known around the world and the child is her daughter Laurdes. The clothes however belong to another Modonna, "The Black Madonna of Czestochowa" , considered to be the holiest painting in Poland with thousands of pilgrims walking across Poland to reach it every year.
Saturday, April 12, 2008
apposite
itinerant
The laborer who travels from place to place to do the job as demanded by the employer. It is not a new issue of optimizing the performance of itinerant sales man, it is been to the corporate world since the start of commercialization, and the first problem to be soled. Many theories were formulated for the problem collectively termed as traveling sales man's problem.
desist
Saturday, April 5, 2008
meteoromancy
auriferous
dipthong
veracious
expostulate
Friday, April 4, 2008
alveolate
connive
The drug dealer connived with customs officials to smuggle narcotic into the state at the expense of mammoth bribes. However the man was caught and put behind bars only to connive prison guards for his escape. Later investigation exposed may customs officials and prison guards who connived with dealers at secret location near the bay. Does the word has anything with "connoisseur" hope there aren't any.
rhapsody
sibilant
intestate
Thursday, April 3, 2008
imbroglio
careen
maelstorm
cinnabar
Wednesday, April 2, 2008
Tuesday, April 1, 2008
ensconce
dross
ubiquitous, iniquitous & equity
Apparently these three words shows similarity though they do not have anything in common to say about. ubiquitous is found every where but least used. iniquitous and equity might have common root some where in medieval linguistics but they are meant apart in contemporary English. Anything iniquitous is not equally accepted as it seems weird to society.
Arroyo
pomelo
restive & fidgety
restive and fidgety mean the same state of being nervous under tension, but none of them show any sigh of the real meaning, rather restive prompts to think that it is etymologically related to rest; but in actuality it means the opposite of being at rest under unresting situation, and fidgety seems hopeless to any naive.
abiding
Even though hearing the word abiding for the first time and it doesn't reveal its meaning much like an onomatopoeia though, this one sounds like never bid good bye; ought to be an everlasting word.
danseuse
The "euse" directs the pondering mind to French linguistics and evidently to a female dancer.
pedantic
Surfed the whole world wide web to find an image depicting pedantic in vain, finally returned to the hard binded dictionary to only to find that is meant old fashioned bookish attitude to everything.
onomatopoeia
Yet another interesting word which attracts attention when looking for aplomb in dictionary, the word for poised mind, meant nothing similar to it how it sounds. certainly not an onomatopoeia like click, quack.
aplomb
The strange sounding word resonates my drum, both of them. A brief look in to the dictionary revealed it meant nothing much weird, than a simple meaning of being under a poised head.
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