A SPINNER'S DICTIONARY

PACESETTER

If life is a race, he sets the appropriate pace.

PAEAN

As fun to give as to receive.

PALAVER

Unpleasant conversations.

PANTHEISM

When atheism meets religion.

PARALLAX

Because your location affects your perception.

PARAMOUNT

‘Superior to others in importance’… You see I wouldn’t name my company like this.

PARSIMONY

When you have it but don’t wanna use it.

PARTIALITY

Because there’s levels to loving.

PASSIM

Anything recurring in a work.

PATLY

If it’s true, change your approach.

PEACHES AND CREAM

Expression to amplify a sour situation, one not peachy at all.

PECCADILLO

Forgivable.

PELLUCID

Very clear. Cannot beat that definition.

PEREMPTORY

The purpose of orders.

PERMAFROST

If the cold war never ended. And the cold war was actually soil.

PERTAIN

Something that actually matters.

PHALANX

A set of things with the same purpose, such as the bones of fingers and toes, for example.

PHILANTROPIST

Person with money who uses it properly.

PHOTOPERIOD

The time for brightness.

PIDGIN

There are no rules for communication.

PIMPLE

Healthy teenagers’ worst nightmare.

PINNACLE

The top.

PITTANCE

Money that is better than nothing but still not good enough.

PLACATE

If you anger is a stereo, it would lower the volume.

PLAUDIT

If you approve and you know it clap your hands.

PLENITUDE

A buttload.

PLUTOCRACY

Our reality.

POACHER

When you kill but the crime is stealing.

POISE

The difference between being cool and staying cool.

POLYGLOT

Able to communicate to more people than all those uniglots.

PONTIFICATE

When what you say may be true, but the way you say it.

PORTEND

Thinking about the worst like you hope it’s gonna happen.

POSTHUMOUS

Because when your body dies, your existence stays behind.

POTBOILER

The worst insult to make an author about its work.

PREDICATE

Proof that there is a proof.

PRE-EMINENCE

When you’re here.

PRESCIENT

What fortune tellers claim to be.

PRETTIFICATION

Making prettier without being beautiful.

PRIMP

When the effort is more important than the result.

PRISTINE

Literally good as new.

PROCLIVITY

When you can’t help yourself but to follow it.

PROFLIGACY

When you don’t give a damn. At all.

PROLIX

Tedious books.

PROPOUND

Replace the UND with SE and there you go.

PROSELYTIZE

When you believe so much you want others to believe the same thing too.

PROVISO

Without it, contracts would be solely signatures.

PSYCHOMETRY

Something I will never be able to measure.

PUGILIST

To be paid to beat people up.

PUMMEL

What pugilists do for money.

PURSUANT

When respect is attributed to words rather than people.

PYRRHIC

Occasions when losing might be better than winning.

QUAINT

When weird meets awesome.

QUANDARY

A proper challenge.

QUASH

Terminate.

QUELL

Terminate.

QUIESCENCE

Not terminated, but not active either.

QUINTESSENCE

What we want to achieve but will probably never reach.

RABBLE

What we would look in public places without waiting lines.

RACY

How some men like to see girls (except with their own of course).

RADIOMETER

Measure radio… activity.

RAGTAG

When you could care a tad more.

RALLENTANDO

The more you get tired of running, the more you’ll rallentando.

RANCOROUS

If people talk to you with this tone, they probably hate you.

RANKLE

Doing that to people repetitively might drive them rancorous towards you.

RARING

Every nine-to-fiver at nine before five.

RAVENOUS

Your state of hunger 30 minutes after you ordered at a restaurant and there’s still no food.

REACQUAINT

When you re-meet someone that you know either name or face but rarely both.

REAGENT

Chemistry time! Any substance used for a chemistry reaction. Damn, that was simple.

REASONED

Difficult to disagree intelligently to that.

REBUT

Disagree intelligently.

RECIDIVISM

When ‘’I promise I won’t do it again’’ turns out to be a lie.

RECLUSE

Most authors’ way of life.

RECUMBENT

The best position for sleeping. Or sky gazing.

REDEMPTIVE

Trying to erase psychological pain caused by psychological or physical mistakes.

REDOLENCE

When doing B makes you think of A.

REDUCTIONISM

When simplification does not simplify properly.

REFERENT

Fancy synonym.

REFLEXOLOGY

Alternative medicine that relies somatosensation.

REFURBISH

Rebuild, recondition, reconstruct, redecorate, redevelop, refit, refresh, renew, renovate, repair, restore, revamp.

REGALE

Using the tongue to entertain… That sounded better in my head.

REHASH

Bad remakes.

REITERATE

Repeat. Repeat.

RELEGATE

Delegate someone’s title to a previous title.

RELINQUISH

Something Rick Astler would never do.

REMITTENT

Decreasing nuisance by decreasing intensity.

RENEGE

Only fools and dead men don’t renege.

REPARTEE

My objective here.

REPLETE

When the supply covers the demand.

REPOSITORY

Where to find if you search.

REPROOF

The reason why it’s impolite to point your finger.

REQUISITE

What you need to do before getting what you want to do.

RESILIENT

A body (or mind) able to return to normal after application of stress.

RESPLENDENT

The most useless action to perform for a colour-blind person.

RESTIVE

When you don’t rest.

RESUMPTION

Because stopping doesn’t mean forever.

RETRENCH

To keep more money by letting go of other resources.

REUPHOLSTER

Refurbish furniture.

REVERIE

A good way to get ideas (if you’re a writer).

REVILE

The favourite verb of internet trolls.

RHETORIC

Lawyers’ writing.

RIBALD

Funny joke if you know your audience. Your immature audience. Such as myself. I’m immature.

RICKETY

Bad engineering.

RIGMAROLE

When ‘it’s complicated’ really is complicated.

RIPOSTE

A counter verbal jab.

RITZ

When you got money and you show it.

ROASTING

When it’s hot or too hot and you know it.

ROISTERING

When you’re having fun and you show it… too much.

ROLLICKING

When you rock it and you roll it.

ROMANTICIZATION

How history teachers teach history.

ROPY

Like a rope. Yeah, really.

ROSTRUM

A place to speak officially.

ROUST 

Converting a sleeping body to an awaken body without delicacy.

RUBRIC

Think inside the box that it belongs in.

RUMEN

The first stomach of the original vegans.

RUNE

Old alphabet letters, and also the name of a brilliant character.

RUPEE

The basic money unit of India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Nepal, Maldives, Seychelles, Mauritius and Hyrule.

RUSTICATE

When you’re far away from tall buildings and paved roads.