Interrobang

In-ter-ro-bang (in-TAIR-uh-bang)

noun
1. a punctuation mark designed for use at the end of an exclamatory rhetorical question.
Isn't this cute‽ I can even type it on my computer's keyboard. I put it italics too!

Synonyms: combined question mark and exclamation point.

Inamorata

in-a-mor-at-a (inˌaməˈrätə)

noun
1. A female lover or woman with whom one is in love.
Your inamorata misses you.

Synonyms: ladylove, mistress, paramour, sweetheart, woman.

Isacoustic

is-a-cous-tic (ī′sə ko̵̅o̅s′tik)

noun
1. A line or curve, upon a diagram of acoustic intensities, drawn everywhere through points of equal intensity of sound.
She was always hearing melodies in her head, making up songs in her dreams. Having never learned to read music, she recorded them on paper with isacoustic lines.

Synonyms: wiggly line.

* When I first saw this word, I thought it might be a typo, leaving out the space between is and acoustic, like in the sentence: "This version of Fiona Apple's Inside and Out is acoustic," but it's not and, being a nerd, I think that's pretty cool.

Irascible

i-ras-cib-le (-rs-bl, -rs-)

adjective
1. Prone to or easily provoked to outbursts of anger.
My ex-lover died, my roommate moved out, I have no money, my daughter is moving out, my sister disowned me and I've been on hold for half an hour; forgive me if I seem a little irascible.
2. Characterized by or resulting from anger.
“Imperious, choleric, irascible, extreme in everything, with a dissolute imagination the like of which has never been seen, atheistic to the point of fanaticism, there you have me in a nutshell, and kill me again or take me as I am, for I shall not change.” - Marquis de Sade*

Synonyms: acerbic, angry, antagonized, bearish, belligerent, bitchy, bitter, bristly, cantankerous, caustic, censorious, crabbed, crabby, cranky, cranky, churlish, cross, choleric, cross, feisty, ferocious, fierce, fiery, fractious, fuming, furious, galled, grouchy, hasty, hot-tempered, huffy, ireful, irritable, ogre, passionate, peevish, petulant, querulous, quick-tempered, short-tempered, snappish, surly, testy, thin-skinned, touchy, uptight, vexed, wrathful.

* The Marquis' name provides the origin of the modern term sadism.
** The image is a depiction of the Marquis de Sade by H. Biberstein in L'Œuvre du marquis de Sade, Guillaume Apollinaire (Edit.), Bibliothèque des Curieux, Paris, 1912.

Idiopathic

id-i-o-path-ic* (d--pthk, d--)

adjective
1. Of unknown cause, pertaining to medical conditions.
Dr House fights idiopathic diseases by identifying cause.

Synonyms: idiopathetic,** random, unknown, unlucky.

* I fully admit that I like this word because it sounds like it should describe pathological idiocy.
** I promise this is also a real word! No, it doesn't mean idiotic beyond the point of sympathy.

Illaudable

il-laud-ab-le (llôd-bl)

adjective
1. Not to be approved or commended, deserving of censure, blameworthy.
Whyfor art thou an evil illaudable smell-feast? There's always a strange comfort in the belief that people are responsible for their own problems. It minimizes one's own sense of responsibility for other people's actions and it's always shocking to find that they find yours to be an illaudable role in the course of their lives.
I always try to do the right thing, but I am finding that people can even blame you for that. Perhaps, there is no right thing. We just have to keep on being and doing and taking as much responsibility for ourselves as we possibly can.

Synonyms: base, carnal, contemptible, corrupt, dastardly, debauched, degrading, diabolical, disgraceful, dishonorable, drunken, embarrassing, flagrant, heinous, humiliating, ignominious, immodest, immoral, impure, indecent, infamous, intemperate, lewd, low, mean, mortifying, notorious, obscene, opprobrious, outrageous, profligate, reprehensible, reprobate, ribald, scandalous, shaming, shocking, sinful, unbecoming, unclean, unworthy, vile, villainous, vulgar, wicked.

* The video that I linked to the word evil actually made me feel better, if anyone was wondering. I don't really believe in evil. I think people generally try to do what they think is the best thing for them to do. Voltaire's song takes a sarcastic approach to the discussion that I love.

Ideogram

id-e-o-gram (d--grm, d-)

noun
1. A pictorial element of writing; a kind of hieroglyph expressing no sound, but only an idea.
When you think about it, an ideogram is kind of a dumbed-down sort of art. While a picture tells a thousand words, an ideogram usually just has one.
2. A graphic symbol, such as &, $, or @.
Even if you collect a couple of ideograms together, you can still just come up with one word: f**k!
3. A phonetic symbol; a letter.
Cheerleaders and the Village People really like making songs out of ideograms.

Synonyms: alphabet, character, hieroglyph, image, letter, number, picture, roman character, sign, symbol.

Insomnium

in-som-ni-um (n-smnm)

noun (Latin)
1. Wakefulness with visions and dreams.
The noctambulist appears to suffer from insomnium, but actually sleeps rather deeply without resting.
2. Bram Stoker defined insomnium as: "Some solicitude as when awake affecting us when we sleep."
My dreams are infected by insomnium. I've been having recondite dreams of astral projection and ghosts, whose hands grow colder the further they get from life.

Synonyms: nightmares, restlessness, tossing and turning.

* Insomnium is also the name of a Finnish melodic death metal band from Joensuu, Finland. They were influenced by doom metal, playing songs about sorrow, death, loss, and mourning. They also incorporate elements of nordic / norse folk music and symphonic music into their sound.

Ignominy

ig-nom-in-y (gn-mn, -m-n)

noun
1. Profound personal humiliation.
"Dear lady, I had none to support me; all looked on me as a wretch doomed to ignominy and perdition." From Frankenstein* by Mary Shelley.
2. Debase action.
When he discovered the potential variety of ignominies she was capable of, he put a ring on her finger.

Synonyms: disgrace, humiliation, sordidness.

*This will link you to free eBooks of Frankenstein through Project Gutenberg.