The Dictionary

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Behold! I am the Master of Literacy! The Sultan of Syllables! I am [] and am now your Master of Syntax and Grammar! I implore, no, I command, all words to come through me and I will deem them worthy of this sacred tome of vocabularical wonders. Fear my world, this is my domain, and thus it represents my already twisted mind! For I am the Elder of the Dictionary of Lit!
 
This is the Literature Department's very own Dictionary, please exit to the left of the cargo hold and watch your step ok! You are free to move about the website.



If you have a word to submit please do so below do so below the bold test, Thank you.

To be added:









Words Already Added in Alphabetical Order:

Abash: Shock

Adumbration: Shadow

Agglutinate: To glue together e.g. to combine different words into compound adjectives or terms.

Aghast: Afraid

Alliteration: Where the first letters of the words in a sentance are the same. E.g Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers

Amalgumation: The combining of two different forces or entities to form a completely new entity with the characteristics of both

Ambiance: Atmosphere

Bayonet: Stab

Cliché: 1a. A once striking and effective phrase or combination of words which has become stale and hackneyed through overuse.
    1b. An overused idea or image.
    1c. A stereotype.

Contradict: to assert the opposite of or deny (a statement, etc) made by a person.

Cottabus: The pastime of throwing the wine left in a cup into a basin, a successful throw betokening success in love.

Credulous: Naive

Emo: place where all emotion comes from within the human mind

Enhearten: To encourage, cheer, strengthen.

Enjambment: When the line of a poem runs on to the next line.
e.g. Oh, here he was sitting,
On the acorn toppéd tree...

Epee: blade

Escutcheon: Shield

Evocation:Creation anew through the power of the memory or imagination.

Exultant: Happy

Firedrake: Dragon

Flirt: To show superficial or casual interest or liking

Galled: angry

Gastrophile: A lover of his stomach or of good eating.

Heuristic: Of or relating to a usually speculative formulation serving as a guide in the investigation or solution of a problem

Hyperbole: A figure of speech in which exaggeration is used for emphasis or effect

Iconoclast: One who attacks and seeks to overthrow traditional or popular ideas or institutions.
One who destroys sacred religious images.

Iconophile: A connoisseur of pictures, prints etc.

Lambent: Light

Languid: Tired

Maleficience: The doing of evil, harm, or mischief.

Naive: Lacking worldly experience and understanding.

Oblique: Slanting, deviating from the vertical or horizontal; deviating from the straight or direct line, indirect, roundabout; evasive, not to the point.

Oneiric: Of, relating to, or suggestive of dreams.

Paradox: A contradictory statement

Perplexing: strange

Privation: The state of being deprived

Procrastination: To put off doing something to what you're meant to be doing (eg. to play games instead of doing homework)

Relinquished: Has been withdrawn or retreated from

Revenant: Ghost

Rhetorical: The use of language for effect or display, such as a rhetorical question to get a point across.

Scalywag: a scamp

Scenography: The representation of an object in perspective.

Splendiferous: having great beauty and splendor

Superficial: shallow

Tenebrous: Dark

Tesseract: a four dimensional analog of a cube, bend of the three dimensions to reach a place and time quicker

Tetrad: a group or arrangement of four

Thyrsus: Staff surmounted with a pine cone that was carried by Bacchus or Dionysus the Greek god of drunkenness and revelry
 
Tinnitus: A sensation of noise as a ringing that is caused by a bodily condition(as wax in the ear)and can usually be heard only be the one affected

Vesicle: a blister

Water nymph: Mermaid

Windigo: demon





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