My Dic is a dictionary of new words I come across everyday.

Each word has a definition from answers.com, and an example sentence with a link to the source of the example.

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acquiescence
Civ. Code §3516: Acquiescence in error takes away the right of objecting to it.

ad hoc
Major appraisal associations formed the Ad Hoc Committee on Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice in 1985.

aerogel (article)
Stardust captured particles from the comet's tail in a tennis-racket sized collection unit made with blocks of aerogel, a strong, lightweight silica glass that is 99.8 percent air and looks like frozen smoke.

ambergris (article)
Leon Wright and his wife took home a 14.75kg lump of ambergris, worth up to $20 a gram, found in the innards of sperm whales and used in perfumes, to slow down the rate of evaporation, after it has been vomited up.

anachronism (article)

ante (article)
Upping the Ante
Tehran's latest nuclear move may bring censure by the West nearer

apostasy
Capital offenses in Iran include murder, rape, armed robbery, apostasy, blasphemy, serious drug trafficking, repeated sodomy, adultery or prostitution, treason and espionage.

apparatchik (article)
Jack Straw, Britain's former foreign secretary shunted sideways in Prime Minister Tony Blair's cabinet reshuffle, is the archetypal political apparatchik turned high-ranking minister.

archetypal (article)
Jack Straw, Britain's former foreign secretary shunted sideways in Prime Minister Tony Blair's cabinet reshuffle, is the archetypal political apparatchik turned high-ranking minister.

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Bely (article)
But to dismiss the former criminal lawyer as supine or ineffective is to bely his skill as a political operator.

bemused (article)
It made me cringe. I'm absolutely bemused that he decided to do something where he is uncontactable by the people he represents or works for.

bestiality

bigot

blaspheme(blasphemy in religion)
Capital offenses in Iran include murder, rape, armed robbery, apostasy, blasphemy, serious drug trafficking, repeated sodomy, adultery or prostitution, treason and espionage.

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canonised (article)
Joan of Arc, France's national heroine - canonised in 1920 - was convicted of heresy and witchcraft in 1431 and burned alive aged 19.

capital (article)
The term for a town or city that serves as a seat of government is spelled capital. The term for the building in which a legislative assembly meets is spelled capitol.

capitol (article)
The term for a town or city that serves as a seat of government is spelled capital. The term for the building in which a legislative assembly meets is spelled capitol.

capricious
Courts will overturn administrative agency decisions only if they are found to be arbitrary or capricious.

cojones (article)
They know that the US is deeply mired in neighbouring Iraq, where the Iranians wield growing influence in the Shia south. As President George Bush might privately put it, Tehran has Washington by the cojones.

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dominatrix (article)(article2)
A prosecutor said Tuesday that a dominatrix dismembered and disposed of the body of a client who died of a heart attack during a bondage session in her makeshift dungeon.

duplicitous (article)
The criticism surrounding the deal was based on "myths" and any assertion that U.S. officials approved the deal duplicitously is "a total misrepresentation."

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embroil (article)
Oil-rich Gulf state Kuwait is embroiled in an unprecedented constitutional crisis pitting two branches of the ruling Sabah family against each other.

enigmatic (article)
Pluto, the Roman god of the Underworld, turned out to be a particularly apt title for the enigmatic object, which resides in the outer reaches of the Solar System.

epaulettes (article)
Russians got used to the presence of KGB - pointing out suspected agents or informers with a knowing look, and by tapping of two fingers on the shoulder to suggest imaginary epaulettes.

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heresy (article)
Joan of Arc, France's national heroine - canonised in 1920 - was convicted of heresy and witchcraft in 1431 and burned alive aged 19.

heyday (article)
In telegraphy's heyday the company maintained a fleet of thousands of messenger boys, operators, clerks and copyists.

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idiosyncratic
See also: Idiosyncratic reaction

indemnify
Insurance: When one party agrees to indemnify another for a named loss in return for periodic payments.

inert (article)
The bladder is a relatively inert structure, but other organs, such as the heart, are vastly more complex.

inexorable (article)
The logic of the Bush administration is inexorable.

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mitigation
Mitigation in real estate means ways to reduce the environmental impacts of a project.

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panacea
None by themselves will provide the answer, the panacea to all of one's problems.

pitting (article)
Oil-rich Gulf state Kuwait is embroiled in an unprecedented constitutional crisis pitting two branches of the ruling Sabah family against each other.

pontiff (article)
Agca, 48, shot the Pope in St Peter's Square in 1981, but has never explained why. The pontiff later visited him in jail and publicly forgave him.

precipice (article)
So what should Europeans and Americans do on the edge of this Persian precipice?

proselytisation (article)
You sort of work your way back, ultimately all the way back to the radicalisation/recruitment phase, proselytisation.

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rebuff (article)
Clinton said his offer to meet with Iranian former president Khatami had been rebuffed.

rebuke (article)
As a great movement of history took shape, Coretta King's dignity was a daily rebuke to the pettiness and cruelty of segregation

remonstrate (article)
But the most intriguing and perhaps lifesaving possibility comes when you hook the insurance company's server to a SPAM phone dialer and arrange for a deep, authoritative, machine-generated voice to call and remonstrate with customers who are speeding or otherwise driving recklessly.

repugnant (article)
The president of Lakehead's student union called the campaign "repugnant".

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scotch (article)
To scotch a rumour
Mrs Phair is keen to scotch one rumour that grew up in the years after Pluto's discovery; namely that she had named the planet after Disney's cartoon dog, which also debuted in 1930.

sexsomnia (article)
Expert witness for the defense determined the defendant had "sexsomnia" and could not have been aware of his actions.

shunt (article)
Jack Straw, Britain's former foreign secretary shunted sideways in Prime Minister Tony Blair's cabinet reshuffle, is the archetypal political apparatchik turned high-ranking minister.

slog
Sanctions against Iran could be start of a long hard slog

sodomy
Capital offenses in Iran include murder, rape, armed robbery, apostasy, blasphemy, serious drug trafficking, repeated sodomy, adultery or prostitution, treason and espionage.

straddle (article)
He has tempered his views to straddle differing factions in the current Labour movement.

sullen (article)
Correspondents say Mr Bush's domestic plans are shaped by a sullen response to a series of embarrassments during the past 12 months.

superfluity
Civ. Code §3537: Superfluity does not vitiate.

supine (article)
But to dismiss the former criminal lawyer as supine or ineffective is to bely his skill as a political operator.

syllogism (article)
Its ironclad syllogism is this: The United States is and must remain the world’s preeminent power, if need be by using its superior military might.

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taunt

tell off (article)
I'm not the type to have a successful marriage. I'm the type to serve men, not the type to tell them off.

trifles
Civ. Code §3533: The law disregards trifles.

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vitiate
Civ. Code §3537: Superfluity does not vitiate.

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zeal (article)
"My zeal, my love of Israel and my concern for the future safety of your nation led me to make remarks which I can now view in retrospect as inappropriate and insensitive in light of a national grief experienced because of your father's illness," Robertson wrote.