Word Play!

I came across many new words this week... Wanna share some of these interesting words here...

Nickelodeon
–noun
1.an early motion-picture theater where a film or a variety show could be seen, usually for the admission price of a nickel.
2.an early jukebox that was operated by inserting nickels.

Flummox
to bewilder; confound; confuse.

Enuresis
lack of control of urination, esp. during sleep; bed-wetting; urinary incontinence.

Oedipal
1939, "of or pertaining to desire felt for opposite-sex parent," from Oedipus complex (1910), coined by Freud from Sophocles' play "Oedipus Tyrannus," in which the title character, the Theban hero, answers the Sphinx's riddle and unknowingly kills his father and marries his own mother; from Gk. Oedipus, lit. "swollen-foot," from oidan "to swell" + pous (gen. podos) "foot." The name was used figuratively in Eng. from 1557 for "one who is clever at guessing riddles," which had adj. form Oedipean (1621). Oedipus effect (1957) is Karl Popper's term for "the self-fulfilling nature of prophecies or predictions."

Assent
–verb (used without object)
1. to agree or concur; subscribe to (often fol. by to): to assent to a statement. 2. to give in; yield; concede: Assenting to his demands, I did as I was told.
–noun
3. agreement, as to a proposal; concurrence.
4. acquiescence; compliance.

Debutante
–noun
a young woman making a debut into society.