Happy birthday, Brandi!

Since I didn’t get a chance to post any words of the week for the last three weeks, I’m going to post twenty words instead of five this week.  Here are this week’s words:

1. Sinecure: an office or position requiring little or no work, esp. one yielding profitable returns.
2. Somniferous: bringing or inducing sleep, as drugs or influences.
3. Sophistry: a subtle, tricky, superficially plausible, but generally fallacious method of reasoning.
4. Specious: apparently good or right though lacking real merit; superficially pleasing or plausible.
5. Spurious: not genuine, authentic, or true; not from the claimed, pretended, or proper source; counterfeit.
6. Supercilious: haughtily disdainful or contemptuous, as a person or a facial expression.
7. Supine: lying on the back, face or front upward.
8. Surfeit: to supply with anything to excess or satiety; satiate.
9. Sybarite: a person devoted to luxury and pleasure.
10. Taciturn: inclined to silence; reserved in speech; reluctant to join in conversation.
11. Temerity: reckless boldness; rashness.
12. Trenchant: caustic; cutting.
13. Truculence: fierce; cruel; savagely brutal.
14. Turbid: confused; muddled; disturbed.
15. Turgid: swollen; distended; tumid.
16. Tyro: a beginner in learning anything; novice.
17. Ubiquitous: existing or being everywhere, esp. at the same time; omnipresent.
18. Umbrage: offense; annoyance; displeasure.  (I wonder where Umbridge got her name. )
19. Unctuous: of the nature of or characteristic of an unguent or ointment; oily; greasy.
20. Undulate: to move with a sinuous or wavelike motion; display a smooth rising-and-falling or side-to-side alternation of movement.