vim
Ready with great energy or spirit.
Steve was sparkling with the vim and vigor of a much younger man. He had the biting wit of a more learned man…
lucifugous
[loo-see-FOO-guhs]
adjective
Avoiding light.
Ah, New York City. I love the tourists, street-meat vendors, and lucifugous bed bugs who are crawling all over the fucking place.
felicitate
[fi-LIS-i-teyt]
verb
To compliment upon a happy event; congratulate.
In the Yahoo! chat room, I felicitated his honesty when he told me he was, in fact, an overweight jackass from Minnesota.
elucidate
To make clear or manifest; to render more intelligible; to illustrate.
Lest there be accusations that this publication lionizes toxic masculinity and embraces misogyny, we should say that our success in elucidating aspects of the English language is born not of reverence for these things, but of our propensity towards lowbrow subject matter and lazy humor.
callow
[KAL-oh]
adjective
Immature; lacking adult perception, experience, or judgment.
My roommates told me how callow I was when I started stalking my whore of an ex-girlfriend.
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.
sedition
[si-dish-uhn]
noun
Incitement of discontent against a government. Rebellious disorder.
Letterbombing is a brand new, digital act of sedition that’s pretty fucking cool…