New Words 9

Question 1

**Inscrutable **

Answer 1

** Difficult to comprehend; fathom or interpret; One who or that which is inscrutable; a person, etc. that cannot be comprehended.**

She was watching me, her expression inscrutable, somehow aloof and intimate all at once.

Question 2

Interpolate

Answer 2

To insert or introduce between other elements or part**To insert (material) into a text. **

Berry chose to interpolate music from other leading choral composers including Richard Allain, whose Night wraps Shelley’s poem in velvet chords as thick as darkness, adding a sonorous cello melody beautifully played by Katherine Jenkinson that floats through the stars to ravishing effect.

Question 3

Interlocutor

Answer 3

One who takes part in dialogue or conversation; a talker, interpreter, or questioner An interlocutory judgment or sentence.

Attacking the intellectual capacity of your interlocutor is a cheap rhetorical device that is useful as a last resort when one has run out of substantive arguments.

Question 4

**Irredentist **

Answer 4

One who advocates the recovery of territory culturally or historically related to one’s nation but now subject to a foreign government.

Vietnam perceives China as an irredentist and expansionist power.

Question 5

Jouissance

Answer 5

**Enjoyment; delight; pleasure; **

It is humor that illustrates the potential force of recognizing the humor, jouissance, that is already present in language anyway.

Question 6

Labile

Answer 6

Open to change; adaptable, unstable:

an emotionally labile person.

I would, however, dispute the claim that he’s paranoid … and claiming that he’s emotionally labile is quite frankly laughable.

Question 7

Lacuna

Answer 7

a gap or vacancy; a hiatus;
An absent part, especially in a book or other piece of writing;

Yet, given this “lacuna,” this amazing “gap” in his work, a deprivation much more serious than his want of “philosophy,”

Question 8

Lassitude

Answer 8

A state or feeling of weariness, diminished energy, or listlessness. See Synonyms at lethargy.

Question 9

Leitmotif

Answer 9

A melodic theme associated with a particular character, place, thing or idea in an opera;
A recurring theme;

Question 10

Libertine

Answer 10

One who acts without moral restraint; a dissolute person.

** One who defies established religious precepts; a freethinker**

To say that all libertarians are libertine is not factual.

Question 11

Lubricious

Answer 11

• *smooth and glassy; slippery
  adj. lewd, wanton, salacious or lecherous**

Pull it all together and you have a car that is marginally slower than a Prius due to its curb weight but more refined, quiet, spoiling and lubricious.

Question 12

Lummox

Answer 12

A clumsy, stupid person; an awkward bungler.

Question 13

Manumit

Answer 13

To release from slavery; liberate from personal bondage or servitude; set free, as a slave; emancipate.

Question 14

Meretricious

Answer 14

Deceptive or based on deception; seeming plausible, but based on pretense or insincerity; deceptive; misleading; insincere; specious.

So an insincere smile becomes cheesy; from that anything shallow, phony or meretricious.

Question 15

Lissome

Answer 15

Limber; supple; flexible; lithe; lithesome; light; nimble; active.

She seemed so much softer, so much more pliant, and tender, and lissome.

Question 17

Mimetic

Answer 17

. Relating to, characteristic of, or exhibiting mimicry.
Of or relating to an imitation; imitative.

Question 18

Metastasize

Answer 18

To spread, especially destructively:

Moving on to Europe, Huntsman used the word “metastasize” to describe the euro crisis.

Question 19

Pontificate

Answer 19

To act like a pontiff; to express one’s position or opinions dogmatically and pompously as if they were absolutely correct.

The problem with the blogosphere and and you lot that sit back and pontificate is that a keyboard and mouse have made you an expert.

Question 20

Plenary

Answer 20

**Fully attended by all qualified members, complete in all respects; **

a plenary session of the council.

Question 21

**Phillipic **

Answer 21

Any tirade or declamation full of bitter condemnation.

Richard Dawkins has written a characteristically emotional anti-Christian philippic in the Times

Question 22

Paramour

Answer 22

An illicit lover, either male or female.

Question 23

Mordant

Answer 23

bitingly sarcastic; incisive and trenchant; caustic

Question 24

Modicum

Answer 24

A small, moderate, or token amount:

This is not a woman who has displayed any kind of modicum of sensibility or anything.

Question 25

Olio

Answer 25

A mixture or medley; a hodgepodge; . A collection of various artistic or literary works or musical pieces; a miscellany.

After each show there would be “ a ten-minute ‘ olio ‘ segment, “ with an actor or two coming out to perform their specialties.

Question 26

**Myrmidian **

Answer 26

**A soldier or a subordinate civil officer who executes orders of a superior without protest or pity; **

*Roy is James myrmidon *

Question 27

Pell-mell

Answer 27

**in a jumbled; confused manner **

Question 28

Penumbra

Answer 28

An area of uncertainly or intermediacy between two mutually exclusive states or categories.

Question 29

Perspicacious

Answer 29

Of acute discernment; having keen insight; mentally perceptive.

