"Gewgaws Vs. Gimcracks on Postcards from Yo Mamma:

"My dear..." more...

"Ilan Ros's jowls are scarlet, and he's wearing a loose apron over his Pantagruelian belly. He begins by gobbling up three slices of cold meat in..." more...

"Word a Day - Pantagruelian" more...

"ephemeral / ethereal" more...

"sagacious : perspicacious" more...

"Making up analogies...

raconteur:stories
?:?" more...

"1. consisting of or set down in runes: "runic inscriptions"
2. having some secret or mysterious meaning: "runic rhyme" more...

"he has an inimitably verbose style" more...

"Note to self:

compare inimitable

inimitable- peerless. Antonym: common
inimical- hostile. Antonym: amicable" more...

"Note to self:

compare inimical

inimitable- peerless. Antonym: common
inimical- hostile. Antonym: amicable" more...

"Wow. What a great passage. It takes me back to nights spent on the Appalachian trail, watching a summer storm from a shelter warm and dry in my down..." more...

"same here" more...

"Wow, you mean this?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moodle

Looks like a great thing. I'll have to check it out." more...

"I think you left out an "l"...bloodcurdling - well, bloodcurdlingly" more...

"Someone who spends money prodigally" more...

"there is an important difference between rusticity and urbanity" more...

"I bet this is related to tenacious. Maybe that will help me separate it from all of those other per-par-pen words:..." more...

"The piquancy of the evening was refreshing. ~Sera

Good usage?" more...

"No, it's not pathetic. Everybody does it. Don't be so hard on yourself!

(Just kidding ; )" more...

"I have been known to have(?), suffer from(?), imagine(?)quixotry at times. How the heck do you use this word?

Nice word, though! :..." more...

"spelling?" more...

"Letting citizens sue polluters ... would only inspissate the logjam of litigation." (The New York Times, August 5, 1985)" more...

"Gotta have ennui." more...

"I like titular.
:)" more...

"Consider self deprecating. One slip of tongue and..." more...

"to be grandiose is to display an exaggerated manner" more...

"antonym: decent" more...

"antonym: disparage" more...

"annoyingly proud of learning" more...

"respite is a time of temporary rest
truce is a time of temporary peace" more...

"antonyms: pure, innocent" more...

"How is it that cleave means "split" and "cling to" at the same time?
Hmm." more...

"to admonish beforehand" more...

"A journey by a large group to escape from a hostile environment" more...

"A long and mournful complaint
"a jeremiad against any form of government"

"the function of a jeremiad is to premonish" more...

"A long hooded cloak woven of wool in one piece; worn by Arabs and Moors" more...

"A mountebank practice unsubstantiated medicine as an alchemist practices unsubstantiated science" more...

"charlatan

"A flamboyant deceiver; one who attracts customers with tricks or jokes"

A mountebank practices unsubstantiated medicine as an..." more...

"Dark and dismal as of the rivers Acheron and Styx in Hades. Hellish" more...

"The state of being not yet evident or active" more...

"dark and gloomy" more...

"darkness is tenebrous" more...

"incandescence is refulgent" more...

"incandescence is refulgent" more...

"solecism is a breach of etiquette" more...

"An inadequate payment" more...

"A deliberately misleading fabrication" more...

"encomium is a speech about someone redoubtable" more...

"encomium is a speech about someone redoubtable" more...

"encomium" more...

"formidable" more...

"full of or given to palaver: wordy, verbose" more...

"stipule" more...

"A small leafy outgrowth at the base of a leaf or its stalk; usually occurring in pairs and soon shed" more...

"full of juice" more...

"Complaining - like Professor Quirinus Quirrell (Harry Potter and the Philosopher's stone)" more...

"Conspicuously and offensively loud; given to vehement outcry. a vociferous mob" more...

"Pompous or pretentious talk or writing" more...

"to oscillate is to move laterally" more...

"to swing as a pendulum" more...

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"1. The quality of passing all moral bounds; excessive wickedness or outrageousness.
2. A monstrous offense or evil; an outrage.

USAGE NOTE (from..." more...

"Move headlong at high speed"

compare to careen - "Walk as if unable to control one's movements" more...

"Swallow hastily" more...

"It's Chinese. As Uselessness said, the <a..." more...

"The Southern rebellion was largely the outgrowth of the Mexican war. Nations, like individuals, are punished for their transgressions. We got our..." more...

"funipendulous
fr. L. funis, rope + pendulus, hanging /fyu nuh PEN dyu lus/ hanging from a rope

<a..." more...