Libel The Bible

Vocabulary

abominable (Dictionary.com) - Episode 26 at 59:04
adjective
  1. repugnantly hateful; detestable; loathsome: an abominable crime.
  2. very unpleasant; disagreeable: The weather was abominable last week.
  3. very bad, poor, or inferior: They have abominable taste in clothes.
ad infinitum - Episode 15
adverb
  1. to infinity; endlessly; without limit. Abbreviations: ad inf., ad infin
allegory (Dictionary.com) - Episode 23 at 20:11
noun
  1. a poem, play, picture, etc, in which the apparent meaning of the characters and events is used to symbolize a deeper moral or spiritual meaning
  2. the technique or genre that this represents
  3. use of such symbolism to illustrate truth or a moral
amber (Dictionary.com) - Episode 22 at 1:18:00
noun; adjective
  1. a pale yellow, sometimes reddish or brownish, fossil resin of vegetable origin, translucent, brittle, and capable of gaining a negative electrical charge by friction and of being an excellent insulator: used for making jewelry and other ornamental articles.
  2. the yellowish-brown color of resin.
  3. of the color of amber; yellowish-brown: amber fields of grain.
animus (Dictionary.com) - Episode 34 at 10:42
noun
  1. strong dislike or enmity; hostile attitude; animosity.
  2. motivating purpose or intention; animating spirit.
  3. (in the psychology of C. G. Jung) the masculine principle, especially as present in women.Compare anima
apostasy (Dictionary.com) - Episode 0
noun
  1. a total desertion of or departure from one's religion, principles, party, cause, etc.
ark - Episode 3
noun
  1. a place of protection or security; refuge; asylum.
  2. a flatboat formerly used on the Mississippi River and its tributaries.
augury (Wikipedia) - Episode 27 at 49:21
noun
  1. Augury is the practice from ancient Roman religion of interpreting omens from the observed behavior of birds. When the individual, known as the augur, interpreted these signs, it is referred to as "taking the auspices".
bard (Merriam-Webster) - Episode 64 at 59:59
noun
  1. a piece of armor or ornament for a horse's neck, breast, or flank
Bedouin - Episode 16
noun
  1. an Arab of the desert, in Asia or Africa; nomadic Arab.
  2. a nomad; wanderer.
  3. adjective: of, relating to, or characteristic of the Bedouin.
benediction (Dictionary.com) - Episode 33 at 49:39
noun
  1. an utterance of good wishes.
  2. the form of blessing pronounced by an officiating minister, as at the close of divine service.
  3. (usually initial capital letter)Also called Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament. a service consisting of prayers, at least one prescribed hymn, censing of the congregation and the Host, and a blessing of the congregation by moving in the form of a cross the ciborium or monstrance containing the Host.
bewail (Dictionary.com) - Episode 67 at 1:03:16
verb
  1. to express deep sorrow for; lament
  2. to express grief
bitumen - Episode 4
noun
  1. any of various natural substances, as asphalt, maltha, or gilsonite, consisting mainly of hydrocarbons.
  2. (formerly) an asphalt of Asia Minor used as cement and mortar.
boor (Dictionary.com) - Episode 45 at 46:26
noun
  1. a churlish, rude, or unmannerly person.
  2. a country bumpkin; rustic; yokel.
  3. peasant.
bridegroom - Episode 12
noun
  1. a newly married man or a man about to be married.
brier (Dictionary.com) - Episode 66 at 37:44
noun
  1. a prickly plant or shrub, especially the sweetbrier or a greenbrier
  2. a tangled mass of prickly plants
censer (Dictionary.com) - Episode 36 at 31:20
noun
  1. a container, usually covered, in which incense is burned, especially during religious services; thurible.
cloister - Episode 6
noun
  1. a place of religious seclusion, as a monastery or convent.
  2. any quiet, secluded place.
  3. verb (used with object): to confine in a monastery or convent.
consecrate - Episode 16
verb (used with object)
  1. to make or declare sacred; set apart or dedicate to the service of a deity: to consecrate a new church building.
  2. to make (something) an object of honor or veneration; hallow: a custom consecrated by time.
  3. to change (bread and wine) into the Eucharist.
constructionist (Dictionary.com) - Episode 21 at 46:10
noun
  1. a person who construes or interprets, especially laws or the like, in a specific manner: a strict constructionist.
convocation (Dictionary.com) - Episode 28 at 48:18
noun
  1. a group of people gathered in answer to a summons; assembly.
