Words from other languages, relationships, clarity and vagueness
249207899 | berserk | adj. destructively violent, deranged, insane. | |
249207900 | jubilee | n. a season or occasion of joyful celebration, rejoicing, a special anniversary | |
249207901 | juggernaut | n. an overwhelming and irresistible force or movement, blind and destructive devotion. | |
249207902 | kowtow | intrans.v. to show respect or submission, fawn. n. an act of or gesture of exaggerated respect or obedience | |
249207903 | maelstrom | n. a whirlpool of extraordinary size or violence, a situation that resembles a whirlpool in the violence or turbulence of feelings, ideas or conditions. | |
249207904 | mecca | n. a place regarded as the center of an activity or interest, visited by many people, aspired goal. | |
249207905 | nabob | n. a person of great wealth and prominence. | |
249207906 | saga | long prose narrative, generations of a story | |
249207907 | shibboleth | n. a slogan or often repeated word or phrase, common saying or idea; a language usage that distinguishes the members of one group or class from another. | |
249207908 | trek | intrans.v. to make a slow or difficult journey. n. a journey or leg of a journey, especially when it is slow and difficult, a migration. | |
249207909 | adjunct | n. something attached to another thing but in a dependent or auxiliary capacity. adj. attached to a faculty or staff in a temporary or auxiliary capacity | |
249207910 | amalgamate | intrans.v. to combine, unite or consolidate, blend. trans.v. to mix so as to make a unified whole, blend | |
249207911 | contiguous | adj. sharing a boundary or edge, touching, adjacent, nearby, continuous | |
249207912 | diffuse | adj. widely spread or scattered, characterized by wordliness. trans.v. to pour out and cause to spread freely, disseminate, soften | |
249207913 | diverge | intrans.v. to go or extend in different directions from a common point, branch out, to differ in opinion, to depart from a set course or norm, deviate | |
249207914 | parity | n. equality, as in amount, status or value | |
249207915 | periphery | n. the outermost part or region within or immediately beyond a precise boundary, a zone constituting an inexact boundary | |
249207916 | synergy | n. the combined action of two or more agents, substances, organs, or organisms to achieve an effect greater than the total effect that would be produced by each one acting individually, interdependence | |
249207917 | transcend | trans.v. to pass beyond or rise above, to pass or exceed, to exist above and independent of | |
249207918 | unison | n. the act of speaking or singing the same words simultaneously by two or more people, an instance of agreement, concord | |
249207919 | adumbrate | trans.v. to give a sketchy outline of, to disclose partially or guardedly, to prefigure indistinctly, foreshadow | |
249207920 | arcane | adj. known or understood only by a few, esoteric, so insanely specific: biology of one-eyed newts in the indian ocean | |
249207921 | covert | adj. concealed, hidden, secret, covered, sheltered, n. covering or cover, a hiding place. antonym: blatant | |
249207922 | educe | trans.v. to draw or bring out, elicit | |
249207923 | fathom | trans.v. to get to the bottom of and understand, determine the depth of. n. a unit of length equal to six feet used by the measurement of marine depths | |
249207924 | impervious | adj. incapable of being penetrated or affect4ed, not open to argument or suggestion | |
249207925 | limpid | adj. characterized by transparent clearness, calm and untroubled, serene | |
249207926 | manifest | adj. clearly apparent to the sight or understanding, obvious trans.v. to show or demonstrate plainly, reveal, to show evidence of, prove n. a list of cargo or passengers for a ship or airplane | |
249207927 | nebulous | adj. lacking definite form or limits, vague, cloudy | |
249207928 | translucent | adj. transmitting light but causing sufficient diffusion to make impossible the perception of distinct forms |