Ss: Sycophant.

Definition: Someone who is an ass kisser to the influential people in their lives.

Cocktail Party banter: "Judy is such a toad licker, such a sycophant: she will brown nose anyone, just to get promoted.

Found in Literature(Literary Context): Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary

SYCOPHANT, n. One who approaches Greatness on his belly so that he
may not be commanded to turn and be kicked. He is sometimes an
editor.

  As the lean leech, its victim found, is pleased

  To fix itself upon a part diseased

  Till, its black hide distended with bad blood,

  It drops to die of surfeit in the mud,

  So the base sycophant with joy descries

  His neighbor's weak spot and his mouth applies,

  Gorges and prospers like the leech, although,

  Unlike that reptile, he will not let go.

  Gelasma, if it paid you to devote

  Your talent to the service of a goat,

  Showing by forceful logic that its beard

  Is more than Aaron's fit to be revered;

  If to the task of honoring its smell

  Profit had prompted you, and love as well,

  The world would benefit at last by you

  And wealthy malefactors weep anew --

  Your favor for a moment's space denied

  And to the nobler object turned aside.

  Is't not enough that thrifty millionaires

  Who loot in freight and spoliate in fares,

  Or, cursed with consciences that bid them fly

  To safer villainies of darker dye,

  Forswearing robbery and fain, instead,

  To steal (they call it "cornering") our bread

  May see you groveling their boots to lick

  And begging for the favor of a kick?

  Still must you follow to the bitter end

  Your sycophantic disposition's trend,

  And in your eagerness to please the rich

  Hunt hungry sinners to their final ditch?

  In Morgan's praise you smite the sounding wire,

  And sing hosannas to great Havemeyher!(#)

  What's Satan done that him you should eschew?

  He too is reeking rich -- deducting you.

#Havemeyher-were sugar Robber Barons back in the 1800's.  They may have been sugary sweet... but they were barons still the same.  It is reported that they stole by have corruptible ways.

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Thesaurus: noun crawler, yes man, toady, slave, parasite, cringer, fawner, hanger-on, sponger, brown-noser(taboo slang), flatterer, truckler, lickspittle, ass-kisser (U.S. & Canad. taboo slang), apple polisher(U.S. slang), bootlicker (informal), toadeater (rare) a dictator surrounded by sycophants

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Bb: Bodacious

adj. 1. Remarkable; prodigious. 2. Audacious; gutsy. adv. 1. Completely; extremely. 2. Audaciously; boldly. [Probably from dialectal boldacious, blend of bold and audacious.] Regional Note: Popularized in the comic strip Snuffy Smith, bodacious is probably a blend of the wordsbold and audacious, whose combined senses are evident in the following description of Sevier County, Tennessee, as "the most bodacious display of tourism this side of Anaheim" (Los Angeles Times). A more traditional meaning is "remarkable, prodigious": "a bodacious amount of smoke" (Springfield MA Morning Union); "the most bodacious tale of hidden treasure" (Lawrence E. Will). Bodacious can also be an adverbial intensifier: "She's so bowdacious unreasonable when she's raised [irritated]" (William T. Thompson). African-American speech in New York City retains this Southernism as bardacious. Joseph Wright's English Dialect Dictionary cites the form boldacious, which is the likely source for bodacious.

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Simple Sentence to Use at Your Next Ice-Cream Social:

"That Golfer Redbeard, is surely a Bodacious-Man, he got an eagle, a birdie, and a birdie on the first three holes."  said Red Orem.

Words in Context:

As we allow someone to give us a stupendous gift without phony resistance, so we should celebrate this most Bodacious Gift of all and enjoy the celebration with the Giver.  August 18th in the Book of Encouragement by Harold Myra. 

Hunting Words in the Wild: 

Found the word when I was researching the book of Encouragement by Harold Myra, which I am planning to review on September 25th.  

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Jj: Jig

n. Offensive Slang

Used as a disparaging term for a Black person.

n.

1.

a. Any of various lively dances in triple time.

b. The music for such a dance. Also called gigue.

2. A joke or trick. Used chiefly in the phrase The jig is up.

3. A typically metal fishing lure with one or more hooks, usually deployed with a jiggling motion on or near the bottom.

4. An apparatus for cleaning or separating crushed ore by agitation in water.

5. A device for guiding a tool or for holding machine work in place.

v. jigged, jig·ging, jigs

v.intr.

1. To dance or play a jig.

2. To move or bob up and down jerkily and rapidly.

3. To operate a jig.

v.tr.

1. To bob or jerk (something) up and down or to and fro.

2. To machine (an object) with the aid of a jig.

3. To separate or clean (ore) by shaking a jig.

Esculent

adj.

Suitable for eating; edible.

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[Latin sculentus, from sca, food, from edere, s-, to eat; see ed- in Indo-European roots.]

