Word of the Day Archive
March 2000

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1. indomitable: incapable of being subdued or overcome.
2. argot: a specialized vocabulary peculiar to a particular group.
3. impugn: to call in question; to make insinuations against.
4. lascivious: lewd; lustful.
5. parsimony: excessive sparingness in the expenditure of money.
6. atrabilious: irritable; ill-natured.
7. peccadillo: a slight offense; a petty fault.
8. logorrhea: excessive talkativeness.
9. travail: painful, arduous work; also, agony, anguish.
10. acquiesce: to accept or consent passively or without objection.
11. elucidate: to make clear or manifest.
12. recalcitrant: stubbornly resistant to and defiant of authority or restraint.
13. abstemious: temperate; abstinent; refraining from indulgence.
14. gravitas: high seriousness.
15. Ides: the fifteenth day of March, May, July, and October, and the thirteenth day of the other months.
16. mendacious: untruthful; also, untrue.
17. verdure: greenness.
18. emblazon: to display pompously; to decorate.
19. collude: to act in concert; to conspire.
20. risible: exciting or provoking laughter.
21. surcease: cessation; stop; end.
22. adumbrate: to foreshadow; prefigure.
23. Elysium: paradise.
24. demagogue: a leader who obtains power by means of appeals to the emotions and prejudices of the populace.
25. augury: an omen; prediction.
26. fulminate: to issue or utter verbal attacks or censures.
27. sycophant: one who attempts to win favor by flattering influential people.
28. vitiate: to make faulty or imperfect.
29. factious: addicted to form parties and raise dissensions.
30. quiescent: at rest; still; inactive.
31. purblind: having greatly reduced vision.