English Learning Online: Vocabulary: Word of The Day 5 August 2012

English Learning Online: Vocabulary: Word of The Day 5 August 2012

For this post, in Vocabulary section, I would like to continue sharing with you latest words of the day as following...

imponderable \im-PON-der-uh-buhl\, noun:

1. A thing that cannot be precisely determined or measured.

adjective:
1. Not ponderable; that cannot be precisely determined, measured, or evaluated.

cunctation \kuhngk-TEY-shuhn\, noun:

Delay; tardiness.

Sardanapalian \sahr-dn-uh-PEYL-yuhn\, adjective:

Excessively luxurious.

agnate \ag-neyt\, noun:

1. A relative whose connection is traceable exclusively through males.
2. Any male relation on the father's side.

adjective:
1. Related or akin through males or on the father's side.
2. Allied or akin.

volant \VOH-luhnt\, adjective:

1. Moving lightly; nimble.
2. Engaged in or having the power of flight.

noun:
1. Also called volant piece. Armor. A reinforcing piece for the brow of a helmet.

pensée \pahn-SEY\, noun:

A reflection or thought.

noctilucent \nok-tuh-LOO-suhnt\, adjective:

Visible during the short night of the summer.

enchiridion \en-kahy-RID-ee-uhn\, noun:

A handbook; manual.

subitize \SOO-bi-tahyz\, verb:

To perceive at a glance the number of items presented.

chockablock \CHOK-uh-BLOK\, adjective:

1. Extremely full; crowded; jammed.
2. Nautical. Having the blocks drawn close together, as when the tackle is hauled to the utmost.

adverb:
1. In a crowded manner: books piled chockablock on the narrow shelf.

instauration \in-staw-REY-shuhn\, noun:

1. Renewal; restoration; renovation; repair.
2. Obsolete. An act of instituting something; establishment.

makebate \MEYK-beyt\, noun:

A person who causes contention or discord.

abstergent \ab-STUR-juhnt\, adjective:

1. Cleansing.
2. Purgative.

noun:
1. A cleansing agent, as a detergent or soap.

syndic \SIN-dik\, noun:

1. A person chosen to represent and transact business for a corporation.
2. A civil magistrate having different powers in different countries.

agemate \EYJ-meyt\, noun:

A person of about the same age as another.

pilikia \pee-lee-KEE-ah\, noun:

Trouble.

mumpsimus \MUHMP-suh-muhs\, noun:

1. Adherence to or persistence in an erroneous use of language, memorization, practice, belief, etc., out of habit or obstinacy.
2. A person who persists in a mistaken expression or practice.

sumpsimus \SUHMP-suh-muhs\, noun:

1. Adherence to or persistence in using a strictly correct term, holding to a precise practice, etc., as a rejection of an erroneous but more common form (opposed to mumpsimus).
2. A person who is obstinate or zealous about such strict correctness (opposed to mumpsimus).

surfeit \SUR-fit\, noun:

1. Excess; an excessive amount: a surfeit of speechmaking.
2. Excess or overindulgence in eating or drinking.
3. An uncomfortably full or crapulous feeling due to excessive eating or drinking.
4. General disgust caused by excess or satiety.

verb:
1. To bring to a state of surfeit by excess of food or drink.
2. To supply with anything to excess or satiety; satiate.

gallant \GAL-uhnt\, adjective:

1. Brave, spirited, noble-minded, or chivalrous: a gallant knight; a gallant rescue attempt.
2. Exceptionally polite and attentive to women; courtly.
3. Stately; grand: a gallant pageant.

noun:
1. A brave, noble-minded, or chivalrous man.
2. A man exceptionally attentive to women.
3. A stylish and dashing man.

stymie \STAHY-mee\, verb:

1. To hinder, block, or thwart.

noun:
1. Golf. (On a putting green) an instance of a ball's lying on a direct line between the cup and the ball of an opponent about to putt.
2. A situation or problem presenting such difficulties as to discourage or defeat any attempt to deal with or resolve it.

tractate \TRAK-teyt\, noun:

A treatise; essay.

aliquant \AL-i-kwuhnt\, adjective:

Contained in a number or quantity, but not dividing it evenly: An aliquant part of 16 is 5.

vamp \vamp\, verb:

1. To patch up; repair.
2. To give (something) a new appearance by adding a patch or piece.
3. To concoct or invent (often followed by up): He vamped up a few ugly rumors to discredit his enemies.
4. To furnish with a vamp, especially to repair (a shoe or boot) with a new vamp.

noun:
1. The portion of a shoe or boot upper that covers the instep and toes.
2. Something patched up or pieced together.

scherzando \skert-SAHN-doh\, adjective:

Playful; sportive.

ectopic \ek-TOP-ik\, adjective:

Occurring in an abnormal position or place; displaced.

hypethral \hi-PEE-thruhl\, adjective:

(Of a classical building) wholly or partly open to the sky.

paronymous \puh-RON-uh-muhs\, adjective:

Containing the same root or stem, as the words wise and wisdom.

tawpie \TAW-pee\, noun:

A foolish or thoughtless young person.

baccate \BAK-eyt\, adjective:

1. Berrylike.
2. Bearing berries.

mote \moht\, noun:

1. A small particle or speck, especially of dust.
2. Moit.

requisition \rek-wuh-ZISH-uhn\, noun:

1. A demand made.
2. The act of requiring or demanding.
3. An authoritative or formal demand for something to be done, given, supplied, etc.: The general issued a requisition to the townspeople for eight trucks.
4. A written request or order for something, as supplies.

verb:
1. To require or take for use; press into service.
2. To demand or take, as by authority, for military purposes, public needs, etc.: to requisition supplies.

deflagrate \DEF-luh-greyt\, verb:

To burn, especially suddenly and violently.

beguile \bih-GAHYL\, verb:

1. To influence by trickery, flattery, etc.; mislead; delude.
2. To take away from by cheating or deceiving (usually followed by of): to be beguiled of money.
3. To charm or divert: a multitude of attractions to beguile the tourist.
4. To pass (time) pleasantly: beguiling the long afternoon with a good book.

nary \NAIR-ee\, adjective:

Not any; no; never a.

qualia \KWAH-lee-uh\, noun:

1. A quality, as bitterness, regarded as an independent object.
2. A sense-datum or feeling having a distinctive quality.

desolate \DES-uh-leyt\, verb:

1. To lay waste; devastate.
2. To deprive of inhabitants; depopulate.
3. To make disconsolate.
4. To forsake or abandon.

adjective:
1. Barren or laid waste; devastated: a treeless, desolate landscape.
2. Deprived or destitute of inhabitants; deserted; uninhabited.
3. Solitary; lonely: a desolate place.

integument \in-TEG-yuh-muhnt\, noun:

1. A natural covering, as a skin, shell, or rind.
2. Any covering, coating, enclosure, etc.

nubilous \NOO-buh-luhs\, adjective:

1. Cloudy or foggy.
2. Obscure or vague; indefinite.

Bildungsroman \BIL-doongz-roh-mahn\, noun:

A type of novel concerned with the education, development, and maturing of a young protagonist.

jubilate \JOO-buh-leyt\, verb:

1. To show or feel great joy; rejoice; exult.
2. To celebrate a jubilee or joyful occasion.

precipitancy \pri-SIP-i-tuhn-see\, noun:

1. Headlong or rash haste.
2. The quality or state of being precipitant.
3. Precipitancies, hasty or rash acts.

intrapreneur \in-truh-pruh-NUR\, noun:

An employee of a large corporation who is given freedom and financial support to create new products, services, systems, etc., and does not have to follow the corporation's usual routines or protocols.

banausic \buh-NAW-sik\, adjective:

Serving utilitarian purposes only; mechanical; practical: architecture that was more banausic than inspired.

traject \truh-JEKT\, verb:

To transport, transmit, or transpose.

matte \mat\, adjective:

1. Having a dull or lusterless surface: matte paint; a matte complexion; a photograph with a matte finish.

noun:
1. A dull or dead surface, often slightly roughened, as on metals, paint, paper, or glass.
2. A tool for producing such a surface.

usageaster \YOO-sij-as-ter\, noun:

A self-styled authority on language usage.

cathect \kuh-THEKT\, verb:

To invest emotion or feeling in an idea, object, or another person.

incondite \in-KON-dit\, adjective:

1. Ill-constructed; unpolished: incondite prose.
2. Crude; rough; unmannerly.

foible \FOI-buhl\, noun:

1. A minor weakness or failing of character; slight flaw or defect: an all-too-human foible.
2. The weaker part of a sword blade, between the middle and the point (opposed to forte).

billet-doux \BIL-ey-DOO\, noun;
plural billets-doux \bil-ay-DOO(Z)\:

A love letter.

For Example:

- vamp

Eg: I want to have my shoe vamped.