Starting the month with new vocabulary, Yay!
accoutrements: noun personal clothing, accessories, etc.; the equipment, excluding weapons and clothing of a soldier
Ex. Bearings and accoutrements are what new players need to start out in the world of DayZ to fight zombies at the end of the apocalypse.
apogee - noun apoapsis in Earth orbit; the point in its orbit where a satellite is at the greatest distance from the Earth; a final climactic stage
Ex. Satellites hit their apogee when they are at their farthest point away from Earth in orbit.
apropos - adj. of an appropriate or pertinent nature; adv. by the way; at an opportune time
Ex. That one movie has to have that one guy who claps at an apropos time when a scene gets really intense.
bicker - noun a quarrel about petty points; verb argue over petty things
Ex. My brother and I bicker over the smallest things.
coalesce - verb fuse or cause to grow together; mix together different elements
Ex. You need soil and a seed to coalesce in order to make that lemon tree you always wanted.
contretemps - noun an awkward clash
Ex. During chemistry, contretemps always happen when the test tubes shatter because of inappropriate use.
convolution - noun the action of coiling or twisting or winding together; a convex fold or elevation in the surface of the brain; the shape of something rotating rapidly
Ex. The slinkie was in convolution because of the transverse waves it made.
cull - noun the person or thing that is rejected or set aside as inferior in quality; verb remove something that has been rejected; look for and gather
Ex. A victim of bullying is seen as cull from others who don't care for that person.
disparate - adj. including markedly dissimilar elements; fundamentally different or distinct in quality or kind
Ex. Silk is one of those disparate fabrics that differ from other clothing material in quality
dogmatic - adj. characterized by assertion of unproved or unprovable principles; relating to or involving dogma; of or pertaining to or characteristic of a doctrine or code of beliefs accepted as authoritative
Ex. Sometimes professors lecture students on dogmatic teachings not common today.
licentious - adj. lacking moral discipline; especially sexually unrestrained
Ex. Kids who don't listen usually are licentiously ignorant.
mete - noun a line that indicates a boundary
Ex. When I see a dug up line in the beach surrounding a sand castle, it's a mete that I shouldn't cross.
noxious - adj. injurious to physical or mental health
Ex. Noxious gas is harmful like those found when the stove gas is on such as carbon monoxide.
polemic - adj. of or involving dispute or controversy; noun a controversy (especially over a belief or dogma); a writer who argues in opposition to others (especially in theology)
Ex. Martin Luther was a polemic Christian who believed that church teachings were preaching the wrongful subjects of the Bible
populous - adj. densely populated
Ex. China and India are both populous countries.
probity - noun complete and confirmed integrity; having strong moral principles
Ex. A person with powerful speeches can withhold probity in the words of goodness.
repartee - noun adroitness and cleverness in reply
Ex. If you ever met Bill Gates, he'd probably answer your questions in repartee.
supervene - verb take place as an additional or unexpected development
Ex. It's not seen at all to have two lawyers supervene a court case defending one client at once.
truncate - adj. terminating abruptly by having or as if having an end or point cut off; verb make shorter as if by cutting off; approximate by ignoring all terms beyond a chosen one; replace a corner by a plane
Ex. When I'm in a mid-conversation, I seem to always get truncated by another person who wasn't in it.
unimpeachable - adj. beyond doubt or reproach; completely acceptable; not open to exception or reproach; free of guilt; not subject to blame
Ex. Franklin D. Roosevelt was an unimpeachable person who knew how to run a country at it's most desperate times.
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