  2. Anglican Church. either of the two provincial synods or assemblies of the clergy.
  3. a formal assembly at a college or university, especially for a graduation ceremony.
cormorant (Dictionary.com) - Episode 25 at 1:02:15
noun
  1. any of several voracious, totipalmate seabirds of the family Phalacrocoracidae, as Phalacrocorax carbo, of America, Europe, and Asia, having a long neck and a distensible pouch under the bill for holding captured fish, used in China for catching fish.
  2. a greedy person.
courtesan - Episode 11
noun
  1. (especially in historical use) a mistress, paramour, or prostitute, especially one associating with noblemen or men of wealth.
covet (Dictionary.com) - Episode 44 at 1:11:46
verb
  1. to desire wrongfully, inordinately, or without due regard for the rights of others
  2. to wish for, especially eagerly
  3. to have an inordinate or wrongful desire
crucify (Dictionary.com) - Episode 23 at 9:43
verb
  1. to put to death by nailing or binding the hands and feet to a cross.
  2. to treat with gross injustice; persecute; torment; torture.
  3. to subdue (passion, sin, etc.).
cubit - Episode 3
noun
  1. an ancient linear unit based on the length of the forearm, from elbow to the tip of the middle finger, usually from 17 to 21 inches (43 to 53 centimeters).
cud (Dictionary.com) - Episode 25 at 46:10
noun
  1. the portion of food that a ruminant returns from the first stomach to the mouth to chew a second time.
culpable (Dictionary.com) - Episode 41 at 1:16:00
adjective
  1. deserving blame or censure; blameworthy.
dashiki (Dictionary.com) - Episode 26 at 11:43
noun
  1. a loose, usually colorfully patterned, pullover garment originating in Africa and worn chiefly by men.
diadem (Dictionary.com) - Episode 23 at 31:46
noun
  1. a crown.
  2. a cloth headband, sometimes adorned with jewels, formerly worn by monarchs in Asia Minor and other parts of the East.
  3. royal dignity or authority.
diametrically - Episode 16
adverb
  1. completely; utterly (esp in the phrase diametrically opposed)
diaspora (Dictionary.com) - Episode 44 at 55:55
noun
  1. the scattering of the Jews to countries outside of Palestine after the Babylonian captivity.
  2. any group that has been dispersed outside its traditional homeland, especially involuntarily, as Africans during the trans-Atlantic slave trade.
  3. any religious group living as a minority among people of the prevailing religion.
disparate - Episode 2
adjective
  1. distinct in kind; essentially different; dissimilar
dowry - Episode 4
noun
  1. Also dower. the money, goods, or estate that a wife brings to her husband at marriage.
  2. Archaic. a widow's dower.
  3. a natural gift, endowment, talent, etc.
dunzo (Urban Dictionary) - Episode 17 at 27:39
slang

  1. a slang word for done/finshed. Made famous by the Laguna Beach cast.

    This car is so dunzo. (Kristin's car breaks down.)

ecclesiastical (Dictionary.com) - Episode 20
adjective
  1. of or relating to the church or the clergy; churchly; clerical; not secular.
effete (Merriam-Webster) - Episode 42 at 1:15:15
adjective
  1. no longer fertile
  2. marked by weakness or decadence; having lost character, vitality, or strength
  3. soft or delicate from or as if from a pampered existence
ellipse (Dictionary.com) - Episode 29 at 29:25
noun Geometry
  1. a plane curve such that the sums of the distances of each point in its periphery from two fixed points, the foci, are equal. It is a conic section formed by the intersection of a right circular cone by a plane that cuts the axis and the surface of the cone. Typical equation: (x2/a2) + (y2/b2) = 1. If a = b the ellipse is a circle.
Ellipse, The (Wikipedia) - Episode 29 at 29:25
Location
  1. The Ellipse (sometimes referred to as President's Park South) is a 52-acre (21 ha) park south of the White House fence and north of Constitution Avenue and the National Mall in Washington, D.C. The Ellipse is also the name of the five-furlong (1.0 km) circumference street within the park. The entire park, which features monuments, is open to the public and is part of President's Park. The Ellipse is the location for many annual events
ellipsis (Dictionary.com) - Episode 29 at 29:25
noun, plural ellipses
  1. Grammar: the omission from a sentence or other construction of one or more words that would complete or clarify the construction, as the omission of who are, while I am, or while we are from I like to interview people sitting down.
  2. Grammar: the omission of one or more items from a construction in order to avoid repeating the identical or equivalent items that are in a preceding or following construction, as the omission of been to Paris from the second clause of I've been to Paris, but they haven't.
