Vocab

Vocabulary

List of words and phrases that I hear or read that are not yet in my everyday lexicon.

• It may be worthwhile looking into spaced repetition for these words, but I am not too invested in expanding my lexicon just yet.
  • I am pre-emptively compiling this list so if one day I want to work on this I can.

I don't know what it means.

• Decorum

  • Behaviour that is controlled, calm, and polite.
  • The witness endured the lawyer’s badgering with remarkable decorum.

• Frivolity

  • lack of seriousness; lightheartedness.
  • a night of fun and frivolity

• Pageantry

  • elaborate display or ceremony.

• Minutiae

  • Minor detail
  • Don't get bogged down with the minutiae of everyday life.

I have a vague idea of what it means but it's not fully registered in my brain.

• Come to pass

  • To happen. What is happening is the result of a course of events.
  • I doubt if his promises will ever come to pass.

• Begrudgingly

  • unwillingly, often because you have no choice.
  • They are friendly, helpful and never act like they are begrudgingly helping you

I do have perfect understanding of the meaning, but it is not yet incorporated in my lexicon.

• Structural integrity
  • The structural integrity of a burger is of utmost importance
• Prodigious
  • Extremely great in ability, amount, or strength.
  • She wrote a truly prodigious number of novels.
• Tether to reality / tether on reality.
• Burning a hole in one's pocket
  • Very eager to spend as soon as possible.