Carapace – the hard upper shell of a tortoise, crustacean, or arachnid; a bony or chitinous case or shield covering the back or part of the back of an animal such as a turtle or crab; a protective, decorative, or disguising shell.
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18/01/2026Orthopraxy – the principle of right practice or correct action, emphasizing that proper conduct, rituals, and deeds are central to faith, often alongside or in contrast to orthodoxy; rightness of action as distinct from or in addition to rightness of thought; right-doing, practical righteousness; correct practice correct conduct, both ethical and liturgical, as opposed to faith or grace; the correction of physical deformities by means of mechanical appliances.
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17/01/2026Concinnate, – to skillfully arrange or blend parts together in a harmonious, precise, and elegant way; to arrange or blend together skillfully, as parts or elements; put together in a harmonious, precisely appropriate, or elegant manner; to put together with neat propriety.
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16/01/2026Forby – in addition to; besides; as well; close by, near.
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15/01/2026Dunt– a heavy dull-sounding blow; a bruise or wound; a sizeable lump; a quickened beat of the heart; a crack in ceramic material caused when heating or cooling takes place too rapidly, typically during the firing or cooling of a kiln; to bump into or hit heavily; to fall with a heavy sound; to throb; to crack while firing or afterward by temperature change or by inversion of crystals to greater volume.
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14/01/2026Noctivagant – someone of something that wanders about at night; a night wanderer.
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13/01/2026Catillate – to lick dishes; to lick a plate clean.
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12/01/2026Patrizate – to imitate one’s father or forbears; to take after ancestors in behavior, character, or actions, often in both good and bad ways.
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11/01/2026Makebate – one that excites contention and quarrels; a person who deliberately stirs up quarrels, arguments, or strife, an instigator or troublemaker who thrives on discord.
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10/01/2026Vituperate – to address, blame or insult with harsh or abusive language; to reproach angrily and abusively; to berate or rail against abusively.
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09/01/2026Inexistent – not existent; having no existence; nonexistent; not having being.
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08/01/2026Penology – the study of the punishment of crime and of prison management; the division of criminology that concerns itself with the philosophy and practice of society in its efforts to repress criminal activities; the study and practice of managing prisons and rehabilitating criminals, focusing on the principles of evidence-based research.
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07/01/2026Ternary – of, relating to, or proceeding by threes; consisting of or involving three; threefold; triple; having three components; elements, parts, or divisions; arranged in threes; using three as the base; being or consisting of an alloy of three elements; of, relating to, or containing three different elements, atoms, radicals, or groups; third in order or rank;
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06/01/2026Chicane – a sharp double bend created to form an obstacle on a motor-racing track or a road; a series of tight turns in opposite directions in an otherwise straight stretch of a road-racing course; a serpentine curve in a road, added by design rather than dictated by geography; in card games a hand without cards of one particular suit; a bridge or whist hand without trumps; a void; use deception or subterfuge to achieve one’s purpose, especially a legal, financial, or political purpose; trick someone into or out of something through chicanery; to deceive someone; to employ chicanery; to quibble with a person or thing; to quibble about or over something; to dwell needlessly and pettily on or upon something to achieve one’s purpose; to raise petty or unnecessary objections.
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05/01/2026Notchet – nonsense, humbug; something trivial or ridiculous; small piece or fragment of any relatively hard substance, typically one broken or split from a larger piece by means of a sharp blow or knock.
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04/01/2026Scriptorium – a room set apart for writing, especially one in a monastery where manuscripts were copied; a copying room for scribes especially in a medieval monastery; a writing room in medieval European monasteries for the copying and illuminating of manuscripts by scribes.
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03/01/2026Dollarisation – the adoption by a country of a foreign currency, usually the U.S. dollar, as its official money or for significant domestic transactions, replacing or supplementing its own currency, often due to economic instability like high inflation, to gain stability, lower interest rates, and attract investment; describes a shift away from a country’s domestic currencies toward a foreign currency — typically, but not always, the U.S. dollar— as a store of value, unit of account, and medium of exchange; the replacing by a country of its domestic currency with a foreign one, most often the U.S. dollar, as a way to stabilise its economy or combat hyperinflation; the process of aligning a country’s currency with the US dollar.
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02/01/2026Silvicolous – growing or living in woodlands or forests.
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01/01/2026Quaaltagh – a first footer; first person to enter your home on New Year’s Day, symbolising good fortune; the first person one encounters, either after leaving one’s home or outside one’s home, especially on New Year’s Day.
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31/12/2025Sesquipedalianism – polysyllabic; long-winded; characterised by or the tendency to use long words; the practice of using long, sometimes obscure, words in speech or writing.
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