  3. Printing: a mark or marks as ——, …, or * * *, to indicate an omission or suppression of letters or words.
ember (Dictionary.com) - Episode 22 at 1:18:00
noun
  1. a small live piece of coal, wood, etc., as in a dying fire.
  2. embers, the smoldering remains of a fire.
emeritus (Dictionary.com) - Episode 42 at 47:59
adjective
  1. retired or honorably discharged from active professional duty, but retaining the title of one's office or position
  2. (noun) an emeritus professor, minister, etc.
emissary - Episode 6
noun
  1. a representative sent on a mission or errand
  2. an agent sent on a mission of a secret nature, as a spy.
enmity - Episode 3
noun
  1. a feeling or condition of hostility; hatred; ill will; animosity; antagonism.
epitaph (Dictionary.com) - Episode 56 at 1:20:00
noun; verb
  1. a commemorative inscription on a tomb or mortuary monument about the person buried at that site.
  2. a brief poem or other writing in praise of a deceased person.
  3. to commemorate in or with an epitaph.
eunuch (Dictionary.com) - Episode 28 at 45:55
noun
  1. a castrated man, especially one formerly employed by rulers in the Middle East and Asia as a harem guard or palace official.
evangelical - Episode 6
adjective
  1. belonging to or designating the Christian churches that emphasize the teachings and authority of the Scriptures, especially of the New Testament, in opposition to the institutional authority of the church itself, and that stress as paramount the tenet that salvation is achieved by personal conversion to faith in the atonement of Christ.
  2. designating Christians, especially of the late 1970s, eschewing the designation of fundamentalist but holding to a conservative interpretation of the Bible.
  3. pertaining to certain movements in the Protestant churches in the 18th and 19th centuries that stressed the importance of personal experience of guilt for sin, and of reconciliation to God through Christ.
execrate (Dictionary.com) - Episode 33 at 28:30
verb
  1. to detest utterly; abhor; abominate
  2. to curse; imprecate evil upon; damn; denounce
  3. to utter curses
exhort (Dictionary.com) - Episode 54 at 48:01
verb
  1. to urge, advise, or caution earnestly; admonish urgently.
  2. to give urgent advice, recommendations, or warnings.
exodus - Episode 11
noun
  1. a going out; a departure or emigration, usually of a large number of people:
  2. the Exodus, the departure of the Israelites from Egypt under Moses.
  3. (initial capital letter) the second book of the Bible, containing an account of the Exodus. Abbreviation: Ex.
expiate (Dictionary.com) - Episode 42 at 1:23:02
verb
  1. to atone for; make amends or reparation for
fallow (Dictionary.com) - Episode 19
adjective
  1. (of land) plowed and left unseeded for a season or more; uncultivated.
  2. not in use; inactive: My creative energies have lain fallow this year.
  3. noun: land that has undergone plowing and harrowing and has been left unseeded for one or more growing seasons.
fatwa (Dictionary.com) - Episode 33 at 1:09:30
noun
  1. an Islamic religious decree issued by the ʿulama.
festal (Dictionary.com) - Episode 68
adjective
  1. pertaining to or befitting a feast, festival, holiday, or gala occasion
filicide - Episode 5
noun
  1. a person who kills his or her son or daughter.
  2. the act of killing one's son or daughter
firmament - Episode 1
noun
  1. the vault of heaven; sky.
flagellation (Dictionary.com) - Episode 28 at 12:37
noun
  1. the act or process of flagellating.
  2. a masochistic or sadistic act in which the participants receive erotic stimulation from whipping or being whipped.
flagon (Dictionary.com) - Episode 20
noun
  1. a large bottle for wine, liquors, etc.
  2. a container for holding liquids, as for use at table, especially one with a handle, a spout, and usually a cover.
flay (Dictionary.com) - Episode 24 at 36:19
verb (used with object)
  1. to strip off the skin or outer covering of.
  2. to criticize or scold with scathing severity.
  3. to deprive or strip of money or property.
frankincense (Dictionary.com) - Episode 29 at 35:31
noun
  1. an aromatic gum resin from various Asian and African trees of the genus Boswellia, especially B. carteri, used chiefly for burning as incense in religious or ceremonial practices, in perfumery, and in pharmaceutical and fumigating preparations.
furtive (Dictionary.com) - Episode 35 at 31:33
adjective
  1. taken, done, used, etc., surreptitiously or by stealth; secret: a furtive glance.
  2. sly; shifty: a furtive manner.
galoot (Urban Dictionary) - Episode 18 at 1:11:28
noun

  1. Galoot is an old word used, primarily in Scotland, that means a person with an ungainly, cumbersome, and clumsy personality.

