palimpsest

[PAL-imp-sest]

noun

An object or place whose older layers or aspects are apparent beneath its surface…

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excogitate

[eks-KOJ-i-teyt]

verb

To think out; devise; invent.

Let’s excogitate a way out of our miserable, shit-kicking existences.

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nonage

[NON-ij]

noun

A period of youth or immaturity.

My grandfather slipped into a state of nonage after grandma passed, and gloated about giving oral sex to every woman in the nursing home.

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deride

[dih-RYD]

transitive verb

To laugh at with contempt; to subject to ridicule or make sport of; to mock; to scoff at…

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atelier

[at-l-YAY]

noun

A workshop; a studio.

Last night I met a handsome artist who brought me upstairs to his atelier where he fed me Ecstasy and gave me a foot massage.

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agog

[uh-GOG]

adjective

Full of excitement or interest; in eager desire; eager, keen.

The Twitter community’s all agog now that Kanye West has joined and is spewing out little golden nuggets of his insane bullshit every five minutes.

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pelf

[PELF]

noun

Money; riches; gain.

I earned my pelf the old fashioned way: pimping hoes and slangin’ drugs.

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