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Learn a new word every day for a year

A goal of Shelly Lorrain Durkee on their 101 Things in 1001 Days: Take 2! list with a status of Done.
301 - Folderol - A useless ornament or acessory

302 - Muliebrity - Womanly qualities, womanhood

303 - Bloviate - Talk at length; especially in an inflated or empty way

304 - Codicil - An addition or supplement that explains, modifies or revokes a will or part of one

305 - Minatory - Expressing or conveying a threat.

306 - Facultative - Left to one's option or choice; optional

307 - Rostrum - A small raised area that you stand on so that you can be seen, for example, by an audience or an orchestra

308 - Shot-Clog - One who is tolerated only because he pays the shot or reckoning, for the rest of the company; otherwise a mere clog on them.

309 - Malapert - Impudently bold in speech or manner; saucy

310 - Palimpsest - A manuscript or piece of writing material on which the original writing has been effaced to make room for later writing but of which traces remain

311 - Rataplan - A drumming or beating sound.

312 - Handsel - A gift given for good luck at the beginning of the year or to mark an acquisition or start of an enterprise

313 - Eleutheromaniac - Having a passionate mania for freedom

314 - Bumf - Reading materials (documents, written information) that is not important or interesting. Toilet paper.

315 - Progenitor - A person or thing from the past that a person, an animal or a plant that is alive now is related to.

316 - Usufruct - The right of enjoying all the advantages derived from the use of something that belongs to another, as far as is compatible with the substance of the thing not being destroyed or injured.

317 - Fructify - Make something fruitful or productive

318 - Flagitious - Of a person or their actions criminal; villainous.

319 - Tocsin - An alarm bell or signal

320 - Calumny - A misrepresentation intended to harm another's reputation. The act of uttering false charges or misrepresentations maliciously calculated to harm another's reputation.

321 - Higgledy-piggledly - In a disordered manner

322 - Abnegation - The act of renouncing or rejecting something

323 - Farceur - A writer or performer in farces; a joker or comedian

324 - Raddled - Showing the wearing effects of overwork or care or suffering.

325 - Ken - Understanding, knowledge or perception

326 - Irrupt - Enter forcibly or suddenly

327 - Simulacrum - An image or representation of someone or something

328 - Gnomic - Short and clever, but difficult to understand

329 - Inamorata - A woman whom one is in love with; a mistress

330 - Impecunious - Having little or no money

331 - Ossify - Turn into bone or bony tissue

332 - Effrontery - Insolent or impertinent behavior

333 - Latitudinarian - Not insisting on strict conformity to a particular doctrine or standard

334 - Prolix - Using or containing too many words; tediously lengthy

335 - Superannuated - Obsolete through age or new technological or intellectual developments

336 - Shunpike - A secondary road to avoid expressways and turnpikes

337 - Whinge - Complain, especially in a way that annoys other people

338 - Kyoodle - To make loud, useless noises

339 - Execrable - Deserving to be execrated; detestable, abominable. Extremely bad; of poor quality

340 - Vexillology - The study of flags

341 - Nonage - The state or condition of being under legal age

342 - Exiguity - The quality of being meager.

343 - Odalisque - A female servant in a Turkish harem

344 - Turpitude - Vile, Shameful, immoral person or behavior

345 - Platitudinous - Dull and tiresome but with pretensions of significance or originality

346 - Crapulous - Suffering from excessive eating or drinking

347 - Hobson's Choice - A choice of taking what is available or nothing at all

348 - Imprimatur - An authoritative approval or official license

349 - Evince - Constitute outward evidence of; show plainly

350 - Purblind - Having impaired or defective vision. Slow or unable to understand; dimwitted.


Posted 7 years ago