- diatribe :
- (n) A speech or writing which bitterly denounces something
- dotard :
- (n) An old person with impaired intellect; One in one's dotage
- casus belli / cāsus bellī :
- (n) An act seen as justifying or causing a war.
- trite :
- (a) Unoriginal, thus uninteresting
- vapid :
- (a) Offering nothing that is stimulating or challenging : flat, dull
- specie :
- (n) Hard money, especially coins of precious metals (e.g. gold, silver, the American Silver Eagle); Not to be confused with fiat currency (e.g. coins made from base metals like copper. E.g. US post-1965 quarters, post-1965 dimes, post-1945 nickles, pennies; None of which are currently made from previous metals, and as such are currency but neither money nor specie)
- proclaim :
- (vt) To announce or declare
- rapacious :
- (a) aggressively greedy or grasping
- discoidal :
- (a) disk-like
- assuage :
- (vt) To make less painful or to calm
- occident :
- (n) The West; Europe (often excluding Eastern and South-Eastern), and the "Five Eyes"
- orient :
- (n) The East; Asia (especially East Asia)
- engender :
- (vt) To create
- iniquity :
- (n) immoral / grossly unfair behavior
- iniquitous :
- (a) characterized by iniquity; Wicked, sinful
- abstruse :
- (a) difficult to understand
- exegesis :
- (n) A critical explanation or interpretation of a text (especially a religious text)
- adroit :
- (a) clever or skillful
- sagacious :
- (a) Wise or shrewd
- shrewd :
- (a) Artful, tricky, or cunning
- decadent :
- (a) Characterized by moral and/or cultural decline
- pauper :
- (n) A very poor person
- eponymous :
- (a) of, or relating to, or being a thing something is named for
- assiduous :
- (a) showing great care, attention, and effort
- pleb :
- (n) Plebian; One of the common people
- amphora :
- (n) Greek vase (or similar)
- paragon :
- (n) A model of excellence or perfection
- presage :
- (n) An omen of something bad to come
- doge :
- (n) The chief magistrate in the republics of Venice & Genoa. The plural form is "dogi"
- (n) A cute internet meme
- fortuitous :
- (a) Fortunate / lucky
- preponderance :
- (a) The bulk or majority
- (n) Superiority of influence, power, a quality, etc.; an outweighing, predominance, pre-eminence
- preeminence :
- (n) The status of being preeminent, dominant, or ascendant
- vertebrate :
- (n) An organism with a spinal column (e.g. humans)
- invertebrate :
- (n) An organism without a spinal column (e.g. jellyfish, worms)
- tributary :
- (n) A stream feeding either a larger stream, or a lake
- ephemeral :
- (a) Lasting a very short time
- shirk :
- (vt) To avoid, especially a duty, responsibility, etc
- (vi) To evade an obligation
- (n) One who shirks
- (n) (Islam) The unforgivable sin of idolatry
- calamity :
- (n) A disastrous event marked by great loss and alsting distress and suffering
- calamitous :
- (a) Being, causing, or accompanied by calamity
- iconoclast :
- (n) One who attacks/destroys cherished beliefs, especially religious symbols/icons
- immiserize :
- (n) To make miserable
- scrupulous :
- (a) Having moral integrity
- unscrupulous :
- (a) Not scrupulous; Lacking moral integrity
- transmogrified :
- (a) Altered, transformed, or mutated into a form that is grotesque or amusing
- modicum :
- (n) A small portion
- inexorably :
- (adv) Unstopable; Unpreventable; Relentless; Not to be persuaded, moved, nor stopped
- exorable :
- (a) Movable or persuadable
- formidable :
- (a) Having qualities that discourage approach or attack
- prerogative :
- (n) A special right, privilege, or power (typically due to one's role/position)
- portent :
- (n) Something that portends (warns of) an upcoming unfortunate or evil event; An omen
- fiat :
- (n) An arbitrary or authoritative command or order to do something
- (n) Fiat currency: Currency that backed by no commodity, and often is established as legal tender by government fiat/command
- nascent :
- (a) Coming or having recently came into existence; Budding
- lament :
- (vi) to express regret or mourning
- instill :
- (vt) To cause a quality to become part of someone's nature
- reproof :
- (n) A critisism for a fault
- inculcate :
- (vt) To teach and impress by prequent repitions and admonitions
- erroneous :
- (a) Containing an error
- spurious :
- (a) False
- dispossessed :
- (a) Deprived of homes, possessions, and security
- besiege :
- (vt) To surround with armed forces (for the purpose of capture or forcing surrender)
- junta :
- (n) A military or political group that takes power by force
- vehement :
- (a) Showing strong feeling
- anathema :
- (n) Something or someone that one vehemently dislikes
- proprietor :
- (n) The owner of either a business or property
