Word of the Day Archive
July 2002

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1. cupidity: eager or excessive desire, especially for wealth.
2. intransigent: uncompromising.
3. cynosure: a center of attention.
4. refulgent: brilliant; resplendent.
5. concomitant: accompanying; attending.
6. ribald: characterized by, or given to, vulgar humor.
7. sesquipedalian: (of words) long; having many syllables.
8. deleterious: harmful.
9. temerity: unreasonable or foolhardy contempt of danger.
10. extirpate: to eradicate; to destroy.
11. lineament: a distinguishing or characteristic feature.
12. monomania: obsession with a single subject.
13. pari passu: at an equal pace or rate.
14. prelapsarian: pertaining to the time or state before the Fall.
15. coeval: existing during the same period of time; also, a contemporary.
16. immure: to imprison.
17. bumptious: crudely, presumptuously, or noisily self-assertive.
18. apostasy: desertion or departure from one's faith, principles, or party.
19. importunate: troublesomely urgent.
20. busker: a street musician or performer.
21. disconcert: to disturb the composure of.
22. malfeasance: wrongdoing, misconduct, or misbehavior.
23. intractable: not easily governed, managed, or directed.
24. equivocate: to be deliberately ambiguous or unclear.
25. factotum: a person employed to do all kinds of work.
26. peregrination: a traveling from place to place.
27. diaphanous: allowing light to pass through.
28. quorum: such a number of the officers or members of any body as is legally competent to transact business.
29. relegate: to assign or remove, usually to an inferior position.
30. fanfaronade: empty boasting; bluster.
31. roseate: cheerful; bright; also, rose-colored.