machination

[mack-uh-NAY-shuhn]

noun

The act of plotting.

I realized very fucking quickly that his “Video Email Technology” was a machination for a pyramid scheme.

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saccade

[sa-KAHD]

noun

The movement of the eye when it makes a sudden change, as in reading…

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casuistry

[KAZH-oo-uh-stree]

noun

Specious, deceptive, or oversubtle reasoning.

Google and Verizon’s little “we’ll opt to be regulated by regulation we wrote ourselves” manifesto is fucking casuistry on a grand scale.

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lucent

[LOO-suhnt]

adjective

Shining.

I’ll tell you what a nice Christmas gift would be: wear those lucent panties of yours while you make me a grilled cheese.

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deprecate

[DEP-rih-kayt]

trans

verb. To belittle; to depreciate

I read a study once that said women are more attracted to self-deprecating men…

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insouciant

/ɪnˈsusiənt/

adjective

1 careless. 2 heedless. 3 indifferent. 4 unconcerned…

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bedaub

[bih-DOB]

trans

verb. To smudge over; to besmear or soil with anything thick and dirty…

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