Feizi's Word Blog

While I try to make the most out of what I have, I feel the urge to expand my vocabulary. This is a gathering of words I pick up here and there everyday. I am aware that some of the words are terribly simple for most people. But since my vocabulary is embarrassingly small, these words are acutally new to me. The definitions are from www.dictionary.com.

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Location: LA, California, United States

I used to want to ruin my eyes so I can wear glasses to look smart. Now I am an Asian girl in California with a Chinese accent. People automatically assume I am smart, which is pretty cool.

Thursday, June 01, 2006

There is a word in Chinese that's called Ai Mei.
It describes a relationship or gesture or attitude that's unclear, but suggests that it is intimate, forbidden, and sexual.

Like when a professor likes his female student, he can't really show it obviously. But sometimes the way he looks at the student, or the way they talk is somewhat uncleanly intimate.
I am wondering if there is an English word for it? :D

I found:
vague
allusive
suggestive
furtive
obscure

But I don't think they are quite right.

Can anyone help me?
Thanks!

insinuate
allusive
suggestive
furtive
allude
lurking

coarse
vulgar
indecent
salty
deceitful
fugitive
delusive
cryptic

vague
dimmed
blurred
obscure
innuendo

the dashing Paul.
in a non precocious way.
The sex scenes are pretty raunchy
with some contrived ending
vaguely conscious

Wednesday, May 31, 2006

syn·er·gy Audio pronunciation of "synergy" ( P ) Pronunciation Key (snr-j)
n. pl. syn·er·gies
  1. The interaction of two or more agents or forces so that their combined effect is greater than the sum of their individual effects.
  2. Cooperative interaction among groups, especially among the acquired subsidiaries or merged parts of a corporation, that creates an enhanced combined effect.

granulate

This word was explained to me in person. But I can't find a good definition anywhere on the internet.

Wednesday, March 08, 2006

genuine
adj.
1. Actually possessing the alleged or apparent attribute or character: genuine leather.
2. Not spurious or counterfeit; authentic. See Synonyms at authentic.
3.
1. Honestly felt or experienced: genuine devotion.
2. Actual; real: a genuine dilemma.
4. Free from hypocrisy or dishonesty; sincere.
5. Being of pure or original stock: a genuine Hawaiian.


infiltrate
1.
1. To pass (troops, for example) surreptitiously into enemy-held territory.
2. To penetrate with hostile intent: infiltrate enemy lines; terrorists that had infiltrated the country.
2. To enter or take up positions in gradually or surreptitiously, as for purposes of espionage or takeover: infiltrated key government agencies with spies.
3. To cause (a liquid, for example) to permeate a substance by passing through its interstices or pores.
4. To permeate (a porous substance) with a liquid or gas.

v. intr.
To gain entrance gradually or surreptitiously.
n.
One that infiltrates, especially an abnormal substance that accumulates gradually in cells or body tissues.

Friday, February 10, 2006

Perspiration (pûrsp-rshn)
n.
  1. The fluid, consisting of water with small amounts of urea and salts, that is excreted through the pores of the skin by the sweat glands; sweat.
  2. The act or process of perspiring.
Palpitate(plp-tt)
intr.v. pal·pi·tat·ed, pal·pi·tat·ing, pal·pi·tates
  1. To move with a slight tremulous motion; tremble, shake, or quiver.
  2. To beat with excessive rapidity; throb.

Feign (fn)
v. feigned, feign·ing, feigns
v. tr.
    1. To give a false appearance of: feign sleep.
    2. To represent falsely; pretend to: feign authorship of a novel.
  1. To imitate so as to deceive: feign another's voice.
  2. To fabricate: feigned an excuse.
  3. Archaic. To invent or imagine.
v. intr.
To pretend; dissemble.

Thursday, February 09, 2006

Sanctuary (sngkch-r)
n. pl. sanc·tu·ar·ies
    1. A sacred place, such as a church, temple, or mosque.
    2. The holiest part of a sacred place, as the part of a Christian church around the altar.
    1. A sacred place, such as a church, in which fugitives formerly were immune to arrest.
    2. Immunity to arrest afforded by a sanctuary.
  1. A place of refuge or asylum.
  2. A reserved area in which birds and other animals, especially wild animals, are protected from hunting or molestation. See Synonyms at shelter.

Thursday, January 26, 2006

Insouciance (n-ss-ns, s-syäs)
n.
Blithe lack of concern; nonchalance.
Ignoble (g-nbl)
adj.
  1. Not noble in quality, character, or purpose; base or mean. See Synonyms at mean2.
  2. Not of the nobility; common.

Frailty(frlt)
n. pl. frail·ties
  1. The condition or quality of being frail.
  2. A fault, especially a moral weakness.
Contemptuous (kn-tmpch-s)
adj.
Manifesting or feeling contempt; scornful.
Anorexic (n-rksk)
adj.
  1. Suffering from or afflicted with anorexia nervosa.
  2. Anorectic.
  3. Characterized by severe economy of style and expression: “The book consists of nineteen rather anorexic stories, stripped of all but vestigial traces of emotion and often of plot” (Madison Smartt Bell).