flummery

n. mumbo-jumbo, nonsense.

Global warming? Flummery!
In summary, my opponent is full of lies and flummery.
A favorite saying at the annual senior citizen hip-hop concert was, “When I say fiddlesticks, you say flummery! Fiddlesticks!” “Flummery!” “Fiddlesticks!” “Flummery!”
Are you kidding? Montgomery has a PhD in flummery!

empyrean

\em-pie-REE-un\, noun or adjective
n. The highest heaven, in ancient belief usually thought to be a realm of pure fire or light.
a. Of or pertaining to the sky or the heavens

No this is the empyrean. Jake’s Auto Parts is next door.
Yo, turn a light off! It’s like the empyrean in here, but without the ecstacy!
I thought I’d reached the empyrean. Really, I’d eaten a bad clam.

This trampoline is the closest I’ll ever get to feeling empyrean.
The cat fell from the curtains as if it was an empyrean being.
I have no use for your empyrean flummery!

glabrous

\GLAY-bruhs\, adjective:
Smooth; having a surface without hairs, projections, or any unevenness.

After my waxing, I will be as glabrous as the Arctic tundra.
Sure, I want to earn my PhD eventual, but for now my main priority is to be glabrous.
Ahhh, what’s the use, for I shall never be as glabrous as you, Mirror Image.
Cindy's permanent record was a glabrous prairie compared to Johnny's, whose could only be described as an endlessly rocky valley of insubordination.
Give him a glabrous pair of deerhooves, a bottle of Dewar's, and some Chinese fingercuffs, and Billyjoe was set for the weekend.

abstruse

\ab-STROOS; uhb-\, adjective: difficult to understand

I'm sorry Mr. Khan, but this eviction note is WAY too abstruse.
Fred: complex, enigmatic, abstruse.
Baseball ain't abstruse, Jimmy, just HIT THE FUCKIN' BALLLLLLL.
Thor had never been to a slumber party, she found this world of hairbraiding, gossiping, and oreo-dunking to be abstruse.
Mr. Private and Private Mister found each other to be abstruse at best.

egress

\EE-gress\ n.
1. The act of leaving, or the right or freedom to leave; departure.
2. A means of going out or leaving; an exit; an outlet.

Hark! A window! At least I shall have my egress from this dungeon.
And the graceful egress of that bumble bee is what inspired me to start my own shoe store!!!
You show me a hoverboard and I'll show you an EGRESS YOU WILL NEVER FORGET.
I am looking forward to making my latest egress home from this shitty shitty job I have.

\ee-GRESS\: intransitive verb
To go out; to depart; to leave.

No one could tell Ricky where to egress the shopping mall, because no one knew what "egress" meant and he didn't have the patience to tell them.
Armando never leaves; he egresses.

palimpsest

\PAL-imp-sest\, n. An object or place whose older layers or aspects are apparent beneath its surface.

If it weren't for the sign out front that read, "Truman for President... and No Blacks!", John would have never realized the cafe was a palimpsest.
I'll be damned! This TV Guide is a palimpsest! You fellas just taped a new cover on it to trick me cuz I'm old!
The Egyptian post office had mostly modern looking furniture, but the Mummy working behind the counter revealed it to be a palimpsest.
My five-disc CD makes this place look like a palimpsest and it's all because of that goddamned iPoD!!!!!

panoply

\PAN-uh-plee\, n. a splendid or impressive array

Miranda quickly readied her panoply of salad dressings, as Vigor would be arriving any minute.
Quite the panoply of books, Professor. Have you read them all!
Thanks to Matt Koff's Word du Jour website(TM), Vigor now had a panoply of fancy words to use during his evening with Miranda.
And then he had the nerve to ask me if I'd read all of the books in my panoply!
Stuart's panoply of knives was just one panoply in a panoply of panoplies.
Of course I've read all the books in my panoply.
It's a nice array, but I don't know if I'd call it a PANOPLY, per se.

persiflage

\PUR-suh-flahzh\, n. banter, light good-natured discussion.

Stuff your persiflage in a hat and SIDDOWN!!!
I think you'll find my powers of persiflage quite potent.
It was clear, especially after his "So, I hear your baby's dead" remark, that Marcus still needed work on his persiflage,
Come for the paiella but STAY for the persiflage!
People wondered how Joanne could be such a master of persiflage. Little did they know, she lacked depth.
BEHOLD! The puppies of persiflage!

teetotaler

n. one pledged to abstinence from alcoholic drinks.

Your mother was a teetotaler. Several times.
From now on, I'm a teetotaler. Want some blow?
So you're a teetotaler! That don't impress-a me much!
WHEEERRRREEE'S THE BOOOOOZE? What is this, a teetotalers' convention?!
Penn and Teller are teetotalers.
Grapefruit juice? Typical teetotaler.
You say teetotaler, I say poopypants.

hector

v. to bully or harass.

After relentless hectoring by friends and family, Franklin updated his blog.
Are you kidding?! "HECTOR" is my middle name!
Don't hector! Just correct her!
When Jones became a stand-up comedian, the hectoring ended, but the heckling began.
Me you can hector, but don't even talk about my reflectors.
Don't hector, just dissect her!

enuresis

n. involuntary discharge of urine, esp. during sleep.

Some people use pottery as their release. Mine… is enuresis.
Pahh! Don't call it “enuresis”! It’s entirely voluntary, I swear!
You have enuresis of the mouth.
My wife died of enuresis.
I like to think of the rain as a sort of... divine enuresis.
Without Joel’s enuresis, his wife would scarcely remember that he was beside her in bed at all.
The way love makes you feel is second only to enuresis.
Enuresis for president.

sallow

sallow, adjective; pale sickly yellow color.

Not many people know that Saul Bellow was sallow.
Eat some red meat, you sallow motherfucker.
Morrissey’s audience looked even more sallow than usual that night.
I’m not sallow, you’re just shallow!
The fields turned fallow when Sallow Sal found a halo in the
gallows.
Not surprisingly, the sallow serpent sulked and sulked.
Maria’s feet turns sallow when she realized her moccasins were gone forever.
GRRRREAT! Joan Rivers says SALLOW is back in style!