Pedantry- excessive concern with minor details and rules.(N)
His poems are elegant and free from the conceits and pedantry of the earlier writers.
Odious- extremely unpleasant; repulsive. (ADJ)
He had to repay the odious debt to the Council.
Luxuriant- rich and profuse in growth; lush (N)
They are now overgrown with luxuriant vegetation.
Dictum- a formal pronouncement from an authoritative source. (N)
Dictum that power tames.
Cacophony- a harsh, discordant mixture of sounds (ADJ)
Cacophony heard at most hectic debate sessions.
Proclivity- a tendency to choose or do something regularly; an inclination or predisposition toward a particular thing (N)
The book concludes in a way that hardly matches my own political proclivity.
Proboscis- the nose of a mammal, especially when it is long and mobile, such as the trunk of an elephant or the snout of a tapir. (N)
Proboscis present, but short.
Stratum- a layer of a substance (N)
Stratum of American society.
Mausoleum- a building, especially a large and stately one, housing a tomb or tombs (N)
In the gardens are the mausoleum of Duke Francis.
Marionette- A marionette is a puppet controlled from above using wires or strings depending on regional variations. A marionette's puppeteer is called a masterminder. (N)
Controlled by your strings, you are a pitiful marionette, I am your mastermind, do not disobey me.
Phoenix- a mythical bird of great beauty fabled to live 500 or 600 years in the Arabian wilderness, to burn itself on a funeral pyre, and to rise from its ashes in the freshness of youth and live through another cycle of years: often an emblem of immortality or of reborn idealism or hope. (N)
With the immortality of a phoenix, her passion burned like the sun, destroying everything in her wake.
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