Word of the Day: idyll
idyll: A lighthearted carefree episode or experience.
pronunciation: \ EYE-dl \
example: From too much looking back, he was destroyed, … trying to re-create an idyll that never truly existed except in his own imagination.
idyll: A lighthearted carefree episode or experience.
pronunciation: \ EYE-dl \
example: From too much looking back, he was destroyed, … trying to re-create an idyll that never truly existed except in his own imagination.
bilocation: the state of being or ability to be in two places at the same time
pronunciation: \ bahy-loh-KEY-shuhn \
example: He experienced a sudden, startling sense of bilocation.
halcyon: Calm; quiet; peaceful; undisturbed; happy;
pronunciation: \ HAL-see-uhn \
example: It was a halcyon life
incondite: badly put together : crude
pronunciation: \ in-KON-dit \
example: He should of spell-checked before he sent these incondite articles to press.
compeer: close friend; comrade.
pronunciation: \ kuhm-PEER \
example: Have you seen my compeer John lately?
metempirics: the study of concepts and relationships conceived as beyond and yet related to knowledge gained empirically
pronunciation: \ met-em-pir-iks \
example: metempirics sweeps out of this region in search of the otherness of things
vamoose: To leave hurriedly or quickly; decamp.
pronunciation: \ va-MOOS \
example: If you don’t vamoose before I count fifteen, I swear I’ll fire.
malaise: an indefinite feeling of debility or lack of health often indicative of or accompanying the onset of an illness
pronunciation: \ muh-LAYZ \
example: The symptoms include headache, malaise, and fatigue.
torrid: parched with heat especially of the sun
pronunciation: \ SHAP-tuh-lahyz \
example: the torrid sand burnt my feet
chaptalize: to normalize the composition of a wine before fermentation by adding a neutralizer if the must is too acid or by adding sugar if there is not enough to produce the desired alcohol
pronunciation: \ SHAP-tuh-lahyz \
example: They chaptalize, they blend, they make great wine.