    Dave Kingman of the New York Mets was like a big galoot - he'd either strikeout spectacularly or hit the ball 800 feet and break a windshield in the parking lot.

gander (Dictionary.com) - Episode 67 at 45:11
noun
  1. the male of the goose.
gaslight (Dictionary.com) - Episode 49 at 36:55
verb
  1. to cause (a person) to doubt his or her sanity through the use of psychological manipulation
gild - Episode 12
verb (used with object)
  1. to coat with gold, gold leaf, or a gold-colored substance.
  2. to give a bright, pleasing, or specious aspect to.
  3. Archaic. to make red, as with blood.
Golden Rule - Episode 3
noun
  1. a rule of ethical conduct, usually phrased "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you," paraphrased from the Sermon on the Mount. Matthew 7:12; Luke 6:31.
  2. any philosophy, guiding principle, or ideal of behavior, as in a discipline, pursuit, or business
Hebrew - Episode 4
noun
  1. a member of the Semitic peoples inhabiting ancient Palestine and claiming descent from Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; an Israelite.
  2. a Semitic language of the Afroasiatic family, the language of the ancient Hebrews, which, although not in a vernacular use from 100 b.c. to the 20th century, was retained as the scholarly and liturgical language of Jews and is now the national language of Israel. Abbreviation: Heb
hewn (Dictionary.com) - Episode 17 at 34:36
adjective
  1. felled and roughly shaped by hewing: hewn logs.
  2. given a rough surface: hewn stone.
high-handed (Dictionary.com) - Episode 35 at 1:22:16
adjective
  1. condescending or presumptuous; overbearing; arbitrary: He has a highhanded manner.
hoopoe (Dictionary.com) - Episode 25 at 1:02:52
noun
  1. any Old World bird of the family Upupidae, especially Upupa epops, of Europe, having an erectile, fanlike crest.
huckster (Dictionary.com) - Episode 27 at 46:24
noun
  1. a retailer of small articles, especially a peddler of fruits and vegetables; hawker.
  2. a person who employs showy methods to effect a sale, win votes, etc.: the crass methods of political hucksters.
  3. a cheaply mercenary person.
hyssop - Episode 14
noun
  1. any of several aromatic herbs belonging to the genus Hyssopus, of the mint family, especially H. officinalis, native to Europe, having clusters of small blue flowers.
  2. any of several related or similar plants, especially of the genera Agastache or Gratiola.
  3. Bible. a plant, perhaps the origan, whose twigs were used in ceremonial sprinkling.
iconoclast (Dictionary.com) - Episode 40 at 46:41
noun
  1. a person who attacks cherished beliefs, traditional institutions, etc., as being based on error or superstition.
  2. a breaker or destroyer of images, especially those set up for religious veneration.
ideocracy (Wikipedia) - Episode 26 at 16:08
noun
  1. Ideocracy (a portmanteau word combining "ideology" and kratos, Greek for "power") is "governance of a state according to the principles of a particular (political) ideology; a state or country governed in this way". It is government based on a monistic ideology—as distinct from an authoritarian state which is characterized by strong central power and limited political freedoms. An ideocratic state can either be totalitarian—citizens being forced to follow an ideology—or populist (citizens voluntarily following an ideology).
idolater (Dictionary.com) - Episode 63 at 53:56
noun
  1. a worshiper of idols.
  2. a person who is an immoderate admirer; devotee.
intercession (Dictionary.com) - Episode 22 at 37:28
noun
  1. an act or instance of interceding.
  2. an interposing or pleading on behalf of another person.
  3. a prayer to God on behalf of another.
jubilee (Dictionary.com) - Episode 29 at 46:20
noun
  1. the celebration of any of certain anniversaries, as the twenty-fifth (silver jubilee), fiftieth (golden jubilee), or sixtieth or seventy-fifth (diamond jubilee).
  2. the completion of 50 years of existence, activity, or the like, or its celebration: Our college will celebrate its jubilee next year.
  3. any season or occasion of rejoicing or festivity.
Kush (Dictionary.com) - Episode 5 at 55:25
noun
  1. marijuana, formerly specific to a strain of cannabis that originated from the Hindu Kush region.
lamentation - Episode 13
noun
  1. the act of lamenting or expressing grief.
  2. a lament.
