Grandiloquent Wordsさんのイラストまとめ

Plisky [PLIS-kee]
(n.) - A mischievous trick; practical joke; prank.
(adj.) - Mischievous; playful.

Origin: Scot. and North England.

Used in a sentence:
“I’d advise you to be cautious in your dealings that plisky old codger.”

Malagrugrous [mal-uh-GROO-grus]
(adj.)
- Dismal, depressing; dreary or gloomy.

Used in a sentence:
“I hate sitting through a malagrugrous movie for three hours only to have it suddenly end without any resolution, leaving everyone to say ‘what, that was it… that’s how it ends?’”

Aureate [AWR-ee-eyt]
(adj.)
- Of a golden color or brilliance.
- Marked by grandiloquent speech.

From Middle English “aureat" from Medieval Latin “aureatus" (decorated with gold) from Latin “aureus” (gold)

Used in a sentence:
“Her diction was every bit as aureate as her hair.”

Rumgumption [RUHM-guhmp-shuhn]
(n.)
- Good judgment; common sense.
- Shrewd Intelligence; the skilled use of reason.

Used in a sentence:
“Radcliff’s avuncular kinsman evinced sufficient rumgumption to deduce that he was not being altogether veridical in his apologia.”

Humgruffin [HUHM-gruhf-in]
(n.)
- A terrible, repulsive, and contemptible person.
- A savage, obnoxious, whinging, peevish or terrible person.

Used in a sentence:
“The IHOP was heaped with hangry hooligans and horrible humgruffins hurriedly Hoovering hashbrowns.