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This week's word is

Finifugal

From The Sparkle Writer's Hub:

Finifugal is an adjective used to describe someone who hates endings or someone who tries to avoid or prolong the final moment of a story, relationship, or some other journey

As a writer, one cannot afford to be finifugal. Every story must come to an end.

Hopeless romantics tend to be finifugal.

This week's word is

Glabrous

gla·brous ˈglā-brəs

Adjective

Smooth, especially having a surface without hairs or projections.

glabrous skin
glabrous leaves

This week's word is

Aesthetic

[esˈTHedik]

Adjective
Concerned with beauty, artistic impact, or appearance.

Noun
The study of art or beauty.
That which appeals to the senses.

This week's word is

Sublime

From Word Hippo

Verb
1. (chemistry) To sublimate.
2. To raise on high.
3. To exalt; to heighten; to improve; to purify.
4. To dignify; to ennoble.

Adjective
1. Noble and majestic.
2. Impressive and awe-inspiring, yet simple.
3. (obsolete) Lifted up; high in place; exalted aloft; uplifted; lofty.
4. (obsolete) Elevated by joy; elated.
5. Lofty of mien; haughty; proud.

Noun
Something sublime.

This week's word is

Visceral

From Merriam-Webster

vis·cer·al ˈvi-sə-rəl ˈvis-rəl

adjective

1: felt in or as if in the internal organs of the body: DEEP
A visceral conviction

2: not intellectual: INSTINCTIVE, UNREASONING
Visceral drives

3: dealing with crude or elemental emotions: EARTHY
A visceral novel

4: of, relating to, or located on or among the viscera: SPLANCHNIC
Visceral organs

adverb

Viscerally

This week's word is

Cartographer

car·tog·raph·er

noun
A person who draws or produces maps.

This week's word is

Redamancy

The act of loving in return

Redamancy is a noun that means the act of loving in return. It is a rare and poetic term that conveys the mutual and reciprocated love between two individuals. The word stems from the Latin redamō, which means “I requite love”. Redamancy is the opposite of indifference, apathy, disinterest, rejection, or neglect.

This week's word is

Apathetic

[ˌapəˈTHedik]

adjective
Showing or feeling no interest, enthusiasm, or concern.

From Mirriam-Webster:

Choose the Right Synonym for apathetic:

IMPASSIVE, STOIC, PHLEGMATIC, APATHETIC, STOLID mean unresponsive to something that might normally excite interest or emotion.

IMPASSIVE stresses the absence of any external sign of emotion in action or facial expression. "Met the news with an impassive look."

STOIC implies an apparent indifference to pleasure or especially to pain often as a matter of principle or self-discipline. "Was resolutely stoic even in adversity."

PHLEGMATIC implies a temperament or constitution hard to arouse. "A phlegmatic man unmoved by tears."

APATHETIC may imply a puzzling or deplorable indifference or inertness. "Charitable appeals met an apathetic response."

STOLID implies a habitual absence of interest, responsiveness, or curiosity. "Stolid workers wedded to routine."

This week's word is

Defenestration

de·fen·es·tra·tion

noun
1: a throwing of a person or thing out of a window; assassination by defenestration.

2: a usually swift dismissal or expulsion (as from a political party or office); the defenestration of political leaders. The mass defenestration of middle management.

Defenestrate
Transitive verb

This week's word is

Calumniate

From Word Hippo

Verb
1. (transitive) To make hurtful untrue comments about.

2. (transitive) To levy a false charge against, especially of a vague offense, with the intent to damage someone's reputation or standing.

This week's word is

Amatorculist

From a Mirriam-Webster article called, Great Big List of Beautiful and Useless Words, Vol. 2 (but I'm sure it's meaning can inspire some fic).

am-uh-TOR-kyuh-luhsst

“A little insignificant lover; a pretender to affection”
(Samuel Johnson, A Dictionary of the English Language, 1755)

Degree of Usefulness:
Finally, an obscure word for your worst ex.

From Alphadictionary.com:

A so-so or lousy lover.

