Vocab #11

Vocab #11

Folderol

(noun)

Gamut

(noun)

A showy but worthless trinket

or mere nonsense

The entire range or extent, as of emotions

It's impossible to pick out any actual

content on that page amongst all the

adverts, links, and folderol.

Last night she'd felt as if she'd run through

an entire gamut of emotions with him.

Hoi polloi

Ineffable

(adj.)

The common people; the masses

Too overwhelming to be expressed or

described in words; inexpressible

With a cheaper version of the book for

hoi polloi ,' she added, chortling

with pleasure.

Where are the grapevines and vineyards,

the inspired spirits of wine which derive

from them their ineffable principles?

Lucubration

(noun)

The act of lucubrating; laborious work,

study,or writing, esp. that done late at night

Derring-do

(noun)

Mnemonic

(adj.)

The student' s intense lucubration

was rewarded by his excellent grades

Daring action; reckless courage

Helping, or meant to help, the memory

Cul-de-sac

(noun)

She felt all her pains come back and wondered

why she'd been so hasty to perform deeds of

derring-do and rescue.

For many people of a certain age,

the sound of classic swing music is the

mnemonic key to the past.

Obloquy

(noun)

A situation from which there is no escape

The

Verbal abuse of a person or thing; censure or

vituperation, esp. when widespread or general

He drew them close to keep them dry as

they crossed the cul-de-sac.

Elixir

(noun)

Parameter

(noun)

If this obloquy is to be cast on the

jurisprudence of our country, it must arise

from the peculiar character of the case.

A supposed remedy for all ailments

Any constant, with variable values, used as a

referent for determining other variables

Divination

(noun)

Theophrastus Bombastus Paracelsus 1494-1541

was an alchemist who died from alcohol

poisoning, his alleged elixir of life.

The act or practice of trying to foretell

the future or explore the unknown

Apparently, as a parameter of

reinstatement, Rose would make a

public acknowledgment in some form that he did, indeed, bet on baseball.

(works every time :) )

"No. No, thank you very much,"

he said, backing away from Miss Larkins

' little table spread with objects of divination.

Remember?

hoi polloi

ineffable

lucubration

mnemonic

obloquy

parameter

pundit

risible

symptomatic

volte-face

Pundit

(noun)

Bilious

(adj.)

A person who has or professes to have great

learning; actual or self-professed authority

Having the appearance of one who has

such an ailment

Risible

(adj.)

Everyone who was anyone on the political

pundit circuit had to have Amés appear on

his or her show or play in his or her game milieu.

Affinity

(noun)

They had the world in hand, unlike these Crumbling Papas who endure bilious spousal phone calls

about their shortcomings.

Causing laughter; laughable; funny; amusing

Close relationship; connection

They looked at each other's hands, proving the eye's

affinity for the ring finger; both saw gold.

He had an idea there was something

risible about his stiffness of manner.

Symptomatic

(adj.)

Corollary

(noun)

affinity

bilious

cognate

corollary

cul-de-sac

derring-do

divination

elixir

folderol

gamut

Anything that follows as a normal result

That constitutes a symptom, as of a disease;

indicative

Cognate

(adj. or noun)

Restraint is an unwritten corollary of the

only three rules we have here.

Volte-face

(noun)

Not daring to say YES is symptomatic of fearing

an expected NO.

Having the same nature or quality , or a cognate word,

language, or thing

Complete reversal of opinion, attitude, etc.

The word anchoress is a cognate of a Greek verb that

means `to retire.

This volte-face struck some British

politicians as the ultimate in

Slavic chutzpah.