circumspect
[sur-kuhm-spekt]
adjective
Watchful and discreet; cautious.
Had I known she approved of my happy ending massage, I’d have been less circumspect about it.
epigone
[EP-uh-gohn]
noun
An inferior imitator.
Unfollow Dictionary.com on Twitter. Those bastard epigones.
plaintiff
/ˈpleɪntɪf/
noun
one who commences a personal action or suit to obtain a remedy for an injury to his rights…
acta
Record of acts, transactions, or proceedings.
The Vatican, continuing efforts to appear reformed following disclosure of its systematic cover-up of widespread child sex abuse, released a 20-page template for bishops and other senior church leaders to use to catalog future accusations…
quiddity
[KWID-ih-tee]
noun
An eccentricity; an odd feature.
At first she took my cockring as a quiddity, but soon found that she couldn’t climax without it.
vespertine
[VES-per-tin]
adjective
Of, pertaining to, or occurring in the evening.
Luckily for me, my coke habit was largely vespertine in nature, and my coworkers didn’t have so much as a clue.
cicatrix
[sik-uh-triks]
noun
New tissue that forms over a wound and later contracts into a scar.
That giant cicatrix on Padma Lakshmi’s arm is oddly attractive to me.