kvell

\uhn-poo t-DOU-nuh-buh l\
adjective
1. Informal. (especially of a book or periodical) so interesting or suspenseful as to compel reading.
Quotes
Have just finished reading Command Decision… I found it absolutely (or almost) unputdownable and at the same time as complete a waste of time as one of Gardner's Perry Mason stories, which I also find unputdownable.
-- , Raymond Chandler to Charles Morton, January 5, 1947, in Selected Letters of Raymond Chandler, 1981
Origin
Unputdownable, as a term used to describe books, entered English in the 1930s. However, earlier senses based on the verb phrase put down meaning "criticize" or "suppress" appeared in English as early as the mid-1800s.


kvell    A
verb
1. Slang. to be extraordinarily pleased; especially, to be bursting with pride, as over one's family.
Quotes
Display some heart. Stop whining. Show some character. Grow up. Talk to me about our gone days. Give me something to kvell over.
-- Colum McCann, Thirteen Ways of Looking, 2015
Origin
Kvell is an Americanism with roots in the Yiddish term kveln meaning "be delighted." It entered English in the 1960s.








redintegrate    A

\red-IN-ti-greyt, ri-DIN-\
IN-ti-greyt, ri-DIN-\
verb
1. to make whole again; restore to a perfect state; renew; reestablish.
Quotes
So you see, gentlemen, how far back we can trace our innate love for one another, and how this love is always trying to redintegrate our former nature, to make two into one, and to bridge the gulf between one human being and another.
-- , Plato, translated by Michael Joyce, “Symposium,” Symposium and Other Dialogues, 1935
Origin
Redintegrate can be traced to the Latin redintegrāre meaning "to make whole again." It entered English in the mid-1400s.

peripatetic
[per-uh-puh-tet-ik]
Spell Syllables
Synonyms Examples Word Origin
adjective
1.
walking or traveling about; itinerant.
2.
(initial capital letter) of or relating to Aristotle, who taught philosophy while walking in the Lyceum of ancient Athens.
3.
(initial capital letter) of or relating to the Aristotelian school of philosophy.
noun
4.
a person who walks or travels about.
5.
(initial capital letter) a member of the Aristotelian school.
Origin of peripatetic