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  • Aug 01, 10

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    • scatology - Obscene language or literature, especially that dealing pruriently or humorously with excrement and excretory functions. 
      Synonyms: vulgarism, obscenity
       
      Usage: She hated to encounter scatology in her reading, believing it to be the lowest form of humor.
       
      alacrity - Cheerful willingness; eagerness. 
      Synonyms: briskness
       
      Usage: Strickland was glad to show me her children, and she accepted my invitation with alacrity.
       
      churl - A rude, boorish person. 
      Synonyms: boor, barbarian, peasant
       
      Usage: He is a drunken, brawling, perilous churl, as you may find to your cost.
       
      thurible - A censer used in certain ecclesiastical ceremonies or liturgies. 
      Synonyms: censer
       
      Usage: As the priest swung the thurible, incense poured out the holes in its lid.
       
      polyglot - A person having a speaking, reading, or writing knowledge of several languages. 
      Synonyms: linguist
       
      Usage: He was a polyglot who spoke nine languages fluently.

  • Aug 03, 10

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    • indomitable - Incapable of being overcome, subdued, or vanquished; unconquerable.   
      Usage: And that the great monster is indomitable, you will yet have reason to know.
       
      bumptious - Crudely or loudly assertive; pushy. 
      Synonyms: self-assertive
       
      Usage: I was annoyed by his bumptious style of conversation, and wished he would let others speak.
       
      cardinal - Of foremost importance.   
      Usage: The cardinal rule of membership in the secret society was never to reveal its existence to outsiders.
       
      nascent - Coming into existence. 
      Synonyms: emergent, emerging
       
      Usage: The nascent republic had to formulate its laws while continuing its war for independence.
       
      saturnine - Showing a brooding ill humor.   
      Usage: Since he had heard of Lilla's death, the gloom of his remorse had made more hopeless his cruel, selfish, saturnine nature.
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