lucre
[loo-ker]
noun
monetary reward or gain; money.
Any moron can put some scratch together working the nine to five, but the real lucre is on Wall Street.
rubric
[ROO-brik]
noun
Any established mode of conduct or procedure.
Now that Craigslist’s Adult Services section is gone, our best rubric for finding cheap pussy and cock is actually speaking to people in bars.
lambent
[LAM-buhnt]
adjective
Softly bright or radiant; luminous.
As soon as the acid kicked in, I started to notice the lambent nature of my white walls and cheap carpeting.
pleonasm
[PLEE-uh-naz-uhm]
noun
The use of more words than are necessary to express an idea.
Guliani never fell back on pleonasms…
somnambulism
Sleepwalking.
Woody grew frustrated with his live-in girlfriend when she began to disappear downstairs for hours every night. He’d hear Sarah shuffling around and playing video games…
opprobrious
[uh-proh-bree-uhs]
adjective
Outrageously disgraceful or shameful.
It’s been a while since human gaffe-machine Joe Biden has made some shithead, opprobrious remark.
countervail
[kown-tur-VAYL]
trans
verb. To act against with equal force, power, or effect; to counteract…