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Losel

✍️ Word: Losel

📚 Definition: Worthless fellow; scamp

🗣 Pronunciation: losel

Vees

✍️ Word: Vees

📚 Definition: Soft earth in a crack or mining fissure

🗣 Pronunciation: fes

Factitive

✍️ Word: Factitive

📚 Definition: Signifying making or causing something to be

🗣 Pronunciation: faktitife

Queenite

✍️ Word: Queenite

📚 Definition: A queen’s partisan

🗣 Pronunciation: kuenite

Baize

✍️ Word: Baize

📚 Definition: Coarse napped cotton or wool fabric

🗣 Pronunciation: baise

Diplograph

✍️ Word: Diplograph

📚 Definition: Instrument for writing two lines of text at once

🗣 Pronunciation: tiplokraf

Hyperdulia

✍️ Word: Hyperdulia

📚 Definition: Veneration of the Virgin Mary above saints and angels

🗣 Pronunciation: hpertulia

Suscept

✍️ Word: Suscept

📚 Definition: Host of a parasite

🗣 Pronunciation: sussept

Funebral

✍️ Word: Funebral

📚 Definition: Of, like or pertaining to a funeral

🗣 Pronunciation: funebral

Hesychastic

✍️ Word: Hesychastic

📚 Definition: Keeping silence; soothing or quieting

🗣 Pronunciation: heskshastik

Figurant

✍️ Word: Figurant

📚 Definition: Ballet dancer who dances only in groups

🗣 Pronunciation: fikurant

Rillmark

✍️ Word: Rillmark

📚 Definition: Marking produced by water running down a bank or beach

🗣 Pronunciation: rilmark

Germanophilia

✍️ Word: Germanophilia

📚 Definition: Love or fondness for Germany or the Germans

🗣 Pronunciation: jermanofilia

Prolate

✍️ Word: Prolate

📚 Definition: Having flattened sides due to lengthwise elongation

🗣 Pronunciation: prolate

Oligomania

✍️ Word: Oligomania

📚 Definition: Obsession with a few thoughts or ideas

🗣 Pronunciation: olikomania

Stunsail

✍️ Word: Stunsail

📚 Definition: Light auxiliary sail to the side of principal sails

🗣 Pronunciation: stunsail

Jiggery-pokery

✍️ Word: Jiggery-pokery

📚 Definition: Deceptive or manipulative humbug

🗣 Pronunciation: jijer,poker

Choga

✍️ Word: Choga

📚 Definition: Loose Afghan dressing-gown

🗣 Pronunciation: shoka

Calque

✍️ Word: Calque

📚 Definition: Word or expression introduced into a language by literally translating it

🗣 Pronunciation: kalkue

Extrospection

✍️ Word: Extrospection

📚 Definition: Examination of matters external to oneself

🗣 Pronunciation: ekstrospekxion