quietus

\kwy-EE-tuhs\, noun:

1. Final discharge or acquittance, as from debt or obligation.
2. Removal from activity; rest; death.
3. Something that serves to suppress or quiet.

"I have put a quietus upon the next door neighbor's Gay Luau. Rest assured, sweet Gondrick: Gay Luau sounds shall no longer disrupt your slumber."

"WHO DARES DISRUPT FROZEN WALT DISNEY'S CRYOGENIC QUIETUS?" - Frozen Walt Disney, shortly after having his cryogenic quietus disrupted

magniloquent

magniloquent \mag-NIL-uh-kwent\, adjective:

Lofty or grandiose in speech or expression; using a high-flown style of discourse; bombastic.

"No, I didn't think your speech seemed particularly magniloquent... until you used the word 'magniloquent.'"

"You're more magniloquent than other encephalopods."

lissom

\LISS-uhm\, adjective;
also spelled lissome:

1. Limber; supple; flexible.
2. Light and quick in action; nimble; agile; active.

"She moves with the lissom grace of a monster truck covered in pin-wheels."

"Your soul is kind, gentle, and lissom... IN BED!"

mephitic

\muh-FIT-ik\, adjective:

offensive to the smell; as, mephitic odors.

"Santa Claus must be near by. I'd recognize that mephitic mix of B.O., egg nog, and stale cookie crumbs anywhere."

"I said I was anti-mephitic, not anti-semitic. Although sometimes I am that too, but it totally depends on the person, I swear. LOLz. Anyway, umm, more Gatorade?" - Winston Churchill

farrago

\fuh-RAH-go; fuh-RAY-go\, noun:
A confused mixture; an assortment; a medley.

"This is the most dreadful farrago of vegetables I've ever seen in my life!"

"Jim Belushi, this autobiography of yours is nothing more than a farrago of go-nowhere anecdotes, mediocre smoothie recipes, and lukewarm Gene Shalit quotes!"

emolument

\ih-MOL-yuh-muhnt\, noun:
The wages or perquisites arising from office, employment, or labor; gain; compensation.

"No emolument, please! Data entry is about the journey, not the reward."

"I plan to spend my weekly emolument on cheese, as I do every week, here in scenic Pittsburgh."

tatterdemalion

\tat-uhr-dih-MAYL-yuhn; -MAY-lee-uhn\, noun:

1. A person dressed in tattered or ragged clothing; a ragamuffin.

"Show me a tatterdemalion, and I'll show you a person dressed in tattered or ragged clothing; a ragamuffin."

adjective: 1. Tattered; ragged.

"The tatterdemalion man signed the tatterdemalion divorce papers ending his long, tatterdemalion marriage."

posit

\POZ-it\, transitive verb:
1. To assume as real or conceded.
2. To propose as an explanation; to suggest.
3. To dispose or set firmly or fixedly.

"All right, let's posit, for a moment, that golf IS fun to watch. That still doesn't explain this slaughtered pigeon!"

"Historians posit that I put the bomp in the bomp-a-bomp-a-bomp, no matter how many times I insist that I was merely responsible for the ram in the ram-a-lam-a-ding-dong."

furlough

\fer-LOH\, -noun.

Military. a vacation or leave of absence granted to an enlisted person.

"When the Colonel told me he was spending a 6-week furlough in his wife's vagina, at first I didn't take him literally..."

–verb (used with object) to grant a furlough to.

"I will furlough you, but only if you furlough me first." - an Equally Ranking Officer

troglodyte

\TROG-luh-dyt\, noun:
1. A member of a primitive people that lived in caves, dens, or holes; a cave dweller.
2. One who is regarded as reclusive, reactionary, out of date, or brutish.

"If you can't trust a troglodyte with carrying your luggage, who can you trust?"

"Hey, where's the best place on [Name of Your Friend's Street] Street to see some troglodytes? Give up? [Your friend's address]! Ohhh! Who's hot? I'm hot!"

propound

\pruh-POWND\, transitive verb:
To offer for consideration; to put forward; to propose.

"I propound from this day forth, that all Mondays become Thursdays, all Thursdays become Saturdays, and all Saturdays become Christmas Eve: Weeee!"

"Ladies and gentleman of the jury, I propound to you: gouda! A cheese for all seasons!"

perfervid

\puhr-FUR-vid\, adjective:
Ardent; impassioned; marked by exaggerated or overwrought emotion.

"I am starting to think it's no coincidence that the most perfervid supporters of tax breaks for unicellular Amoeboids and Sporozoan Microsporidia always happen to be unicellular Amoeboids and Sporozoan Microsporidia."

"Our Courtney is simply perfervid for Cocoa Puffs."

doula

\DOO-luh\, noun:
A woman who assists during childbirth labor and provides support to the mother, her child and the family after childbirth.

"...when a couple o' doulas who were up to no good, started makin' trouble in my neighborhood!"

"This Hundai Dealership reeks of broken dreams and failed doulas!"

"Yes but can your doula sing showtunes?!"

uxorious

\uk-SOR-ee-us; ug-ZOR-\, adjective:
Excessively fond of or submissive to a wife.

"Dude, you're heading straight from Uxorious-berg to Whipped-sville."

"Pendle was a uxorious man, despite his wife's cloven feet, cabbage breath, and a smile that could rebuild the Berlin Wall."

incommunicado

\in-kuh-myoo-nih-KAH-doh\, adverb or adjective:
Without the means or right to communicate.

"He was without phone, email, instant messaging, text messaging, fax machine, payphone, beeper, ham radio, telegraph, steam whistle,vocal chords, facial expressions, shofar, or lamb shank. In other words, Mike was truly incommunicado."

"Welcome to Cafe Incommunicado, Home of the Awkward Family Dinner."

grandee

\gran-DEE\, noun:

1. A man of elevated rank or station.
2. In Spain or Portugal, a nobleman of the first rank.

"Eustachio handled the banana nut muffins with the self-assurance of a grandee."

"You know, Marisol: in Spain or Portugal, I'm quite the grandee."

clamber

\KLAM-buhr; KLAM-uhr\

intransitive verb: 1. To climb with difficulty, or on all fours; to scramble.

"Look at us, clambering for a slice of the American dream that we can never hope to achieve? O, to be a rodeo clown is to know true sorrow.

noun:1. The act of clambering.

"It ain't a weekend without a little bit o' clamber!"

verdant

\VUR-dnt\, adjective:

1. Covered with growing plants or grass; green with vegetation.

"But Tabitha could only dream of what treasures and delights awaited her 'neath the Jolly Green Giant's verdant underthings."

2. Unripe in knowledge, judgment, or experience; unsophisticated; green.

"Forgive my son! For he is verdant in the ways of cow-milkery!

3. Green.

"Take hold my verdant hand and together we will soar into the Heavens and beyond." - Gumby

concinnity

\kuhn-SIN-uh-tee\, noun:

1. Internal harmony or fitness in the adaptation of parts to a whole or to each other.
2. Studied elegance of design or arrangement -- used chiefly of literary style.
3. An instance of concinnity.

"Mrs. Applebaum was tired of always having to use Voltron to teach her English class concinnity."

"I believe what we have here is an instance of concinnity."

parvenu

\PAR-vuh-noo; -nyoo\, noun:

1. One that has recently or suddenly risen to a higher social or economic class but has not gained social acceptance of others in that class; an upstart.

"Shelley knew that Jake was a parvenu. It was his Dom Perignon Slip n' Slide that gave it away."

adjective: 1. Being a parvenu; also, like or having the characteristics of a parvenu.

"Carrot sticks? How very parvenu."