ken \KEN\ (noun) - 1 : Perception; understanding; knowledge. 2 : The range of vision. 3 : View; sight.

"Little things, trifles, slip out of one's ken, and one does not think it matter for surprise; but how a so bulky ...Read More

largess \lar-ZHES; lar-JES; LAR-jes\ (noun) - 1 : Generous giving (as of gifts or money), often accompanied by condescension. 2 : Gifts, money, or other valuables so given. 3 : Generosity; liberality.

""If I was a ...Read More

contradistinction \kon-truh-dis-TINK-shuhn\ (noun) - Distinction by contrast; as, "sculpture in contradistinction to painting."

"And after all, what could either of them get from such a passion but a sense of his or of ...Read More

megalomania \meg-uh-lo-MAY-nee-ah; -nyuh\ (noun) - 1 : A mania for grandiose or extravagant things or actions. 2 : A mental disorder characterized by delusions of grandeur.

"What looked before like 'walking reason' was ...Read More

stolid \STOL-id\ (adjective) - Having or revealing little emotion or sensibility; not easily excited.

"The redbrick church, austere and stolid as a winter-shorn oak, sprang from the frozen lawn wreathed by sun-sparkling ...Read More

countermand \KOWN-tuhr-mand; kown-tuhr-MAND\ (transitive verb) - 1 : To revoke (a former command); to cancel or rescind by giving an order contrary to one previously given. 2 : To recall or order back by a contrary order. ...Read More