Dictionary Words

bedizen: to dress or adorn in gaudy manner.

popinjay: a vain and talkative person.

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portentous: foreboding; ominous.

sylvan: pertaining to woods or forests.

impecunious: habitually without money; poor.

lucre: money; profit.

defenestrate: to throw out of a window.

exiguous: extremely scanty.

You might say that Jonathan Bell is in the name game. As a branding consultant, Bell has helped dream up company and product titles that are now household words. Fruitopia, Cingular, Mach 3 razors, Verizon and Sirius radio are all the handiwork of the 42-year-old wordsmith. Bell got into the...