expand my vocabulary

This goal is progressing well – but I kind of think that it maybe a life long goal as opposed to something that I can put a time frame on. I love FreeRice and learn new stuff there all the time… and I think reading/writing a lot helps me exercise my expanded vocabulary which is heart warming stuff :). I’ll leave this goal on here for now.

corporeal – bodily, material and tangible.

Poignant -

1. keenly distressing to the feelings: poignant regret.
2. keen or strong in mental appeal: a subject of poignant interest.
3. affecting or moving the emotions: a poignant scene.
4. pungent to the smell: poignant cooking odors.

Tumescent (tu-mes-cent) – 1. swelling; slightly tumid.
2. exhibiting or affected with many ideas or emotions; teeming.
3. pompous and pretentious, esp. in the use of language; bombastic.

Bombastic – (of speech, writing, etc.) high-sounding; high-flown; inflated; pretentious.

Persnickety -

1. overparticular; fussy.
2. snobbish or having the aloof attitude of a snob.
3. requiring painstaking care.

Odoriferous – yielding or diffusing an odor.

Epistemology –
a branch of philosophy that investigates the origin, nature, methods, and limits of human knowledge.

Lacerate-

1. tear roughly; mangle: The barbed wire lacerated his hands.
2. to distress or torture mentally or emotionally; wound deeply; pain greatly: His bitter criticism lacerated my heart.

Jettison-

1. to cast (goods) overboard in order to lighten a vessel or aircraft or to improve its stability in an emergency.
2. to throw off (something) as an obstacle or burden; discard.
3. Cards. to discard (an unwanted card or cards).

–noun 4. the act of casting goods from a vessel or aircraft to lighten or stabilize it.
5. jetsam.

The meaning of Logic:

1. the science that investigates the principles governing correct or reliable inference.
The meaning of Logic -

1. the science that investigates the principles governing correct or reliable inference.

2. a particular method of reasoning or argumentation: We were unable to follow his logic.

3. the system or principles of reasoning applicable to any branch of knowledge or study.

4. reason or sound judgment, as in utterances or actions: There wasn’t much logic in her move.

5. convincing forcefulness; inexorable truth or persuasiveness: the irresistible logic of the facts.

6. Computers. logic circuit.

Punctillious – Strictly attentive to the details of form in action or conduct; precise; exact in the smallest particulars.

Chirpy – chirping or tending to chirp: chirpy birds. cheerful; lively; gay.

Cerebral – betraying or characterized by the use of the intellect rather than intuition or instinct.

Stalwart – Strongly and stoutly built. In addition, sturdy and robust or strong and brave; valiant: a stalwart knight.

Perspicacious – Having keen mental perception and understanding; discerning: to exhibit perspicacious judgment. Archaic meaning would be having keen vision.

Discernment – Showing good or outstanding judgment and understanding

Milieu – Environment or setting