piquant
[PEE-kuhnt]
adjective
Agreeably pungent or sharp in taste or flavor.
Chinatown is filled with knock-off wristwatches, dumpling houses, and piquant fish markets that stink to high hell.
esurient
[ih-SUR-ee-uhnt]
adjective
Hungry; greedy.
Those esurient pricks on Wall Street really goosed us, didn’t they? But we’ve forgotten all about it.
kith
[KITH]
noun
Persons living in the same general locality and forming a more or less cohesive group…
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.
sinecure
[SIN-ih-kyur]
noun
An office or position that requires or involves little or no responsibility.
The boss wants a handjob once a week, but the money’s good and other than that, it’s a real sinecure.
esurient
[ih-SUR-ee-uhnt]
adjective
Hungry; greedy.
Those esurient pricks on Wall Street really goosed us, didn’t they? But we’ve forgotten all about it.
leitmotif
[LYT-moh-teef]
noun
A dominant and recurring theme.
Sliding her finger into her pussy and then into her own mouth is just one of many leitmotifs that Carrie Prejean utilized during her sex tape.