BEGADANG

[verb]

Indonesian: staying up all night, often mistakenly translated as staying up all night talking.

[Chump Magic]

SELENOGRAPHY

[noun]

description of the moon’s surface; the scientific mapping of the moon; lunar geography.

[Luna]

BÊTE NOIRE

[noun]

1. French: literally, “black beast”.

2. something especially hated or dreaded; a bugbear; something to be avoided.

3. a detested person.

[Martynas Pavilonis]

MAWKISH

[adjective]

1. excessively and objectionably sentimental; weakly emotional; maudlin.

2. excessive melodrama.

3. sickening or insipid in taste; having a mildly sickening flavour; slightly nauseating.

Etymology: Middle English obsolete mawk - maggot < Old Norse mathkr - maggot.

[Alice Chan]

EUPHORIA

[noun]

from Ancient Greek εὐφορία, from εὖ eu, “well”, and φέρω pherō, “to bear” (semantically opposite of dysphoria) – medically recognised as a mental and emotional condition in which a person experiences intense feelings of well-being, elation, happiness, excitement, and joy; a state of intense happiness and self-confidence – sometimes exaggerated in pathological states as mania.  Technically, euphoria is an affect, but the term is often colloquially used to define emotion as an intense state of transcendent happiness combined with an overwhelming sense of contentment. It has also been defined as an “affective state of exaggerated well-being or elation.” The word derives from Greek εὐφορία, “power of enduring easily, fertility”.

Euphoria is generally considered to be an exaggerated physical and psychological state, sometimes induced by the use of psychoactive drugs and not typically achieved during the normal course of human experience. However, some natural behaviours, such as activities resulting in orgasm, love, or the triumph of an athlete, can induce brief states of euphoria.

Euphoria has also been cited during certain religious or spiritual rituals and meditation. It can also be the result of a psychological disorder. Such disorders include bipolar disorder, cyclothymia and hyperthyroidism and can also result from a head injury. Euphoria may also occur with diseases affecting the nervous system, such as syphilis and multiple sclerosis.

[Cyril Rolando]

HELIACAL

[adjective]

pertaining to or occurring near the sun, especially applied to such risings and settings of a star as are most nearly coincident with those of the sun while yet visible.

Etymology: Late Latin hēliac(us) < Greek hēliakós.

[Flura]

EDULCORATE

[verb]

1. to clean by washing or bathing.

2. to free from acids, salts, or impurities by washing; purify.

Etymology: Neo-Latin ēdulcorātus, equivalent Late Latin dulcorātus - sweetened (past participle of dulcorāre), equivalent to Latin dulcor - sweetness.

[Matt Dixon]

INCENTIVE

[noun]

1. something that incites or tends to incite to action or greater effort, as a reward offered for increased productivity.

[adjective]

2. inciting, as to action; stimulating; provocative.

Etymology: late Middle English < Late Latin incentīvus - provocative, Latin: setting the tune, equivalent to incent(us), past participle of incinere - to play (an instrument, tunes).

[Amjad Rasmi]

COCKBLOCK

[noun/verb]

a slang term for an intentional, or sometimes unintentional action that serves to prevent someone from having sexual intercourse with a partner or prospective partner. Such behaviour is often motivated by jealousy, competitiveness or dislike, although it is sometimes accidental, or inadvertent. A cockblock, or cockblocker, is a person who engages in such obstruction or intervention. 

DUAD

[noun]

a group of two; couple; pair; two persons commonly associated with each other; couple.

Etymology: Latin duo - two.

[Flura]

In which Matt takes us on a murky journey through the publishing world

CARTOPHILIA

[noun]

1. the love of maps.

2. the love of cigarette cards, trade cards, post cards, etc.

3. the love for playing card games.

[Xavier Collette]

CONCRESCENCE

[noun]

1. the state of growing together.

2. Biology: the growing together of related parts, tissues, or cells; a growing together of initially separate parts or organs.

3. the amassing of physical particles.

Etymology: from Latin concrēscentia, from concrēscere - to grow together, from crēscere - to grow; see crescent.

[Tomasz Alen Kopera]

VIRTUOSO

[noun]

1. a musician with masterly ability, technique, or personal style.

2. a person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.

3. a person with a strong interest in the fine arts, especially in antiquities.

4. Archaic: a very learned person.

[adjective]

5. exhibiting the ability, technique, or personal style of a virtuoso.

Etymology: from Italian - skilled, of great worth, from Late Latin virtuōsus - good, virtuous.

[Vladimir Kush]