Word of the Day Archive
May 2002
- enervate: to weaken.
- condign: deserved; adequate.
- blandishment: flattering speech or action.
- plenary: full; complete.
- cosset: to treat with excessive indulgence; to pamper.
- sang-froid: coolness in trying circumstances.
- brio: vigor; vivacity.
- vociferous: clamorous; noisy.
- protean: readily assuming different shapes or forms.
- eschew: to shun; to avoid.
- somniferous: causing or inducing sleep.
- gregarious: seeking and enjoying the company of others.
- lassitude: lack of vitality or energy.
- inchoate: partly but not fully in existence or operation.
- esurient: hungry; greedy.
- subterfuge: a deceptive device or stratagem.
- gastronome: a lover of good food and drink.
- affable: easy to speak to; also, gracious.
- precipice: a very steep, perpendicular, or overhanging place.
- purblind: having greatly reduced vision.
- fulminate: to issue or utter verbal attacks or censures.
- cogitate: to think; to ponder.
- lambent: playing on the surface; flickering.
- Zeitgeist: the spirit of the time.
- pugnacious: combative; quarrelsome.
- acumen: quickness or keenness of perception or discernment.
- rapine: the act of plundering.
- autodidact: one who is self-taught.
- dilatory: given to, or marked by, procrastination or delay.
- bete noire: something or someone particularly detested or avoided.
- chary: wary; cautious.
