nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: emulate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: First attested in 1586; borrowed from Latin aemulātus, perfect active participle of Latin aemulor (“to rival, emulate”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix). Pronunciation: /ˈɛm.jʊ.leɪt/, /ˈɛm.jə.leɪt/, /ˈem.jə.læɪt/ 1. To attempt to equal or be the same as. Labels: archaic 2. To copy or imitate, especially a person. Example: People are endlessly fascinating, even if you'd never want to emulate them. Example: The Magpies are unbeaten and enjoying their best run since 1994, although few would have thought the class of 2011 would come close to emulating their ancestors. 3. To feel a rivalry with; to be jealous of, to envy. Labels: obsolete Example: But the councell then present emulating my successe, would not thinke it fit to spare me fortie men to be hazzarded in those unknowne regions [...]. 4. of a program or device: to imitate another program or device
Word: emulate Part of Speech: adj Etymology: First attested in 1586; borrowed from Latin aemulātus, perfect active participle of Latin aemulor (“to rival, emulate”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix). Pronunciation: /ˈɛm.jʊ.leɪt/, /ˈɛm.jə.leɪt/, /ˈem.jə.læɪt/ 1. Striving to excel, ambitious, emulous. Labels: obsolete Example: That can I, At leaſt the whiſper goes ſo : Our laſt King, Whoſe Image euen but novv appear'd to vs, VVas (as you know) by Fortinbras of Norvvay, (Thereto prick’d on by a moſt emulate Pride) Dar’d to the Combate.
Word: engender Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English engendren, from Old French engendrer, from Latin ingenerāre. Pronunciation: /ɪnˈdʒɛn.də/, /ɛnˈdʒɛn.də/, /ɛnˈd͡ʒɛn.dɚ/, /ɪnˈd͡ʒɛn.dɚ/ 1. To beget (of a man); to bear or conceive (of a woman). Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: O Error ſoone conceyu’d, Thou neuer com’ſt vnto a happy byrth, But kil’ſt the Mother that engendred thee. 2. To give existence to, to produce (living creatures). Labels: transitive Example: Like all interesting literary figures, he is full of tacit as well as of uttered reference to the conditions that engendered him[…]. 3. To bring into existence (a situation, quality, result etc.); to give rise to, cause, create. Labels: transitive Example: ME thinkes vertue is another manner of thing, and much more noble than the inclinations vnto goodneſſe, which in vs are ingendered. Example: Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart managed to engender "Better Be Good to Me" and "I Must Love You," but they were neither lyrically nor musically up to standards of their Garrick Gaieties or A Connecticut Yankee. 4. To assume form; to come into existence; to be caused or produced. Labels: intransitive Example: Thick Clouds are ſpread, and Storms engender there, And Thunders Voice, which wretched Mortals fear, And Winds that on their Wings, cold Winter bear. 5. To copulate, to have sex. Labels: intransitive, obsolete Example: But that the bodies of the Reprobate, who make the Kingdome of Satan, ſhall alſo be glorious, or ſpirituall bodies, or that they ſhall bee as the Angels of God, neither eating, nor, drinking, nor engendering[…], there is no place of Scripture to prove it[…] Example: I fled, but he purſu’d (though more, it ſeems, Inflam’d with luſt then rage) and ſwifter far, Me overtook his mother all diſmaid, And in embraces forcible and foule Ingendring with me, of that rape begot Theſe yelling Monſters that with ceaſleſs cry Surround me, as thou ſawſt[…]
Word: engender Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁én Proto-Italic *en Proto-Italic *en- Latin in- Old French en-bor. Middle English en- English en- English gender English engender From en- + gender. Pronunciation: /ɪnˈdʒɛn.də/, /ɛnˈdʒɛn.də/, /ɛnˈd͡ʒɛn.dɚ/, /ɪnˈd͡ʒɛn.dɚ/ 1. To endow with gender; to create gender or enhance the importance of gender. Example: Gender, they emphasize, is socially constructed by our surroundings. We are en-gendered by our families, our teachers, and by the images in our music, films, media and fashions. Example: As such they are an important way of understanding both how texts are engendered (how they articulate particular sex or gender role) and how they engender their consumers.
Word: ephemeral Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From New Latin ephemerus, from Ancient Greek ἐφήμερος (ephḗmeros), the more common form of ἐφημέριος (ephēmérios, “of, for, or during the day, living or lasting but for a day, short-lived, temporary”), from ἐπί (epí, “on”) + ἡμέρα (hēméra, “day”). Pronunciation: /ɛˈfɛ.mə.ɹəl/, /əˈfɛ.mə.ɹəl/ 1. Lasting for a short period of time. Example: 1821-1822, Vicesimus Knox, Remarks on the tendency of certain Clauses in a Bill now pending in Parliament to degrade Grammar Schools Esteem, lasting esteem, the esteem of good men, like himself, will be his reward, when the gale of ephemeral popularity shall have gradually subsided. Example: sentences not of ephemeral, but of eternal, efficacy 2. Existing for only one day, as with some flowers, insects, and diseases. 3. Usually dry, but filling with water for brief periods during and after precipitation. Example: The graben constitutes a depositional basin and a topographic low, underlain by Cretaceous shales, in which volcanic debris accumulated in ephemeral lakes and streams in Oligocene and early Miocene time.
Word: ephemeral Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From New Latin ephemerus, from Ancient Greek ἐφήμερος (ephḗmeros), the more common form of ἐφημέριος (ephēmérios, “of, for, or during the day, living or lasting but for a day, short-lived, temporary”), from ἐπί (epí, “on”) + ἡμέρα (hēméra, “day”). Pronunciation: /ɛˈfɛ.mə.ɹəl/, /əˈfɛ.mə.ɹəl/ 1. Something which lasts for a short period of time.
