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Extreme jargon

Word List with 17 words
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faience

glazed earthenware or pottery, especially a fine variety with highly colored designs.

gadroon

a decorative series of curved, inverted flutings, or of convex and concave flutings, as on silversmith's work.

plinth

a slablike member beneath the base of a column or pier.

tutti

all the voices or instruments together.

estoppel

an order preventing a party from asserting a fact or a claim inconsistent with a position that party previously took, either by conduct or words.

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repechage

(in cycling and rowing) a last-chance qualifying heat in which the runners-up in earlier heats race each other, with the winner advancing to the finals.

godet

a triangular piece of fabric, often rounded at the top, inserted in a garment to give fullness.

gobo

a screen or sheet of sound-absorbent material for shielding a microphone from sounds coming from a particular direction.

ullage

the quantity of wine, liquor, or the like, remaining in a container that has lost part of its contents by evaporation, leakage, or use.

plinking

to shoot, as with a rifle, at targets selected at whim.

kiting

a check drawn against uncollected or insufficient funds, as for redepositing, with the intention of creating a false balance in the account by taking advantage of the time lapse required for collection.

chamfer

a cut that is made in wood or some other material, usually at a 45 degree angle.

debouch

to march out from a narrow or confined place into open country, as a body of troops

fremitus

palpable vibration, as of the walls of the chest.

lek

a traditional place where males assemble during the mating season and engage in competitive displays that attract females.

nomothetic

pertaining to or involving the study or formulation of general or universal laws (idiographic).

frisket

a mask of thin paper laid over an illustration to shield certain areas when using an airbrush.