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Post by koskiewicz on Jan 18, 2019 17:40:25 GMT
and a few more:
intrinsic
extrinsic
soliloquy
basilisk
didactic
quidnunc
ziggurat
dragoman
nudnik
paladin
As for the poster who asked me about "sfumato" I picked that term up studying art history, specifically, Rembrandt. And I never read the Kingsolver book, but do recall a famous lacuna of modern times being the gap in the Nixon/Watergate tapes.
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Post by koskiewicz on Jan 20, 2019 17:11:08 GMT
...and some more:
obtuse
abstruse
nexus
germane
orismology
dodecahedron
mugwump
Brobdingnagian
ferricadouzer
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Post by ant-mac on Jan 20, 2019 18:51:41 GMT
Ecclesiastical
Esoteric
Exquisite
Sacrosanct
Synchronicity
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Post by koskiewicz on Jan 20, 2019 20:56:42 GMT
kosmokrator
fjord
ganja
plenary
subboreal
matanza
valgus
izzat
bosky
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Post by mecano04 on Jan 20, 2019 22:44:13 GMT
As in Mary a un je ne sais quoi!
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Post by mecano04 on Jan 20, 2019 22:46:35 GMT
Tarabiscoté
Cocu (for how it sounds, not what it means, that's cuckold in french)
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Post by koskiewicz on Jan 21, 2019 16:26:46 GMT
oeillade - Fr. a glance, an ogle.
shabash! Hindu, Bravo, well done.
Faire le savant Fr. To act the learned man.
floreat Etona Latin, Motto of Eton college.
corda, IT. String music.
ante bellum - Latin, Before the war.
hope, Eng. - Desire and expectation rolled into one.
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Post by koskiewicz on Jan 22, 2019 1:24:53 GMT
gamashes
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Post by koskiewicz on Jan 22, 2019 17:26:19 GMT
hakenkreuz
fasgrolia
psilology
intersidereal
pseudomnesia
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klandersen
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Post by klandersen on Jan 22, 2019 19:57:07 GMT
fiddlybit Yadda (or is that technically Yadda, Yadda, Yadda?)
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Post by koskiewicz on Jan 22, 2019 21:59:27 GMT
vade mecum - go with me
recto - ablative of rectus
aficionado - fan, devotee
cacique - chief of a tribe
monadnock - a rocky mass or mountain...
crapulous - sick from drink
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