- manorialism :
- (n) A political, economic and social system in medieval and early modern Europe; originally a form of serfdom but later a looser system in which land was administered via the local manor
- dither :
- (v) To intentionally add noise to a signal to randomize errors
- estuary :
- (n) A coastal body of water where ocean tides and river water merge
- diadem :
- (n) A crown or soemthing that adorns like a crown
- pernicious :
- (a) Highly injurious or destructive; Deadly
- sovereign :
- (n) One possessing supreme political power
- viceroy :
- (n) A governor that rules as a representative of a king or sovereign
- abrogate :
- (vt) To repeal (often in a legal context), or do away with
- catchment area :
- (n) An area where a city institution, or service attracts users. (e.g. a school catchment area is the geographic area from which students are eliible to attend a local school)
- aristocracy :
- (n) The highest class in a society; The nobility
- (n) Rule by a small privileged class, or by the best individuals
- boondoggle :
- (n) A waste of time and/or money
- cornucopia :
- (n) A goat's horn endlessly overflowing with whatever its owner wants (historically this was fruit, flowers, and/or grain)
- raison d'être :
- (n) Literally "reason to be"; The sole or ultimate purpose of something or someone
- bon vivant :
- (n) Literally "good liver" ("liver" as a person that lives). One that lives well / enjoys the good things in life, especially good food & drink
- pro rata / pro-rata :
- (adv) (of an allocation) In proportion to some factor that can be exactly calculated
- deracinate :
- (vt) To remove by the roots
- eugenics :
- (n) (sociology, biology) A social philosophy or practice which advocates the improvement of human hereditary qualities through selective breeding, either by encouraging people with good genetic qualities to reproduce (positive eugenics), or discouraging people with bad genetic qualities from reproducing (negative eugenics), or by technological means (e.g. gene editing)
- eugenic :
- (a) (genetics) Antonym of "dysgenic". Positive eugenics; Exerting a beneficial effect on offspring through the inheritance of desirable characteristics
- dysgenic :
- (a) (genetics) Antonym of "eugenic". Exerting a detrimental effect on offspring through the inheritance of undesirable characteristics
- ambigram :
- (n) A design that may be read as the same word, name or phrase (or sometimes two different words, names or phrases) when oriented in two different ways
- decimate :
- (vt) To reduce by 10%
- phenomenon :
- (n) A fact/person/place/thing/event that is unusual, curious, astonishing, and/or remarkable
- spontaneous :
- (a) Self-generated / random / from a momentary impulse; happening without any apparent external cause nor pre-planning
- acrimonious :
- (a) (typically of speech or discussion) angry & bitter
- consanguineal / consanguineous :
- (a) Related by blood
- persōna nōn grāta / persona non grata :
- (n) Literally "person not acceptable"; A person, especially a diplomat in a foreign country, who is not welcome
- quid prō quō / quid pro quo :
- (n) Literally "something for something"; A favour for a favour (one form of "tit-for-tat")
- eye for an eye :
- (n) A disfavor for a disfavor (one form of "tit-for-tat")
- coy :
- (a) shy, hesitant, modest
- hawk :
- (a) (game theory) An uncooperative or purely-selfish participant in an exchange or game, especially when untrusting, acquisitive, or treacherous. Refers specifically to the Prisoner's Dilemma, alias the Hawk-Dove game. Antonym of "dove"
- dove :
- (a) (game theory) A person favouring conciliation & negotiation rather than conflict. Antonym of "hawk"
- insofar as :
- (conjunction) to the extant that
- amalgamation :
- (n) A mixture or alloy
- alloy :
- (n) A metal that is a combination of two or more elements, at least one of which is a metal
- (n) An admixture; something added which stains, taints, etc
- (n) A metal of greater value, mixed with a metal of lesser value
- augment :
- (v) To increase / enlarge
- subvert :
- (vt) To upturn convention from the foundation by undermining it (literally, to turn from beneath)
- (vt) To pervert, as the mind, and turn it from the truth; to corrupt; to confound.
- (vt) To overturn from the foundation; to overthrow; to ruin utterly.
- SNAFU :
- (phrase) Situation normal, all fucked up
- FUBAR :
- (phrase) Fucked up beyond all repair
- sitrep :
- (n) A situation report
- fed :
- (n) A federal government official, especially of a three-letter agency
- three-letter agency :
- (n) U.S. alphabet agencies that are specifically of the national security state (e.g. DHS, ATF, NSA, FBI, CIA, etc.)
