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.
pleonasm
[PLEE-uh-naz-uhm]
noun
The use of more words than are necessary to express an idea.
Guliani never fell back on pleonasms…
kvetch
[KVECH]
intransitive verb
To complain habitually.
Kvetch all you want about the mistreatment of Christine O’Donnell…
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.
nervure
/ˈnɜr vyʊər/
noun
a vein, as of a leaf or the wing of an insect…
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.
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…