deck_10580791 Flashcards
mutatis mutandi
minor details have been changed but the main point remains
Concerning James Joyce’s Ulysses, mutatis mutandi, the hero’s name is Leopold Bloom.
Xanadu
a place of idyllic beauty where Kubla Kahn built his pleasure dome in Coleridge’s poem
I live in Xanadu Key.
hardscrabble
adj ch by barely eking out an existence
The hardscrabble life depicted in The Grapes of Wrath is painful to read.
supererogatory
superfluous in a perjorative sense
Biden’s comments about any matter are by definition supererogatory.
melliloquent
honey tongued
Satan is melliloquent.
endue
to endow with honors
The brave Veteran was endued with the Medal of Honor.
attenuate
to stretch out or prolong
The obviously spurious Russian Collusion probe was attenuated by Schumer throughout Trump’s entire presidency.
bellibone
a woman of exceptional beauty
Racquel Welch was the quintessential bellibone.
daedal
ingeniously inventive
The Fetal Celltrode was deadal.
harrow
to distress one’s mind
The harrow of my unemployment took a permanent mental toll upon me.
mendaciloquent
skilled at lying
Biden is mendaciloquent.
Xanthippe
Socrates’ shrewish wife
Nancy Pelosi nee Xanthippe.
tendentious
biased
No-one believes the tendentious Main Stream Media any longer.
Attican
classically elegant and simple as of Athens
The Proof of Fermat’s Last Theorem is positively Attican.
imbue
to soak or permeate
The toga was imbued with Caesar’s blood.
belluine
beast-like , brutal
Belluine Blacks are the rule rather than the exception.
damascene
to decorate with wavy lines
The damascene walls of the aquarium made the visitors sea-sick.
hecatomb
a huge 100 oxen sacrifice to the Greek gods
The hecatomb one must withstand to become a Gold Medalist is daunting.
mendicant
a beggar
Mendicants now flood the beautiful, expensive streets of San Francisco.
wuthering
moving forcefully
Heathcliff and Cathy met on the Moors swept by the wuthering winds.
trenchant
penetrating
The Teachers Board withered at the parents trenchant criticisms.
auspices
patronage
Dvorak composed the New World Symphony under the auspices of Jeannette Thurber, the urinal cake heiress.
contronym
a word that is its own antonym
Bolt means to secure as well as run free and is a contronym.
belomancy
divination with darts or arrows by Assyrians and Babylonians
St. Sebastian was a study in belomancy by all appearances.
dap
to dip gently onto the surface of the water
The dove’s feather dapped onto the pool.
bema
a ceremonial raised platform
The priest gave the homily from the bema.
auto-da-fe
burning at the stake
Another Joan of Arc auto-da-fe
avatars
high priests or demi-gods
Green New Deal avatars proclaim the worlds end in a decade…lol.
quiddity
the essence of something
The quidditiy of Socialism is stupidity.
truculent
bellicose , ready to fight
China’s truculent displays in Taiwan should be heeded and denounced by the world collectively.
wontless
unaccustomed
The Queen is wontless with respect to poverty.
meretricious
looking like a whore
The meretricious black girls twerked on top of the destroyed Chicago police car.
hector
to bully and badger
Jimmy Creasel hectored Niles.
berm
a narrow strip of grass or path beside a road
The City Mowers attacked the berm in a cloud of dust along Highway 1.
dapocaginous
dop oh cah giness
mean spirited, heartless
The belluine dapocaginous black youth beat to death old Chinese woman.
avuncular
ch by behavior of a benevolent uncle
Biden’s sniffing little girls hair is not avuncular, but fucking creepy.
pendragon
the chief leader , King Arthur’s father
Kim Jo Yung is the pendragon of North Korea.
turpitude
moral depravity
The depth of Bill Clinton’s turpitude was conveniently covered over by Epstein’s so-called suicide.
wizened
shriveled and dried up
The 80 year old beach bum was wizened as a prune.
meritocracy
rule by the best
We are no longer a meritocracy but a stultocracy.
hegemony
predominance
USA hegemony no longer exists.
beshrew
to wish harm on
I beshrew Biden, Pelosi, Schumer, AOC, and HRC.
bield
to shelter a person
I will always bield my children with my life.
becket
a device to hold something in place
The becket on the boom broke and swept the sailor overboard.
kemp
a champion warrior or athlete in Scotland Rod Strachan is a kemp.
animadversions
adverse criticisms
if you cannot handle animadversions, then don’t go into politics.
wistful
having an unfulfilled yearning
I am wistful about seeing the Indian Ocean sea-life.
metempsychosis
the passing of the soul from one body to another
Metempsychosis is bullshit.
heliotrope
reddish purple
The helliotropic rash spread to his chest.