- etc. / et cētera :
- (phrase) “and so forth” (used when referring to non human things)
- et al. / et alia :
- (phrase) “and others” (used when referring to people, and especialy people in legal/court contexts)
- viz. / vidēlicet :
- (phrase) "as follows"/"that is to say"/"specifically"
- autarky :
- (n) sulf-sufficiency, especially including economic independence
- Benelux :
- (n) A portmanteau of the first few letters of each country's name - Belgium, the Netherlands, & Luxembourg
- axiom / postulate / posit / assumption :
- (n) (classic philosophy) A statement that is so evident or well-established, that it is accepted without controversy nor question
- (n) (modern logic) A statement that is taken to be true, to serve as a premise or starting point for further reasoning & arguments
- dogma :
- (n) An authoritative absolutely indisputably true principle or belief, regardless of the quantity/quality of supporting evidense (or lack thereof)
- evoke :
- (vt) to bring or recall to the conscious mind
- auspices :
- (n) (plural only) Protection or patronage
- auspice :
- (n) An omen/sign
- auspicious :
- (a) Of or relating to a good omen; indicative of current or future success
- omen :
- (n) Something that serves as a warning for something (often, but not always, something bad) to come
- portend :
- (vt) To serve as a warning/omen of
- ¤ :
- (symbol) international currency symbol
- scarce :
- (a) Insufficient to meet demand
- detest :
- (vt) To denounce/condemn
- witness :
- (vt) To furnish proof of; To certify
- innocuous :
- (a) Harmless; Unprovocative
- sublime :
- (a) Impressive & awesome, yet simple
- internecine :
- (a) Mutually destructive
- per annum :
- (adv) per year; yearly
- self-licking ice cream cone :
- (n) A process, department, institution, or other thing that offers few benefits and exists primarily to justify or perpetuate its own existence
- fatuous :
- (a) Obnoxiously stupid
- wayward :
- (a) Difficult to control or predict because of wilful or perverse behaviour
- ambiguous :
- (a) Open to multiple interpretations
- obliged :
- (a) Obligated
- superfluous :
- (a) Excessive
- parsimony :
- (n) Great reluctance to spend money unnecessarily
- hitherto :
- (a) Up to this or that time or point
- analogous :
- (a) Having analogy; corresponding to something else; bearing some resemblance or proportion (often followed by "to")
- autodidact :
- (n) A self-taught person
- parallax :
- (n) An apparent shift in the position of two stationary objects relative to each other as viewed by an observer, due to a change in observer position. E.g. an analogue speedometer that reads a speed of 60 to the driver, but 50 to the passenger—even though the needle itself is only in one place
- celebration parallax :
- (n) A fact that, depending on who states it, is either (1) true and glorious or (2) false and scurrilous
- asabiyyah :
- (n) A concept of social solidarity with an emphasis on unity, group consciousness, and a sense of shared purpose and social cohesion
- dīvide et imperā :
- (proverb) divide and rule (i.e. divide and conquer)
- (vt) To use a combination of political, military and economic strategies that aim to gain and maintain power by breaking up larger concentrations of power into chunks that individually have less power than the one implementing the strategy
- insipid :
- (a) Lacking character, definition, or flavour
- idiosyncrasy :
- (n) A behavior or way of thinking that is characteristic of a person
- penultimate :
- (a) 2nd to last
- subsume :
- (vt) To place under another as belonging to it; to include or contain something else
- visceral :
- (a) Of or relating to the body and/or internal organs
- hubris :
- (n) Excessive pride, presumption or arrogance
- irredentism :
- (n) Doctrine of annexing foreign land that one views as having historic or ethnic links to
- attenuated :
- (a) Made, or become weak
- privation :
- (n) The state of being deprived
- progeny :
- (n) (uncountable) Offspring or descendants considered as a group
- laud :
- (n) Praise or glorification
- omnicide :
- (n) "omni-" (all) -cide" (to kill). The total extinction of the human species as a result of human action
- obelisk :
- (n) (architecture) A tall, square, tapered, stone monolith topped with a pyramidal point, frequently used as a monument. For example, the Washington Monument
- tapered :
- (a) Narrowing gradually towards a point
- taper :
- (vt) (of a central bank) To tighten monetary policy
- catawampus :
- (a) Out of alignment, in disarray or disorder
- as per :
- (preposition) Consistent, or in accordance, with; according to
- esoteric :
- (a) Having to do with concepts that are highly theoretical and without obvious practical application; often with mystical or religious connotations
- (a) Intended for or likely to be understood by only a small number of people with a specialized knowledge or interest, or an enlightened inner circle.
