Word of the Day (general nouns)
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- compunction
- anxiety arising from awareness of guilt, distress of mind over an anticipated action or result, a twinge of misgiving, scruple
- ennead
- a group of nine
- ne plus ultra
- the highest point capable of being attained, acme, the most profound degree of a quality or state
- métier
- vocation, trade, an area of activity in which one excels, forte
- derring-do
- daring action, daring
- doch-an-dorris
- a parting drink
- spiel
- a voluble line of often extravagant talk, pitch
- bonhomie
- good-natured easy friendliness
- touchstone
- a test or criterion for determining the quality of genuineness of a thing, a fundamental or quintessential part or feature
- annus mirabilis
- wonderful year
- deportment
- the manner in which one conducts oneself, behavior
- cocooning
- the practice of spending leisure time at home in preference to going out
- incidence
- rate of occurrence or effect
- maquette
- a usually small preliminary model (as of a sculpture or a building)
- ratiocination
- the process of exact thinking, reasoning, a reasoned train of though
- treacle
- a medicinal compound formerly used as a remedy against poison, molasses, something (as a tone of voice) heavily sweet and cloying
- mimesis
- imitation, mimicry
- turpitude
- inherent baseness, depravity, a base act
- idée fixe
- an idea that dominates one's mind esp for a prolonged period, obsession
- emprise
- adventurous, daring, or chivalric enterprise
- predication
- foundation, implication
- vaticination
- prediction, the act of prophesying
- hibernaculum
- a shelter occupied during the winter by a dormant animal
- simulacrum
- image, representation, an insubstantial form or semblance of something, trace
- recrudescence
- a new outbreak after a period of abatement or inactivity, renewal
- waterloo
- a decisive or final defeat or setback
- gallimaufry
- hodgepodge
- mansuetude
- the quality or state of being gentle, meekness, tameness
- mythomania
- an excessive or abnormal propensity for lying or exaggerating
- zibeline
- a soft lustrous wool fabric with mohair, alpaca, or camel's hair