  3. Lamentations, (used with a singular verb) a book of the Bible, traditionally ascribed to Jeremiah. Abbreviation: Lam.
libel - Episode 1
noun
  1. anything that is defamatory or that maliciously or damagingly misrepresents.
lintel - Episode 14
noun
  1. a horizontal architectural member supporting the weight above an opening, as a window or a door.
lithe - Episode 16
adjective
  1. bending readily; pliant; limber; supple; flexible:
    the lithe body of a ballerina.
loins - Episode 9
plural noun
  1. the hips and the inner surface of the legs where they join the trunk of the body; crotch
  2. euphemistic the reproductive organs
  3. mainly literary the womb
lyre - Episode 2
noun
  1. a musical instrument of ancient Greece consisting of a soundbox made typically from a turtle shell, with two curved arms connected by a yoke from which strings are stretched to the body, used especially to accompany singing and recitation.
madrasah (Dictionary.com) - Episode 35 at 1:01:45
noun Islam
  1. a school or college, especially a school attached to a mosque where young men study theology.
mana - Episode 15
noun Anthropology.
  1. a generalized, supernatural force or power, which may be concentrated in objects or persons.
manna - Episode 15
noun
  1. the food miraculously supplied to the Israelites in the wilderness. Exodus 16:14-36.
  2. any sudden or unexpected help, advantage, or aid to success.
  3. divine or spiritual food.
McGuffin - Episode 3
noun
  1. an object or event in a book or a film that serves as the impetus for the plot
mercurial (Dictionary.com) - Episode 21 at 1:11:25
adjective
  1. changeable; volatile; fickle; flighty; erratic: a mercurial nature.
  2. animated; lively; sprightly; quick-witted.
  3. pertaining to, containing, or caused by the metal mercury.
mezuzah (Dictionary.com) - Episode 45 at 41:21
noun
  1. Judaism. a parchment scroll inscribed on one side with the Biblical passages Deuteronomy 6:4–9 and 11:13–21 and on the other side with the word Shaddai (a name applied to God), inserted in a small case or tube so that Shaddai is visible through an aperture in front, and attached by some Jews to the doorjambs of the home.
mnemonic - Episode 14
noun
  1. assisting or intended to assist the memory.
  2. pertaining to mnemonics or to memory.
  3. noun: something intended to assist the memory, as a verse or formula.
mnemonic (Dictionary.com) - Episode 56 at 42:21
noun; adjective
  1. something intended to assist the memory, as a verse or formula.
  2. assisting or intended to assist the memory.
  3. pertaining to mnemonics or to memory.
Nephilim - Episode 3
unknown beings
  1. The Nephilim are mysterious beings or people in the Hebrew Bible who are large and strong.[1] The word Nephilim is loosely translated as giants in some translations of the Hebrew Bible, but left untranslated in others. Jewish explanations interpret them as hybrid sons of fallen angels.
Objectivism (Wikipedia) - Episode 28 at 1:12:22
Objectivist philosophy
  1. Rand described Objectivism as "the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute". Peikoff characterizes Objectivism as a "closed system" insofar as its "fundamental principles" were set out by Rand and are not subject to change. However, he stated that "new implications, applications and integrations can always be discovered".
Occam's Razor - Episode 4
noun
  1. the maxim that assumptions introduced to explain a thing must not be multiplied beyond necessity.
odious - Episode 8
adjective
  1. deserving or causing hatred; hateful; detestable.
  2. highly offensive; repugnant; disgusting.
oligarchy (Dictionary.com) - Episode 40 at 16:13
noun
  1. a form of government in which all power is vested in a few persons or in a dominant class or clique; government by the few.
  2. a state or organization so ruled.
  3. the persons or class so ruling.
oracle (Dictionary.com) - Episode 38 at 52:50
noun
  1. (especially in ancient Greece) an utterance, often ambiguous or obscure, given by a priest or priestess at a shrine as the response of a god to an inquiry.
  2. the agency or medium giving such responses.
  3. a shrine or place at which such responses were given: the oracle of Apollo at Delphi.
pagan (Dictionary.com) - Episode 19 at 48:48
noun
  1. (no longer in technical use) one of a people or community observing a polytheistic religion, as the ancient Romans and Greeks.
  2. a member of a religious, spiritual, or cultural community based on the worship of nature or the earth; a neopagan.
  3. Disparaging and Offensive: (in historical contexts) a person who is not a Christian, Jew, or Muslim; a heathen; an irreligious or hedonistic person.; an uncivilized or unenlightened person.
papacy (Dictionary.com) - Episode 17
noun, plural pa-pa-cies
  1. the office, dignity, or jurisdiction of the pope.
  2. the period during which a certain pope is in office.
