Vest-Pocket Vocabulary
Noctil’ucous, a. shining in the night or dark.
Word in the Wild: My favourite part of going to Las Vegas is walking the strip and admiring the noctilucous neon lights.
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Vest-Pocket Vocabulary
Med’icaster, n. a quack who brags of cures.
Word in the Wild: The worst part of insomnia is watching all the overnight infomercials just brimming with medicasters.
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Vest-Pocket Vocabulary
Loo’by, n. a lubber; a clumsy fellow.
Word in the Wild: I thought our dog would outgrow that awkward puppy stage, but he’s eight years old now and still a total looby.
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Jet’ter, n. a spruce fellow; one who struts.
Word in the Wild: “I saw your brother at the bar last night and, my goodness, doesn’t he think he’s quite the jetter!”
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Insci’ence, n. an ignorant state.
Word in the Wild: “Don’t keep me in inscience, Monty! I’m dying to know what’s behind curtain number three!”
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Vest-Pocket Vocabulary
Heb’etate, v. to dull; to stupefy.
Word in the Wild: Heather always found that a giant portion of mac and cheese did more to hebetate than fortify her. Yet for some reason she always went back for seconds anyway.
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Vest-Pocket Vocabulary
Glose, v. to flatter.
Word in the Wild: Ruby was always amazed at her son’s ability to suddenly glose and fawn whenever he found himself needing the car.
This Vest-Pocket word, also spelled gloze, has been around since the 13oos, but it’s only rarely used now. You’ll sometimes find it used in the phrase “glose it” as in, “if you need to get something from her try glosing it.”
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This Vest-Pocket word can be used literally to denote billowing ashes and smoke or figuratively to suggest something veiled by an obscuring and murky haze.
Match Smoke by Andrew Magill
Fuli’ginous, a. smoky; sooty.
Word in the Wild: The plume issuing from Gunung Pinatubo struck Saraswati as being rather ominous, so she decided to review her findings in the lab rather than carry on into the crater that day. She could only hope the data would be less fuliginous than the ashes billowing from the volcano.
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Vest-Pocket Vocabulary
Well, it’s been a diuturnity since I last posted, but the radio silence is finally over. I’ve finished my publishing program (woo hoo!), and I’m glad to be blogging again. So without further ado here’s this week’s Vest-Pocket Vocabulary, which is all about radio silence.
Elin′guid, adj. unable to speak.
Word in the Wild: By the end of Morag’s pitch detailing how the company could recoup costs by training the rats in the basement to run the photocopy machines, the CEO was positively elinguid.
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