Word of the Day Archive
December 2003
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- tutelary: guardian; protecting.
- arcane: understood or known by only a few.
- rusticate: to go or send to the country.
- fractious: tending to cause trouble; also, irritable.
- stanch: to stop the flowing of; to check.
- furtive: obtained or characterized by stealth; sly; secret; stealthy.
- Elysium: paradise.
- otiose: ineffective; also, being at leisure; also, of no use.
- plangent: beating with a loud or deep sound; also, expressing sadness.
- malcontent: one who is discontented or dissatisfied.
- gallimaufry: a hodgepodge; jumble; confused medley.
- meretricious: tawdry.
- solace: comfort in grief.
- admonition: gentle or friendly reproof; friendly warning.
- interregnum: the interval between two reigns; also, any breach of continuity in an order.
- velleity: volition in its weakest form.
- derogate: to deviate from expectation; also, to detract; also, to disparage.
- mazy: resembling a maze; intricate or confusing.
- pablum: something (as writing or speech) that is trite, insipid, or simplistic.
- wag: a humorous person; a wit.
- eremite: a hermit.
- pertinacious: holding obstinately to a belief, purpose or design; also, stubbornly persistent.
- Hobson's choice: a choice without an alternative.
- luminary: any body that gives light; also, a person of eminence or brilliant achievement.
- benefaction: the act of conferring a benefit; also, a benefit conferred.
- superannuated: old; discharged or disqualified on account of old age.
- expunge: to strike out or erase; to obliterate.
- fustian: pompous or pretentious language.
- dissimulate: to hide under a false appearance; also, to feign or pretend.
- stripling: an adolescent youth.
- terminus: the end of a transportation line or route; any finishing point.
