Word of the Day Archive
December 2002
- meticulous: extremely careful about details.
- wayworn: wearied by traveling.
- parlous: fraught with danger; hazardous.
- vim: energy; vigor.
- booboisie: a class of people regarded as stupid or foolish.
- orotund: full in sound; also, bombastic.
- palindrome: a word, verse, phrase, or sentence that reads the same backward or forward.
- flippant: showing inappropriate levity; pert.
- irrefragable: impossible to refute.
- cogent: appealing to the mind or to reason; convincing.
- ukase: an edict.
- fetid: stinking.
- badinage: light, playful talk.
- atelier: a workshop; a studio.
- posit: to postulate; also, to suggest.
- callow: immature.
- succinct: brief; concise.
- lugubrious: mournful; gloomy; dismal.
- officious: meddlesome.
- castigate: to punish or criticize severely.
- propinquity: nearness.
- descant: a discourse; also, to discourse.
- robustious: boisterous; vigorous.
- subfusc: dark or dull in color.
- jollification: merrymaking; revelry.
- doff: to take off; to remove; also, to rid oneself of.
- conurbation: an aggregation or continuous network of urban communities.
- pugilist: a boxer.
- gewgaw: a trinket; a bauble.
- quiddity: the essence or nature of a thing.
- complement: something that fills up or completes.
