Word of the Day Archive
April 2000
- coxcomb: a vain, showy fellow.
- chicanery: the use of trickery to deceive.
- habitue: one who habitually frequents a place.
- pellucid: transparent, shining through; also, easily understandable.
- buss: a kiss; to kiss.
- factitious: artificial; not authentic or genuine.
- profligate: shamelessly immoral; also, recklessly wasteful.
- bedaub: to besmear; also, to overdecorate.
- bifurcate: to divide into two branches.
- contumacious: obstinate; stubbornly disobedient.
- firmament: the sky; the heavens.
- arcane: understood or known by only a few.
- perfunctory: done routinely.
- temerity: unreasonable or foolhardy contempt of danger.
- superannuated: old; discharged or disqualified on account of old age.
- egregious: outrageously bad.
- tutelary: guardian; protecting.
- condign: deserved; adequate.
- lambent: playing on the surface; flickering.
- confabulation: familiar talk.
- expiate: to make amends for; to atone for.
- somniferous: causing or inducing sleep.
- aubade: a song greeting the dawn.
- cogitate: to think; to ponder.
- persiflage: frivolous or bantering talk.
- obfuscate: to make obscure or unclear; also, to darken.
- calumny: malicious misrepresentation; slander.
- ablution: the washing of the body or some part of it.
- undulate: to move in waves.
- cosset: to treat with excessive indulgence; to pamper.
