18th

It's April Fool's Day and I don't care. I'm not going to mention its history or its merits. I'm just going to go over to everyone's house, ask to go to the bathroom, sidle up to that porcelain chair, remove the top on the back of it, and piss into the top. Because I hate when people are happy, and piss should come out when the flush. And I'll probably pour sugar into their gas tanks and leave clippings of hair in their fireplace.


Pastiche: literary patchwork, hodgepodge, collision of genres used to create a new item
Sequester: to relegate to a small space, to cause to withdraw into seclusion
Hypothesis: proposition set forth as an explanation to specific phenomena, speculation
Eucrasia: a normal state of health, physical well-being
Meridian: of or at noon, imaginary line that extends form the North to South poles
Palanquin: covered litter carried on poles on the shoulders of four or more bearers
Acumen: quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight, wisdom, savvy
Saboteur: person who commits or practices sabotage, deliberate damager of something
Replica: copy or reproduction of a work of art, especially one made by the original artist
Coterie: tightly-knit group of persons having a common purpose or interest, cadre, clique
Boulevard: broad street, avenue, broad spectrum of something
Ambivalence: simultaneous, conflicted feelings towards a thing, person, etc
Thionine: artificial red or violet dyestuff, usually for microscopic stains
Pyramid: figure with a polygonal base and triangular facets that meet at a common point
Matriculate: to become admitted to membership in a body, society, or institution
Heteroscedastic: pertaining to a sequence of random variables
Pyrexia: elevation of body temperature to an abnormal level, fever
Veracity: truth, state of being true, trueness
Deliquesce: to dissolve, transform into liquid from a solid
Seizure: act, condition, or instance of seizing or being seized, fit, spasm, convulsion
Isthmus: narrow strip of land connecting two larger masses of land

Nullifidian: a person having no faith, religion, convictions, or beliefs

Brecciate: to form rock into breccia(rocks made of sharp fragments set in a grainy matrix) 

Quaalude: tablet or capsule of methaqualone 

Melancholia: depression, severe depression, melancholy, gloominess

Platonic: not involving sexual relations, involving friendship, affection

Sacrosanct: regarded as sacred and inviolable, immune to criticism or violation 

Expulsion: act of expelling or state of being expelled, act of being forced or driven out

Nostalgia: bittersweet longing for things, persons, or situations of the past 

Parvenu: noveau-riche, person risen to new status, but lacks the social skills necessary

Hegemony: predominant influence, dominance, supremacy, preeminence 

Extricate: to release from an entanglement or difficulty, disengage, unravel

Perpetuity: the quality or condition of being perpetual, ceaseless, or continual

Cataract: large or tall waterfall, a deluge, opacity of the lens or capsule of the eye 

Vindicate: clear from an accusation, imputation, or suspicion, justify, defend, avenge 

Demiurge: something conceived as an autonomous creative force or decisive power

Protuberance: something, such as a bulge, knob, or swelling that protrudes 

Ossuary: place, container or receptacle for holding the bones of the dead 

Esurient: hungry, greedy, hedonistic in pursuit of things

Sternocostal: of, relating to, pertaining to both, or situated between the sternum and ribs 

Concrescence: growing together of related parts, the amassing of physical particles

Retrogress: regress, to get worse or fall back to a previous condition

Equipoise: equal distribution of weight or balance, balanced

Zelatrix: older nun in charge of disciplining younger nuns, female zelator

Fatigue: weariness from work or exertion, military apparel, physical enfeeblement

18th Page, What an Achievement

Few rare words on the list, "tristiloquy" being one of my favorites. "Hegemony"(for me) is preferably pronounced hedge-em-ony, but quickly, hedgemoni. It's a delectable and largely applicable word, read Foucault, you'll see the word plastered all over his tomes.


Venial: pardonable, easily excused or pardoned, trivial
Bethesda: a hallowed, sanctified, or holy place, a chapel, holy ground
Umbrella: apparatus used as a personal rain repellant
Circular: of, like, related to, or resembling a circle
Allure: attraction, temptation, to attract with something desirable
Scarlet: bright-red color
Hegemony: predominant influence, dominance, supremacy, preeminence
Sclera: the whites of the eyes
Palliasse: mattress consisting of a thin pad filled with straw, sawdust, or hay
Vavasor: superior vassal with other vassals beneath
Trillium: type of flower
Enceinte: pregnant, carrying a baby, gravid, line of fortification enclosing a town or castle
Cuvette: a small, transparent, often tubular laboratory vessel
Silkscreen: stencil method of printing, in which a design is put on silk or other fine mesh
Tristiloquy: speech characterized by sadness or gloominess
Realm: region, kingdom, plane, domain, territory
Vacivity: vacuity, emptiness, absence, space with a lack of matter
Fleur-de-lys: stylized insignia of a lily
Sittella: small, gregarious songbird
Amphisbaena: Greek mythological being, two-headed snake, a head on each end
Corinthian: pertaining to Corinth or its culture, architecture

Libeccio: southwest wind occurring in Italy

Perpetuity: the quality or condition of being perpetual, ceaseless, or continual

Knell: to ring slowly and solemnly, funeral bell-ring

Illusory: produced by, based on, or having the nature of an illusion, deceptive 

Diablerie: dealing with the devil or devils, witchcraft, sorcery, consorting with demons

Epicede: dirge, requiem, funeral song or ode

Brevity: briefness, swiftness, evanescence

Henna: reddish-brown dye used in tinting the hair, skin, or nails

Alabaster: dense translucent, white or tinted fine-grained gypsum 

Frescade: a cool, breezy walk, a shady place, a relaxing place with ample shade

Villain: dramatic or fictional character who is typically at odds with the hero 

Cellophane: thin, flexible, transparent cellulose material used as moisture-proof wrapping 

Simplicity: state or quality of being simple, freedom of complexity or intricacy

Bliss: joy, rapture, elation, felicity 

Laminate: to beat or compress into a thin plate or sheet, to divide into thin layers 

Cinnabar: bright red, glowing red

Nocive: harmful, injurious

Cinder: burned substance, one which is no longer capable of combustion

Sapience: rationality, compare sentience, wisdom or sagacity

Mirror: surface able of reflect enough undiffused light to form an image of an object 

Sesquipedalian: having many syllables, long, given to or typified by the use of long words

Quiver: shiver, shake, quaver, tremble

Breeze: gentle push of the wind

Amnesia: partial or total loss of memory