This week's word is

Sycophant

ˈsi-kə-fənt

From Word Hippo

Noun
1. One who uses obsequious compliments to gain self-serving favor or advantage from another; a servile flatterer.
2. One who seeks to gain through the powerful and influential.
3. (Obsolete) An informer; a talebearer.

Verb
(Transitive) To inform against; hence, to calumniate.

This week's word is

Eclectic

[ēˈklektik]

adjective
Deriving ideas, style, or taste from a broad and diverse range of sources:
"Universities offering an eclectic mix of courses" · "her musical tastes are eclectic."

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Disparate

ˈdis-p(ə-)rət

From Word Hippo

Adjective
1. Composed of inherently different or distinct elements; incongruous.
2. Essentially different; of different species, unlike but not opposed in pairs; also, less properly, utterly unlike; incapable of being compared; having no common genus.

Noun
(chiefly in the plural) Any of a group of unequal or dissimilar things.

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Adulterate

From Merriam-Webster

adul·ter·ate ə-ˈdəl-tə-ˌrāt

adulterated, adulterating, adulterator.

VERB
To corrupt, debase, or make impure by the addition of a foreign or inferior substance or element.
Especially: to prepare for sale by replacing more valuable with less valuable or inert ingredients.

He was in the same plight as the manufacturer who has to adulterate and misrepresent his product. If he does not, some one else will.
—Upton Sinclair

ADJECTIVE
1. being adulterated: Spurious
2. tainted with adultery: Adulterous
… that incestuous, that adulterate beast …
—William Shakespeare

This week's word is

Peiskos

(Peis-kos)

(with the 'e' silent)

Courtesy of Word Nerd:

NOUN
The feeling one gets when sitting in front of a crackling fireplace enjoying the warmth.

Peiskos is a Norwegian word that describes the feelings one gets as they sit in front of a fire enjoying its warmth. Peiskos is a beautiful feeling and it’s exciting to find a word that actually describes that cozy in the bones sensation that comes from curling up in front of a crackling fire and simply enjoying the warmth, the stillness, the soothing snaps and cracks of the fire, and the mesmerizing flickering of the flames. Yes, even in this digital age, peiskos can be achieved with a bit of technical magic since the sounds and sights can be re-created (even the warmth, depending on what sort of device you’re using, lol). Peiskos is all about a feeling, an ambient mood and certain sort of peaceful, contented calm.

This week's word is

Umbrage

Brought to you by Word Hippo

Noun

1. Feeling of anger or annoyance caused by something offensive (to take something personally).
2. Feeling of doubt.
3. Leaves that provide shade, as the foliage of trees.
4. (obsolete) Shadow, shade.

Verb

1. (transitive) To displease or cause offense.
2. (transitive) To shade.

This week's word is

Cynosure

[ˈsīnəˌSHo͝or]

Definition brought to you by Word Hippo

Noun

1. (capitalized) Ursa Minor or Polaris, the North Star, used as a guide by navigators.
2. (figuratively) That which serves to guide or direct; a guiding star.
3. Something that is the center of attention; an object that serves as a focal point of attraction and admiration.

Adjective

Cynosural

This week's word is

Obfuscate

ˈäb-fə-ˌskāt;

Verb
1. To make dark; overshadow
2. To deliberately make more confusing in order to conceal the truth.
3. (computing) To alter code while preserving its behavior but concealing its structure and intent.

Adjective
4. (obsolete) Obfuscated; darkened; obscured.

"The serpentine syntax of legal language is often used to obfuscate meaning and confuse those outside the law."

Definition this week comes from Word Hippo, a site I highly recommend. I heard someone mention it and upon checking it out I immediately added it to my shortcuts.

This week's word is

Selcouth

sel-ˌküth

ADJECTIVE

Selcouth (comparative more selcouth, superlative most selcouth)

(now rare) Strange, unusual, rare; unfamiliar; marvelous, wondrous.

Etymology
From Middle English selcouth, from Old English selcūþ, seldcūþ (“unusual, unwonted, little known, unfamiliar, novel, rare”), from seld- (“rarely”) + cūþ (“known”); equivalent to seld +‎ couth.

From Wiktionary

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