- Agrestic: Someone who is rude, uncouth and uncultured.
- Ubiquitous: Which seems everywhere or omnipresent.
- Ecdysiast: A striptease artist.
- Bailiwick: An area of interest, activity or authority.
- Insinuation: A malicious implication.
- Animadversion: A harsh critical remark.
- Epistemology: Related to philosophy, which studies the science of how we know things.
- Banal: Boring, rudimentary, something that is not original.
- Godspeed: Success or fortune.
- Schadenfreude: Sadistic pleasure derived from someone's misfortune.
- Porphyrophobia: Fear of the color purple.
- Senescence: Growing old or aging.
- Euphony: Bearable or agreeable sound.
- Quixotic: Extremely romantic and chivalrous.
- Jocularity: Funny or joking speech; joking behavior
- Mendacity: A pretense; a false appearance.
- Obloquy: An oral or verbal abuse towards a person.
- Ribaldry: Behavior inclining towards indelicacy.
- Heebie-Jeebies: Nervous jitters.
- Corpulent: Extremely fat.
- Ennui: Boredom or joblessness.
- Callipygian: Well toned buttocks.
- Penultimate: Next to the last.
- Kakistocracy: Government chosen by the worst class of citizens.
- Uxorious: Extremely submissive to one's wife.
- Ichthyophagous: One that feeds on fish.
- Hebetudinous: One who lacks mental stimulation, dull-minded, very lethargic.
- Mammiferous: Having mammary glands.
- Tatterdemalion: A shabbily dressed person.
- Jejune: Nothing interesting; rudimentary.
- Solipsism: It is a philosophical belief that only the self exists.
- Hedonism: A belief that happiness is the only good thing in life.
- Hiatus: A break; a pause.
- Hispid: Coarse bristle like hair, especially of animals or plants.
- Perspicacious: To have a very good judgment.
- Condign: A well deserved punishment.
- Deipnosophist: A person with excellent dinner table conversation skills.
- Eleemosynary: Pertaining to charity.
- Pareidolia: A psychological phenomenon, wherein a person has the notion of seeing faces of people in clouds, hearing hidden messages and other such unusual feelings.
- Pleonasm: Use of redundant words.
- Syzygy: Linear alignment of 3 celestial bodies (the sun, the moon and the earth).
- Tmesis: Separating parts of a word by using another word.
- Pilgarlic: A bald head.
- Sesquipedalian: Using long words.
- Sciolism: Superficial and pseudo knowledge.
- Stegophilist: A person who climbs buildings for the sake of fun.
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