  3. the succession or line of the popes.
paper tiger (Dictionary.com) - Episode 24 at 2:15
noun
  1. a person, group, nation, or thing that has the appearance of strength or power but is actually weak or ineffectual.
parable - Episode 1
noun
  1. a short allegorical story designed to illustrate or teach some truth, religious principle, or moral lesson.
  2. a statement or comment that conveys a meaning indirectly by the use of comparison, analogy, or the like.
peccadillo (Dictionary.com) - Episode 44 at 33:55
noun
  1. a very minor or slight sin or offense; a trifling fault
pederasty (Dictionary.com) - Episode 59 at 45:13
noun
  1. sexual relations between two males, especially when one of them is a minor.
pentateuch (Merriam-Webster) - Episode 53 at 28:07
noun
  1. the first five books of Jewish and Christian Scriptures
  2. Pentateuch means simply "five books". In Greek, the Pentateuch (which Jews call the Torah) includes the books of Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy. These contain some of the oldest and most famous stories in the Bible, including those of Adam and Eve, Jacob and his brothers, and Moses, as well as some of the oldest codes of law known, including the Ten Commandments.
Pentecostal (Dictionary.com) - Episode 22 at 1:20:40
adjective; noun
  1. of or relating to Pentecost, a Christian festival commemorating the descent of the Holy Ghost upon the apostles.
  2. noting or relating to any of various Christian groups, usually fundamentalist, that emphasize the activity of the Holy Spirit, stress holiness of living, and express their religious feelings uninhibitedly, as by speaking in tongues.
  3. Also called Pentecostalist . a member of any Pentecostal denomination.
penultimate (Dictionary.com) - Episode 28 at 9:43
adjective
  1. next to the last: the penultimate scene of the play.
  2. of or relating to a penult or the next to the last syllable in a word: In the word appropriate,-pri- is the penultimate syllable.
  3. npun: a penult.
perpetuity - Episode 15
noun
  1. the state or character of being perpetual (often preceded by in): to desire happiness in perpetuity.
  2. endless or indefinitely long duration or existence; eternity.
  3. something that is perpetual.
peruse (Dictionary.com) - Episode 31 at 1:07:53
verb (used with object)
  1. to read through with thoroughness or care
  2. to scan or browse
  3. to survey or examine in detail
pestilence - Episode 14
noun
  1. a deadly or virulent epidemic disease.
  2. bubonic plague.
  3. something that is considered harmful, destructive, or evil.
Pharaoh - Episode 4
noun
  1. a title of an ancient Egyptian king.
  2. (lowercase) any person who uses power or authority to oppress others; tyrant.
philistine (Dictionary.com) - Episode 63 at 1:37:34
noun; adjective
  1. a person who is lacking in or hostile or smugly indifferent to cultural values, intellectual pursuits, aesthetic refinement, etc., or is contentedly commonplace in ideas and tastes.
  2. lacking in or hostile to culture.
  3. smugly commonplace or conventional.
picadillo - Episode 11
noun
  1. a traditional Latin American and Spanish dish of ground meat, onions, tomatoes, raisins, olives, and spices.
piccalilli - Episode 11
noun
  1. a pungent relish of East Indian origin, made of chopped vegetables, mustard, vinegar, and hot spices.
pious (Dictionary.com) - Episode 35 at 1:09:15
adjective
  1. having or showing a dutiful spirit of reverence for God or an earnest wish to fulfill religious obligations.
  2. characterized by a hypocritical concern with virtue or religious devotion; sanctimonious.
  3. practiced or used in the name of real or pretended religious motives, or for some ostensibly good object; falsely earnest or sincere: a pious deception.
plinth - Episode 6
noun - architecture
  1. a slablike member beneath the base of a column or pier.
  2. a square base or a lower block, as of a pedestal.
  3. Also called plinth course . a projecting course of stones at the base of a wall; earth table.
prescience (Dictionary.com) - Episode 18 at 51:18
noun
  1. knowledge of things before they exist or happen; foreknowledge; foresight.
prolific - Episode 1
adjective
  1. producing offspring, young, fruit, etc., abundantly; highly fruitful
  2. producing in large quantities or with great frequency; highly productive
  3. characterized by abundant production
prophesying (Dictionary.com) - Episode 34 at 53:46
verb
  1. to make predictions.
  2. to make inspired declarations of what is to come.
  3. to speak as a mediator between God and humankind or in God's stead.
proverb (Dictionary.com) - Episode 54 at 1:09:34
noun
  1. a short popular saying, usually of unknown and ancient origin, that expresses effectively some commonplace truth or useful thought; adage;
  2. a person or thing that is commonly regarded as an embodiment or representation of some quality; byword.
