Miscellaneous words
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08 May 2015, 01:38
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condescension===an attitude of patronizing superiority; disdain.
Bloviation ===== style of empty, pompous political speech.
gnostic ======== knowledge, especially esoteric mystical knowledge.
waggish=====humorous in a playful, mischievous, or facetious manner.
cerebral ====intellectual, sophisticated, thoughtful.
goad======provoke or annoy (someone) so as to stimulate an action or reaction.
couth======cultured, refined, and well mannered.
albatross=== a weight and burden.
parity ====equality, equivalence, uniformity.
salvos=======simultaneous release of a rack of bombs from an aircraft,sudden outburst, as of cheers or praise.
stub====butt, end, tail end, remnant.
albatross=== a dead weight or burden.
edacious=====relating to or given to eating.
carnel===sexual, sensual, erotic, lustful, lascivious, libidinous, lecherous, licentious, lewd, prurient, salacious, coarse, gross, lubricious, venereal.
gustatory=====concerned with tasting or the sense of taste.
notional====not existing in reality.
chimerical====imagination.