felicitate

[fi-LIS-i-teyt]

verb

To compliment upon a happy event; congratulate.

In the Yahoo! chat room, I felicitated his honesty when he told me he was, in fact, an overweight jackass from Minnesota.

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hegemony

[hi-jem-uh-nee]

verb (used with object)

Leadership or predominant influence exercised by one nation over others, as in a confederation…

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irate

[ahy-reyt]

adjective

Angry; enraged. Arising from or characterized by anger.

Did that irate, wife-beating son of a bitch Chris Brown win big at the Grammy’s this year?

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fractious

[FRAK-shuhs]

adjective

Irritable; snappish; cranky.

The holidays are almost here and that means the nice people at the TSA get to deal with all of us fractious, over-protective-of-our-genitals folk.

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noctivagant

Going about in the night; night-wandering.

The East Village is packed with the eclectic and the edgy. Gorgeous women are as plentiful as the dive bars and sidewalk cafes…

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plaintive

[PLAYN-tiv]

adjective

Expressive of sorrow or melancholy.

The poor bastard sat there looking plaintive while I got dressed and explained my pussy was “closed for business.

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mea culpa

/ˈmɛɑ ˈkʊlpɑ/

noun

My fault, due to my error; my bad.

“All right, mea culpa

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