Part of speech: noun

Origin: English, 20th century

1. Moderate or normal psychological stress, interpreted as being beneficial.

Examples of eustress in a sentence

"The challenge of my new job was stimulating and left me in a state of eustress."

"During my college days, I always thrived under the eustress of finals season."

Part of speech: adjective

Origin: Latin, 17th century

1. Useful or profitable.

Examples of proficuous in a sentence

"The gas station attendant’s proficuous directions helped us avoid the tolls."

"An emergency bag packed in your car trunk can be a proficuous source of aid in a crisis."

Part of speech: adjective

Origin: Old French, 15th century

1. (Of a person or their manner) Slow and gloomy.

Examples of saturnine in a sentence

"While most characters in “Winnie-the-Pooh” are cheerful, Eeyore is saturnine."

"Poor weather at the beginning of my vacation put me in a saturnine mood."

Part of speech: noun

Origin: French, 19th century

1. A person in a play or book embodying an author's viewpoint.

Examples of raisonneur in a sentence

"The character Horace was clearly the raisonneur of the play, speaking the young playwright’s opinions directly to the audience at times."

"Using a raisonneur as a narrator gave the novel an autobiographical feel."

Do you easily get angry or fly off the handle? I know I can and I used to be a lot worse. We need to do our best to not be quick to anger because it can hurt the respect others have for us or even or reputation. Be smart and stay quiet because it might help solve the issues quicker and more civil.

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Part of speech: noun

Origin: Latin, 16th century

1. Womanly qualities; womanhood.

Examples of muliebrity in a sentence

"Women express muliebrity in many different ways, ranging from motherhood to paths at home, in the workplace, and in the public sphere."

"Eileen felt most at home in her muliebrity when she became a grandmother."

Part of speech: noun

Origin: Latin, 17th century

1. A deposit of clay, silt, sand, and gravel left by flowing streams in a river valley or delta, typically producing fertile soil.

Examples of alluvium in a sentence

"Thanks to a layer of alluvium covering the ground, the valley was easy to walk through."

"Soil full of alluvium makes a fantastic garden."

Part of speech: noun

Origin: Old French, 16th century

1. An alarm bell or signal.

Examples of tocsin in a sentence

"We awoke every morning to the blaring tocsin of the alarm in our neighbor’s apartment."

"The flooding was the tocsin our county needed to take coastal erosion more seriously."

Part of speech: noun

Origin: Latin, 19th century

1. The use of a first-person plural pronoun (such as “we”) instead of a first-person singular pronoun (such as “I”) to refer to oneself.

Examples of nosism in a sentence

"We could tell our AirBnB host was a character from his use of nosism and the way he referred to the condo as “The Manor.”"

"These days, using what is called “the royal we” is so uncommon that anyone who lapses into nosism sounds affected."

Part of speech: adjective

Origin: Latin, 18th century

1. Made of or likened to marble.

Examples of marmoreal in a sentence

"As the artists drew him, the model stood so still, he was practically marmoreal."

"Sarah doubted the contractor’s claim that his new application process would give her driveway asphalt a marmoreal appearance."