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Bibliognost [BIB-lee-uh-nahst]
(n.)
- A well-read person with wide knowledge of books.

Use:
“Gerald soon discovered that his years as a quiet bibliognost had been unwitting training for his new post as head librarian, where every patron appeared to require the services of a human card catalog.”

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Quanked [kwangkt]
(adj.)
- Overpowered by fatigue.
- Exhausted or reduced in strength, as by labor or exertion; fatigued; sleepy.

Origin uncertain

Used in a sentence:
“After sprunting all weekend, then frooncing to get to work on time, I’m well quanked.”

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Groak [grohk]
(v.)
-Staring at someone while they eat, in the hope that they will offer you some food.
(n.)
-A wistful look on any article greatly desired.

Used in a sentence:
“The ambrosial redolence wafting from the delightsome smorgasbord had my pups groaking throughout the holiday repast.”

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Used in a sentence:
“Had I not performed the most unceremonious scurryfunge at the eleventh hour, my pied-à-terre should have remained in a state neither presentable nor even marginally mundified.”

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Scurryfunge [SKUR-ee-funj]
(v.)
- To rush around cleaning the house when company is on their way over.
(n.)
- The act of rushing to clean one’s home in preparation for impending company.

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Uhtceare [OOT-kee-AHR-ay]
(n.)
- That all-too-familiar variety of pre-dawn anxiety, when one is lying awake and worrying about things.

Used in a sentence:
“It’s five in the morning and I’m lying here worrying about the effect uhtceare is having on my job performance!”

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Dysania [dahy-SAY-nee-yuh]
(n.)
-The state of finding it difficult to get out of bed in the morning.

Use:
“I struggle with dysania every day, but Monday mornings feel like a personal attack.”
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Used in a sentence:
“The carousing, catastrophically crapulous croupier clumsily cavorted across the casino floor, caroming off the craps table, careening around a corner, and crashing into a curio cabinet, creating a cacophonous cascade of chaotic commotion.”

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Crapulous [KRAP-yuh-luhs]
(adj.)
- Caused by or showing the negative effects of alcohol consumption.

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“Wanting to reclaim a hint of the mischief that had once defined their youth, the couple selected the city’s most lavish restaurant as the stage for their most admirable swedge; leaving a $267 bill behind, he absquatulated through the kitchen while she strolled out the employees’ entrance.”

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Swedge [swej]
(v.)
- To leave without paying one’s bill.

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Bedlam [BED-lum]
(n.)
- A mad scene of uproar and confusion; wild pandemonium.
- A sanctuary for bedlamites; a madhouse.

Used in a sentence:
"What followed was bedlam — not panicked chaos, but a deeper, primal frenzy, as though every mind had shattered in unison.”

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Peccadillo [pek-uh-DIL-oh]
(n.)
- A slight offense or minor sin.

From Spanish “pecadillo” diminutive of “pecado” (a sin) from Latin “peccatum” (a sin, fault, error)

Used in a sentence:
“He supposed, in the strictest accounting of moral ledgers, that the heist was no mere peccadillo.”

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Gorgonize [GOR-guh-nahyz]
(v.)
- To have a paralyzing or mesmerizing effect on; to stupefy or petrify.

Used in a sentence:
"The Egyptology professor gorgonized his students with amusing riddles and captivating anecdotes of the ancient kingdoms.”

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Materfamilias [mey-ter-fuh-MIL-ee-uhs]
(n.)
- The mother or female head of a family.

Used in a sentence:
“‘Well, hello there, young fella! Would the materfamilias happen to be at home?’ The salesman’s grin gleamed with hopeful optimism.”

Used in a sentence:
“Another day, another invective laced diatribe that has become the norm for a certain reprobate sleeveen who has redefined the leadership role of a rapidly crumbling body politic.”

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Invective [in-VEK-tiv]
(adj.)
- Of, relating to, or characterized by, or using abusive language, bitter sarcasm, etc.
- Vituperative; denunciatory; censoriously abusive.
(n.)
- Vehement or violent accusation; censure, or reproach, especially of a bitterly abusive, insulting, or sarcastic kind.

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Chevisance [SHEV-ih-sens]
(n.)
1. Achievement; deed; performance.
2. A bargain; profit; gain.

Used in a sentence:
“They answer’d, with a civility colder than reason, that his chevisance was well-known to them; that it consisted chiefly in noise, glitter, ruin, and a most offensive perfume.”