Word: euphoria Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From New Latin euphoria, from Ancient Greek εὐφορίᾱ (euphoríā), from εὔφορος (eúphoros, “bearing well”), from εὐ- (eu-, “well”) + φέρω (phérō, “to bear”). Pronunciation: /juːˈfɔː.ɹi.ə/, /juˈfo.ɹi.ə/ 1. An excited state of joy; a feeling of intense happiness. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The runner was in (a state of) absolute euphoria after winning his first marathon. Example: The effects caused by inhaling nitrous oxide gas, such as lightheadedness and euphoria, can be felt within seconds. 2. Ellipsis of gender euphoria. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable
Word: fortuitous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin fortuītus. Pronunciation: /fɔːˈtjuː.ɪ.təs/, /fɔːˈt͡ʃuː.ɪ.təs/, /foɹˈt͡ʃu.ɪ.tɪs/, /foɹˈtu.ɪ.tɪs/, /-.ə.-/ 1. Happening by chance; coincidental, accidental. Example: […] and during the ten days of their stay at Hartfield it was not to be expected—she did not herself expect—that any thing beyond occasional, fortuitous assistance could be afforded by her to the lovers. Example: ‘It is not for one, situated, through his original errors and a fortuitous combination of unpropitious events, as is the foundered Bark (if he may be allowed to assume so maritime a denomination), who now takes up the pen to address you—it is not, I repeat, for one so circumstanced, to adopt the language of compliment, or of congratulation. That he leaves to abler and to purer hands. 2. Happening by a lucky chance; lucky or fortunate. Example: And then he met John Dowsett, the great John Dowsett. The whole thing was fortuitous. This cannot be doubted. Example: Admiral Kurita has no identification charts for escort carriers, and, so, assumes that the distant targets are fleet carriers. Commensurately, by scale, their escorts must either be battleships or cruisers. The Japanese forces therefore continue to load armor-piercing rounds, what will turn out to be a very fortuitous mistake for their targets for as long as it lasts. 3. Happening independently of human will.
Word: freight Part of Speech: verb Etymology: The verb is derived from Late Middle English freighten, freghten, a variant of fraughten, fraghten (“to load (a ship with cargo or passengers); to hire (a ship) for transporting goods; to provide fully (with goods, money, etc.); to stow away”), and then either: * from fraught, fraght (noun) (see etymology 1) + -en (suffix forming the infinitive form of verbs); or * from Middle Dutch vrachten, vrechten (“to load (a ship with cargo or passengers); to hire (a ship) for transporting goods, to fraught”), from vracht, vrecht (noun) (see etymology 1) + -en (suffix forming the infinitive form of verbs). The adjective is: * derived from Middle English freght, freight, freyght, the past participle of fraughten (verb) (see above); and/or * a contraction of freighted, the past participle of the verb. Pronunciation: /fɹeɪt/, /fɹæɪt/, /fɾet/, /fɾeit/ 1. To load (a vehicle or vessel) with freight (cargo); also, to hire or rent out (a vehicle or vessel) to carry cargo or passengers. Labels: transitive Example: It is true, there be few Merchants, that with the Merchandiſe they buy at home, can fraight a Ship, to export it; or with that they buy abroad, to bring it home; and have therefore need to joyn together in one Society; […] Example: If a Factor do receive a ſum of Mony of the owner of a Ship, in conſideration that he freighteth the ſaid Ship for a Voyage, promiſing to repay the ſaid Mony at the return of the ſaid Voyage; if the ſaid Factor hath freighted this Ship for another mans Account, this Merchant is to have the benefit of this Mony during the time; […] 2. To transport (goods). Labels: transitive 3. To load or store (goods, etc.). Labels: broadly, transitive Example: [W]hat though it is thou [i.e., sensibility] that rendereſt anguiſh more frequent, that filleſt the eye with the ſympathetic tear! yet is it not thou that ſwelleſt it with the tear of joy, and freighteſt the heart beyond the power of utterance,— […] Example: Fortune freights not your channel with her hoarded stores, and Pleasure ventures not her silken sails upon your tide; […] 4. To carry (something) as if it is a burden or load. Labels: figuratively, transitive 5. Chiefly followed by up: to carry as part of a cargo. Labels: US, also, figuratively, intransitive Example: How often, when those hopes are greatest, The bark that bears them must not be Trusted with more than what thou freightest For sun-lit hour and summer sea: Who, when the waves are high and dark, Could steer, if freighted deep, such bark? Example: Experience freightest for a better life. The folk that comes not with us have offended In that for which one Cæsar, triumphing, Heard himself called in contumely, 'Queen.'
Word: freight Part of Speech: adj Etymology: The verb is derived from Late Middle English freighten, freghten, a variant of fraughten, fraghten (“to load (a ship with cargo or passengers); to hire (a ship) for transporting goods; to provide fully (with goods, money, etc.); to stow away”), and then either: * from fraught, fraght (noun) (see etymology 1) + -en (suffix forming the infinitive form of verbs); or * from Middle Dutch vrachten, vrechten (“to load (a ship with cargo or passengers); to hire (a ship) for transporting goods, to fraught”), from vracht, vrecht (noun) (see etymology 1) + -en (suffix forming the infinitive form of verbs). The adjective is: * derived from Middle English freght, freight, freyght, the past participle of fraughten (verb) (see above); and/or * a contraction of freighted, the past participle of the verb. Pronunciation: /fɹeɪt/, /fɹæɪt/, /fɾet/, /fɾeit/ 1. Freighted; laden. Labels: obsolete Example: [H]is ſouldiers, ſeeing great prizes brought out of the enemies Land, and every ſhip freight therewith; were mightily incenſed and ſet on fire with a burning deſire to be tranſported over thither with all ſpeed poſſible.
