epicure [ EP-i-kyoo’ r ]
[noun]
MEANING:
- a connoisseur of food and wine
- one who enjoys sensual pleasure and living
docket [ DOK-it ]
[noun]
MEANING:
- a brief written summary of the contents of a document
- the book containing entries of the court proceedings of a legal case
- a calendar of things to be done; an agenda
amplitude [ AM-pli-tood, -tyood ]
[noun]
MEANING:
the state or quality of being ample, especially to breadth and width; largeness, greatness of extent or abundant
junta [ HOO’ N-tuh’, JUHN , HUHN ]
[noun]
MEANING:
- a council, committee or assembly for governmental purposes
- a group of military officers that rule a country after seizing control and power
- a junto
bowdlerize [ BOHD-luh’-rahyz ]
[transitive verb]
MEANING:
- to expurgate by removing passages or parts of passages considered objectionable
- derived from Thomas Bowdler English editor of an expurgated version of Shakespeare’s works; British spelling: bowdlerise
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