protean

\PRO-tee-un; pro-TEE-un\, adjective:  

1. Displaying considerable variety or diversity.
2. Readily assuming different shapes or forms.

"The new Handi-Vac 5000 is about as a protean as Lucifer himself, the King of Liars!"

"If you don't think Ted Koppel is protean, take another look at that alley cat that just walked by..."

deja vu

/dey-zhah VOO/, noun

the illusion of having previously experienced something actually being encountered for the first time.

"Murdering this homeless man has left me with a strange feeling of deja vu. And not just because I murder a homeless man every night." - Anon.

"But in this restaurant, deja vu is a dish served up cold, next to an unforgiving slice of pie... usually apple." - Rod Serling, The Early Works Of...

deja vu

/dey-zhah VOO/, noun

the illusion of having previously experienced something actually being encountered for the first time.

"Murdering this homeless man has left me with a strange feeling of deja vu.  And not just because I murder a homeless man every night." - Anon.

"But in this restaurant, deja vu is a dish served up cold, next to an unforgiving slice of pie... usually apple." - Rod Serling, The Early Works Of...

raillery

\RAY-luh-ree\, noun:

1. Good-humored banter or teasing.
2. An instance of good-humored teasing; a jest.

"But all the raillery in Canterbury couldn't distract Roderick from the new growth on Agatha's back."

"You know, if anyone ought to be able to take some raillery, it's a former P.O.W."

doff

\DOF\, transitive verb:

1. To take off, as an article of clothing.
2. To tip or remove (one's hat).
3. To put aside; to rid oneself of.

“TODAY I PLAN TO PATENT MY INVENTION: THE SELF-DOFFING SOCK.” – Anon.

“Push the button when the fat man doffs his hat.  Not a second sooner.”

“Allow me to doff this purple raincoat and these pink polka-dotted galoshes so I may tell you about some of the little-known benefits of investing in a Roth 401k.”

louche

\LOOSH\, adjective:
Of questionable taste or morality; disreputable or indecent; dubious; shady.

“Charles, look.  That muppet at the other end of the bar; there’s something... louche about him.”
“That sort of louche behavior might be fine and good at Roy Rogers, but dammit this is Chic-Fil-A!”

conurbation

\kon-uhr-BAY-shuhn\, noun:
An aggregation or continuous network of urban communities.

“Here in this hellish, post-apocalyptic conurbation, gangs of babies rule the streets and the only thing left to eat is volleyball nets.”

“This is another fine conurbation you’ve gotten us into.” – Oliver Hardy to Stan Laurel in their final, commercially unsuccessful film, Laurel and Hardy Meet Urban Renewal

roue

\roo-AY\, noun:
A man devoted to a life of sensual pleasure; a debauchee; a rake.

"But times are difficult for this struggling Roue Village in East Kenya, what with global Haagen Dasz shortages and the rising cost of Harvey Wallbangers."

"Some might call me a roue, but I prefer to think of myself as a man devoted to a life of sensual pleasure; a debauchee; a rake." - Thomas the Tank Engine

pestiferous

\pes-TIF-uh-ruhs\, adjective:

1. Bearing or bringing disease.
2. Infected with or contaminated by a pestilential disease.
3. Morally evil or dangerous to society; pernicious.
4. Bothersome; troublesome; annoying.

"These are my two dirty, pestiferous children, and this is my mangey whore of a wife whose jaundiced, filth-encrusted vagina bore them onto this unfortunate and unsuspecting planet." - Jimmy Stewart, at the wrap party for Harvey

"Senator, I prefer non-pestiferous vegetables." - Anon.

eleemosynary

\el-uh-MOS-uh-ner-ee\, adjective:
1. Of or for charity; charitable; as, "an eleemosynary institution."
2. Given in charity; having the nature of alms; as, "eleemosynary assistance."
3. Supported by or dependent on charity; as, "the eleemosynary poor."

"Don't you wish your boyfriend was slightly more eleemosynary like me?"

"Please, Marcus: these Funyons are eleemosynary."

quietus

\kwy-EE-tuhs\, noun:

1. Final discharge or acquittance, as from debt or obligation.
2. Removal from activity; rest; death.
3. Something that serves to suppress or quiet.

"I have put a quietus upon the next door neighbor's Gay Luau. Rest assured, sweet Gondrick: Gay Luau sounds shall no longer disrupt your slumber."

"WHO DARES DISRUPT FROZEN WALT DISNEY'S CRYOGENIC QUIETUS?" - Frozen Walt Disney, shortly after having his cryogenic quietus disrupted

magniloquent

magniloquent \mag-NIL-uh-kwent\, adjective:

Lofty or grandiose in speech or expression; using a high-flown style of discourse; bombastic.

"No, I didn't think your speech seemed particularly magniloquent... until you used the word 'magniloquent.'"

"You're more magniloquent than other encephalopods."