Word: gargantuan Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From French Gargantua, a giant with a very large appetite in Rabelais's The Inestimable Life of Gargantua. Rabelais derived Gargantua from the Portuguese and Spanish garganta (“throat”). Pronunciation: /ɡɑːˈɡæn.t͡ʃu.ən/, /ɡɑɹˈɡæn.t͡ʃu.ən/, /ɡaːˈɡæn.t͡ʃʉ.ən/ 1. Huge; immense; tremendous. Example: Some distant observers of the Scottish football scene reckon that all - all! - Gerrard has to do is beat Celtic to become a legend. Even if that was true - and, demonstrably, it is not - then it would be a gargantuan task all on its own. Example: Or the twinkling dining rooms: all frilly net curtains, pink walls, kaleidoscope-patterned carpets and tiny tables, crammed with teetering piles of hand-painted ceramic crockery (think plates covered in colorful swirls and cocktail mugs shaped like heaving bosoms or ladies’ faces) that showcase gargantuan portions of Italian fare. 2. Of the giant Gargantua or his appetite. Labels: obsolete
Word: gregarious Part of Speech: adj Etymology: First attested in 1688; borrowed from Latin gregārius, see -ious. Pronunciation: /ɡɹɪˈɡɛə.ɹɪ.əs/, /ɡɹɪˈɡɛɚ.i.əs/ 1. Who enjoys being in crowds and socializing. 2. Of animals that travel in herds or packs. Example: The Fin-Back is not gregarious. He seems a whale-hater, as some men are man-haters. Example: Rabbits are lively at nightfall, and when evening rain drives them underground they still feel gregarious. 3. Growing in open clusters or colonies; not matted together. 4. Pertaining to a flock or crowd.
Word: iconoclast Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French iconoclaste and its etymon Medieval Latin īconoclastēs, from Byzantine Greek εἰκονοκλάστης (eikonoklástēs, literally “image breaker”). By surface analysis, icono- + -clast. Pronunciation: /aɪˈkɒn.əˌklæst/, /aɪˈkɑn.əˌklæst/ 1. One who destroys religious images or icons, especially an opponent of the Orthodox Church in the 8th and 9th centuries, or a Puritan during the European Reformation. Labels: historical Example: In the days of the early Christian church, people who opposed the veneration (reverence) of images were called iconoclasts. 2. One who opposes orthodoxy and religion; one who adheres to the doctrine of iconoclasm. Example: In February 1895 he [William Cowper Brann, 1855-1898 ] revived publication of the Iconoclast. This time it was successful and eventually attained a circulation of 100,000. Brann took obvious relish in directing his stinging attacks upon institutions and persons he considered to be hypocritical or overly sanctimonious. 3. One who attacks cherished beliefs; a maverick. Labels: broadly Example: After all, the fact that any discussion of the possibility is greeted with hysterical revulsion guarantees that only two types of people will take the "pro" side in public: fearless iconoclasts who do not care what anyone thinks of them; and racists. Example: Coming so soon after the death of David Bowie, it’s a moment to consider how deeply important iconoclasts are to the evolution of a culture. Do they change the world by trying to change it, or do they change the world through the radical act of simply being themselves?
Word: impetuous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English impetuous, from Old French impetueux, from Late Latin impetuōsus (“violent”), from Latin impetus (“attack, violence”). Pronunciation: /imˈpɛt͡ʃuəs/ 1. Making arbitrary decisions, especially in an impulsive and forceful manner. Example: But it was natural, that the impetuous, restless young artist should incline more to excess of strength than of delicacy in his playing. Example: The shrewd kind confidant used gently to hint the sad fact to the impetuous hero of this piece. The impetuous hero knew this quite well. 2. Characterized by sudden violence or vehemence. Example: For with ſuch puiſſance and impetuous maine / Thoſe Champions broke on them, that forſt the fly, / Like ſcattered Sheepe, whenas the Shepherds ſwaine / A Lyon and a Tigre doth eſpye, / With greedy pace forth ruſhing from the foreſt nye. Example: […]and the Thunder, / Wing'd with red Lightning and impetuous rage, / Perhaps hath ſpent his ſhafts […]
Word: inconsequential Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Italic *n̥- Latin in-bor. Middle English in- English in- English consequential English inconsequential From in- + consequential. Pronunciation: /ɪnˌkɑnsəˈkwɛnʃəl/, /ɪnˌkɒn.səˈkwɛn.ʃəl/ 1. Having no consequence; not consequential; of little importance. Example: You will never know the exact atomic time when you started reading this phrase; of course, that's inconsequential. Example: “[…]Because desire just cheats you. It's like a sunbeam skipping here and there about a room. It stops and gilds some inconsequential object, and we poor fools try to grasp it—but when we do the sunbeam moves on to something else, and you've got the inconsequential part, but the glitter that made you want it is gone—” He broke off uneasily. 2. Not logically following from the premises.
Word: inconsequential Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Italic *n̥- Latin in-bor. Middle English in- English in- English consequential English inconsequential From in- + consequential. Pronunciation: /ɪnˌkɑnsəˈkwɛnʃəl/, /ɪnˌkɒn.səˈkwɛn.ʃəl/ 1. Something unimportant; something that does not matter.
Word: incontrovertible Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Italic *n̥- Latin in-bor. Middle English in- English in- English controvert Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ibilis Old French -ibleder. Middle English -ible English -ible English controvertible English incontrovertible From in- + controvertible. Pronunciation: /ˌɪŋ.kɒn.tɹəˈvɜː.təbl̩/ 1. Not capable of being denied, challenged, or disputed; closed to questioning. Example: incontrovertible evidence Example: Her statement that dogs are mammals is incontrovertible.
