futilitarian \fyoo-til-i-TAR-ee-uhn\ (adjective) - Holding the belief that human striving is useless. (noun) One who holds such belief.

"While management had promised an all-out effort to improve profits, everyone in the ...Read More

zany \ZAY-nee\ (adjective) - Amusingly strange, comical, or clownish.

"The annual variety show, designed for children in kindergarten through the sixth grade, is full of zany illusions, silly jokes, and features plenty of...Read More

digamy \DI-deh-mi\ (noun) - A second marriage after a divorce or the passing of a spouse, deuterogamy.

"All my friends become digamous so fast, it is difficult to say that that none are bigamous."

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piebald \PI-bald\ (adjective) - Having patches of different colors, particularly black and white spots. Used most frequently in reference to animals.

"We have such a piebald array of attitudes on our team, it is difficult...Read More

blarney \BLAHR-nee\ (noun) - 1 : The gift of eloquent speech; 2 : empty words, double-talk, fabrication, nonsense.

"Ted's story of how he completed his PhD at Harvard in two years is pure blarney."

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reify \REE-eh-fy\ (verb) - To perceive or portray an abstract object as a real one.

"The second hindrance to objectivity is the ubiquitous tendency to reify the word, to assume the word itself somehow carries its own ...Read More