Category Archives: Vocabularies

Pareidolia means the making of creative figures out of random patterns in nature. Such as Man in the Moon, faces in the clouds, etc.

Oncology: The branch of medicine concerned with the study and treatment of tumors (cancer) - Wordweb

Adj. Of or relating to Draco or his harsh code of laws. Draco, Athenian lawmaker whose code of laws prescribed death for almost every offence (circa 7th century BC). (Source: WordWeb)

Verb. fall behind, waste time.

Prisoner's restraint, Obstacle; a basket with a cover.

Latin, Nescius = Ignorant

Subterfuge: Something intended to misrepresent the real event.

Fawning, toadyish, flattering, sycophantic, bootlicking. 拍马屁，谄媚

Specious: Plausible but false I recently read Gilbert Tennent's "The Danger of an Unconverted Ministry", and found many things I've been sorrowed towards the ministries in America being said there. The term Specious was used to describe such ministers.

Cavil: "An evasion of the point of an argument by raising irrelevant distinctions or objections" I didn't know there's a word for this. Tho I have seen many smartypants trying to do this.