Word: increment Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English encrement, increment, from Latin incrēmentum, from incrēscō (whence increase), from in- + crēscō (“grow”). Equivalent to increase + -ment. Pronunciation: /ˈɪŋkɹɪmn̩t/ 1. The action of increasing or becoming greater. Example: the seminary that furnisheth matter for the formation and increment of animal and vegetable bodies Example: A nation, to be great, ought to be compressed in its increment by nations more civilized than itself—as Greece by Persia; and Rome by Etruria, the Italian states, and Carthage. 2. The amount of increase. Example: In the third place, the superelevation and alignment of the track, theoretically calculated for speeds of 70 to 75 m.p.h., was adequate for the 80 to 85 m.p.h. or so normally attained as maxima over the G.N. main line; but nothing whatever had been done to prepare it for the enormous increment over these figures that this run was to produce. Example: The others will return at night, [...] pushing their experiments and nudging their projects toward completion in small, painful increments. 3. An amplification without strict climax, as in the following passage: "Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report, […] think on these things." Labels: rhetoric 4. The amount of time added to a player's clock after each move. 5. A syllable in excess of the number of the nominative singular or the second-person singular present indicative.
Word: increment Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English encrement, increment, from Latin incrēmentum, from incrēscō (whence increase), from in- + crēscō (“grow”). Equivalent to increase + -ment. Pronunciation: /ˈɪŋkɹɪmn̩t/, /ˈɪŋkrəmɛnt/ 1. To increase by steps or by a step, especially by one. Labels: intransitive, transitive Example: ... any given value just before observing, the actual pressures must as frequently be incremented as decremented, both in the "on" and the "off" series. Example: public sector professional services recruitment, has seen a strong seasonal upturn which has incremented year on year since 2002 by an average of 12%.
Word: jubilant Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin iubilans ("shouting for joy"). Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒuːbɪlənt/, /ˈd͡ʒu.bə.lənt/ 1. In a state of elation. Example: be in jubilant mood
Word: longevity Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Early 17th century, learned borrowing from Latin longaevitās, from longaevus (“ancient, aged”) + -itās. The first part is related to English long and this association led to the alternative pronunciation with /ŋ/. Pronunciation: /lɒnˈd͡ʒɛv.ɪ.ti/, /lɒŋ-/, /lɔnˈd͡ʒɛv.ə.ti/, [lɔ̃nˈd͡ʒɛv.ə.ti], /lɔŋˈd͡ʒɛv.ə.ti/ 1. The quality of being long-lasting, especially of life. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Grandpa had incredible longevity: he lived to be 105 years old! Example: This 142-year-old tiny ex-LNWR SB [signal box, at Batley] is an amazing survivor, probably owing its longevity to its location alongside a level crossing. Indeed it started life as a gate box with the delightful name of Lady Ann's Crossing. 2. Duration over time; persistence. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: A ‘postdating’ is an example of the use of a lexical item at a later date than currently recorded and these are important in establishing the longevity of use of a term and whether or not it has become obsolete.
Word: mollify Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English mollifien, from Late Latin mollificō, from Latin mollis (“soft”). By surface analysis, Latin moll- + -ify. Pronunciation: /ˈmɒlɪfaɪ/ 1. To ease a burden, particularly to ease a worry; make less painful; to comfort. Example: mollify someone’s anger Example: attempt to mollify 2. To appease anger, pacify, gain the good will of. Example: He tried to mollify the angry customer. Example: Although this invitation was accompanied with a curtsey that might have softened the heart of a church-warden, it by no means mollified the beadle. 3. To soften; to make tender. Example: Nor is it any more difficulty for him to mollifie what is hard, then it is to harden what is so soft and fluid as the Aire. Example: By thy kindness thou wilt melt and mollify his spirit towards thee, as hardest metals are melted by coals of fire […]
Word: ominous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin ōminōsus (“full of foreboding”), from ōmen (“forbidden fruit, omen”), from Old Latin osmen, of uncertain origin, with many origins proposed (see ōmen). Pronunciation: /ˈɒmɪnəs/, /ˈɑmɪnəs/, /ˈɔmɪnəs/, /ˈɒmənəs/, [ˈɔ̟mənəs] 1. Of or pertaining to an omen or to omens; being or exhibiting an omen; significant. Example: In Cornouaille, Brittany, it is popularly believed that the weather of the last six days of December and the first six of January prognosticates the weather of the twelve months; but in other parts of Brittany it is the first twelve days of January that are supposed to be ominous of the weather for the year. 2. Specifically, giving indication of a coming ill; being an evil omen Example: California poll support for Jerry Brown's tax increases has ominous implications for U.S. taxpayers too Los Angeles Times Headline April 25, 2011 Example: The idea of a merchant selling both totems of pure evil and frozen yogurt (he calls it frogurt!) is amusing in itself, as is the idea that frogurt could be cursed, but it’s really the Shopkeeper’s quicksilver shift from ominous doomsaying to chipper salesmanship that sells the sequence.
