Words To Know Version 3
Filed Under: Words To Know Archive
If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!
This is the archive of my 3rd set of Words To Know. This is the Words To Know Contest.
hirsute \HUR-soot; HIR-soot; hur-SOOT; hir-SOOT\, adjective:
Covered with hair; set with bristles; shaggy; hairy.
sesquipedalian \ses-kwuh-puh-DAYL-yuhn\, adjective:
1. Given to or characterized by the use of long words.
2. Long and ponderous; having many syllables.
bete noire \bet-NWAHR\, noun:
Something or someone particularly detested or avoided; a bugbear.
bugbear \buhg-bair\ noun:
1. any source, real or imaginary, of needless fright or fear.
2. a persistent problem or source of annoyance.
3. Folklore. a goblin that eats up naughty children.
deipnosophist \dyp-NOS-uh-fist\, noun:
Someone who is skilled in table talk.
somniferous \som-NIF-uhr-uhs\, adjective:
Causing or inducing sleep.
unfledged \uhn-FLEJD\, adjective:
1. Lacking the feathers necessary for flight.
2. Not fully developed; immature.
vicissitude \vih-SIS-ih-tood; -tyood\, noun:
1. Regular change or succession from one thing to another; alternation; mutual succession; interchange.
2. Irregular change; revolution; mutation.
3. A change in condition or fortune; an instance of mutability in life or nature (especially successive alternation from one condition to another).
draconian \dray-KOHN-ee-uhn; druh-\, adjective:
1. Pertaining to Draco, a lawgiver of Athens, 621 B.C.
2. Excessively harsh; severe.
frangible \FRAN-juh-buhl\, adjective:
Capable of being broken; brittle; fragile; easily broken
Popularity: 17% [?]
