Word of the Day Archive
July 2001

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1. satiety: fullness to or beyond the point of satisfaction.
2. presentiment: a premonition.
3. timorous: full of apprehensiveness; fearful.
4. penury: extreme poverty; also, insufficiency.
5. cudgel: a short heavy stick.
6. tirade: a long angry speech.
7. aright: rightly; correctly.
8. filial: of, pertaining to, or befitting a son or daughter.
9. brackish: somewhat salty; also, distasteful.
10. louche: of questionable taste or morality.
11. solecism: a breach of good manners or etiquette.
12. riposte: a quick and effective reply by word or act.
13. longueur: a tedious passage in a work of literature or performance art.
14. juxtaposition: the act or an instance of placing in nearness.
15. vatic: of or characteristic of a prophet or prophecy.
16. crux: the essential point or feature.
17. exegesis: critical explanation or analysis, especially of a text.
18. arriviste: an upstart.
19. carom: to strike and rebound; also, a glancing off.
20. slake: to satisfy or quench; also, to cause to lessen.
21. eremite: a hermit.
22. cohort: a group; also, a companion or associate.
23. avatar: an incarnation.
24. ne plus ultra: the acme; also, the most profound degree.
25. exhort: to urge strongly.
26. senescent: growing old.
27. Cockaigne: an imaginary land of ease and luxury.
28. skulduggery: devious, dishonest, or unscrupulous behavior or activity.
29. fey: possessing or displaying a strange and otherworldly aspect or quality.
30. remonstrate: to present and urge reasons in opposition.
31. hinterland: backcountry.