outrance \oo-TRAHNS\, noun:
The utmost extremity.
“Its prevailing features are equability, ease, perfect accuracy and purity of style, a manner never at outrance with the subject matter, pathos, and verisimilitude.”
— Edgar Allen Poe, The Linwoods
I pretend not to be a champion of that same naked virtue called truth, to the very outrance. I can consent that her charms be hidden with a veil, were it but for decency’s sake.
persnickety \per-SNIK-i-tee\, adjective:
1. Overparticular; fussy.
2. Snobbish or having the aloof attitude of a snob.
3. Requiring painstaking care.
perspicacious \pur-spi-KEY-shuhs\, adjective:
1. Having keen mental perception and understanding; discerning.
profligacy \PROF-li-guh-see\, noun:
1. Reckless extravagance.
2. Shameless dissoluteness.
3. Great abundance.
gasconade \gas-kuh-NEYD\, noun:
1. Extravagant boasting; boastful talk.
verb:
1. To boast extravagantly; bluster.
solecism \SOL-uh-siz-uhm\, noun:
1. A breach of good manners or etiquette.
2. A nonstandard or ungrammatical usage
3. Any error, impropriety, or inconsistency.
novation \noh-VEY-shuhn\, noun:
1. The introduction of something new; innovation.
anamnesis \an-am-NEE-sis\, noun:
1. The recollection or remembrance of the past.
2. Platonism. Recollection of the Ideas, which the soul had known in a previous existence, especially by means of reasoning.
3. The medical history of a patient.
reprove
[ri-proov]
verb (used with object)
1. to criticize or correct, especially gently: to reprove a pupil for making a mistake.
2. to disapprove of strongly; censure
expostulate \ik-SPOS-chuh-leyt\, verb:
To reason earnestly with someone against something that person intends to do or has done.
autodidact
[aw-toh-dahy-dakt, -dahy-dakt]
noun
a person who has learned a subject without the benefit of a teacher or formal education; a self-taught person.
ossified
[os-uh-fahyd]
adjective
1. hardened like or into bone.
2. Slang . drunk.
