TACITURN

The taciturn husband answers his wife in grunts and monosyllables, if at all.


Definition: Habitually silent or uwilling to engage in conversation

PELLUCID

We can see Central Park through the pellucid entrance wall in the building.
The pellucid exterior glass of the Time Warner building indicates a structural element in an urban environment.

Definition: pellucid (adjective):
1. Transparent; clear; not opaque.
2. Easily understandable.

INTRANSIGENT

Che Guevara died fighting for what he believed in. He was intransigent and in fact he never accepted compromises.

Definition: intransigent (adjective): refusing to compromise; uncompromising.

BROBDINGNAGIAN

"My God, that thing was enormous. Monstruously, staggeringly, stupefingly big. Brobdingnagian even."

(comes from Brobdingnag, a country of giants in
"Gulliver's Travels")

Brobdingnagian (adjective) gigantic. (noun) a giant.

FASTIDIOUS

“My husband is not a fastidious eater. He is always satisfied with my home-made food and appreciates it no matter how it tastes.”

Definition: Excessively particular, critical, or demanding; hard to please
Extremely careful or concerned with details

SLUGABED

My husband complains that I stay in bed until late everyday. He thinks I am a slugabed, but I am only very tired because of the pregancy and I am always willing to sleep.

slugabed: (noun) a lazy person who stays in bed late.

RAFFISH

Johnny Depp played the raffish Captain Jack Sparrow in the Disney movie Pirates of the Caribbean. His raffish appearance in the movie is appealing to the audience.


raffish \RAF-ish\, adjective:
tawdry, rakish
1. Characterized by or suggestive of flashy vulgarity, crudeness, or rowdiness; tawdry.
2. Marked by a carefree unconventionality or disreputableness; rakish.

IMPECUNIOUS

"Don't ask him ten dollars, he's impecunious."

Definition: habitually without money. synonym: poor.

SATIETY

"No more, please."

The dinner at my mom's left me in a state of utter satiety.


Definition: the state of being full or gratified to or beyond the point of satisfaction.