incommensurable \in-kuh-MEN-suh-ruh-bul\ (adjective) - Not commensurable; broadly : lacking a basis of comparison in respect to a quality normally subject to comparison

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videlicet \vye-DEH-luh-set or vih-DAY-lih-ket\ (adverb) - That is to say; namely.

"Janice wanted to improve her vocabulary so she subscribed to one of the Internet's language-learning sources, videlicet, Arcamax's ...Read More

jizz \JIZ\ (noun) - The immediate, characteristic impression given by an animal or plant.

"I tell you, she was walking a fox on a leash. It was like seeing a dog with the jizz of a cat."

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pentathlon \pen-TAHT-lahn\ (noun) - A suite of athletic events introduced into the Olympic Games of 708 BC, involving discus and javelin throws, jumping, running and wrestling. In the current Olympics, it includes ...Read More

wafture \WAHF-tyUr or WAHF-shUr\ (noun) - 1 : A wave, a waving motion, as of the hand or of an object in the hand; 2 : the act of being carried gently and bobbingly on the air or water.

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legion \LEE-jehn\ (adjective) - Multitudinous, of enormous number.

"My doubts about this project are legion; I don't know where to begin."

From Latin legio, legionis "a body of soldiers numbering 10 cohorts and 300 ...Read More