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http://victoriousvocabulary.tumblr.com/post/156997394088/bibliomania-noun-an-exaggerated-preoccupation

http://victoriousvocabulary.tumblr.com/post/156898643609/rupestrine-adjective-living-or-growing-on-or

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BELLICOSE [adjective]:

inclined or eager to fight; aggressively hostile; belligerent; pugnacious.

Etymology: late Middle English < Latin bellicōsus, equivalent tobellic(us), “pertaining to war”.

[Nikita Kaun - Full of Fire]

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AMOREVOLOUS  

[adjective]:loving; feeling or showing love or great care. Etymology: ultimately from Latin amor, amorem, “love”.

[Alexandra Khitrova - Night]

LUSUS NATURAE

[noun]

1. a freak, mutant, or monster.

2. a person or animal that is markedly unusual or deformed.

Etymology: Latin “whim of nature”.

[Nicolas Delort - The Bride of Frankenstein - Dark Hall Mansion]

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RUSALKA
[noun]

Slavic mythology: (plural: rusalki or rusalky) a female ghost, water nymph, succubus, or mermaid-like demon that dwelt in a waterway. According to most traditions, the rusalki were fish-women, who lived at the bottom of rivers. In the middle of the night, they would walk out to the bank and dance in meadows. If they saw handsome men, they would fascinate them with songs and dancing, mesmerise them, then lead them away to the river floor to their death.

 Mermaid, Anna Vinogradova

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Your assignment....

To work the phrase above into casual conversation at least once today.

My dream funeral as a gardener

MORPHALLAXIS 

[noun] 

1. regeneration in a changed form. 

2. Biology: the regeneration of a destroyed body part by the reorganiSation of its remaining cells.

Etymology: from New Latin, from morpho-, from Greek morphē, “form, shape” + Greek allaxis, “exchange”, from allassein, “to exchange”, from allos, “other”.

[Michael Zancan]

VITA
[noun]
1. life.
2. living; support; subsistence.
3. a way of life.
4. real life; not fiction.
5. Figuratively: humankind; the living.
Etymology: Latin.
[Tomasz Alen Kopera]

ALEATORY 

[adjective] 

1. depending on the throw of a dice or on chance; random. 

2. of or relating to accidental causes; of luck or chance; unpredictable. 

3. Law: depending on a contingent event. 

4. Music. employing the element of chance in the choice of tones, rests, durations, rhythms, dynamics, etc.

Etymology: from Latin āleātōrius, from āleātor, “gambler”, from ālea, “game of chance, dice”, of uncertain origin.

[James R. Eads - Spin The Bottle]

ATELOPHOBIA 

[noun] 

the fear of imperfection, defects. 

Etymology: from Greek atelès, “imperfect” or “incomplete” + phóbos, “fear”.

[Michal Dziekan - Perfectionism]

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BIBLIOTAPH
[noun] 
book hoarder.
Etymology: from French bibliotaphe, from Greek biblio-, “book” + táphos, “burial, tomb”.
[Steph Terao -

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MAUVAIS

[adjective] 

1. bad. 

2. wrong, incorrect, false. 

3. worthless. 

Etymology: from Old French malvais (1080), from Latin malifātius (1st c.AD), from malum, “bad” + fatum, “fate”.

[Justin McTwisp - The Tremaine Trio’s Triumph]

ANTHOLOGER

[noun]

1. one who collects flowers.

2. one who compiles a collection of literary works for publishing.

Etymology: Latin anthologia < Greek, literally, gathering of flowers; from anthos, “flower” + legein, “to collect”.

[John William Waterhouse]