Word: ponderous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Ultimately from Latin ponderōsus (“weighty”). Pronunciation: /ˈpɒn.dəɹ.əs/, /ˈpɑn.dɚ.əs/ 1. Heavy, massive, weighty. Example: [H]e saw, at the end of a shallow embrasure, a ponderous door of dark wood, braced with iron. Example: The great elephant, when the cage was being placed, would, at a signal from its keeper, place its ponderous head against one side of the cage and push. 2. Serious, onerous, oppressive. Labels: broadly, figuratively Example: It was Dryden's opinion . . . that the drama required an alternation of comick and tragick scenes; and that it is necessary to mitigate, by alleviations of merriment, the pressure of ponderous events, and the fatigue of toilsome passions. Example: In its court-yard—worthy of the Castle of Otranto in its ponderous gloom—is a massive staircase. 3. Clumsy, unwieldy, or slow, especially due to weight. Example: [T]he inmates of the coach, by numerous hard, painful joltings, and ponderous, dragging trundlings, are suddenly made sensible of some great change in the character of the road. Example: Slowly, through an increasing glow that lighted land and water alike, the leviathan of the deep made her ponderous progress to the hill-encircled harbor. 4. Dull, boring, tedious; long-winded in expression. Example: Over supper the minister did unbend a little into one or two ponderous jokes. Example: [A]s certainly as any one said anything in her presence that she had occasion to repeat, she changed the wording to six-syllabled mouthfuls, delivered with ponderous circumlocution. 5. Characterized by or associated with pondering. Labels: rare Example: Ponderous thoughts take hold of the heart; musing maketh the fire to burn, and steady sight hath the greatest influence upon us. Example: The acute and ponderous mind of Dr. Johnson was not always right in its decisions. 6. Dense. Labels: obsolete
Word: procrastination Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle French procrastination, from Latin prōcrāstinātiō, from prōcrāstinō (“procrastinate”), from prō + crāstinus (“of tomorrow”), from crās (“tomorrow”). Pronunciation: /pɹəʊˌkɹæs.tɪˈneɪ.ʃən/, /pɹoʊˌkɹæs.tɪˈneɪ.ʃən/, [-ʃn̩], /pɹəʉˌkɹæs.tɪˈnæɪ.ʃən/, /pɹɐʉˌkɹɛs.təˈnæɪ.ʃən/ 1. The act of postponing, delaying or putting off, especially habitually or intentionally. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: Procrastination is the thief of time; year after year it steals until all are fled.
Word: pugnacious Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From the stem of Latin pugnāx + -ous, from pugnō (“to fight”), from pugnus (“fist”). By surface analysis, Latin pugn- + -acious. Pronunciation: /pʌɡˈneɪ.ʃəs/ 1. Naturally aggressive or hostile; combative; belligerent; bellicose. Example: Not that the doctor was a bully, or even pugnacious, in the usual sense of the word; he had no disposition to provoke a fight, no propense love of quarrelling. Example: As he made the demand he spat out a mouthful of blood and teeth and shoved his pugnacious face close to Oofty-Oofty.
Word: volatile Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle French volatile, from Latin volātilis (“flying; swift; temporary; volatile”), from volō (“to fly”). Pronunciation: /ˈvɒl.əˌtaɪl/, [ˈvɒl.əˌtʰaɪ̯l], /ˈvɑ.lə.təl/, [ˈvɑl.ə.tʰl̩] 1. Evaporating or vaporizing readily under normal conditions. 2. Of a substance, explosive. Labels: informal 3. Of a price, variable or erratic. Example: Its pricing is highly volatile — and therefore highly risky. For all its nosebleed ascents, bitcoin also has had some gut-punching plunges. Between November 2021 and November 2022, for example, the price of bitcoin dropped 75%, from $64,455 to $16,196, according to data on coinmarketcap.com. 4. Of a person, quick to become angry or violent. Example: a volatile man 5. Fickle. Example: Now Mr. Bush plans to pour more arms into this unstable region and add fuel to the volatile powderkeg he has foolishly created. 6. Temporary or ephemeral. 7. Of a situation potentially violent. 8. Of a variable etc., having its associated memory immediately updated with any changes in value. Example: This method stores a value into a non-volatile field called result, then stores true in the volatile field finished. The main thread waits for the field finished to be set to true, then reads the field result. 9. Of memory, whose content is lost when the computer is powered down. 10. Passing through the air on wings, or by the buoyant force of the atmosphere; flying; having the power to fly. Labels: obsolete
Word: volatile Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle French volatile, from Latin volātilis (“flying; swift; temporary; volatile”), from volō (“to fly”). Pronunciation: /ˈvɒl.əˌtaɪl/, [ˈvɒl.əˌtʰaɪ̯l], /ˈvɑ.lə.təl/, [ˈvɑl.ə.tʰl̩] 1. A chemical or compound that changes into a gas easily. 2. A variable that is volatile, i.e. has its associated memory immediately updated with any change in value. Example: Operations on C++ volatiles do put the compiler on notice that the object may be modified asynchronously, and hence are generally safer to use than ordinary variable accesses.
Word: rancorous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Latin ranceō Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *-ōs Proto-Italic *-ōs Latin -or Latin rancor Old French rancorbor. Middle English rancour English rancor Proto-Indo-European *h₃ed- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *h₃édosder.? Proto-Italic *-ŏ̄dsos? Old Latin -ōssus Latin -ōsus Old French -usbor. Middle English -ous English -ous English rancorous From rancor + -ous. Pronunciation: /ˈɹæŋ.kəɹ.əs/ 1. Full of rancor; bitter; unforgiving. Example: rancorous speech Example: Despite its attempt to provide what it saw as sober current-affairs programming in a sea of often-rancorous cable news channels, and winning some top awards in journalism, Al Jazeera America was unable to build an audience—it reached about 60 million households, compared to 100 million for other cable broadcasters—or draw advertisers.
Word: recuperate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Borrowed from Latin recuperāre, alternative form of reciperāre (“get again, regain, recover”). Doublet of recover. The pronunciation without /j/ may have been influenced by the semantically similar, but etymologically distinct verb recoup. Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈk(j)uːpəˌɹeɪt/ 1. To recover, especially from an illness; to get better from an illness or from exhaustion (or sometimes from a financial loss, etc). Labels: intransitive Example: As you recuperate, you’ll crave / the life lived by the knave, behave! 2. To restore (someone or something) to health, strength, or currency; to revive or rehabilitate. Labels: transitive Example: [...] of each province in 1842 and 1894 - that is, before the Taiping rebellion, and since China has recuperated her forces. Example: [...] one of many female poets who was trivialized and misrepresented for decades. When William Wordsworth recuperated her by praising her “Nocturnal Reverie,” he set what became a limiting factor in Finch's recovery: he treated her as a pre-Romantic ppoet of nature, and she became resituated in literary history as a much flatter or less complicated poet than she was in her lifetime. 3. To recover; to regain. Labels: transitive Example: In LS, July emerges as a survivor and a storyteller with a traumatic past who has recuperated her relationship with her lost son. Her questioning and humorously subversive discourse gives emotional and textual depth to […] 4. To co-opt (a problematic or suspect idea) so that it becomes part of an accepted discourse; to reclaim. Example: Mannheim's purpose when elaborating his typology of ideology was, as we have seen above, to recuperate the concept of ideology for scientific politics, after having discarded elements of Manichean egocentricity. Example: She sought ultimately to recuperate the classical concept of the public realm against what she described, in negative terms, as the "rise of the social" characteristic of the modern world.
