clinquant(clay-kent) adj. gold or silvery appearence, glittery. Noun: tinsel with fake gold color. "The setting sun has a clinquant appearance."
bombard: (verb) attack with cannons, artillery or bombs persistant questioning "The police bombarded the suspect with questions."
deleterious: to cause harm in unexpected or sublte ways. Taxation has a deleterious effect on the economy.
Ranga: Aussie slang for redhead cruciFICTION is a ranga. Now for a serious one: Abtruse: Hard to understand, incomprehensible She was so abtruse in her way of thinking that the town's folk steered well clear of her.
Yay! Haha I've never heard that one before, and you didn't use it in a sentence! I'll do it for you: I wish I had a ghilgai in my backyard for the dogs to use as a water dish.
Okay then. "If Sage Dufraine had a ghilgai in her yard, her dogs could play in the dirty water, being that Australian water is quite muddy or unclear a lot of the time." I wouldn't drink from a billabong.
Bonus word: I used this in a story yesterday. Mendicant-beggar, the act of begging The mendicant sat on the corner staring blankly as people walked by. aquiline:curved down similar to an eagles beak. The crowbar has a aquiline shape. This is the first day I had trouble finding a word. (Either to simple or to strange.)
Nictitate- nic ti tate to wink. Some girls in school, nictitate at some boys, and they don't get in trouble either.
Smelt: To melt metal in order to remove impurities. "You have to smelt iron before you shape it into tools or else it will break easily." Procrastinate: To waste time when you should be doing something more important. "I procrastinate a lot, I play video games when I should be doing my homework."
You didn't use it in a sentence so I will quote a wise man that once said: "He who smelt it, dealt it." unknown (or would it be whom?) (He whom smealt it, dealt it?) [I believe He is the object, so it would be who] Pecksniffian: Smug or hypocritical that deals with high moral standards. pretending to be of high morals. "Politicians are so wound up in pecksniffian displays, they forget to deal with the problems of the day."
reciprocate: to move forward and back, to give and get, (verb) The piston reciprocated in the engine. Weird word of the day: Cater-cousin; intimate or close friend.(noun) Jennifer is Susan's cater-cousin.
Lucubrate: one who laboriously writes, works or studies, more commonly at night. "Many writers on this forum lucubrate to perfect their art."
Good word for Fantasy writers. Umbra- noun-1. unchanging trait or characteristic 2-ghost, spectral image, shadow, phantom 3-also-total shadowing of a body such as a planet. In the darkroom, the Umbra paced by the window.
Wow, never heard of this definition of a frequently used word. Word of the day is paste verb to hit hard or hit and or defeat soundly. -The batter pasted the ball deep in left field.-
Crochet: a hooked instrument for surgery a little hook a strange notion. Also a type of knitting using a hook.
Obtest: to proclaim as a witness, beseech, implore, or to protest. "She obtests against cruelty to animals that she has seen." not confident in this sentence, but I think it is right.
Pullulate: (paw-lu-late) verb to swarm, live abundently, teem with life. To send out buds or sprouts. increase quickly If you break a rotten piece of wood, termites could pullulate from it.
refection: Re-fect-tion (noun) refreshment of mind, body and soul(spirit) food and drink to together. "Soup kitchens offers refection for the homeless."
