All words below are based from The New Lexicon Webster's Dictionary Deluxe Encyclopedic Edition that my mom brought us since early elementary days.
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| The New Lexicon: Webster's Dictionary Deluxe Encyclopedic - 1988 Edition |
bunkum
humbug, nonsense
collusion
a dishonest, secret agreement
conundrum
1. a riddle turning on a play of words
2. a problem
dung
1. an animal excrement
2. manure
epoch
a period of time characterized by momentous events or changes.
eunuch
a castrated man or boy
euphemism
the use of a pleasant, polite or harmless-sounding word or expression to mark harsh, rude or infamous truths, e.g. "to pass away" for "to die"
feign
1. to represent by false appearance, simulate, to feign death; to pretend, to feign indifference
2. a sham, fictitious
3. fraudulent
feint
1. a false appearance, pretense
2. a mock attack to deceive an opponent about the attack proper
3. a deceptive movement
imbibe
1. to take in (liquid etc)
2. to take into the mind by a gradual process (to imbibe knowledge)
jiffy
an instant
kismet
1. fate as a predetermining power
2. one's fate
lech
1. to lust; to be a lecher
2. one who leches
mediocre
neither good nor bad, without distinction
medusa
a jellyfish
meld
to declare ( a card or cards) for scoring
miser
an avaricious person, esp. one who lives in discomfort or squalor in order to hoard his wealth.
mulct
1. a fine
2. a penalty
3. a compulsory payment
munificent
lavish in giving; characterized by generosity
negus
a drink of wine and hot water, sweetened, and often flavored with nutmeg or lemon juice
[after Francis Negus (d. 1732), English soldier, its inventor]
tonic
1. mentally or morally invigorating
2. pertaining to or based on a keynote
3. relating to tone in painting or photography
trawl
a large, wide-mouthed bag net which is dragged along the bottom of the sea for fish by a boat
withers
the ridge between the shoulder blades of a horse (and some other animals)
