Sunday, June 13, 2010

supplicant

one who comes to humbly ask or petition

antagonise

–verb (used with object)
1.
to make hostile or unfriendly; make an enemy or antagonist of: His speech antagonized many voters.
2.
to act in opposition to; oppose.
–verb (used without object)
3.
Rare . to act antagonistically.

Obfuscate

Verb
  1. To make dark; overshadow
  2. To deliberately make more confusing in order to conceal the truth.
    Before leaving the scene, the murderer set a fire to obfuscate any evidence of his or her identity.
  3. (computing) To alter code while preserving its behavior but conceal its structure and intent.
    We need to obfuscate these classes before we ship the final release.

Assuage

Verb









Assuage (third-person singular simple present assuages, present participle assuaging, simple past and past participle assuaged)

  1. (transitive) To lessen the intensity of, to mitigate or relieve (hunger, emotion, pain etc.).
    • 1864 November 21, Abraham Lincoln (signed) or John Hay, letter to Mrs. Bixby in Boston
      I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost
  2. (transitive) To pacify or soothe (someone).
  3. (intransitive) (obsolete) To calm down, become less violent (of passion, hunger etc.); to subside, to abate.

Friday, July 31, 2009

cumbrous

cum⋅brous --- [kuhm-bruhs]

–adjective
Difficult to handle or use especially because of size or weight

The cumbrous door blocking their way was a thick wall of riveted iron.

Inadvertent

in⋅ad⋅vert⋅ent --- [in-uhd-vur-tnt]

–adjective
1. unintentional: an inadvertent insult.
2. not attentive; heedless.
3. of, pertaining to, or characterized by lack of attention.


in⋅ad⋅vert⋅ent⋅ly, adverb


2. inattentive. 3. thoughtless, careless, negligent.

Related Words for : inadvertently

Excrutiate

ex⋅cru⋅ci⋅ate--- [ik-skroo-shee-eyt]

–verb (used with object), -at⋅ed, -at⋅ing.
1. to inflict severe pain upon; torture: The headache excruciated him.
2. to cause mental anguish to; irritate greatly.

Word Origin & History

excruciate
1570, from L. excruciatus, pp. of excruciare "to torture, torment," from ex- "out, thoroughly" + cruciare "cause pain or anguish to," lit. "crucify," from crux (gen. crucis) "cross."

Eg. Max tried to have faith, but the pain was excruciating [Ref: Angels and Daemons ]