Monday, April 14, 2008

inchmeal


Piece by piece, inch by inch, little by little, gradual, used synonymously with piece meal. the word has nothing to do with meal or working meal.

precipice


Precipice is just an cliff. Acrophobia is the fear of heights obviously they do fear precipices.

llivid


Dark bluish appearance. The livid appearance of sun in far ultraviolet spectrum shows solar prominence clearly, which is otherwise not visible.

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


Strikingly appropriate and apt. After years of work as a copy writer, in general talk and even in banality use of apposite words would become evident.

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


To cease doing something. the country council's propaganda to promote desist alcohol champagne is a big success and is scheme is followed by many neighboring countries.

Saturday, April 5, 2008

meteoromancy


Ancient Roman Augurs foreboded lightning, storm, rain, drought and every natural calamities to shooting stars and this subject taught in school is called meteoromancy.

auriferous


Gold is extracted from auriferous rocks. South African countries has has auriferous rock mines refiling nearly all the gold produced in the world. As gold is found in raw metal form in auriferous rocks, these gold containing rocks glitter in sunlight.

dipthong


The spellings of words with dipthongs are always erred as the pronunciation of vowel followed by vowel becomes unique to each word.

veracious


The doctrine of commitment to absolute truthfulness and ascetic life of Lord Budda is followed only by Tibetan H.H. Dalai Lama and his entourages in today's world of plutocratic capitalistic jargons.

expostulate


The factory workers expostulated against the job cut in the fore coming winter, but the management abstained from discussion even when the protesters remonstrated from regular work.

Friday, April 4, 2008

alveolate


The honeycomb like structure. Alveolate aluminum structure reinforced with carbon fiber cloth on ether side would yield the strength of steel.

piccolo


Flute pitched an octave high above regular one. Generates high pitch melody. An high pitched flute

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


exalted enthusiastic and ecstatic expression in writing, song or speech. Too much expressive attitude.

hussar


The ornate cavalry man part of the dragoon.

ensnare


The best way to ensnare mouse is to put cheese on mouse trap and wait until the click is heard.

appallate


The supreme council of judges to review the allegedly unsatisfactory judgment of lower court.

sibilant


The SSSsss... hissing sound produced by certain consonants. The word hissing is an onomatopoeia as it sounds hissing. Sibilant sounds commonly heard in jungle are mimicked by commandos in action for communication avoiding detection even at the epicenter of enemy command post.

intestate


The law of intestate succession allow siblings to divide assets and estates of the demised father in equal proportion, with out bias as he died with out leaving a will.

Thursday, April 3, 2008

lapidary


Jewel cutter, Jeweler

imbroglio


The best one fit into this category is "wardrobe malfunction" at ramp, red carpet or studio and a thousand images would hit on google search with this beautiful but sexy imbroglio.

tarantella


the danseuse can show all if it's in tarantella

abstemious


hermits way to life self denial, the way of life of sadu.

poikilotherm

cold blooded nothing more

careen


careen: The most dexterous men among the rescued crew from the careened ship HMS Pomelo went back to salvage their captain next morning, who refused to abandon on her maiden voyage the previous night in tempest.

maelstorm



Is it some genre of storm, in ocean, sky or in celestial dust. Must be some kind of this some where let's assume it is in ocean.

cinnabar


It doesn't get anywhere until cinnabarite is known as some kind of ore of an element. The red color some time in crystalline form also, indicates it should contain some exotic metals like cadmium or mercury, if fact it's the natural ore of mercury in sulphide form

Wednesday, April 2, 2008

galling


where does it happen, leaf, root, flower, skin or is it on metal surface, seems like to general word to be categorized.

aubergine


certain bbw's has got really cute aubergine boobs which drives lascivious men crazy

Tuesday, April 1, 2008

ensconce


In the short but deep noon siesta after back breaking work most wonderful dream ever had would be ensconcing on an easy chair vacillating in breeze under a the shadow of banyan tree.

nephrite


it is just another name for the good old jade.

dross


dross formed on the outer surface of the molten steel due to oxidation are removed before the mass is poured into the cast.

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



Arroyo landscape carved out of soil by swift water, river or flood. It can be anything from small depression to grand canyon

pomelo

Pamela Anderson has got pomelo sized boob on either side of her breast, She deserve to be called Pomelo Anderson


roil

roil roil roil roil stir it up until it forms a mix of muddy water

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.

dray

sounds like nothing but the photo showed a low heavy cart without side for haulage

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.