knave: untrustworthy person; rogue; scoundrel; jack

Lambent (adj.) - (of light or fire) glowing, gleaming, or flickering with a soft radiance.

Mar (v): To damge, deface, or spoil.

Nouveau - newly arrived or developed

obdurate: stubbornly refusing to change one's opinion or course of action, inflexible, inexorable

Pyrrhic (adj) - (of a victory) won at too great a cost to have been worthwhile for the victor

quorum: minimal number of members necessary to conduct a meeting so that the proceedings are valid

Recompense - make amends to (someone) for loss or harm suffered; compensate. 

"offenders should recompense their victims"

Saccade - a rapid movement of the eye between fixation points.

Troubadour - 1.  A singer especially of folk songs, 

2.  One of a class of lyric poets and poet-musicians often of knightly rank who flourished from the 11th to the end of the 13th century chiefly in the south of France and the north of Italy and whose major theme was courtly love

Ubiquitous: existing or being everywhere, especially at the same time; omnipresent

VOCIFEROUS 

  • implies a vehement shouting or calling out
  •  an offensive bellowing or insensitive loudness
  •  suggests harsh and discordant noise
  •  a noisiness and turbulence due to high spirits
  • unruly and aggressive noisiness and resistance to restraint

weltanschauung

A German word meaning world view, used to mean someone’s philosophy of life.

 Momochan:

weltanschauung

A German word meaning world view, used to mean someone’s philosophy of life.

Yarborough

noun


  1. (in bridge or whist) a hand with no card above a nine.