General Flashcards
clitic
linguistics: not quite an affix, not quite independent words
mooncalf
- A daydreamer or absent-minded person.
- A fool or simpleton.
- A congenitally deformed person.
leptodermous
Having a thin skin
saprogenic
Causing or produced by decay.
ectogenous
Able to survive outside a host (as some bacteria and other parasites do)
Hobbesian
- Of or relating to Thomas Hobbes or his ideas.
2. Grim, selfish, unrestrained, etc.
Cacomorphobia
fear of fat people
marivaudage
- Affected writing style.
2. Banter, especially of flirtatious nature.
Marinism
A literary style marked by extravagant imagery, elaborate metaphors, etc.
Cervantic
Of or relating to Miguel de Cervantes, especially his satirizing of the chivalric romances.
cremnophobia
A fear of precipices or cliffs.
ochlocracy
Government by the mob; mob rule.
aver
to assert or affirm with confidence; declare in a positive or peremptory manner.
paucispiral
Having few spirals or whorls a paucispiral operculum or shell
Ankyloglossia
also known as tongue-tie
haecceitas
a person’s or object’s thisness, the individualising difference between the concept “a man” and the concept “Socrates” (i.e., a specific person).
koinonia
is a transliterated form of the Greek word, κοινωνία, which means communion, joint participation; the share which one has in anything, participation, a gift jointly contributed, a collection, a contribution, etc.
elutriate
To purify or separate, especially by washing or by straining.
straiten
- To put into difficulties.
- To limit or restrict.
- To make narrow.
demit
verb tr.: To give up an office or a position; to dismiss.
verb intr.: To resign.
impend
verb intr.:
- To be about to happen; to loom.
- To threaten or menace.
abjad
a type of writing system where each symbol or glyph stands for a consonant, leaving the reader to supply the appropriate vowel.
rhotic
English speakers’ pronunciation of the historical rhotic consonant /r/, and is one of the most prominent distinctions by which varieties of English can be classified
dromedary
also called the Arabian camel (Camelus dromedarius), is a large, even-toed ungulate with one hump on its bac
even-toed ungulates
ungulates (hoofed animals) whose weight is borne equally by the third and fourth toes
odd-toed ungulates
such as horses, bear their weight primarily on their third toes.
artiodactyl species
even-toed ungulates - include pigs, peccaries, hippopotamuses, camels, llamas, alpacas, mouse deer, deer, giraffes, antelopes, sheep, goats, and cattle
perissodactyls
also known as odd-toed ungulates, are mammals characterized by an odd number of toes and by hindgut fermentation with somewhat simple stomachs.
Unlike the even-toed ungulates, they digest plant cellulose in their intestines rather than in one or more stomach chambers. The order includes three extant families: Equidae (horses, asses, and zebras), Rhinocerotidae (rhinoceroses), and Tapiridae (tapirs), with a total of about 17 species.
pate
top of the head
nape
back of the neck
subduct
verb tr., intr.: To push or move below something.
forswear
verb tr., intr.:
- To renounce something.
- To commit perjury.
rowel
noun: A small spiked wheel at the end of a spur attached behind the shoes of a horse rider; used to goad a horse.
verb tr.: To prick; to vex.
agnostic
noun: 1. One who believes that the existence of god is unknown or unknowable.
2. One who is noncommittal about something.
adjective: 1. Believing that the existence of god is unknown or unknowable.
2. Noncommittal.
3. Compatible with many platforms: not limited to a particular software, technology, etc.
googol
noun: A number equivalent to 1 followed by 100 zeros (10 to the 100 power)
