Showing posts with label Vocabs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Vocabs. Show all posts

Saturday, May 3, 2014

Obstreperous


Definition:-
  • Noisily and stubbornly defiant
  • Boisterously and noisily aggressive


Type:  adjective

Synonyms:-
  • aggressive
  • defiant
  • non-compliant




Wednesday, March 19, 2014

As a whole

Well, I didn't know that it is a French word. Is it just me? ;)




Source: Suits - 312 - Yesterday's Gone

Tuesday, March 18, 2014

Sweevil

According to Shawn and Gus, Sweevil is a characteristic when someone is being sweet and evil at the same time. In the latest episode of Psych (A Touch of Sweevil), Yvette Nicole Brown is a sweevil 'witch'. Not sure if it is coincidence or not, but I think that her other character in Community, Shirley Bennett is also kinda sweevil. 




Source: Psych - 808 - A Touch of Sweevil

Monday, March 3, 2014

Nary


Source: The Big Bang Theory - 716 - The Table Polarization

Type: Adjective

Definition: -
  • Colloquial (characteristic of informal spoken language or conversation) for 'not a' or 'not one' or 'never a'.
Synonyms:-
  • No













Monday, July 11, 2011

Larceny

Source - Futurama - 617 - Law and Oracle

Type: Noun

Definition:-
  • The act of taking something from someone unlawfully
Synonyms:-
  • stealing
  • theft
  • thievery
  • thieving



Sunday, April 10, 2011

Inferring and Implying

Source - The Big Bang Theory - 411 - The Justice League Recombination








Infer

- Type: verb

- Definition:
-- Reason by deduction; establish by deduction
-- Draw from specific cases for more general cases
-- Conclude by reasoning; in logic
-- Guess correctly; solve by guessing
-- Believe to be the case

- Synonyms:
-- deducing
-- deducting
-- deriving
-- guessing
-- generalizing

Imply

- Type: verb

- Definition:
-- Express or state indirectly
-- Suggest as a logically necessary consequence; in logic
-- Have as a logical consequence
-- Suggest that someone is guilty
-- Have a necessary feature

- Synonyms:
-- connoting
-- entailing
-- involving
-- meaning

Saturday, September 25, 2010

Unseemly

Source - Community - 107 - Introduction to Statistics

Type: Adjective

Definition: Not in keeping with accepted standards of what is right or proper in polite society.

Synonyms:
  • indecent
  • indecorous
  • unbecoming
  • untoward






Wednesday, September 1, 2010

Heed

Source - The Gates - 107 - Digging the Dirt

Type: Verb/Noun

Definition:

1) Verb - Pay close attention to; give heed to "Heed the advice of the old men"

2) Noun - Paying particular notice (as to children or helpless people) "He spends without heed to the consequences"

Synonyms:-
  • attentiveness
  • listen
  • mind
  • paying attention
  • regard


Condescending

Source - House M.D. - 614 - Private Lives

Type: Adjective / Verb

Definition:-

1) Adjective
  • (used of behaviour or attitude) characteristic of those who treat others with condescension
2) Verb
  • Behave in a patronizing and condescending manner
  • Do something that one considers to be below one's dignity
  • Debase oneself morally, act in an undignified, unworthy, or dishonourable way

Synonyms:-
  • arch
  • deigning
  • descending
  • lowering oneself
  • patronizing
  • stooping


Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Serendipitous

Source - Project Runway - 804 - Hats Off To You

Type: Adjective

Definition: Lucky in making unexpected and fortunate discoveries

Synonyms:-
  • Lucky


Ho-hum

Source - Project Runway - 805 - There IS, An 'I' In Team

Type: Adjective

Definition: So lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness

Synonyms:-
  • boring
  • deadening
  • draggy
  • dull
  • irksome
  • slow
  • tedious
  • tiresome
  • wearisome





Monday, July 26, 2010

Testicles and Epilepsy

Source - House M.D. - 512 - Painless








Epilepsy could cause chronic pain if it spreads to the sensory region of the brain, then rewires the pain neurons. Usually the seizures caused can be detected by EEG but difficult to if it is located at a place too deep in the brain, like the area that controls the muscles supporting the... testicles.

Kindly Google for more info. :)

Improbable

Source - The Big Bang Theory - 303 - The Gothowitz Deviation

Type: Adjective

Definition:-
  • not likely to be true to occur or to have occurred ("an improbable event")
  • having a probability too low to inspire belief
  • too improbable to admit of belief
Synonyms:-
  • unbelievable
  • unlikely
  • unconvincing





Thursday, July 22, 2010

What a frustrating day yesterday

I don't really want to talk about it. Just want to figuratively (am I using this word correctly? :p) scream as in the picture below,



Baldy! Baldy! Baldy!!!

Abrogation

Source - V - 102 - There Is No Normal Anymore

Type: Noun

Definition: The act of abrogating; an official or legal cancellation

Synonyms:-
  • annulment
  • repeal