Word: repeal Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Anglo-Norman repeler, from Old French rapeler (“to call back, call in, call after, revoke”), from Latin repellō (“drive or thrust back”), from re- and pellō (“push or strike”). Doublet of repel. Pronunciation: /ɹəˈpiːl/ 1. To cancel, invalidate, annul. Labels: transitive Example: to repeal a law Example: […] I here divorce myself Both from thy table, Henry, and thy bed, Until that act of parliament be repeal’d Whereby my son is disinherited. 2. To recall; to summon (a person) again; to bring (a person) back from exile or banishment. Example: There weepe, for till my Gaueston be repeald, Assure thy selfe thou comst not in my sight. Example: The banish’d Bolingbroke repeals himself, And with uplifted arms is safe arrived […] 3. To suppress; to repel. Example: Whence Adam soon repeal’d The doubts that in his heart arose.
Word: repeal Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Anglo-Norman repeler, from Old French rapeler (“to call back, call in, call after, revoke”), from Latin repellō (“drive or thrust back”), from re- and pellō (“push or strike”). Doublet of repel. Pronunciation: /ɹəˈpiːl/ 1. An act or instance of repealing. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Wednesday June 02, 2021, Has the Northern Ireland Protocol undermined the United Kingdom? When a newer Act of Parliament is incompatible with earlier law, it usually takes precedence, under the doctrine of “implied repeal”.
Word: sedentary Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle French sédentaire, from Latin sedentārius (“sitting”), from sedeō (“to sit, to be seated”). Pronunciation: /ˈsɛd.ən.tɛɹ.i/, /ˈsɛd.ən.tə.ɹi/, /ˈsɛd.ən.tɹi/ 1. Not moving; relatively still; staying in the vicinity. Example: The oyster is a sedentary mollusk; the barnacles are sedentary crustaceans. 2. Living in a fixed geographical location; the opposite of nomadic. 3. Not moving much; sitting around. Labels: usually Example: […]the Egyptians; whose Sages were not sedentary, scholastic Sophists, like the Grecian[…] Example: […]that any education that confined itself to sedentary pursuits was essentially imperfect, that the body as well as the mind should be cultivated[…] 4. Inactive; motionless; sluggish; tranquil. Labels: obsolete Example: Such restless revolution day by day Repeated, while the sedentary earth That better might with far less compass move[…] Example: The Soul, considered abstractedly from its Passions, is of a remiss and sedentary Nature, slow in its Resolves, and languishing in its Executions. 5. Caused by long sitting. Labels: obsolete Example: till length of years And sedentary numbness craze my limbs To a contemptible old age obscure.
Word: sedentary Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle French sédentaire, from Latin sedentārius (“sitting”), from sedeō (“to sit, to be seated”). Pronunciation: /ˈsɛd.ən.tɛɹ.i/, /ˈsɛd.ən.tə.ɹi/, /ˈsɛd.ən.tɹi/ 1. a sedentary person Example: Endosomatic electrodermal activity (skin potential level and skin potential response) as an indirect indicator of sympathetic nervous system activity was measured in 35 sedentary male students and 22 trained athletes of two groups during resting and after an acute exercise. The aim of this study was to investigate the difference of skin potential parameters between sedentaries and trained athletes before and after the acute exercise in bicycle ergometer. Example: The non-sedentaries rather do not without grain or rice, but the sedentaries have, in Wirth's table, not much less sheep and goats than the non-sedentaries. That is a reason to suppose that the sedentaries can cope without the non-sedentaries
Word: simulate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: First attested in 1652; Borrowed from Latin simulātus, perfect passive participle of simulō (“make like, imitate, copy, represent, feign”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from similis (“like”). See similar. Pronunciation: /ˈsɪm.jʊˌleɪt/, /ˈsɪm.jəˌleɪt/, /ˈsɪm.jʊˌlæɪt/ 1. To model, replicate, duplicate the behavior, appearance or properties of. Example: We will use a smoke machine to simulate the fog you will actually encounter. Example: This video game simulates a pinball machine.
Word: simulate Part of Speech: adj Etymology: First attested in c. 1425, in Middle English; inherited from Middle English symulat(e), simulat(e), similat(e) (“feigned; similar”), borrowed from Latin simulātus, see -ate (adjective-forming suffix) and Etymology 1 for more. Pronunciation: /ˈsɪm.jʊ.lɪt/, /ˈsɪm.jə.lət/ 1. Feigned; pretended. Labels: obsolete Example: under simulate religion
Word: spurious Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from Late Latin spurius (“illegitimate, bastardly”), possibly related to sperno or from Etruscan. Pronunciation: /ˈspjʊə.ɹi.əs/, /ˈspjɔː-/, /ˈspjɵː.ɹɪjəs/, /ˈspjoː-/, /ˈspjʊɹ.i.əs/ 1. False, not authentic, not genuine. Example: His argument was spurious and had no validity. Example: We witness that there is a relationship between government, media and industry that is evident even at this most spurious and superficial level. These three institutions support one another. We know that however cool a media outlet may purport to be, their primary loyalty is to their corporate backers. We know also that you cannot criticise the corporate backers openly without censorship and subsequent manipulation of this information. 2. Extraneous, stray; not relevant or wanted. Example: I tried to concentrate on the matter in hand, but spurious thoughts kept intruding. Example: Spurious emissions from the wireless mast were causing nearby electrical equipment to go haywire. 3. Bastardly, illegitimate. Labels: archaic Example: […] who alſo in her prime of love, Spouſal embraces, vitiated with Gold, Though offer’d only, by the ſent conceiv’d Her ſpurious firſt-born; Treaſon againſt me?
