Word of the day!

[Finished]

Pick a word and at minimum include a definition of it. Feel free to include an image of the word, an image relating to the word, the word in a sentence, a few sentences, or any thing relating to the word that you want.

Apprehensive
(adj.) Anxious or fearful that something bad / unpleasant will happen

She is justifiably apprehensive about going out on a date with me although if she does it won't be boring.

 

[Just Games]

Saucy

Sexually suggestive in a light hearted way.

 

[Finished]

Unhinged

Loss of mental reasoning, highly disturbed.

An unhinged man blew up his RV in Nashville Tennessee by the AT&T building due to 5G cell phone transmissions.

 

[Myra]

incredulity: disbelief

What he told them was entertaining but met with incredulity.

 

[ringwood]

Antimacassar

Definition: a small cloth placed over the backs or arms of chairs, or the head or cushions of a sofa, to prevent soiling of the permanent fabric underneath.

“The giant doily that my grandma always has draped over the back of the armchair actually has a name: an antimacassar!”

 

[Yukongirl]

Bizarre

Very strange or unusual, as to cause interest or amusement

The revenge that Lorena exacted upon her sleeping husband John, was indeed, bizarre....

 

[ewomack]

Obsequious

Excessive servile flattery or obidience

He remained obsequious to her demands, even when they stretched the bounds of decency.

 

[Finished]

Ascendancy

The noun ascendancy means a position of power, strength, or domination.

Synonyms are authority, dominance, influence, or reign.

The word origins in 1712. It is derived from ascendant plus –cy meaning “dominant power or influence, state of being in the ascendant”.

They are in menace of losing their political ascendancy.

Winter is swiftly in full ascendancy.

Their contestant is currently in ascendancy over their opponents.

 

[Bam111]

Stoic

a person who can endure pain or hardship without showing their feelings or complaining.

 

[user 188522]

ergo
therefore.
She was the sole beneficiary of the will, ergo the prime suspect.

 

[Bam111]

transcendence
existence or experience beyond the normal or physical level:
"the possibility of spiritual transcendence in the modern world"

 

[Finished]

Frugal - I spent most of the day shopping around for axle parts instead of buying a complete axle from one place and saved $70. Ha! ha!

 

[dan27]

flat·u·lent
/ˈflaCHələnt/
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adjective
adjective: flatulent

1. suffering from or marked by an accumulation of gas in the alimentary canal.
   "treat flatulent cows with caustic soda"

 

[Bam111]

Allegory

a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one:

 

[user 139760]

Knackered. From my understanding, to be dead tired and exhausted. Shoutout to my Aussie long distance cousin @okidoke

 

[Cherubino]

homoromantic

 

[Bam111]

Machiavellian- cunning, scheming, and unscrupulous, especially in politics

 

[Claudia1794]

Tintinabulation
Ringing of bells or something like that. I read in a Poe poem in a poetry class that I took because I wanted the professor. He was an amazing teacher

 

[user 162085]

Discombobulate -- to baffle, confuse or disconcert another.

Her actions continued to Discombobulate him, one minute she was laughing, the next she was crying in her beer.

 

[user 148069]

Elflock
a lock of hair tangled by elves

elven hair magic is a thing apparently