AKEELAH AND THE BEE

1.) LOGORRHEA

Meaning:  excessive and often incoherent talkativeness or wordiness

Part of speech: noun

Example: Unlike our previous teacher whose logorrhea filled her lectures, this year's
teacher speaks so much more sparingly.

2.) PULCHRITUDE
Meaning:  beauty.

Part of speech: noun

Example: "the irresistible pulchritude of her friend"

Pulchritude is a descendant of the Latin adjective pulcher, which means "beautiful."

3.) BRUNNEOUS

Meaning: dark brown —used chiefly scientifically / Of a dark brown colour.

Part of speech: adjective

Example: The color of the mixture is brunneous

irregular from Medieval Latin brunus brown + English -ous or –escent

4.) GROVEL

Meaning:  lie or crawl abjectly on the ground with one's face downward.

Part of speech: verb

Example: "she was groveling on the floor in fear"

Synonym crawl
5.) FANCIFUL

Meaning: (of a person or their thoughts and ideas) overimaginative and unrealistic./
existing only in the imagination or fancy.

Part of speech:  adjective

Example: "a fanciful story about a pot of gold"

Synonym: imaginative

6.) PRESTIDIGITATION

Meaning: sleight of hand / "is the process of doing a magic trick by hand, also called
"sleight of hand."/ magic tricks performed as entertainment.

Part of speech: noun 

Example: My favorite prestidigitation was when he pulled the live dove out of that tiny
scarf.

7.) AMBIDEXTROUS

Meaning: (of a person) able to use the right and left hands equally well.

Part of speech: adjective

Example: "few of us are naturally ambidextrous"

8.) SOUCHONG

Meaning:  a fine black variety of China tea. /a tea made from the larger older leaves of
the shoot
Part of speech:  noun

Example: Of Green teas there are hardly any left, neither fine Souchong nor Congos,
but ordinary, in abundance.

9.) STAPHYLOCOCCI
Meaning: a bacterium of a genus that includes many pathogenic kinds that cause pus
formation, especially in the skin and mucous membranes.

Part of speech:  noun

Example: One in five had the bacteria staphylococci, which can cause serious food
poisoning if ingested.

10.) Ratatouille

Meaning: a vegetable dish consisting of onions, zucchini, tomatoes, eggplant, and

peppers, fried and stewed in oil and sometimes served cold.

Part of speech:  noun

Example: If your son likes tomato-based sauces, try mixing these with pasta, or serve
some ratatouille with a meal.

11.) EMINENT

Meaning:  (of a person) famous and respected within a particular sphere or profession.

Part of speech:  adjective

Example: "one of the world's most eminent statisticians"

12.) HYPERTROPHIC

Meaning:  excessive development of an organ or part specifically : increase in bulk (as

by thickening of muscle fibers) without multiplication of parts cardiac hypertrophy.

Part of speech:  adjective

Example: There was a family history of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy in his son

Thomas, who died in 1994 aged 31 years.

13.) SYNECDOCHE

Meaning: a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice
versa
Part of speech:  noun

Example: Cleveland won by six runs (meaning “Cleveland's baseball team”).

14.) CARMAGNOLE

Meaning: a lively song popular at the time of the first French Revolution. 2 : a street
dance in a meandering course to the tune of the carmagnole.

Part of speech:  noun

Example:

15.) PASTICHE

Meaning:  a literary, artistic, musical, or architectural work that imitates the style of
previous work

Part of speech:  noun

Example: "the operetta is a pastiche of 18th century styles"

Synonym: imitation

16.) SOLITERRANEOUS

Meaning: of or relating to the earth and sun

specifically : constituting a period when solar and terrestrial conditions jointly affect
weather

Part of speech:  adjective

Example: The Hindus assert that the stream joins the other two rivers underground,
and in a subterraneous temple below the fort a little moisture trickling from the rocky
walls is pointed out as the waters of the Saraswati.

17.) ALFRESCO

Meaning:  taking place or located in the open air : OUTDOOR, OUTDOORS

Part of speech:  adjective or adverb

Example:

adverb: alfresco

(especially with reference to eating) in the open air.

"in the unlikely event of some sunshine you can even dine al fresco"

adjective: alfresco

done or eaten in the open air.

"an al fresco supper"

18.) MALLOSEISMIC

Meaning: of, relating to, or being a region subject to frequent destructive earthquakes

Part of speech:  adjective

Example:

19.) PSALMODY

Meaning:  the singing of psalms or similar sacred canticles, especially in public

worship.

Part of speech:  noun

Example: "psalmody is common to all the Churches and is acceptable in those few
Churches where hymns are not"

20.) PLUVIOSITY

Meaning:  The quality of being rainy or of bringing rain; rainfall. / Level of rainfall.

Part of speech:  Noun

Example: The river and reservoir increasingly become eutrophic with decreasing
pluviosity;
21.) RATIOCINATE

Meaning: to make judgments about something based on sensible thinking or logic

Part of speech:  verb

Example: “I have a tendency to ratiocinate in isolation"

22.) ARGILLACEOUS

Meaning:  of, relating to, or containing clay or clay minerals : CLAYEY

Part of speech:  adjective

Example: The sandstones are quite homogeneous with abundant small mica flakes, but
more argillaceous portions show a distinct fine banding.

23.) MEROVINGIAN

Meaning:  relating to the Frankish dynasty founded by Clovis and reigning in Gaul
and Germany c. 500–750.

Part of speech:  adjective

Example: To him we date the first memorable step which Europe took out of the
anarchies of the Merovingian age.

24.) XANTHOSIS

Meaning: yellow discoloration of the skin from abnormal causes

2: a virus disease of the strawberry plant characterized by crinkling and curling,

yellowing and dwarfing of the leaves, and stunting of the entire plant

Part of speech:  noun

Example: The doctor explained that cholesterol build-up in the skin cells could cause a
yellowing of the skin known as xanthosis.
25.) EFFLEURAGE

Meaning:   a light stroking movement used in massage

Part of speech:  noun

Example: Effleurage massage on upper legs should have more pressure on the
upstroke.

LESSON: I’M NOT SUPPOSED TO BE AFRAID OF BEING ME.

YOU’LL WIN USING MY METHODS

1. UNDERSTANDING THE POWER OF LANGUAGE

2. THEN DECONSTRUCTING IT, BREAKING IT DOWN TO ITS ORIGIN

3. CONSUME IT AND OWN IT

OUR DEEPEST FEAR IS NOT THAT WE ARE IN ADEQUATE BUT BECAUSE WE

ARE POWERFUL.