- surreptitiously :
- (adv) kept secret, especially because it would not be approved of
- zealot :
- (n) a person who is fanatical and uncompromising in pursuit of their religious, political, or other ideals
- (n) (historical) A member of an ancient Jewish sect that aimed at a world Jewish theocracy via the violent overthrow of Roman rule during the First Jewish–Roman War (66AD–70AD)
- quip :
- (vt) To taunt; to treat with quips
- (vi) To make a quip
- (n) A smart, sarcastic turn or jest; a taunt; a severe retort or comeback
- derelict :
- (a) Abandoned, forsaken
- (n) An abandoned or forsaken person; A person that is jobless and/or homeless
- (n) Property abandoned by its former owner, especially a ship abandoned at sea
- credulity :
- (n) A willingness to believe in someone or something in the absence of reasonable proof
- equivocal :
- (a) ambiguous; capable of multiple interpretations
- basin / bason :
- (n) A depression, natural or artificial, containing water
- (n) A wide bowl, typically for washing
- annex :
- (n) An addition, an extension (often of a building)
- (vt) To add something to another thing, especially territory
- murk :
- (n) gloom; darkness; obscurity; a dark or gloomy environment
- coax :
- (vt) To carefully manipulate (someone or something) into a particular desired state, situation or position
- providence :
- (n) A manifestation of divine care or direction; an instance of divine intervention
- (n) The careful governance/guidance of God
- moribund :
- (a) Approaching death
- machination :
- (n) A clever scheme or artful plot, usually crafted for evil purposes
- (n) The act of machinating / conspiring / secretly plotting
- enigma :
- (n) Something or someone puzzling, mysterious or inexplicable (e.g. a riddle, or a difficult problem)
- enmity :
- (n) The feeling or quality of being an enemy; hostile or unfriendly disposition
- coup de grâce :
- (n) A final blow or shot given to kill a wounded person or animal
- carpetbagger :
- (n) (derogatory, chiefly US, political, historical) One who comes to a place or organisation with which they have no previous connection, with the sole or primary aim of personal gain, especially political or financial gain
- conjecture :
- (n) An unproven hypothesis; A guess; A supposition based upon incomplete evidence
- edict :
- (n) A proclamation of law or other authoritative command
- troglodyte :
- (n) A human cave dweller
- shibboleth :
- (n) A word, especially seen as a test, to distinguish whether someone belongs to a particular nation, class, profession, etc.
- connivance :
- (n) Willingness to allow or be secretly involved in an immoral or illegal act
- forgo :
- (vt) To abstain from
- ignominy :
- (n) Great dishonor, shame, or humiliation
- probity :
- (n) having strong moral principles; integrity
- eloquent :
- (a) Effective in expressing meaning by speech; persuasive
- anemoia :
- (n) Nostalgia for a time one has never known
- perdition :
- (n) Eternal damnation; Hell; Absolute ruin
- help-rejecting complainer :
- (n) One who complains, but is uninterested in improvoing/fixing what one complains about
- lay :
- (a) A member of a religious order that is neither ordained nor clergy
- carte blanche :
- (n) Literally "white/blank/unused card"; Unlimited discretionary power to act; unrestricted authority.
- agent handler / case officer :
- (n) In intelligence organisations, a person who manages a network of spies / secret agents.
- brush contact :
- (n) A brief covert meeting in a public place between two undercover intelligence agents ("spies"). Typically between a spy and their handler.
- canary trap / barium meal test :
- (n) The practice of giving slightly different versions of something (e.g. a document) to each recipient, so that if the document is leaked then the person who leaked it can be identified.
- pretext :
- (n) A false, contrived, or assumed purpose or reason; a pretense.
- shiksa :
- (n) (Judaism, derogatory) A non-Jewish girl
- (n) (Judaism, feminine) An abomination, impure, object of loathing
- shegetz :
- (n) (Judaism, masculine) An abomination, impure, object of loathing
- (n) (Judaism, derogatory) A non-Jewish male
- שיקסע :
- (n) shiksa
- שייגעץ :
- (n) shegetz
- שֶׁקֶץ :
- (n) An abomination, impure, object of loathing
- goy :
- (n) (sometimes offensive) A non-Jew, a gentile
- shabbos goy :
- (n) Literally "Sabbath goy". A goy servant who performs acts that are forbidden to Jews on the Sabbath.
Words I created
cismaxing (intransitive verb) : cis + maxing.
Attempting to maximize one's sex-specific sex hormones
(possibly also attempting to reduce their opposite sex-specific sex hormones).
For males, attempting to maximize their "male sex hormones" /
androgens
(e.g. testosterone)
(possibly also attempting to reduce their female sex hormones).
For females, attempting to maximize their "female sex hormones" /
estrogens
(e.g. estradiol)
(possibly also attempting to reduce their male sex hormones)
multibirth (noun) :
Abbreviation of "multiple birth" (e.g. twins, triplets, quadruplets, etc)