Word: stevedore Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Spanish estibador (cognate with Portuguese estivador, and compare Medieval Latin stivator), from estivar, estibar (“to load”), from Medieval Latin stivare, stīpāre (compare Italian stivare, stipare), the present active infinitive of stīpō (“to cram, fill, stuff”), derived from Proto-Indo-European *steypos, which is from the root Proto-Indo-European *steyp-. It is cognate with stiff through Proto-Indo-European. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word was attested in 1788 in the early form stowadore (see the quotations). It was included in the 1st edition of Webster’s Dictionary (1828) as stevedore. Pronunciation: /ˈstiːvəˌdɔː(ɹ)/, /ˈstivəˌdɔɹ/ 1. A dockworker involved in loading and unloading cargo, or in supervising such work. Example: Stowadores. Example: The work of discharging and loading cargoes other than coal is undertaken by master stevedores, who are employed by the shipowner.
Word: stevedore Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Spanish estibador (cognate with Portuguese estivador, and compare Medieval Latin stivator), from estivar, estibar (“to load”), from Medieval Latin stivare, stīpāre (compare Italian stivare, stipare), the present active infinitive of stīpō (“to cram, fill, stuff”), derived from Proto-Indo-European *steypos, which is from the root Proto-Indo-European *steyp-. It is cognate with stiff through Proto-Indo-European. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word was attested in 1788 in the early form stowadore (see the quotations). It was included in the 1st edition of Webster’s Dictionary (1828) as stevedore. Pronunciation: /ˈstiːvəˌdɔː(ɹ)/, /ˈstivəˌdɔɹ/ 1. To load or unload a ship's cargo. Labels: transitive Example: During the year 334,242 tons of cargo were stevedored and 933,092 tons were handled and transferred. Example: [I]n Barcelona, when he was stevedoring at the docks […]
Word: tout Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English touten (“to jut out, protrude, gaze upon, observe, peer”), from Old English *tūtian (“to be sticking out, protrude”), related to Old English tȳtan (“to stand out, be conspicuous, shine”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *tut(t)- (“to stick out, project”). Compare Icelandic túta (“a teat-like prominence”), tútna (“to be blown up”). Possibly influenced by dialectal toot (“to stick out; project; peer out; peep”), from Middle English toten, totien, from Old English tōtian (“to peep out; look; pry; spectate”). Compare also Old English tot, ġetot (“pomp, splendour, vainglory”). Pronunciation: /taʊt/, /tʌʊt/ 1. Someone advertising for customers in an aggressive way. Example: Be careful of the ticket touts outside the arena; they are famed for selling counterfeits. Example: Paul Muniment looked at his young friend a moment. 'Do you want to know what he is? He's a tout.' 'A tout? What do you mean?' 'Well, a cat's-paw, if you like better.' 2. A person at a racecourse who offers supposedly inside information on which horse is likely to win. Example: No one, however, would have anything to do with him, as Mr. Keeson's orders in those respects were very strict ; he had often threatened any one of his employés with instant dismissal if he found him in company with one of these touts. 3. An informer in the Irish Republican Army. Labels: colloquial Example: The Derry Brigade of the IRA thought it had got rid of its informer problem when earlier that year it executed Paddy Flood as a tout, after holding him for six weeks. 4. A spy for a smuggler, thief, or the like. Labels: archaic, colloquial
Word: tout Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English touten (“to jut out, protrude, gaze upon, observe, peer”), from Old English *tūtian (“to be sticking out, protrude”), related to Old English tȳtan (“to stand out, be conspicuous, shine”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *tut(t)- (“to stick out, project”). Compare Icelandic túta (“a teat-like prominence”), tútna (“to be blown up”). Possibly influenced by dialectal toot (“to stick out; project; peer out; peep”), from Middle English toten, totien, from Old English tōtian (“to peep out; look; pry; spectate”). Compare also Old English tot, ġetot (“pomp, splendour, vainglory”). Pronunciation: /taʊt/, /tʌʊt/ 1. To flaunt, to publicize/publicise; to boast or brag about; to promote. Labels: transitive Example: Mary has been touted as a potential successor to the current CEO. Example: China has touted its policy of non-interference for decades. 2. To spy out information about (a horse, a racing stable, etc.). Labels: UK, slang, transitive 3. To give a tip on (a racehorse) to a person, with the expectation of sharing in any winnings. Labels: US, slang, transitive 4. To spy out the movements of racehorses at their trials, or to get by stealth or other improper means the secrets of the stable, for betting purposes. Labels: UK, intransitive, slang 5. To act as a tout; to give a tip on a racehorse. Labels: US, intransitive, slang 6. To look for, try to obtain; used with for. Labels: intransitive Example: To understand the new London, I lived it. I slept rough with Roma beggars and touted for work with Baltic laborers on the kerb. 7. To look upon or watch. Labels: obsolete Example: Nor durst Orcanes view the Soldan's face, / But still upon the floor did pore and tout.
Word: tout Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Probably from French tout (“all”). 1. In the game of solo, a proposal to win all eight tricks.
