Polycephaly

Polycephaly is a condition of having more than one head.

Picaresque

Of or relating to an episodic style of fiction dealing with the adventures of a rough and dishonest but appealing hero. See "Picaresque novel"

Parapraxis

A minor error, such as a slip of the tongue, thought to reveal a repressed motive. Ex) a Freudian slip

Wabi-sabi

Wabi-sabi represents a comprehensive Japanese world view or aesthetic centered on the acceptance of transience and imperfection. The aesthetic is sometimes described as one of beauty that is "imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete".

Mountebank

1. A person who deceives others, esp. in order to trick them out of their money; a charlatan.
2. A person who sold patent medicines in public places.

Theriomorphic

Having an animal form

Uxoricide

1. The killing of a wife by her husband
2. A man who kills his wife

Fungible

adj- Interchangeable

Fubsy

adj.
- chubby and somewhat squat

Hornswoggled

1. Bamboozled

2. Duped

Tergiversate

–verb (used without object), -sat·ed, -sat·ing.

1.

to change repeatedly one's attitude or opinions with respect to a cause, subject, etc.; equivocate.

2.

to turn renegade.

Pedant

1. One who pays undue attention to book learning and formal rules.
2. One who exhibits one's learning or scholarship ostentatiously.
3. A person who relies too much on academic learning or who is concerned chiefly with insignificant detail.

De Novo

Latin expression meaning "beginning anew", "afresh".

bildungsroman

A novel whose principal subject is the moral, psychological, and intellectual development of a usually youthful main character.

Sisyphean

1. of or pertaining to Sisyphus.
2. endless and unavailing, as labor or a task.

Prevaricate

To depart from or evade the truth; to speak with equivocation.

Theodicy

A vindication of God's goodness and justice in the face of the existence of evil.

A specific branch of theology and philosophy that attempts to reconcile the existence of evil or suffering in the world with the assumption of a benevolent God —ie. the problem of evil. An attempt to reconcile the co-existence of evil and God may thus be called "a theodicy".

Weltschmerz

Sadness over the evils of the world, especially as an expression of romantic pessimism.

Circumlocution

1. The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
2. Evasion in speech or writing.
3. A roundabout expression.

Sprachgefuhl

An intuitive sense of what is linguistically appropriate