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Monthly Archives: July 2005
charette
a creative process akin to visual brainstorming that is used by design professionals to develop solutions to a design problem within a limited timeframe
euphuism
1. affected elegance of language 2. an affectedly elegant literary style of the late 16th and early 17th centuries, characterized by elaborate alliteration, antitheses, and similes
supernal
celestial; heavenly 2. of, coming from, or being in the sky or high above
copse
a thicket of small trees or shrubs; a coppice
peculate
to embezzle (funds) or engage in embezzlement
accretion
growth or increase in size by gradual external addition, fusion, or inclusion
conundrum
1. a riddle in which a fanciful question is answered by a pun 2. a paradoxical, insoluble, or difficult problem; a dilemma
recalcitrant
marked by stubborn resistance to and defiance of authority or guidance
gadfly
1. a persistent irritating critic; a nuisance 2. one that acts as a provocative stimulus; a goad 3. any of various flies, especially of the family Tabanidae, that bite or annoy livestock and other animals
magpie
1. a person who chatters. 2. one who compulsively collects or hoards small objects 3. any of various birds of the family Corvidae found worldwide, having a long graduated tail and black, blue, or green plumage with white markings and noted for their chattering call