Parting Words
[Words behind an asterisk do not belong to this lexicon, strictly speaking.]
adoration
Speech of praise given by a company, directed toward itself, in a commercial break
altercation
A situation that, due to one getting charged up, spoils a positive setting
*apothecary
Pharmacist who at any given time has a packet of medical marijuana on him
arbitration
Settling of a sharing dispute by allotting each party a measure chosen at random
*assiduousness
The quality of working your buttocks off. Not one, but both of them
bartender
A mixer of drinks who switches off the pub television when the Simpsons show comes on
caprice [economics]
Unpredictability in the MRP of staple grains
castrate [as quoted in The Directors' Manual]
To emasculate a film production company by making a movie with actors demanding astronomical pays
*catastrophe
Ecological disaster that ensues by killing large numbers of lions, leopards, &c. in view of turning them into prized possessions
centrally [politics]
With the national government, a policy citizens oppose by gathering in multitudes and contributing copper pennies toward the cause
cheroots
A variety of cigars threatening to overtake its native counterpart in Cuba. They gained in popularity when Castro revealed that Guevara approved of them.
constrain
(1) To restrict a prisoner's movements, causing him or her psychological difficulties
(2) To hold back an optimistic plan by rattling off a long list of demerits in it
(3) To confine to one's residence all day on account of a ceaseless thunderstorm
countermine
Scheme to get back at a feudal aristocrat by sabotaging his expensive fur
decivilization
Reduction to a primitive or savage state
vilization
Reduction to complete depravity. Considered ten times malicious as decivilization
deliberated
Reflected carefully as to the surprise ingredient in the sandwich your impatient customer ordered after directing unflattering remarks towards you
detergents
The chemicals that make men loathe to do the laundry
denounce
Literally, to speak out against a cat that never leaves its abode. A political metaphor used to protest against a government's refusal to trade.
discover
Find that the music stopped a while back
divine
Supernatural. Doubly creepy.
dormant
Never attending lectures but erupting like a volcano in the exam to end up topping the class on account of having untiringly toiled like a colony insect in the confines of one's hostel room
enterprising [sales and marketing]
Marked by the willingness to embark on imaginative ways of opening one's customers' wallets up by force
*equinox
A cattle beast that's a cross between a horse and a bovine, which slaves 12 hours a day with its eyes open and 12 hours closed
flagrant
Outrageously offensive in the way a speech of excessive emotion delivered at Independence/Republic Day meetings is
formally
In a courtly, established manner, aimed to make comrades
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hamstring
A tendon that amateur radio operators often injure by making a quick dash to their transceivers when they beep
heartrending
Causing deep anguish by making one come to know of current societal tendencies
illimitable
Characterized by an abundance not easily duplicated
impasses
The problems of dealing with children who are at once mischievous and moronic, for which no known solutions exist
infertile
Incapable, as construed from a species of astrology involving pushing Scrabble letters around, of issue
interview
An opportunity to exercise the noble deed of uttering what your listener wishes to hear and burying your own opinion
intuition
That which cannot be taught in tuition [courtesy: YSP]
laconic
Brief in speech, as practised by certain habitants of an otherwise talkative Paris. Such as mentioned are said to be afflicted with eccentricity
malefactor
The non-definition printed in self-respecting dictionaries owing to plainness of meaning
The murder of several people after putting them all within certain sq. yards of land
mendicant
He that claims inability to set right his life to defend his beggary
methought [archaic, humourous]
'It struck me that'
Eg.: Methought an amphetamine should do the trick.
notable
(1) [of a person] Catching one's attention for complete want of aptitude
(2) [of a room] Catching one's attention for complete want of furniture
overturn
An unexpected Ashes victory by England. The English claim no surprise on an overturn because the container of the original ashes displays, indisputably, the names of only their cricketers.
overlooking [as defined for gentlemen]
Glancing down upon the tile patterns, as an emperor upon his courtiers, while seated on the commode
peeking [as defined for gentlemen]
Glancing down upon the tile patterns, as an emperor upon his courtiers, while not seated on the commode
plumbing
Making a fruitful search on the Internet in order to go to the depths of some matter
poetry
A rough draft of The Raven
reappear
To make a second coming as a fruit does upon being plucked
restore
Bring an overfunctioning extraction plant to its original efficiency by pausing the mining process
stubborn
Adamant about leaving a wikipedia article short after creating it
sundry
All sorts of clothes on a line
teasingly
In a playfully mocking manner
Eg.: To drive home the atrocity of his prices, the three of us teasingly ordered merely one glass of beverage from Nair
temporal
Momentary as the reading in a thermometer taken out of your mouth
trifling
Describing the three or less casual relationships a person is allowed to have prior to marriage without seriously damaging it
untoward
Pertaining to something you would not like to happen to your child
virulent
Relating to the destructivity of the Indian top order, a quality it owes to its opener
warbling
Collective name for the sounds a lover of the past makes as he enters a WWII museum
warplane
An aircraft that, by virtue of flying faster than Superman, causes his girlfriend to lose interest in him
winnow
To remove the underperformers from a side in pursuit of an immediate turnover of fortunes
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