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| Explanation of irksome (adjective) tedious; monotonous; frustrating; annoying Sample of irksome An American agreement with Ireland was especially irksome to Churchill. Travelers might get used to jet-lag in the sense that they learn to live with it, or they might find it progressively more irksome as their initial excitement with travel begins to wear thin.
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| Explanation of prognosticate (verb) to forecast; to foretell; to diagnose Sample of prognosticate Patients, their families, and the medical system want doctors to prognosticate life expectancies for a variety of reasons.
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| Explanation of exultation (noun) act of rejoicing; joy; gaiety; glee Sample of exultation Unpleasant and smelly as the operation was, she felt a surge of exultation when she cut the thread of the last suture and surveyed her unconscious patient.
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| Explanation of bizarre (adjective) queer; unusual in appearance; strange; outlandish Sample of bizarre Even then, they can lose the post for the most bizarre reasons; Downing Street myth has it that Richard Cobb failed on his first attempt to get the Oxford Chair of Modern History because he wore bicycle clips throughout his interview.
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| Explanation of resentment (noun) feeling of displeasure or indignation resulting from mistreatment or abuse Sample of resentment Being able to say these difficult, and intensely private things to her mother before the funeral was the trigger she wanted to be able to grieve genuinely and begin to feel the loss of her mother, rather than nurse the resentment she had had for so many years.
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| Explanation of malice (noun) hostility; malevolence Sample of malice Express malice may defeat a plea of qualified privilege, and in this sense malice means, first, personal spite in the contents of the statement or, secondly, personal spite in the mode or extent of the publication.
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| Explanation of deity (noun) god; divine or supreme being Sample of deity In a booming voice infused with all the wrath of the Old Testament deity the pastor gave the answer: So that such terrible things never happen again!
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| Explanation of fracas (noun) disorderly quarrel; tumult; riot; skirmish Sample of fracas And there was no way he could be prevailed upon to release it without an embarrassing fracas in front of the judge!
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| Explanation of genealogy (noun) record of a person's or a family's ancestors or relatives Sample of genealogy Here I focus on the genealogy of two aspects of discrimination already addressed by this study, namely displacement between the political and the sexual, and the idea of perversion as an inimical absence.
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| Explanation of aesthetic (adjective) of beauty; pertaining to taste in art and beauty Sample of aesthetic She found that her aesthetic sense and that of the artist were at odds. His review made one wonder what kind of aesthetic taste the critic had.
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