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DULCET

  • sweet to the taste;
    pleasing to the ear <dulcet tones>
    generally pleasing or agreeable
 
vicissitude: a variation in circumstances or fortune at different times in your life or in the development of something

When you talk of the vicissitudes of life, you're referring to the difficult times that we all go through: sickness, job loss, and other unwelcome episodes. No one can escape the vicissitudes of life. While vicissitude comes from the Latin vicis, which means "change" and technically can mean a change of any kind, you'll find that vicissitude is almost always used to talk about an unfortunate event or circumstance. Losing a pet, crashing the car, being called in for jury duty: these are examples of vicissitudes — chapters in one's life that one would rather avoid but must get through. Some lives have more vicissitudes than others, to be sure, but no life is without events that test and challenge us.
 
I like that word and the references as well. Nicely put! :)

EFFLORESCENT

noun

1.the state or a period of flowering, blooming.

2.an example or result of growth and development:These works are the efflorescence of his genius.


3.Chemistry.
  • the act or process of efflorescing.
  • the resulting powdery substance or incrustation.

 
Synecdoche: a figure of speech in which you use a part of something to stand for the whole thing.

To correctly pronounce synecdoche, say "sih-NECK-duh-key." A synecdoche is a part that represents the whole. A photograph of a car that is completely covered in snow is a synecdoche for the burden everyone faces following a big winter storm. Synecdoche is a great literary device, especially for poets who strive to express a great deal in a single image.
 
^ Interesting

Much obliged (another way to thank you very much and a literal translation from the latin language)

Why obliged? As a matter-of-fact it is only in Portuguese that we find exactly the same words and the same meaning. "Muito Obrigado!" means exactly that one feels indebted to another person. Morally linked to each other.
 
semantic
(sɪˈmæntɪk)

adj.
1. (Linguistics) of or relating to meaning or arising from distinctions between the meanings of different words or symbols
2. (Philosophy) of or relating to semantics
3. (Logic) logic concerned with the interpretation of a formal theory, as when truth tables are given as an account of the sentential connectives.
 
SOOTHING

Adj.
1.soothing - affording physical relief; "a soothing ointment for her sunburn"comfortable, comfy - providing or experiencing physical well-being or relief (`comfy' is informal); "comfortable clothes"; "comfortable suburban houses"; "made himself comfortable in an armchair"; "the antihistamine made herfeel more comfortable"; "are you comfortable?"; "feeling comfy now?"
2.soothing - freeing from fear and anxiety
 
contraindicate: To contraindicate is to advise against. You'll almost always find this word in a medical context. A medicine that makes you sleepy would contraindicate driving, but that same medicine would be fine to take while you’re lying on the couch.

Contraindicate has Latin roots in contra for “against” and indicate for “to point out.” To contraindicate means to “point away” because the combination of the activity with the drugs or treatment could be dangerous to the patient. For example, the diagnosis of a virus in a young child contraindicates the use of aspirin because it's been shown to increase the risk of a potentially fatal syndrome. Contraindicate is often used in the passive voice, “For young children, aspirin is contraindicated.”


contraindication: (medicine) a reason that makes it inadvisable to prescribe a particular drug or employ a particular procedure or treatment
 

Petrichor

The smell of earth after rain.
A pleasant smell that frequently accompanies the first rain after a long period of warm, dry weather.
 
Erroneously: in a mistaken manner

Erroneously traces back to the Latin word errare, meaning “to stray, err.” If something’s done erroneously, you can think of it as straying from the right path and ending up going in the wrong direction. If you erroneously report to the IRS that you only made $500 last year and you really made $10,000, well, that’s a big mistake. If you do something erroneously, it’s typically by accident — you think it’s right but it isn’t.

*(courtesy of vocabulary.com)*
 
nictate
/ˈniktāt/
gerund or present participle: nictitating

verb

(especially of the eyelid) blink.
 
Animadversion: harsh criticism or disapproval

Animadversion is a harsh, critical comment––or even a public censure. You don't hear it very often, but in Puritan times, dressing in bright colors and swearing would bring many animadversions down upon you. Animadversion comes from the verb animadvert. In Middle English, animadvert meant simply to pay attention or "turn your mind to" something (animus means "mind," ad- "to," vertere "turn"). Anyone with parents can understand how a word that means "pay attention" can turn into a word that means "criticize."
 
Kalon


  • : the ideal of physical and moral beauty especially as conceived by the philosophers of classical Greece
 
peregrinate: travel around, through, or over, especially on foot

The most common way to peregrinate is on foot, wandering from place to place, as when you decide to peregrinate around your city's various neighborhoods pretending you're a tourist. The word is a bit old fashioned these days, and it was first used in the late 16th century, taken from the Latin peregrinatus, "traveled abroad," or figuratively "wandered or roamed," from peregrinus, "foreign."
 
Glorious!

adjective

1.delightful; wonderful; completely enjoyable:to have a glorious time at the circus.


2.conferring glory : a glorious victory.


3.full of glory; entitled to great renown: England is glorious in her poetry.


4.brilliantly beautiful or magnificent; splendid: a glorious summer day.


5.Archaic. blissfully drunk.
 
intransigent: impervious to pleas, persuasion, requests, reason

Trans has to do with movement — think transportation, or a package in transit, i.e. "on the way." The in- of intransigent means "not," so something or someone who is intransigent is not moving. If one political party wants to raise funds to improve schools but the other is intransigent on the subject of higher taxes, the debate will get nowhere.
 
Impetuous

adjective

1.of, relating to, or characterized by sudden or rashaction, emotion, etc.; impulsive:an impetuous decision; an impetuous person.


2.having great impetus; moving with great force;violent:the impetuous winds.

 
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