Rudeboy

Jamaican slang term for a tough youth from the streets, similar to gangsta, and also associated with a whole subculture of music, fashion, etc.

Nascent

Something that is coming or has recently come into existence (like mobile phones, the Internet, tablets, virtual reality, and pretty much everything else that is prominent in our lives these days)

Metaverse

According to Wikipedia, the metaverse is a collective virtual shared space, created by the convergence of virtually enhanced physical reality and physically persistent virtual space. WHAT?!?

Okay, so basically, it's the existing universe plus everything you see in your Google glasses, Hololens, or your cheap pair of virtual reality glasses, which will probably be avalaible at your local drugstore some time in the near future.

Boilk

According to one of my favorite blogger/podcasters, Andrew something or other, who makes a living perambling about the Arsenal football team, boilk is "the noise you make when you wake up after being out on the piss the night before."

Alacrity

Alacrity is the quality that this guy shows in front of the goal:

Lewondowski always seems to be ready.

Ignominy

Public shame or humliation, kind of like what Larry David's character experiences on every episode of  Curb Your Enthusiasm. Or if he doesn't, then we do for him.

Lachyrmose

Given to tears, like these guys:

Rapacious

To be rapacious is to be greedy for something that you don't necessarily deserve. I am not rapacious when it comes to money and material things, but I can be in another context this word is often used in: A rapacious appetitite. Can you relate?

Keelhauling

lllustration from donavoanbixley.com 

Keelhauling was a really nasty punishment inflicted on sailors where they would be tied to a rope and dragged under the keel of the ship.

But it can be also be used in metaphorically to mean severely reprimanded, for example: "Gee Mom really gave little Teddy a keelhauling for not taking the trash out."

Gimcrackery

Ha ha, love this word.

Gimcrackery refers to useless showy items, like these:

Quesadilla maker

Weird cable

Donald Trump

Can you think of any better examples of gimcrackery than these?

Contumelious

insulting and insolent, like a 5-year-old who can't have his way. So next time, your 5-year-old misbehaves, try telling him you won't tolerate his contumelious behavior. Yeah, see if that works.

Noisome

This word has nothing to do with noise. It refers to something that is extremely unpleasant, disgusting, gross, noxious, blahhhhhhhhhhh. Like Monday morning, for example.

Avuncular

Friendly and mentoring the way an uncle takes you under your wing, hence the uncular part of the word.

Didactic

Something is didactic if it consciously and demonstrably sets out to teach a lesson. For example, many U.S. sitcoms aimed at younger viewers have theme episodes where they take a moral stance on an issue like drug use eating disorders. Also, I remember (with some fondness, I'm afraid I have to admit), the Highlights for Children comic strip Goofus and Gallant's etiquette lessons like the one below.

Also, check out this funny (very unpolitically correct) parody of Goofus and Gallant.

Visceral

Something that gets your blood boiling, your pulse pacing, that you can feel in your intestestines and deep under the skin is visceral. I like the sound of that.

Deictic

Words that point to something else thus implying a given context have deictic function. Such words can be powerful because they thrust the audience into the middle of a situation establishing specificity.

For example in the classic Budweiser ad: This Bud's for you, this has a deictic function.

Aglet

My daughter has always had a sweet spot for this underdog of a word, which refers to the little plastic thingy at the end of your shoelaces.

BRICS

Not something you build a road with, but an acronym for the five rapidly industrializing economic opportunity centers of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa.

Macrosmatic

My wife is the most microsmatic person I know. I'd like to tell you that that means something romantic, but what it really means is that she has an incredible sense of smell. She once came into our living room and said, it smells like mouse in here, and sure enough, a few days later, we discovered on.

Perfidy

This word sounds kind of cute and friendly when you say it out loud. Pefidy. But don't be fooled, it refers to a disloyal or treacherous act.