profligacy

[PROF-li-guh-see]

noun

Reckless extravagance.

Jay Z and Beyonce’s profligacy with their hospital stay just goes to show that health care in this country ain’t so fuckin’ bad if you’re balls deep in money.

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pleonasm

[PLEE-uh-naz-uhm]

noun

 The use of more words than are necessary to express an idea.

Guliani never fell back on pleonasms…

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kvetch

[KVECH]

intransitive verb

To complain habitually.

Kvetch all you want about the mistreatment of Christine O’Donnell…

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enceinte

[en-SEYNT]

adjective

 Pregnant; with child.

I’m fairly certain that most men on the subway are giving up their seats for women with junk in the frontside trunk and not their enceinte counterparts.

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nervure

/ˈnɜr vyʊər/

noun

a vein, as of a leaf or the wing of an insect…

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epicene

[EP-uh-seen]

adjective

Having the characteristics of both sexes.

Though she advertised herself as a genuine woman, the whore’s epicene features and slight penis bulge said otherwise.

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kowtow

/ˈkaʊˈtaʊ/

verb

1 to show obsequious or servile deference. 2 the prostration made by inferiors to their superiors, either as homage or worship, by knocking the forehead on the ground…

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