Word of the Day Archive
August 2000

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1. obsequious: servilely attentive; fawning.
2. simulacrum: a representation; an insubstantial or vague semblance.
3. miasma: a thick vaporous atmosphere, often noxious.
4. ululate: to howl; to wail.
5. toothsome: delicious; attractive; luscious.
6. asperity: roughness of surface, sound, or manner.
7. impervious: impenetrable; also, not capable of being affected.
8. auspicious: favorable; also, prosperous; fortunate.
9. puissant: powerful.
10. otiose: ineffective; also, being at leisure; also, of no use.
11. lucubration: laborious work, study, thought, etc., esp. at night.
12. quaff: to drink heartily.
13. perdurable: very durable; long lasting.
14. crapulous: sick from, or marked by, excessive drinking.
15. equanimity: calmness; composure.
16. megalomania: a mental disorder characterized by delusions of grandeur.
17. verbose: wordy.
18. gauche: lacking social polish; tactless.
19. euphonious: pleasing or sweet in sound.
20. fustian: pompous or pretentious language.
21. contradistinction: distinction by contrast.
22. disparate: fundamentally different; also, composed of dissimilar elements.
23. palaver: idle talk; also, to talk idly.
24. malleable: capable of being shaped; also, adaptable.
25. termagant: a scolding, nagging, bad-tempered woman.
26. consanguineous: related by blood; descended from the same ancestor.
27. verisimilitude: the quality of seeming to be true.
28. tendentious: marked by a strong tendency in favor of a particular point of view.
29. avoirdupois: weight; heaviness.
30. dudgeon: a state or fit of intense indignation.
31. rusticate: to go or send to the country.