Definition (Origin) | Loanword |
In a violently raging, wild, or uncontrolled manner. (Malay) | |
A boss or master, often used as a title or form of address. (Swahili) | |
Supreme self-confidence or audacity, used approvingly. (Yiddish) | |
The relaxation of strained relations or tensions, especially between nations. (French) | |
A feeling of weariness and dissatisfaction. (French) | |
A usually cotton-filled mattress used on the floor or in a frame as a bed or chair. (Japanese) | |
A coercive institution, or an oppressive environment (Russian) | |
Concentrated resin from female hemp plants that is used for its intoxicating effect. (Arabic) | |
A place or a state that resembles or suggests hell, or an intense fire. (Italian) | |
The ruling council of a military dictatorship. (Spanish) | |
A clumsy, awkward, or foolish person. (Yiddish) | |
A dominant recurring theme, usually in a musical or literary composition. (German) | |
A powerful often violent whirlpool sucking in objects within a given radius. (Dutch) | |
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Lack of sophistication, experience, judgment or worldliness. (French) | |
A government official who deals with the complaints made against it. (Swedish) | |
An organized massacre of helpless people, specifically Jews. (Russian) | |
Acting with desire to do noble or romantic deeds, exceedingly idealistic. (Spanish) | |
A machine that automatically performs complicated, often repetitive tasks. (Czech*) | |
A small room used as a hot-air or steam bath, for cleaning and refreshing. (Finnish) | |
A businessperson of exceptional wealth, power, and influence. (Japanese) | |
Superior future man who rises above conventional morality to impose his own values, as described by Nietzsche. (German) | |
An often prolonged series of retaliatory, vengeful, or hostile acts. (Italian) | |
A child prodigy. (German) | |
Fear and hatred of strangers or foreigners or of anything that is strange or foreign. (Greek*) | |
A milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process. (Turkish) | |
The general intellectual, moral, and cultural climate of an era. (German) | |
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