Tag: Noun

Noun: Cockalorum (kah-kuh-LOR-um) Definition: 1. A boastful and self-important person. 2. Boastful talk. Sample sentence: No one believed Marty's cockalorum about being an expert pool player,...

Noun: Sylph (SILF) Definition: 1. An elemental being in the theory of Paracelsus that inhabits air. 2. A slender graceful woman or girl. Sample sentence: The dancer...

Noun: Incunabulum (in-kyuh-Nab-yuh-lum) Definition: 1. A book printed before 1501. 2. A work of art or of industry of an early period. Sample sentence: The tiny college...

Noun: Atavism (AT-uh-viz-um) Definition: 1. A recurrence in an organism of a trait or character typical of an ancestral form and usually due to...

Noun: Epaulet (ep-uh-LET) Definition: 1. Something that ornaments or protects the shoulder 2. An ornamental fringed shoulder pad, formerly worn as part of a military uniform. 3....

Noun: Quietus (kwye-EE-tus) Definition: 1. Final settlement (as of a debt) 2. Removal from activity: especially as in death. 3. Something that quiets or represses. Sample sentence: The...

Noun: Diplopia (dih-PLOH-pee-uh) Definition: A disorder of vision in which two images of a single object are seen because of unequal action of the...

Noun: Putsch (PUTCH) Definition: A secretly plotted and suddenly executed attempt to overthrow a government. Sample sentence: German theologian and pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer was executed...

Noun: Abeyance (uh-BAY-unss) Definition: 1. A lapse in succession during which there is no person in whom a title is vested. 2. Temporary inactivity: suspension. Sample sentence:...

Noun: Henchman (HENCH-mun) Definition: 1. A trusted follower: a right-hand man. 2. A political follower whose support is chiefly for personal advantage. 3. A member of a...