Word of the Day Archive
January 2003

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1. slugabed: one who stays in bed until a late hour.
2. manse: a large and imposing residence.
3. rebarbative: repellent; irritating.
4. felicitous: apt or appropriate; also, delightful.
5. nostrum: a questionable remedy.
6. subaltern: subordinate.
7. quidnunc: a gossip; a busybody.
8. provenance: origin; source.
9. obviate: to anticipate and dispose of or make unnecessary.
10. lucre: money; profit.
11. dudgeon: a state or fit of intense indignation.
12. gloaming: twilight; dusk.
13. sedulous: diligent in application or pursuit.
14. querulous: habitually complaining; also, expressing complaint.
15. restive: resisting control; stubborn.
16. abstemious: temperate; abstinent; refraining from indulgence.
17. fop: a man who is vain about his dress and appearance.
18. apparition: a ghost; also, an unexpected appearance.
19. inveterate: deep-rooted; of long standing.
20. glower: to stare angrily or with a scowl.
21. itinerant: traveling from place to place.
22. risible: exciting or provoking laughter.
23. lackadaisical: lacking spirit or liveliness.
24. scuttlebutt: gossip; rumor.
25. consanguineous: related by blood; descended from the same ancestor.
26. milieu: environment; setting.
27. capacious: able to contain much.
28. pule: to whimper; to whine.
29. sublunary: situated beneath the moon; terrestrial.
30. cavil: to raise trivial objections; also, a trivial objection.
31. impecunious: habitually without money; poor.