AIDE

[noun]

the Basque numenistic deity of the air. She could manifest herself in both good (gentle breeze) and evil (storm wind) forms.

[Artist Unknown]

TRYPANOPHOBIA

[noun]

needle phobia; the extreme fear of medical procedures involving injections or hypodermic needles. It is occasionally referred to as aichmophobia, belonephobia, or enetophobia, although these terms may also refer to a more general fear of sharply pointed objects.

[Marianna Stelmach]

RETTEN

[verb]

German: to save; to rescue.

Etymology: from Old High German hretten or retten, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *hradjaną (“to save, rescue”). Cognate with Dutch redden, English redd and rid.

[Sidharth Chaturvedi]

PURLOIN

[verb]

1. to take dishonestly; steal; filch; pilfer

2. to commit theft; steal.

Etymology: late Middle English purloynen < Anglo-French purloigner - to put off, remove.

[Christian Schloe]

STRUT [1]

[verb]

1. to walk with a vain, pompous bearing, as with head erect and chest thrown out, as if expecting to impress observers.

[noun]

2. the act of strutting.

3. a strutting walk or gait.

[Idioms]

4. strut one’s stuff, to dress, behave, perform, etc., one’s best in order to impress others; show off.

Etymology: Middle English strouten - to protrude stiffly, swell, bluster, Old English strūtian - to struggle, derivative of *strut, whence Middle English strut - strife.

STRUT [2]

[noun]

1. any of various structural members, as in trusses, primarily intended to resist longitudinal compression.

[verb]

2. to brace or support by means of a strut or struts.

Etymology: obscurely akin to strut [1].

[Antoine Kruk]

GLUM

[adjective]

sullenly or silently gloomy; dejected.

Etymology: late Middle English; variant of gloom.

[Eric Lacombe]

ORGULOUS

[adjective]

Archaic: haughty; proud.

Etymology: Middle English orguillous, orguilleus < Old French orgueillos equivalent orgueil - pride (earlier orgoil < Germanic *urgōlī; compare Old High German urguol - outstanding, Old English orgol - pride.

[Kindra T. Haugen]

OBSTRUCT

[verb]

1. to block or close up with an obstacle; make difficult to pass.

2. to interrupt, hinder, or oppose the passage, progress, course, etc., of.

3. to block from sight; to be in the way of (a view, passage, etc.).

Etymology: Latin obstructus, past participle of obstruere - to build or pile up in the way, bar.

[Paul Rumsey]

POMACEOUS

[adjective]

of, relating to, bearing, or characteristic of apples or pomes.

Etymology: from New Latin pōmāceus, from Latin pōmum - apple.

[Butterfly Apple]

AMRITA

[noun]

(Sanskrit: अमृत; IAST: amṛta) a Sanskrit word that literally means “immortality”, and is often referred to in texts as nectar; the beverage of immortality; the drink of the Gods which grants them immortality.

[Alex Grey]

QUADRUPED

[noun]

1. a four-footed animal.

2. an animal, especially a mammal, that has all four limbs specialised for walking

Etymology: from Latin quadrupēs, from quadru- four + pēs foot.

[Liiga Smilshkalne]

GLOCHIDIATE

[adjective]

1. barbed; bristled.

2. a short hair, bristle, or spine having a barbed tip.

3. having Glochidia - the larva of a freshwater mussel (family Unionidae) that develops as an external parasite on fish.

4. bearing glochids, one of the minute barbed hairs or bristles on certain plants, such as the prickly pear.

Etymology: Greek glōchid-, stem of glōchís - arrow point.

[Skirill]

XĪNGXĪNG

[noun]

Elementary Mandarin: 星星- a star; any of the heavenly bodies, except the moon, appearing as fixed luminous points in the sky at night. 

[Margarita Sheshukova]

SPELEOLOGY

[noun]

(also spelled spelæology or spelaeology) the scientific study of caves and other karst features, their make-up, structure, physical properties, history, life forms, and the processes by which they form (speleogenesis) and change over time (speleomorphology). The term speleology is also sometimes applied to the recreational activity of exploring caves, but this is more properly known as caving, spelunking or potholing.

Etymology: from Latin spēlaeum - cave.

[Rob Gonsalves]