David Colander is always very pungent and perspicacious in his observations about economic grad education

Question 30

Patrimony

Answer 30

An inheritance from a father or an ancestor; legacy or heritage

Question 31

Parlous

Answer 31

*attended with peril; dangerous; risky.; Dire, terrible, appalling; Dangerously clever or cunning; *

Bain’s legal representative, Nicholas Ellis, referred to “what might be described as the parlous financial state” of Rangers.

Question 32

Poultice

Answer 32

**To apply a poultice to; to dress with a poultice., a wound or sth. **

During the second five minutes this belief evaporates, but the poultice is buckled at the back and you can’t get it off.

Question 33

Puffery

Answer 33

Flattering, often exaggerated praise and publicity, especially when used for promotional purposes.

They have every reason to engage in puffery regarding the less fraudulent nature of its clickers.

Question 34

Prurient

Answer 34

Inordinately interested in matters of sex; lascivious.

Question 35

Prig

Answer 35

** A person who demonstrates an exaggerated conformity or propriety, especially in an irritatingly arrogant or smug manner.**

Question 36

Puckish

Answer 36

Mischievous; impish: a puckish grin; puckish wit.

Mr. Galentine was quieter, but possessed what the couple’s longtime neighbor described as a puckish sense of humor.

Question 37

Pulchritude

Answer 37

Beauty; comeliness; handsomeness.

What splendor and pulchritude, what symmetry in all things, what assets for the necessities of life have you not granted and assigned to this land and its inhabitants!

Question 38

Putsch

Answer 38

A coup; an illegal effort to forcibly overthrow the current government.

resident, who seized power in what can only be described as a putsch but nevertheless said:

Question 39

Recapitulate

Answer 39

To repeat, as the principal points in a discourse, argument, or essay; to give a summary of the principal facts, points, or arguments of; to relate in brief; to summarize.

Most first generation immigrants will be able to understand more English than you think, but for them to process it and recapitulate, that is more than they are willing to do, it is just plain hard!

Question 40

Recidivist

Answer 40

One who falls back into prior habits, especially criminal habits; a repeat offender.

I must admit to certain recidivist tendencies where the Guardian is concerned.

Question 41

Recondite

Answer 41

Not easily understood; abstruse.; ambigious; concealed hidden

For a popular treatment of the somewhat recondite underpinnings of this thesis, see R.

Question 42

Recriminating

Answer 42

The act of recriminating.
A counter or mutual accusation.

A recrimination is a counter-charge, and is typically legalese and is only used in court, by a defendant against a plaintiff.

Question 43

Redoubtable

Answer 43

Arousing fear or awe; formidable.
Worthy of respect or honor.

The eldest actually flinched when Simon called the redoubtable Mrs. Frederick by her first name.

Question 44

Regalia

Answer 44

The emblems and symbols of royalty, such as the crown and scepter; The rights and privileges of royalty.

According to the usage current in the British Isles the term regalia is almost always employed to denote the insignia of royalty or “crown jewels”.

Question 45

Reportorial

Answer 45

Of, pertaining to or characteristic of a reporter;

These vignettes are reportorial rather than analytical, as their primary purpose is to describe what goes on inside many different types of congregations.

Question 46

Republican

Answer 46

One who favors a republic as the best form of government

Question 47

**Requite **

Answer 47

reciprocate; to make repayment or return for;

*unrequited lovel *

Question 48

Retch

Answer 48

**to try to vomit; to vomit; **

As he drank from me, my skin crawled and I resisted the urge to retch, the sickness and corruption inside him feeling as if it were seeping under my skin.

Question 49

Rout

Answer 49

An overwhelming defeat Ravens

send message to top-seeded Titans in rout of Dolphins

Question 51

Risible

Answer 51

Relating to laughter, eliciting laughter, ludicrous;

The only website representing Welsh Labour on the web that isn’t entirely risible is the party’s official website, which nevertheless can be criticised for its lack of imagination, innovation and provision for Welsh speakers in comparison to certain other party websites.

Question 52

Retrograde

Answer 52

contrary, backwrad, regressive;

**moving backward or tending backward; opposite the usual order, inverted or reversed; reverting to an earlier or inferior condition **

Question 53

Sere

Answer 53

withered; dry; without moisture

We picked up speed and hauled through sere yellow farmland.

Question 54

Senescent

Answer 54

**senile; Growing old; aging; characteristics of old age; **

Even when he was senescent and behaving erratically, he still intimidated people.

Question 55

Seraph

Answer 55

A celestial being;

The word seraph means “celestial being” and seraphim represent the highest known rank of angels.

Question 56

Sequela

Answer 56

A disease or condition which is caused by an earlier disease or problem; A secondary consequence or result;

Oh, and one more sequela from this event – I despise telephones.

Question 57

Semiotics

Answer 57

The theory and study of signs and symbols, especially as elements of language or other systems of communication, and comprising semantics, syntactics, and pragmatics.

Question 58

Salvo

Answer 58

Something resembling a release or discharge of bombs or firearms, as:

By extension, any volley, as in an argument or debate.

So the last salvo is usually to establish a patent much in the same vein as the anemic Microsoft - in order to stifle competition.