  3. Bible. a profound saying, maxim, or oracular utterance requiring interpretation.
redux (Dictionary.com) - Episode 34 at 1:43
adjective
  1. brought back; resurgent: the Victorian era redux.
  2. (We were unsure of the pronunciation: [ ri-duhks ] )
remit (Dictionary.com) - Episode 49 at 34:35
verb
  1. to transmit or send (money, a check, etc.) to a person or place, usually in payment.
  2. to refrain from exacting, as a payment or service.
  3. TOO MANY DAMN DEFINITIONS FOR SUCH A SMALL WORD!
rosette (Dictionary.com) - Episode 23 at 31:46
noun
  1. any arrangement, part, object, or formation more or less resembling a rose.
  2. a rose-shaped arrangement of ribbon or other material, used as an ornament or badge.
  3. Also rosace. an architectural ornament resembling a rose or having a generally circular combination of parts.
schadenfreude (Dictionary.com) - Episode 54 at 1:07:02
noun
  1. satisfaction or pleasure felt at someone else's misfortune.
serpent - Episode 2
noun
  1. a snake
  2. a wily, treacherous, or malicious person.
  3. the Devil; Satan. Genesis 3:1-5.
sheaf - Episode 9
noun, plural sheaves
  1. one of the bundles in which cereal plants, as wheat, rye, etc., are bound after reaping.
  2. any bundle, cluster, or collection: a sheaf of papers.
  3. verb (used with object): to bind (something) into a sheaf or sheaves.
Sheol (Wikipedia) - Episode 36 at 44:20
noun (in Hebrew theology)
  1. Within the Hebrew Bible, there are few – often brief and nondescript – mentions of Sheol, seemingly describing it as a place where both the righteous and the unrighteous dead go, regardless of their moral choices in life. The implications of Sheol within the texts are therefore somewhat unclear; it can be interpreted as either a generic metaphor describing "the grave" into which all humans invariably descend, or, it may be interpreted as representing an actual state of afterlife within Israelite thought.
shiksa (Wordnik) - Episode 51 at 21:00
noun
  1. A non-Jewish girl or woman.
  2. a derogatory term used by Jews to refer to non-Jewish women
  3. maiden
signet - Episode 9
noun
  1. a small seal, as on a finger ring.
  2. a small official seal for legal documents, contracts, etc.
  3. an impression made by or as if by a signet.
slaughter (Dictionary.com) - Episode 26 at 45:13
noun, verb (used with obj
  1. to kill or butcher (animals), especially for food.
  2. to kill in a brutal or violent manner.
  3. to slay in great numbers; massacre.
smite (Dictionary.com) - Episode 62 at 1:21:21
verb
  1. to strike or hit hard, with or as with the hand, a stick, or other weapon
  2. to afflict or attack with deadly or disastrous effect
  3. to affect mentally or morally with a sudden pang
snake - Episode 2
noun
  1. any of numerous limbless, scaly, elongate reptiles of the suborder Serpentes, comprising venomous and nonvenomous species inhabiting tropical and temperate areas.
  2. a treacherous person; an insidious enemy.
snuffer (Dictionary.com) - Episode 20
noun
  1. a cone-shaped implement for extinguishing candles
  2. candlesnuffer.
  3. a person who snuffs candles.
spun (Urban Dictionary.com) - Episode 22 at 1:16:51
  1. A state of being so high on meth you believe you are making great progress on many tasks, but in reality, nothing gets completed. The wheels might be spinning but you ain't going nowhere.
  2. The act of getting super high on methamphetamine.
  3. A verb to represent how you feel after you've injected or smoked crystal methamphetamine (speed) into your system, which can sometimes feel like the room is spinning around you, even though you might be perfectly still.

    Looking to get spun tonight. Looking for a spinning time.

stiff-necked (Dictionary.com) - Episode 21 at 1:11:03
adjective
  1. having a stiff neck; having torticollis.
  2. haughty and obstinate; refractory.
  3. haughtily stubborn or obstinate
suet (Dictionary.com) - Episode 24 at 36:47
noun
  1. the hard fatty tissue about the loins and kidneys of beef, sheep, etc., used in cooking or processed to yield tallow.
superfluous - Episode 16
adjective
  1. being more than is sufficient or required; excessive.
  2. unnecessary or needless.
  3. Obsolete. possessing or spending more than enough or necessary; extravagant.
tabernacle (Dictionary.com) - Episode 20
noun
  1. any place or house of worship, especially one designed for a large congregation.
