Weird, Unusual Words

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Badger

Noun

Animal with greyish-brown fur. black and white head and pointed face, that lives underground and comes out to feed at night

Tejón

Verb

To persuade someone by telling them repeatedly to do something

To question someone constantly

Hostigar, asediar

Related words:

Pester: (verb) To behave annoyingly towards someone by doing or asking something repeatedly

Besiege. (verb) To make many requests or complains about something

Harry: (verb) To repetedly demand something from someone, often cuasing them to feel worried or angry

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Chivalry

From caballerius (latin)

Noun

Combination of qualities expected of an ideal knight: courage, honour, cortesy, justice

Corteous behaviour, especially of a man towrds women

 Archaic: Knight, noblemen or horsemen collectively

Chivalrous (noun), Chivalrously (adverb), Chivalrousness (noun)

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Glabella

From glabellus (latin)

Noun (anatomy)

1. smooth elevation of the frontal bone just above the bridge of the nose used as a reference point in physical anthropology or craniometry

Synonims: mesophyron

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Griffonage 

From griffonnage (french) and not generally used 

Noun 

1. Illegible scrawl 

2. Bad handwritting 

Most known as “Doctor’s handwriting”, hence the “Medical alphabeth” 

Synonyms. scrawl, scribble

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Woo

Verb

1. (old-fashioned)To seek the affection of someone (especially a woman) with the intent to marry or begin a romantic relationship

2. To gain the favor of someone or move someone to do something by entreaties or inducements

3. To try to persuade someone

Wooing (noun)

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Extol

Verb

1. To praise (the virtues, benefits or quality of something) highly

2. Praise, glorify, honor

3. To honor in religious worship

Extollingly (Adverb), Extoller (Noun), Extolment (noun)

Synonyms. praise, glorify, laud, proclaim

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Conspicuous

Adjective

Easily seen or noticed, readily visible or observable

Attracting special attention, as by outstanding qualities

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Ostensibly

Adjective

Appearing or claiming to be one thing when it is really something else

Apparent, evident. 

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Greed or Avarice?

Greed an Avarice are frequently used as synonyms but there are some differences. Greed (noun) is defined as an excessive desire to acquire or possess more than what one needs and Avarice (noun) is defined as an immoderate desire for wealth, pretty similar.

I did a little research due to the fact I got confused and found some interesting things that helped me see the difference: 

Greed exist when you are looking to have excessive wealth or material things in orden to cause the lack of it to others, and Avarice exist when you want the wealth in order to treasure it.

Both are excesses but the avaricious feels satisfied looking and treasuring his wealth while the greedy is only satisfied if he posses and exploits the resources he’ve gathered while others suffer scarcity of it.

Avarice is more related to the desire for wealth and power while Greed is a more general noun associated to tangible things such as food, wealth, natural resources, etc.

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Fencing

Noun

The art, practice, or sport in which an épée, foil, or saber is used fordefense and attack.

A parrying of arguments; avoidance of direct answers:political fencing on important issues.

An enclosure or railing. 

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“Flor de los Veinte Pétalos” (Flower of twenty petals), from the nahuatl “Cempoal”: twenty and “Xóchitl”: flower.

“Flor de muertos” (Dead´s flower) is the traditional flower for the mexican celebration of Día de Muertos (Day of the Dead). The flower, in the offering for the deads, is used to represent the path between this world and the other so they can return home to enjoy with their relatives. There are plenty of prehispanic leyends to explain the origins of the flower, this is my favourite so far:

This is the story of two lovers: Xóchitl and Huitzilin. Every afternoon they climbed up to the top of the mountain to offer flowers to Tonatiuh, the Father Sun. In front of every oblation they sweared eternal love beyond distance, time and Death. 

When war came, men marched into battle and soon came the news of Huitzilin’s death. Xóchitl, in pain, climbed up the mountain and asked Tonatiuh to join her with her lover for ever. Touched, Tonatiuh reached her out with a sunbeam and turned her into a beautiful flower of colors as intense as the Sun’s. Huitzilin got to the flower as a hummingbird and lovingly, he perched in the middle of the flower wich opened in twenty petals of intense and misterious fragance. This is how the flower of Cempoalxóchitl was born, the dead’s flower.

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Succinct

Adjective:

Expressed with clarity in few words

Concise, terse

Succinclty (Adverb), Succinctness (Noun)

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Bigotry

Noun

Strong partiality to one’s own gruop, religion or politics and intolerance of those different.  

Intolerance

Obtuse or narrow-minded intolerance, especially of other races or religions.

Irrational hatred of a particular gruop, race or religion.

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I’m learning English and I always get confused about thes five, so I thought this might be helpful for someone.

I wrote their name in English and Spanish

A) Raspberry, Frambuesa

B) Cranberry, Árandano

C) Blueberry, Mora azul

D) Gooseberry, Grosella

E) Blackberry, Zarzamora

Each page linked to the fruit’s name is from where I took each image, if there’s some trouble please send an email to me and I’ll take off the image :)

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Preach

Verb

To proclaim or put forth in a sermon

To give a talk about religious or moral matters

To advise

To speak to someone as though giving a sermon

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Vengeance vs Revenge

Vengeance

Noun

Infliction of injury, harm, humiliation, or the like, on a person by another who has been harmed by that person; violent revenge.

An act or opportunity of inflicting such trouble.

The desire for revenge.

Involves justice.

Revenge

Verb (used with object)

To exact punishment or expiation for a wrong on behalf of, especially in a resentful or vindictive spirit.

To take vengeance for; inflict punishment for; avenge.

Verb (used without object)

To take revenge.

Noun

The act of revenging; retaliation for ijuries or wrongs; vengeance.

Something done in vengeance.

The desire to revenge; vindictiveness.

An opportunity to retaliate or gain satisfaction.

Selfish act, implies satisfaction