palimpsest
[PAL-imp-sest]
noun
An object or place whose older layers or aspects are apparent beneath its surface…
cavil
[KAV-uhl]
noun
A trivial or frivolous objection.
Bill O’Reilly and Keith Olberman should stop with the useless cavils and just have John Stewart host a dick measuring contest between the two.
enjoin
[en-JOIN]
trans
verb. To prohibit; to forbid.
Because I was of sizeable proportions, my girlfriend enjoined the idea of anal sex altogether.
dictum
[DIK-tuhm]
noun
An authoritative statement.
Let this dictum be known: I will not, under any circumstances, allow you to violate me with that strap on.
hortatory
Giving exhortation or advise; encouraging.
One must acknowledge that the normalization of the right-wing media’s hortatory use of propaganda and its fever dreams about the good old days has led its viewers to grow comfortable with their own indifference to the Country’s subjugation — and even murder — of black people.
sublimate
To bring by heat into the state of vapor, which, on cooling, returns again to the solid state.
I’m sorry but the act of sublimating Vodka with “diamond filters” is total bullshit.
tutelary
Having the guardianship or charge of protecting a person or a thing.
Stephanie was the tutelary spirit guiding her 10th grade class; navigating the youngsters through the annals of history, math and a thing called cultural studies…