words

i post words that i am unfamiliar with, as well as words i find pleasing. (kudos to google for supplying me the meanings)

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ingratiate

trans verb

to gain favor or favorable acceptance for by deliberate effort — usually used with with

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egress

noun

a place or means of going out

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fastidious

adj

showing or demanding excessive delicacy or care

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britches

noun

trousers

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rueful

adj

exciting pity or sympathy

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poleax

noun

a battle-ax with a short handle and often a hook or spike opposite the blade; also : one with a long handle used as an ornamental weapon

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feldspar

noun

any of a group of crystalline minerals that consist of aluminum silicates with either potassium, sodium, calcium, or barium and that are an essential constituent of nearly all crystalline rocks

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cadre

noun

a nucleus or core group especially of trained personnel able to assume control and to train others; broadly : a group of people having some unifying relationship

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cuirass

noun

a piece of armor covering the body from neck to waist; also : the breastplate of such a piece

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baleen

noun

a horny keratinous substance found in two rows of transverse plates which hang down from the upper jaws of baleen whales

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disgorge

verb

to discharge by the throat and mouth : vomit

to discharge or let go of rapidly or forcefully

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hew

verb

to cut with blows of a heavy cutting instrument

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thwart

verb

transitive verb

to oppose successfully : defeat the hopes or aspirations of

b : to run counter to so as to effectively oppose or baffle : CONTRAVENE

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miff

noun

a fit of ill humor

a trivial quarrel

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moot

adj

open to question : debatable

subject to discussion

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edifice

noun

Building: especially : a large or massive structure

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idiosyncrasy

noun

a mode of behavior or way of thought peculiar to an individual." one of his little idiosyncrasies was always preferring to be in the car first"

a distinctive or peculiar feature or characteristic of a place or thing." the idiosyncrasies of the prison system"

an abnormal physical reaction by an individual to a food or drug.