jnana
[juh-NAH-nuh]
noun
Absolute knowledge.
Why waste time being a monk? Take an ounce of dried mushrooms and you’ll reach jnana within the hour.
adumbrate
[a-DUHM-breyt]
verb
To foreshadow; prefigure.
The coal mine collapse adumbrated the oil spill fuck up in the gulf, which itself, is probably adumbrating some kind of nuclear disaster.
tetchy
[TECH-ee]
adjective
Peevish; testy; irritable.
Jersey Shore’s JWOWW (short for Jenni Farley) is a big-busted, tetchy bitch whose penchant for thick-soled shoes is quite distracting.
fecund
[fee-kuhnd]
adjective
producing or capable of producing offspring, fruitful.
Octomom’s vagina is marvelously fecund.
riposte
[ri-pohst]
noun
A quick, sharp return in speech or action; counterstroke: a brilliant riposte to an insult…
torpor
torpor [TAWR-per]
noun
Lacking in vitality or interest.
The first time we tried Special K we got locked into “K-holes,” and sat there in a state of torpor for twelve long minutes.
exalt
[ig-ZOLT]
verb
To praise, glorify, or honor.
During the holidays my family and I pretend to exalt a few of the Greek gods, just to piss off the Christian assholes next door.