[[English]] # Vocabulary Flexing - Octothorpe - The `#` symbol. Aka hashtag or pound sign. - Pulchritudinous - Incredibly physically beautiful - specifically a person - Recalcitrant - having an obstinately uncooperative attitude toward authority or discipline. - Mellifluous - Having a pleasant and fluid sound. - Flowing as with honey; smooth; flowing sweetly or smoothly - Flowing like honey. - Mellisonant - Pleasing to the ear - Dulcet - Pleasing to the ear; melodious - Having a soothing, agreeable quality - Sweet to the taste - Nota Bene (shortened as N.B.) 1. Note well; mark carefully. Usually abbreviated N. B. 2. By extension (both senses also rare and [informal](https://www.wordnik.com/words/informal)): 3. a Latin phrase (or its abbreviation) used to indicate that special attention should be paid to something - Mephitic 1. Tending to destroy life; poisonous; noxious 2. Offensive to the smell. 3. carbon dioxide; -- so called because of its deadly suffocating power. See Carbonic acid, under Carbonic. - Colophon 1. An inscription placed usually at the end of a book, giving facts about its publication. 2. A publisher's emblem or trademark placed usually on the spine or the title page of a book. 3. An inscription, monogram, or cipher, containing the place and date of publication, printer's name, etc., formerly placed on the last page of a book. - Malapropism 1. Ludicrous misuse of a word, especially by confusion with one of similar sound. 2. An example of such misuse. 3. A grotesque misuse of a word; a word so used.