debellate
to conquer through battle
Hannibal debellated the Roman legions at Cannae.
belletristic
speech or writing more interested in literary quality than substance
Belletristic writing was popular in the letters amongst politicians in the 1850s.
esurient
voraciously greedy
Bezos while rich is an esurient prick.
co-opt
to appropriate something that is not yours for ones own use
The Bolsheviks co-opted city mansions for the desperate peasants.
winsome
charming
The winsome Princess was the belle of the ball.
metutials
small irritating chores that must be done first
The metutial Morning shave sucks.
birse
injury of someone by crowding pressure
The New York subways birse passengers all the time.
hercynian
of a mountain range covered with forests of pines
The hercynian range of near Snowmass was always so beautiful.
decoct
to prepare by boiling
The CBD solution was decocted from the cannabis.
parti pris
preconceived bias
The Green Book dealt with parti pris.
dissemble
to conceal ones true feelings
At SLOB I dissembled my hatred.
alterity
the state of being different
My alterity made me a loner.
bellicose
war like
North Korea is always bellicose.
hermeneutical
ch by interpretation
The hermeneutical analysis of Revelations is hotly debated.
microlipet
someone who gets upset over trivial things
After all she has gone through, Lele is an angst ridden microlipet.
weltschmerz
world weariness
Covid has caused a universal weltschmerz.
birsle
to warm thoroughly
After all day in the snow he birsled by the fire
haptic
pertaining to the sense of touch
The haptics of the new keyboard suck.
blabagogy
a criminal environment
We need to refund police to deal with blabagogy.
hamartophobia
a fear of sinning
I have hamartophobia.
weir
a low dam across a river to catch fish
Weirs are illegal now.
misomaniac
one who hates everything
Ilhan Omar is an ugly souled misomaniac.
haetera
a greek concubine
The clergy of Tudor England all kept haetera and paid for bisphorics.
doctrinaire
maintaining a stubborn attitude towards ones views
The doctrinaire attitude of the Democrats will cost them.
bereft
completely deprived of
Serial Killers are bereft of morality.
dedans
tennis court spectators
The dedans heads pivoted back and firth during the lengthy Borg volley.
beneficence
goodness or kindness
None question Amy’s beneficence.
Boeotian
dull and stupid
Boeotian Biden continues to raise the bar of stupidity.
amyctic
itchy and irritating
I threw away the amyctic wool underwear.
misoneist
one who hates new things
Luddites are misoneists. at heart.
gnathonic
flattering and deceitful
Iago is gnathonic with Othello.
weal
ones vitality
Nadh tablets improve my weal.
epithets
derogatory names
Brandon is now an epithet.
hieratic
used by priests
The Sacraments are hieratic.
teratoid
monstrous or misshapen
The teratoid Quasimodo scrambled up to the Belfry.
fustian
pompous or pretentious
Frasier is fustian.
hierophant
high priest
The Satanic hierophant sacrificed the child.
bongre
with good will
The Build Back Better Bill was created bongre, but ended up after all the amendments being an utter disaster.
misprision
the unintentional failure to perform ones duties
His inadvertent missteps led them to charge him with misprision.
Benthamite
utility=morality
As a hardened Benthamite he believed in euthanasia.
erudition
great knowledge of many things
My erudition intimidates some people.
matutolypea
getting up on the wrong side of the bed
AOC is suffering from chronic matutolypea.
whelp
a despised person or offspring
Any male whelp challenging the Tudors quickly found his head rolling on the ground.
latitant
lying in wait
The Lusitania ignored the report of latitant U-Boats in her area.
hidebound
bound by convention or habit, unwilling to change
What a hidebound couple we must appear to be?
tattoo
the beat of a drum
The thin rain beat a tattoo.
diffidence
the ch. by being unassertive
Because of her diffidence, she did not ask for a raise.
gaucherie
a clumsy act
I was ashamed of my gaucherie.
patent
paytent
obvious
It would have been patent to anyone else.
sardonic
derisive humor
“Ah its the pity special today.” I said sardonically.
blowzy
unkempt
The blowzy desk was littered with scientific articles on magnetic monopoles and Reese’s wrappers.
fulsome
excessive, overdone
The fulsome praise of I’m-A-Camel Harris is nauseating.
morganized
to kill or kidnap someone to maintain a secret
The Clintons morganized many.
borak
noun
ridicule
The borak of Berack is completely appropriate.
bombast
pretentious or inflated speech
What a bunch of bombast!
fatidic
prophetic
Lot’s fatidic statement on Sodom and Gomorrah went unheeded.
wan
suggesting unhappiness or ill health
Kate’s wan smile tells me the Keegan issue is unresolved
poiesis
creative power
1993 was the peak of my poiesis.
holography
a hand written will
Howard Hughes holography was impugned.
