Sacramento and Company

Word Archive



	August

	Assuage	ah-sweyj
	To make milder or less severe; to reduce the intensity of; to ease; to relieve.

	Thaumaturgy	thaw-muh-tur-jee
	The performance of miracles or magic.

	Vitiate	vish-ee-eyt
	To make faulty or imperfect; to render defective; to impair

	Farrago	fuh-rah-goh
	A confused mixture; an assortment; a medley.

	Sybarite	sib-uh-rahty
	A person devoted to luxury and pleasure.

	Reticent	ret-uh-suh nt
	Inclined to keep silent; reserved; uncommunicative. Restrained or reserved in style. Reluctant; unwilling.

	Loquacious	loh-kwey-shuh s
	Very talkative. Full of excessive talk; wordy.

	Exigent	ek-si-juh-nt
	Requiring immediate aid or action; pressing; critical. Requiring much effort or expense; demanding; exacting.

	Sinecure	sahy-ni-kyoor
	An office or position that requires or involves little or no responsibility, work, or active service.

	Plenipotentiary	plen-uh-puh-ten-shee-ee-re
	Containing or conferring full power; invested with full power; as, "plenipotentiary license; plenipotentiary ministers."

	Scrabble	skrab-uh l
	To scratch or scrape, as with the claws or hands.

	Apotheosis	uh-poth-ee-oh-sis
	Elevation to divine rank or stature; deification. An exalted or glorified example; a model of excellence or perfection of a kind.

	Phreatophyte	free-at-uh-fahyt
	A long-rooted plant that absorbs its water from the water table or the soil above it.

	Pugnacious	puhg-ney-shuh s
	Inclined to fight; combative; quarrelsome

	Logorrhea	law-guh-ree-uh
	Excessive talkativeness or wordiness.

	Equanimity	ee-kwuh-nim-itee
	Evenness of mind; calmness; composure; as, "to bear misfortunes with equanimity."

	Quiescent	kwee-es-uh nt
	Being in a state of repose; at rest; still; inactive.

	Quixotic	kwik-sot-ik
	Capricious; impulsive; unpredictable.

	Sempiternal	sem-pi-tur-nl
	Of never ending duration; having beginning but no end; everlasting; endless.

	Interstitial	in-ter-stish-uh l
	A small or narrow space or interval between things or part.

	Nescience	*nesh*-uh ns
	Lack of knowledge or awareness; ignorance.

	Parsimony	*par*-suh-moh-nee
	Closeness or sparingness in the expenditure of money; -- generally in a bad sense; excessive frugality.

Kristen Simoes
& Guy Farris