Previous words of the Month

The following definitions are some interesting words that the translators at AOD Translation Services have come across over the past few months. We hope you enjoy working them in to your everyday vocabulary.

Lamprophony; noun
Loudness and clarity of voice
Dephlogisticate ; verb
To make something fireproof.
Adimpleate ; verb
to fill up - The new technique adimpleates the cans with milk through injection.
Absquatulate ; verb
go away, run off, abscond, beat a retreat, desert (Colloquial speech)
Ambler ; noun
A horse or a person that ambles.
Pithy ; adjective
Concise and full of meaning; "welcomed her pithy comments"; "the peculiarly sardonic and sententious style in which Don Luis composed his epigrams"- Hervey Allen
Garrulity ; noun
The quality of being wordy and talkative