Wednesday, May 13, 2009

WORDS!!!

Turophile - a connoisseur of cheese; a cheese fancier.
Troglodyte - 1. a member of a primitive people dwelling in caves. 2. a person resembling a troglodyte (as in reclusive habits or reactionary attitudes).
Triradius - (Physical Anthropol.) a Y-shaped group of ridges on the palm of the hand at the base of each finger.
Tarantism - n. - a dancing mania or malady of late medieval Europe.
Tacit - 1. understood without being openly expressed; implied. 2. silent, saying nothing. 3. unvoiced or unspoken.
Synesis - (Gram) a construction in which an expected grammatical agreement in form is replaced by an agreement in meaning.
Synechia - (Med Pathol.) any adhesion of parts of the body, as of the iris to the cornea.
Sycophant - a servile, self-seeking flatterer; fawning parasite.

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