List of unknow words and it definition (action plan)
Here are some words that I found at Internet (watching novels and donghuas); they're unknow for me, so I'll give them a definition or a translation to spanish:
- Jabberwock: nonsense, gibberish
- Jaculiferous: having arrow-like prickles
- Jargoon: brilliant pale or colorless zircon
- Stubborn: Terco
- Largiloquent: talkative; full of words
- Macrosmatic: having a good sense of smell
- Quackle: to choke; to suffocate
- Outrageous: Indignante
- Stir: Provocar
- Old flame: A person that you loved in the past / un antiguo amor
- Recklessness: is the state of acting without proper concern for the potential harm or risk, even when aware of it
- Ratoon: a small shoot growing from the root of a plant
- Ucalegon: neighbor whose house is on fire
- Valetudinarian: a sickly or weak person, especially one who is constantly and morbidly concerned with his or her health
- Whiffler: somebody who walks in front of you through a crowd
- Thunder-plump: is a heavy and sudden rainstorm
- frenigerent: bearing a bridle
-fumificate: to make or cause smoke or incense
- gardeviance: chest for valuables; a travelling trunk
- gardevisure: visor of a helmet as shown on heraldic devices
- gaudiloquent: speaking joyfully or on joyful matters
- gelicide: a frost
the next words are some I found in a interesting page that inform us to unknow old words
-jobler n 1662 -1662
one who does small jobs
We've found a great jobler who takes care of our repairs quickly and cheaply.
-jumperism n 1800 -1876
principles of a jumping Methodist sect
While snake-handling is ridiculous, it is no worse than jumperism or the stylites.
-jungible adj 1656 -1656
that may be joined
The trailers are jungible by means of a complex hitching system.
-jussulent adj 1656 -1658
full of broth or soup
The bubbling of the jussulent cauldron and the crackling of the campfire soothed her.
-kalotypography n 1834 -1834
beautiful printing
Medieval manuscripts are attractive, but modern kalotypography surely surpasses them.
-keleusmatically adv 1885 -1885
imperatively; in an imperative mood
"Sit down!" the teacher instructed his wife keleusmatically, to her chagrin.
-kexy adj 1608 -1884
dry, brittle, withered
-scathefire n 1632 -1796
great destructive fire; conflagration
Despite the scathefire that razed the town, its citizens were determined to rebuild.
-scelidate adj 1877 -1877
having legs; legged
The legless dragon of Eastern myth contrasts with its scelidate Western counterpart.
-sceptriferous adj 1656 -1658
bearing a scepter
The court's sceptriferous seneschal had a primarily symbolic function.
-schismarch n 1657 -1657
founder of a schism
The schismarch of the People's Front of Judea was hated by his former allies.
-secability n 1842 -1842
capability of being cut
The limited secability of Kevlar makes it an ideal material for modern armour.
-sedecuple n 1690 -1690
quantity sixteen times another
She enjoyed the Slinky, though her age was the sedecuple of her granddaughter's.
-sementine adj 1656 -1656
pertaining to sowing; of the time of seeding fields
This year's drought means that our springtime sementine efforts were in vain.
-senticous adj 1657 -1657
prickly; thorny
He pricked himself on a senticous bush as he searched about for his golf ball.
-seplasiary n 1650 -1658
seller or producer of perfumes and ointments
She had an allergic reaction after the seplasiary sprayed her in the eyes.
-sermonolatry n 1859 -1859
excessive devotion to sermons
We moved to a church across town because of our pastor's excessive sermonolatry.
-sevidical adj 1656 -1656
speaking cruel and harsh words; threatening
I will not tolerate your sevidical tone and manner, you filthy peasant!
-sevous adj 1725 -1725
like tallow or suet
The sevous mixture wouldn't harden, and so the whole batch of candles was ruined.
-siagonology n 1895 -1895
study of jaw-bones
Reliance on siagonology alone led to the proliferation of the Piltdown Man hoax.
-sigilism n 1865 -1865
act of revealing the secrets of the confessional
After learning of such atrocities, it is only natural that he would consider sigilism.
-sinapistic adj 1879 -1879
consisting of mustard
The chef's sinapistic sauces delighted connoisseurs of French cuisine.
-sireniform adj 1849 -1852
having the lower legs abnormally joined into a single limb
When they learned that their child had a sireniform deformity, they were devastated.
-slimikin adj 1745 -1745
small and slender
She was a slimikin young woman who often flirted with the schoolboys at the academy.
-snobographer n 1848 -1966
one who describes or writes about snobs
The editors scrapped the society page because it was full of pretentious snobographers.
-sodalitious adj 1656 -1730
of or belonging to society or to fellowship
Sodalitious camaraderie is the basis for gentlemanly life in this civilized era.
This is just for today, I'm tired.....
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