From on the Road by Jack Kerouac:

There were seafood places out there where the buns were hot, and the baskets were good enough to eat too; where the menus themselves were soft with foody 
esculence as though dipped in hot broths roasted dry and good enough to eat too. 

Cc: Captious

adj. 1. Marked by a disposition to find and point out trivial faults: a captious scholar. 2. Intended to entrap or confuse, as in an argument: a captious question. [Middle English capcious, from Old French captieux, from Latin captisus, from capti, seizure, sophism, from captus, past participle of capere, to seize; see kap- in Indo-European roots.] captious·ly adv. captious·ness n.

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The consciousness of having done amiss, had exposed her to a thousand inquietudes, and made her captious and irritable to a degree that must have been that had beenhard for him to bear.

Emma by Austen, Jane

Bb: Bereft

adj. 1. a. Deprived of something: They are bereft of their dignity. b. Lacking something needed or expected: "Today's graduates seem keenly aware that the future is bereft of conventional expectations" (Bruce Weber). 2. Suffering the death of a loved one; bereaved: the bereft parents.

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He scoffed at them as adventures, mountebanks, sideshow riffraff, dime museum freaks; he assailed their showy titles with measureless derision; he said they were back-alley barbers disguised as nobilities, peanut peddlers masquerading as gentlemen, organ-grinders bereft of their brother monkey.

Pudd'n'head Wilson by Twain, Mark

Vv-Veracity:

n. pl. ve·rac·i·ties

1. Adherence to the truth; truthfulness. See Synonyms at truth.

2. Conformity to fact or truth; accuracy or precision: a report of doubtful veracity.

3. Something that is true.

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[Medieval Latin vrcits, from Latin vrx, vrc-, true; see veracious.]

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In Context:
As public interest was in question, and transatlantic communications suffered, their veracity could not be doubted.20,000 Leagues Under The Sea by Verne, Jules

Solistitial

n.

1. Either of two times of the year when the sun is at its greatest distance from the celestial equator. The summer solstice in the Northern Hemisphere occurs about June 21, when the sun is in the zenith at the tropic of Cancer; the winter solstice occurs about December 21, when the sun is over the tropic of Capricorn. The summer solstice is the longest day of the year and the winter solstice is the shortest.

2. A highest point or culmination.

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[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin slstitium : sl, sun; see swel- in Indo-European roots + -stitium, a stoppage; see st- in Indo-European roots.]

The Sun Had first his precept so to move, so shine, As might affect the Earth with cold and heat Scarce tolerable, and from the North to call Decrepit Winter, from the South to bring Solstitial summers heat.Paradise Lost by Milton, John 

Solistitium Records a place where those Norweigen Metal Heads Rock Out:

n.

The branch of zoology that deals with the study of birds.

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orni·tho·logic (-th-ljk), orni·tho·logi·cal (--kl) adj.

orni·tho·logi·cal·ly adv.

orni·tholo·gist n.

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"What a remarkable phenomenon," said the Professor of Ornithology as he was passing over the bridge.

The Happy Prince and Other Tales by Wilde, Oscar

The Deli Clerk Gregorio Roth had a doctorate in Ornithology, from the University of Kansas. He often loved looking for the rarest, of the rare red, white, and blue Jay Hawk. He had heard reports that the Jay hawk was known to hang out in bars frequented by College Coeds in Lawrence Kansas
Gregorio Roth

CURMUDGEON: (noun)
one who abhors disingenuity and hypocrisy, and has the temerity to say so, often recasting unpleasant facts in a droll manner.

A Special Thanks to the Dick Martens - Curmudgeon in Residence

Cc:Curmudgeon

cur·mudg·eon (kr-mjn)

n.

An ill-tempered person full of resentment and stubborn notions.

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[Origin unknown.]

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cur·mudgeon·ly adj.

cur·mudgeon·ry n.

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Word in Context:
And the prince or nobleman must be a very stingy curmudgeon, to be sure, if, at least, when his own dinner was over, he would not bid them welcome to the broken victuals from the table.Tanglewood Tales by Hawthorne, Nathaniel



I can't hide, no
On the mantle
I'm not sad
Until I'm home

It's the season
I'm all reason
I have seen
All I have grown

Sheared at the seams
Cheat on me
And not seen
At the seams

I'm a lender
I'm a planter
I put something
In the garden

In the handle
On the mantle
I met Santa
I met God

I'm a lady
Can you save me?
It's the sulfur
I have grown

'Tis the season
I'm all reason
I have fleas
So run on home

Pp: palliative

adj.

1. Tending or serving to palliate.

2. Relieving or soothing the symptoms of a disease or disorder without effecting a cure.

n.

One that palliates, especially a palliative drug or medicine.

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palli·ative·ly adv.

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