Word

jingoism
DEFINITION
noun
: extreme chauvinism or nationalism marked especially by a belligerent foreign policy.

artless
DEFINITION
adjective
1. lacking art, knowledge, or skill : uncultured;
2a. made without skill : crude;
b. free from artificiality : natural;
3. free from guile or craft : sincerely simple.

gritty
DEFINITION
adjective
1. containing or resembling grit;
2. courageously persistent : plucky;
3. having strong qualities of tough uncompromising realism.

billingsgate
DEFINITION
noun
: coarsely abusive language.

cleave
DEFINITION
verb
1. to divide by or as if by a cutting blow : split;
2. to separate into distinct parts and especially into groups having divergent views;
3. to penetrate or pass through something by or as if by cutting.

cerebral
DEFINITION
adjective
1a. of or relating to the brain or the intellect;
b. of, relating to, affecting, or being the cerebrum;
2a. appealing to intellectual appreciation;
b. primarily intellectual in nature.

plaintiff
DEFINITION
noun
: a person who brings a legal action.

cheeseparing
DEFINITION
noun
1. something worthless or insignificant;
2. miserly economizing.

zeitgeber
DEFINITION
noun
: an environmental agent or event that provides the stimulus setting or resetting a biological clock of an organism.

picayune
DEFINITION
adjective
: of little value : paltry; also : petty, small-minded.

solatium
DEFINITION
noun
: a compensation (as money) given as solace for suffering, loss, or injured feelings.

sashay
DEFINITION
verb
1. to make a chassé;
2a. walk, glide, go;
b. to strut or move about in an ostentatious or conspicuous manner;
c. to proceed or move in a diagonal or sideways manner.