Word: ambiguous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂ent- Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *h₂énts? Proto-Indo-European *h₂m̥bʰíder. Proto-Italic *amβi- Latin ambi- Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵ- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵeti Proto-Italic *agō Latin agō Latin ambig(ō) Proto-Indo-European *-wós Proto-Italic *-wos Latin -uus Latin ambiguuslbor. English ambiguous From Latin ambiguus (“moving from side to side, of doubtful nature”), from ambigere (“to go about, wander, doubt”), from ambi- (“around, about, on both sides”) + agere (“to drive, move”). Pronunciation: /æmˈbɪɡ.ju.əs/, [ɛəmˈbɪɡ.ju.əs], /æmˈbɪɡ.jʉ.əs/, /ɛmˈbəɡ.jʉ.əs/ 1. Open to multiple interpretations. Example: The politician was criticized for his ambiguous statements and lack of precision. 2. Hesitant; uncertain; not taking sides. Labels: obsolete Example: And forasmuch as in this same question I am ambiguous, and Simplicius is resolute....
Word: adulation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French adulation, from Latin adulātio (“flattery”). Pronunciation: /ˌædʒʊˈleɪʃən/, /ˌædjʊˈleɪʃən/, /ˌæd͡ʒəˈleɪʃən/ 1. Flattery; fulsome praise. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: He was uncomfortable with the adulation from his fans. Example: Now all this was very fine, but not at all in keeping with the Celebrity's character as I had come to conceive it. The idea that adulation ever cloyed on him was ludicrous in itself. In fact I thought the whole story fishy, and came very near to saying so.
Word: anachronistic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂en- Proto-Hellenic *aná Ancient Greek ᾰ̓νᾰ́ (ănắ) Ancient Greek ᾰ̓νᾰ- (ănă-) Ancient Greek χρόνος (khrónos) Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ίζω (-ízō) Ancient Greek χρονῐ́ζω (khronĭ́zō) Ancient Greek ᾰ̓νᾰχρονῐ́ζομαι (ănăkhronĭ́zomai) Proto-Indo-European *-mos Proto-Indo-European *-mós Ancient Greek -μός (-mós) Ancient Greek ᾰ̓νᾰχρονῐσμός (ănăkhronĭsmós)der. New Latin anachronismusder. English anachronism Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic English anachronistic From anachronism + -ic. Pronunciation: /əˌnæk.ɹəˈnɪs.tɪk/ 1. Erroneous in date; containing an anachronism; in a wrong time; not applicable to or not appropriate for the time. Example: If you know where to look in the movie, you can spot an anachronistic wrist watch on one of the Roman soldiers. Example: The impiety of the Ciceronian attitude was probably his major objection to the sect, yet the dialogue is mainly concerned with the more anachronistic and illogical aspects of attempting to write only as Cicero did.
Word: contemporary Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Medieval Latin contemporārius, from Latin con- (“with, together”) + temporārius, an adjective derived from tempus (“time”). Pronunciation: /kənˈtɛm.p(ə.)ɹə.ɹi/, /kənˈtɛm.p(ə.)ɹi/, /kənˈtɛm.pəˌɹɛɹ.i/ 1. From the same time period, coexistent in time; contemporaneous. Example: A neighb'ring Wood born with himself he sees, / And loves his old contemporary trees. Example: As this King [Henry VIII] vvas contemporary vvith the greateſt Monarchs of Europe, viz. the Emperor, the Kings of Spain and France, ſo he vvas engaged in many VVars, and in divers Leagues and Pacifications vvith them or either of them; for the better conſulting the Peace of Mankind. 2. Modern, of the present age (shorthand for ‘contemporary with the present’). Example: We live our lives in three dimensions for our threescore and ten allotted years. Yet every branch of contemporary science, from statistics to cosmology, alludes to processes that operate on scales outside of human experience: the millisecond and the nanometer, the eon and the light-year. Example: Men In Black 3 finagles its way out of this predicament by literally resetting the clock with a time-travel premise that makes Will Smith both a contemporary intergalactic cop in the late 1960s and a stranger to Josh Brolin, who plays the younger version of Smith’s stone-faced future partner, Tommy Lee Jones.
Word: contemporary Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Medieval Latin contemporārius, from Latin con- (“with, together”) + temporārius, an adjective derived from tempus (“time”). Pronunciation: /kənˈtɛm.p(ə.)ɹə.ɹi/, /kənˈtɛm.p(ə.)ɹi/, /kənˈtɛm.pəˌɹɛɹ.i/ 1. Someone or something belonging to the same time period (as someone or something else) Example: Cervantes was a contemporary of Shakespeare. Example: The early mammals inherited the earth by surviving their saurian contemporaries. 2. Something existing at the same time. 3. Something existing at the same time. Labels: dated Example: Annexation therefore was inevitable; but (as I have said above) it was not necessarily of prime importance in our national policy, and there has been no need to exaggerate—as I fear many of our contemporaries have exaggerated— […]
Word: brusque Part of Speech: adj Etymology: The adjective is borrowed from French brusque, from Italian brusco (“abrupt, sudden, brusque; brisk; eager; sour, tart; unripe; grim-looking”); further etymology unknown. The verb is derived from the adjective. Pronunciation: /bɹʊsk/, /bɹuːsk/, /bɹʌsk/ 1. Rudely abrupt; curt, unfriendly. Example: Mr. VValler, being probably of opinion that Monſieur Palamede’s arguments vvere too bruſque to be advanc’d in a diſpute vvith a Lady, vvho number’d not fevver than tvventy Kings of her progenitors, vvrote this poem in a more tender and courtly ſtyle; […] Example: [A]ll the answer Miss Jarron got was a brusque refusal, followed by Mr. Camperton's retreat from the piano. 2. Sour, tart. Labels: obsolete Example: [T]he thin and bruske harſh vvine doth nouriſh the bodie leſſe, but yet more agreeable and nutritive it is to the ſtomack.