"Circumambient"
circumambient \sur-kuhm-AM-bee-uhnt\ (adjective) - Surrounding; being on all sides; encompassing.
"Facing reality, then, implies accepting one's essential powerlessness, yielding or adjusting to circumambient forces, taking solace in some local pattern or order that one has created and to which one has become habituated." -- Yi-Fu Tuan, Escapism
Circumambient is from Latin circum, "around, round about, on all sides" + ambire, "to go around, to surround," from amb-, "on both sides, around" + ire, "to go."
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"Dissimulate"
dissimulate \dih-SIM-yuh-layt\ (transitive verb) - To conceal under a false appearance.
"Judith's chronic sadness was dissimulated from the world by her happy smile and cheerful disposition."
Dissimulate comes from Latin dissimulare, "to conceal, to pretend that things are not as they are," from dis- + simulare, "to make like, to copy," from similis, "like." The noun form is dissimulation.
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Which phobia has two names?
Two phobias for the price of one -- a person who has an irrational fear of childbirth can be said to be either maieusiophobic or tocophobic.
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"Gallimaufry"
gallimaufry \gal-uh-MAW-free\ (noun) - A medley; a hodgepodge.
"Terry was wont to express her freespiritedness in her clothing which was a gallimaufry of styles, textures, and colors, all merged together into a style uniquely 'Terry.'"
Gallimaufry, originally meaning "a hash of various kinds of meats," comes from French galimafrA©e, from Old French, from galer, "to rejoice, to make merry" (source of English gala) + mafrer, "to eat much," from Medieval Dutch maffelen, "to open one's mouth wide."
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"Pernicious"
pernicious \pur-NISH-uhs\ (adjective) - Causing great harm; deadly; wicked.
"After his visit to management's floor, Dave came to the conclusion that the bulk of them were the most pernicious race of little odious vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the Earth."
From Middle English, Old French, and Latin, perniciosus, from pernicies (complete destruction), from per- (thoroughly) + nici-, from nex (destruction.)
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"Corybantic"
corybantic \kor-i-BAN-tik\ (adjective) - Wild; frenzied; uncontrolled.
"Harold felt that the radio show was worse than merely 'bad,' thinking that it penetrated the mind, filling it with a babble of distractions, blasts of corybantic or sentimental music, and continually repeated doses of drama that brought no catharsis."
After Corybant, an ancient priest of Phrygian goddess Cybele, who performed wild ecstatic dances in her worship.
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That depends on the world you live in, deahh! You won't hear David Beckham or Britney Spears uttering it, that's for sure.
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"Stanch"
stanch \STONCH; STANCH\ (transitive verb) - To stop the flowing of; to check in its course; also, to stop the flowing of blood from; as, "to stanch a wound."
"The gun with which Jake had been shot was of such a high caliber, and had hit him in such a critical area, that the blood flowed from him rapidly with no evident way for it to be staunched."
Stanch is from Old French estancher, "to stop a liquid from flowing."
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Right on, Au!
And what do we get from staunched/stanched water? Stench!
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"Solace"
solace \SOL-is\ (noun) - 1 : Comfort in time of grief; alleviation of grief or anxiety. 2 : That which relieves in distress; that which cheers or consoles; a source of relief.
(transitive verb) - 1 : To comfort or cheer in grief or affliction; to console. 2 : To allay; to soothe; as, "to solace grief."
"After her mother had died, all of Crystal's friends made it a point to visit her to offer her solace in her time of need."
Solace comes from Latin solacium, from solari, "to comfort; to console."
I know, I know. This is an easy one. But it so happens "Solari" is a verry common last name here in Argentina, and I had never taken the time to notice what it actually meant.
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