Fiefdom centers upon the idea of an organization or real estate, which is owned by one person or controlled by group interest.

New Word: Taboo

Love this one.

Taboo is most commonly defined as an inhibition born of social mores or perhaps emotional revulsion. It can also mean excluding something from use, approach, or mention because of its sacred and inviolable nature.

New word: Prestidigitation

Magic tricks performed as entertainment.

new word.......harridan

To say someone is Harridan is to say that they're an vicious personality, shrewish by design.

New Word: Triskaidekaphilia

Bonus: which celebrity author of horror, science fiction, supernatural fiction and fantasy genres is known for this particular 'condition'?

Obsession with the number thirteen. And I'm guessing Victor Miller as he's associated with the Friday the 13th movie franchise.

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new word........jocund

close, but there were only three listed (Wiki) and one of them was Stephen King. :hangloose:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tris...ia?wprov=sfta1

I am not familiar with this word, but Jocund means lightheartedness, to be filled with joy (nice word!) :balloon:

New Word: Copacetic

Mean everything is in order, A OK, and honky dory!

new word..........Copulation

If I'm not mistaken, I think Copulation is an way to articulate the act of having pleasureable sex? I didn't look it up, but I hope I got it right.....

New Word: Aura

A supposed emanation surrounding the body of a living creature, viewed by mystics, spiritualists, and some practitioners of complementary medicine as the essence of the individual, and allegedly discernible by people with special sensibilities.

new word........quagmire

A quagmire is (1) a boggy unsettled piece of land
(2) a perverted person to be leery of.........lol


New Word: fracking

A quagmire is also an awkward, complex, or hazardous situation.

Fracking is a process in which natural gas is harvested from beneath the earth's surface...

new word.........ersatz

an artificial inferior substitute



new word- delta

In mathematics I know it's a variation of a variable or function.I also know it's a code word representing the letter D, used in radio communication (seen it used in many movies).

new word.......obstreperous

I've always thought that this particular term describes an oppositionally-defiant personality who resists controlling their own self.

New Word: Aphorism

A observation that contains a general truth, such as, “if it ain't broke, don't fix it.”

new word........legerdemain

a slight of hand is a legerdemain

homoe???? By chance did you come across this term while reading Water for Elephants or Love During Cholera?

Legerdemain refers to that guy wearing an top-hat and white gloves, as he waves his wand over the magic hat and suddenly See's chocolate appears or that adorable bunny with fuzzy loveable ears, appears. Yanno, "abracadabra" type magic. :eyebat:

New Word: Fathom

Understand a difficult problem or an enigmatic person after much thought. I also believe it's some measure of water if I'm not mistaken.

new word........laudatory