i’ve decided to broaden my vocabulary. from today onwards, everyday i will learn 10 new words, 365 days that will be a total of 3650 words. so here’s for a start.

asexual/a·sex·u·al/adj.

1. Biology without sex or sexual organs.
2. (of reproduction) not involving the fusion of gametes.
3. without sexual feelings or associations.

stasis/STAY-sis; STAS-is/ noun plural stases/STAY-seez; STAS-eez/:

1. A state of balance, equilibrium, or stagnation.
2. Stoppage of the normal flow of a bodily fluid or semifluid.

mundane/mun·dane/adj

1. Of, relating to, or typical of this world; secular.
2. Relating to, characteristic of, or concerned with commonplaces; ordinary.

1: found in the ordinary course of events; “a placid everyday scene”; “it was a routine day”; “there’s nothing quite like a real…train conductor to add color to a quotidian commute”- Anita Diamant [syn: everyday, quotidian, routine, unremarkable, workaday]
2: concerned with the world or worldly matters; “mundane affairs”; “he developed an immense terrestrial practicality” [syn: terrestrial]
3: belonging to this earth or world; not ideal or heavenly; “not a fairy palace; yet a mundane wonder of unimagined kind”; “so terrene a being as himself” [syn: terrene]

Someone outside some group that is implicit from the context, such as the computer industry or science fiction fandom. The implication is that those in the group are special and those outside are just ordinary.

profanity/pro•fan•ity /noun (pl. -ies)/(formal)

1 [U] behaviour that shows a lack of respect for God or holy things
2 [C, usually pl.] swear words, or religious words used in a way that shows a lack of respect for God or holy things: He uttered a stream of profanities.

haughty/haugh•ty/adj/(haughtier, haughtiest)

arrogantly superior and disdainful.

pun/noun/verb (punned, punning) make a pun

a joke exploiting the different meanings of a word or the fact that there are words of the same sound and different meanings.

blather(also blither)/bla•ther/verb/noun

1.verb~ talk at length without making much sense.
2.noun~ rambling talk with no real substance.
-ORIGIN from Old Norse, ‘nonsense’.

bumble/bum•ble/verb

1 act or speak in an awkward or confused manner.
2 (of an insect) buzz or hum.
-DERIVATIVES bumbler noun.
-ORIGIN from BOOM1.

blizzard/bliz·zard/noun

1.a. A violent snowstorm with winds blowing at a minimum speed of 35 miles (56 kilometers) per hour and visibility of less than one-quarter mile (400 meters) for three hours.
b.A very heavy snowstorm with high winds.
2. A torrent; a superabundance: a blizzard of phone calls

invective/in·vec·tive/noun

1. Denunciatory or abusive language; vituperation.
2. Denunciatory or abusive expression or discourse

[late Middle English] This is currently a mass noun for ‘insulting or abusive language’ (e.g. he let out a stream of invective), but original use was as an adjective meaning ‘reviling, abusive’. Invective is from Old French invectif, -ive, from late Latin invectivus ‘attacking’, from the verb invehere (literally ‘carry in’). The noun is from late Latin invectiva (oratio) ‘abusive or censorious (language)’. Inveigh, formerly also written as enveigh, is found from the late 15th century; it now means ’speak about something with great hostility’ but was first used in the sense ‘carry in, introduce’; The source here too is Latin invehere ‘carry in’ and invehi ‘be carried into, assail