  2. (often initial capital letter) the portable sanctuary in use by the Israelites from the time of their wandering in the wilderness after the Exodus from Egypt to the building of the Temple in Jerusalem by Solomon. Exodus 25–27.
  3. Ecclesiastical. an ornamental receptacle for the reserved Eucharist, now generally found on the altar.
tallow (Dictionary.com) - Episode 24 at 36:47
noun
  1. the fatty tissue or suet of animals.
  2. the harder fat of sheep, cattle, etc., separated by melting from the fibrous and membranous matter naturally mixed with it, and used to make candles, soap, etc.
  3. any of various similar fatty substances: vegetable tallow.
tarry - Episode 7
intransitive verb
  1. to delay or be tardy in acting or doing : to linger in expectation : wait
  2. to abide or stay in or at a place
  3. of, resembling, or covered with tar
teraphim (Dictionary.com) - Episode 69 at 1:00:54
noun
  1. idols or images reverenced by the ancient Hebrews and kindred peoples, apparently as household gods
Tetragrammaton - Episode 12
noun
  1. the Hebrew word for God, consisting of the four letters yod, he, vav, and he, transliterated consonantally usually as YHVH, now pronounced as Adonai or Elohim in substitution for the original pronunciation forbidden since the 2nd or 3rd century b.c.
tetrahedron - Episode 12
noun
  1. Geometry. a solid contained by four plane faces; a triangular pyramid.
  2. any of various objects resembling a tetrahedron in the distribution of its faces or apexes.
thresh - Episode 11
verb
  1. to separate the grain or seeds from (a cereal plant or the like) by some mechanical means, as by beating with a flail or by the action of a threshing machine.
  2. to beat as if with a flail.
timbrel (Dictionary.com) - Episode 67 at 1:01:48
noun
  1. a tambourine or similar instrument
tithe - Episode 4
noun
  1. Sometimes tithes. the tenth part of agricultural produce or personal income set apart as an offering to God or for works of mercy, or the same amount regarded as an obligation or tax for the support of the church, priesthood, or the like.
  2. any tax, levy, or the like, especially of one-tenth.
upbraid (Dictionary.com) - Episode 66 at 33:11
verb
  1. to find fault with or reproach severely; censure
  2. (of things) to bring reproach on; serve as a reproach t
  3. Archaic. to utter reproaches
vapid (Dictionary.com) - Episode 43 at 26:23
adjective
  1. without liveliness or spirit; dull or tedious
  2. lacking or having lost life, sharpness, or flavor; insipid; flat:
viceroy - Episode 15
noun
  1. a person appointed to rule a country or province as the deputy of the sovereign:
  2. a brightly marked American butterfly, Limenitis archippus, closely mimicking the monarch butterfly in coloration.
vista (Dictionary.com) - Episode 56 at 1:06:19
noun
  1. a view or prospect, especially one seen through a long, narrow avenue or passage, as between rows of trees or houses.
  2. such an avenue or passage, especially when formally planned.
  3. a far-reaching mental view:
votive (Dictionary.com) - Episode 28 at 1:30:56
adjective
  1. offered, given, dedicated, etc., in accordance with a vow: a votive offering.
  2. performed, undertaken, etc., in consequence of a vow.
  3. of the nature of or expressive of a wish or desire.
wadi (Wordnik) - Episode 51 at 43:13
noun
  1. A valley, gully, or streambed in northern Africa and southwest Asia that remains dry except during the rainy season.
  2. A stream that flows through such a channel.
  3. An oasis.
WYSIWYG - Episode 13
noun
  1. In computing, WYSIWYG, an acronym for What You See Is What You Get, is a system in which editing software allows content to be edited in a form that resembles its appearance when printed or displayed as a finished product, such as a printed document, web page, or slide presentation. WYSIWYG implies a user interface that allows the user to view something very similar to the end result while the document is being created. In general, WYSIWYG implies the ability to directly manipulate the layout of a document without having to type or remember names of layout commands.
Yahweh - Episode 12
noun
  1. a name of God, transliterated by scholars from the Tetragrammaton and commonly rendered Jehovah.
yenta - Episode 12
noun Slang
  1. a person, especially a woman, who is a busybody or gossip.
zeitgeist (Dictionary.com) - Episode 24 at 56:40
noun
  1. Sometimes Zeitgeist. the spirit of the time; the general trend of thought, feeling, or tastes characteristic of a particular period of time: It’s one of those iconic novels that represents the zeitgeist of the mid-1990s so perfectly that reading it provides the ideal dose of nostalgia.