Wednesday, October 31, 2007

Anoxic

Free of oxygen.

From Wikipedia:
Oceanic anoxic events occur when the Earth's oceans become completely depleted of oxygen (O2) below the surface levels. Although anoxic events have not happened for millions of years, the geological record shows that they happened many times in the past, and may have caused mass extinctions.

Tuesday, October 30, 2007

Tuesday, October 23, 2007

Wednesday, October 17, 2007

Egregious

Extremely or remarkably bad
source

e.g. Give it a shot… see what happens! Live life to its fullest and try to regret at least one egregious error per day.

Tuesday, October 9, 2007

Saturnine

1. Gloomy or sullen in disposition.
2. Having a sardonic or bitter aspect.

source: dictionary.com

Thursday, October 4, 2007

Truncheon

A European club made of wood.

e.g. You can dance at a truncheon, but it is more commonly used as a cudgel.

lordosis

  Lordosis is historically defined as an abnormal inward curvature of the lumbar spine.