eudemonic \yoo-di-MON-ik\

adjective:

1. pertaining or conducive to happiness.
2. pertaining to eudemonics or eudemonism.
 
oenophile \EE-nuh-fahyl\

noun:

1. a person who enjoys wines, usually as a connoisseur.
 
gastronome \GAS-truh-nohm\

noun:

1. a connoisseur of good food; gourmet; epicure.
 
irenic \ahy-REN-ik, ahy-REE-nik\

adjective:

1. tending to promote peace or reconciliation; peaceful or conciliatory.
 
festoon \fe-STOON\

verb:

1. to adorn with or as with festoons: to festoon a hall.
2. to form into festoons: to festoon flowers and leaves.
 
merrythought \MER-ee-thawt\

noun:

1. Chiefly British. the wishbone or furcula of a fowl.
 
munificence \myoo-NIF-uh-suh ns\

noun:

1. the quality of being munificent, or showing unusual generosity: The museum's collection was greatly increased by the munificence of the family's gift.
 
bonhomie \bon-uh-MEE, BON-uh-mee; French baw-naw-MEE\

noun:

1. frank and simple good-heartedness; a good-natured manner; friendliness; geniality.
 
wing-ding \WING-ding\

noun:

1. Slang. a noisy, exciting celebration or party.
2. Slang. a fit, either induced by drugs or feigned.
 
abdominous \ab-DOM-uh-nuh s\

adjective:

1. having a large belly; potbellied.
 
stelliferous \ste-LIF-er-uh s\

adjective:

1. having or abounding with stars.
 
probity \PROH-bi-tee, PROB-i-\

noun:

1. integrity and uprightness; honesty.
 
clinquant \KLING-kuh nt\

adjective:
1. glittering, especially with tinsel; decked with garish finery.

noun:
1. imitation gold leaf; tinsel; false glitter.
 
first-foot \FURST-FOO T\

noun:

1. Scot. the first person to cross the threshold of a house on New Year's Day.
2. Scot. the first person met after starting out on the day of an important occasion.
 
redintegrate \red-IN-ti-greyt, ri-DIN-\

verb:

1. to make whole again; restore to a perfect state; renew; reestablish.
 
prepossessing \pree-puh-ZES-ing\

adjective:

1. that impresses favorably; engaging or attractive: a confident and prepossessing young man.
 
salubrious \suh-LOO-bree-uh s\

adjective:

1. favorable to or promoting health; healthful: salubrious air.
 
kvell \kvel\

verb:

1. Slang. to be extraordinarily pleased; especially, to be bursting with pride, as over one's family.
 
unputdownable \uhn-poo t-DOU-nuh-buh l\

adjective:

1. Informal. (especially of a book or periodical) so interesting or suspenseful as to compel reading.
 
terpsichorean \turp-si-kuh-REE-uh n, turp-si-KAWR-ee-uh n, -KOHR-\

adjective:

1. pertaining to dancing.
2. (initial capital letter) of or relating to Terpsichore.
 
sybaritic \sib-uh-RIT-ik\

adjective:

1. pertaining to or characteristic of a sybarite; characterized by or loving luxury or sensuous pleasure: to wallow in sybaritic splendor.
2. (initial capital letter) of, relating to, or characteristic of Sybaris or its inhabitants.
 
offing \AW-fing, OF-ing\

noun:

1. the more distant part of the sea seen from the shore, beyond the anchoring ground.
2. a position at a distance from shore.
 
cineaste \SIN-ee-ast, SIN-ey-\

noun:

1. any person, especially a director or producer, associated professionally with filmmaking.
2. an aficionado of filmmaking.
 
inveigle \in-VEY-guh l, -VEE-\

verb:

1. to entice, lure, or ensnare by flattery or artful talk or inducements (usually followed by into): to inveigle a person into playing bridge.
2. to acquire, win, or obtain by beguiling talk or methods (usually followed by from or away): to inveigle a theater pass from a person.
 
peripatetic \per-uh-puh-TET-ik\

adjective:

1. walking or traveling about; itinerant.
2. (initial capital letter) of or relating to Aristotle, who taught philosophy while walking in the Lyceum of ancient Athens.
 
Back
Top