Invisible wrote:
> http://blog.orphi.me.uk/archives/268
> 
> How many of these words can *you* figure out, without looking them up?

Barista:  Don't know this one.  Possibly either a Spanish term for a 
lawyer, or a resident of a Hispanic ghetto.

harlot:  A prostitute.

altruistic:  Holding a moral code that make others primary over the self.

misanthopic:  Hating humans.

lush:  (1) adj.  harboring great quantities of life, esp. plant life. 
(2) n.  a person given to excessive alcohol consumption.

sass:  (1) vt.  to regard with less than due reverence.  (2) n.  The 
state or quality of spirited disregard for authority.

Oedipus complex:  n.  A romantic attraction towards ones own parent of 
the opposite sex.

defenstration:  one of many incorrect spellings of defenestration.

defenestration:  the act of defenestrating.

defenestration:  seriously, the act of ejecting another person or thing 
from a building through a window of said edifice.

double entendre:  A joke based on a double meaning of a word or phrase. 
  Example:  "How do you hang the wallpaper designed by David Bowie?  It 
doesn't matter, it goes both ways."

MILF:  Acronym of Mother I'd Like to Fuck

codependent:  n.  Persons, usually family members, who are affected by 
another person's addiction to gambling, alcohol and/or other drugs, 
etc., whose behavior is theorized to detract from the addict's efforts 
to escape their addiction.

burro:  From the Spanish word for donkey.  There may be a slang meaning 
of which I am unaware.

heinous:  Despicable, horrid, worthy of contempt.

lascivious:  adj. tending towards an overly sexual manner.

florid:  (1) adj.  of clothing, having a prominent floral pattern. (2) 
of verbal communication, being exceptionally or excessively garnished.

morose:  depressed

hickey:  n.  A minor injury caused by applying oral suction to a small 
area of skin, usually on the neck.

platonic:  adj. having no sexual or romantic basis or aspect, such as "a 
platonic relationship"

effeminate:  adj.  of males, having or exhibiting qualities and/or 
behaviors that are typical of the female sex.

canteloupe:  The window's locked.

canteloupe:  Seriously, a fruit with a rough tannish rind and a 
orange-colored flesh.

ungulate:  n.  The group of animals, generally mammalian, which walk on 
the tips of the digits of the feet.

carafe:  n.  A wide-mouthed container, used for storing and serving 
liquid drinks.

misogynist:  A person who dislikes women.

reprehensible:  despicable, worthy of condemnation.

catharsis:  From a Greek word meaning "cleansing," the act of releasing 
emotional and psychological stresses.

epiphany:  A sudden realization of a previously unmarked truth.

emancipation:  The act of being freed, typically from slavery.

sapphic:  adj.  (From the name Sappho, a Greek poetess who addressed 
romantic poems to other women)  of or relating to creative works which 
express romantic or sexual desire of women for other women.

Looks like I only missed one completely, and may not be sure of another.

Regards,
John

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