Word of the Day Archive
June 2000
- disconcert: to disturb the composure of.
- physiognomy: the face or appearance.
- masticate: to chew.
- sempiternal: everlasting; eternal.
- harangue: a speech addressed to a public assembly; also, a noisy or pompous speech.
- supernal: being on high; celestial.
- rubicund: inclining to redness; ruddy.
- moribund: dying.
- apothegm: a short, witty, and instructive saying.
- wastrel: a person who wastes; a loafer.
- malodorous: having a bad odor.
- plangent: beating with a loud or deep sound; also, expressing sadness.
- immure: to imprison.
- rara avis: a rare or unique person or thing.
- scapegrace: one who is wild and reckless.
- ruminate: to chew the cud; also, to ponder; to reflect.
- hirsute: covered with hair or bristles.
- admonition: gentle or friendly reproof; friendly warning.
- abrogate: to annul; to do away with.
- importunate: troublesomely urgent.
- kitsch: art in pretentious bad taste.
- monomania: obsession with a single subject.
- ribald: characterized by, or given to, vulgar humor.
- febrile: feverish.
- rapacious: grasping; greedy.
- extirpate: to eradicate; to destroy.
- uxorious: excessively fond of or submissive to a wife.
- anodyne: serving to relieve pain.
- bootless: unavailing; useless.
- flummox: to confuse; to perplex.
