Dougs' Words & Definitions

Question 1

risible

Answer 1

ludicrous, ridiculous

Question 2

kvelling

Answer 2

feel happy and proud.
“my mom was kvelling—bursting with pride”

Question 3

censorious

Answer 3

severely critical of others.
“modest, charitable in his judgments, never censorious, Jim carried tolerance almost too far”

Question 4

interlocutor

Answer 4

someone who participates in a discussion or conversation, sometimes as a go-between.

Question 5

Super Tuesday

Answer 5

Tue, Mar 5, 2024

Question 6

Replevin

Question 7

Paradoxical

Answer 7

adjective that describes a paradox, something with two meanings that don’t make sense together

Question 8

paradoxical

Answer 8

Adjective that describes a paradox, something with two meanings that don’t make sense together

Question 9

Adjective

Answer 9

word that modifies or describes a noun or pronoun

Question 10

Noun

Answer 10

a word (other than a pronoun) used to identify any of a class of people, places, or things

Question 11

Pronoun

Answer 11

Pronouns are words like “I,” “she,” and “they” that are used in a similar way to nouns

Question 12

postprandial

Answer 12

during or relating to the period after dinner or lunch.
“we were jolted from our postprandial torpor”

Question 13

What was the Monroe Doctrine? Date?

Answer 13

1823
Warns European nations America will no longer tolerate further colonization or Puppet Monarchs in America

Question 15

Andiron

Answer 15

a metal support, typically one of a pair, that holds wood burning in a fireplace.

Question 16

“False in one thing. False in everything” Latin

Answer 16

“falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus,

Question 18

Indolent

Answer 18

Lazy

Question 19

Argot

Answer 19

Slang or language of a group

Question 20

caesura

Answer 20

A caesura is a pause in a line of poetry that is formed by the rhythms of natural speech rather than by metrics. “To be - Or not to be, that is the question”
“SiezeYoura”

Question 21

perspicacity

Answer 21

the quality of having a ready insight into things; shrewdness.
“the perspicacity of her remarks”

Question 22

Jeremiad

Answer 22

a long, mournful complaint or lamentation; a list o

Question 23

puerile

Answer 23

Childishly silly and trivial

Question 24

Logophile

Answer 24

Person who loves words

Question 25

Epoch.

Answer 25

. A period of time in history or a person’s life, typically one marked by notable events or particular characteristics

Question 26

antithesis

Answer 26

a person or thing that is the direct opposite of someone or something else.
“love is the antithesis of selfishness”

Question 27

deprecate

Answer 27

express disapproval of.

Question 28

Kerfluffle

Answer 28

A commotion or fuss, especially one caused by conflicting views.

Question 29

Jocose (JoeKose…)

Answer 29

Playful or humorous.

Question 30

Bosky

Answer 30

Wooded; covered by trees or bushes.

Question 31

dilatory

Answer 31

tending to delay or procrastinate; slow; tardy. intended to cause delay, gain time, or defer decision: a dilatory strategy.

Question 32

dilatory

Answer 32

tending or intended to cause delay

Question 33

Alliaceous
ˌalēˈāSHəs

Answer 33

Relating to or denoting plants of a group that comprises the onions and other alliums.

Question 34

envoi

Answer 34

1. A short stanza concluding a ballade.
2. An author’s concluding words.

Question 35

Paseo

Answer 35

. (U.S. English) A plaza or walkway for strolling.

Question 36

soupcon

Answer 36

A very small quantity of something.

Question 37

Trialogue

Answer 37

A dialogue between three people

Question 38

Carmudgeon

Answer 38

a crusty irascible cantankerous old person full of stubborn ideas.

Question 39

Discursive

Answer 39

moving from one topic to another without order,

Question 40

sciolist

Answer 40

A person who pretends to be knowledgeable and well informed.

Question 41

lemma

Answer 41

1. A heading indicating the subject or argument of a literary composition, an annotation, or a dictionary entry.
2. ​​A subsidiary or intermediate theorem in an argument or proof.

Question 42

de rigueur

Answer 42

Required by etiquette or current fashion.

Question 44

acutance

Answer 44

The sharpness of a photographic or printed image.

Question 45

soupcon

Answer 45

A very small quantity of something.

Question 46

exonym

Answer 46

A name for a place or group of people that is only used outside that place or group…Many Indigenous people have rejected the exonyms given to them by colonizers.”

Question 47

firstling

Answer 47

(Usually “firstlings”) The first agricultural produce or animal offspring of a season.

Question 48

noetic

Answer 48

Relating to mental activity or the intellect. “After years in a corporate job, I was excited to enter a noetic environment by going back to school

Question 49

viridescent

Answer 49

Greenish or becoming green. “She chose wallpaper in viridescent shades to reflect the meadow outside the windows.”

Question 50

Truism

Answer 50

1. A statement that is obviously true and says nothing new or interesting.
2. (Logic) A proposition that states nothing beyond what is implied by any of its terms.

Question 51

Philter

Answer 51

A drink supposed to arouse love and desire for a particular person in the drinker; a love potion.

Question 52

tendentious

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to have a strong bias towards a particular point of view, especially one that people disagree with

Question 53

retroussé

Answer 53

(Of a person’s nose) Turned up at the tip in an attractive way.

Question 54

barcarolle

Answer 54

A song traditionally sung by Venetian gondoliers.

Question 55

recherché

Answer 55

Rare, exotic, or obscure.

Question 56

Dissuasive

Answer 56

Dissuasive means something that deters or discourages someone from taking action: