Tuesday, 10 July 2012

10 new words (First week)

1.Swizzle
noun
a mixed alcoholic drink, especially a frothy one of rum or gin and bitters:
a rum swizzle
verb
[with object]
stir (a drink) with a swizzle stick:
he would swizzle it into a froth and pour it out for us

2.Calends
plural noun
the first day of the month in the ancient Roman calendar.

3.Guerdon
noun
a reward or recompense.
verb
[with object]
give a reward to (someone).

4.subjacent
adjective
technical
situated below something else.

5.replicant
noun
(in science fiction) a genetically engineered or artificial being created as an exact replica of a particular human being.

6.tristesse
noun
[mass noun] literary
a state of melancholy sadness:
lamenting a lost love, he leaves us poised at the lip of a chasm of tristesse
post-coital tristesse


7.Personalty
noun
[mass noun] Law
a person’s personal property. Compare with realty.

8.Flibbertigibbet
noun
a frivolous, flighty, or excessively talkative person.

9.Piffle
noun
[mass noun] informal
nonsense:
it’s absolute piffle to say that violence is ok

10.Piety
noun (plural pieties)
[mass noun]
the quality of being religious or reverent:
acts of piety and charity
[count noun] a belief which is accepted with unthinking conventional reverence:
the accepted pieties of our time

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