Word of the Day Archive
January 2004
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- neoteric: recent in origin; new.
- surly: ill-humored; sullen and gruff.
- vivify: to endue with life; to enliven.
- sycophant: one who attempts to win favor by flattering influential people.
- abrogate: to annul; to do away with.
- penury: extreme poverty; also, insufficiency.
- variegated: having marks or patches of different colors; also, varied.
- clamber: to climb with difficulty, or on all fours.
- asperity: roughness of surface, sound, or manner.
- effete: infertile; also, worn out; also, decadent, effeminate.
- venerate: to regard or treat with reverence; revere.
- gustatory: pertaining to the sense of taste.
- tergiversation: evasion; also, desertion of a cause, party, etc.
- obstreperous: noisily and stubbornly defiant; also, boisterous.
- serendipity: the faculty or phenomenon of making fortunate accidental discoveries.
- yen: a desire or craving.
- timorous: full of apprehensiveness; fearful.
- irenic: promoting peace.
- bilious: of or pertaining to bile; also, ill-tempered.
- galvanic: pertaining to a direct current of electricity; also, having the effect of an electric shock.
- pantheon: the collective gods of a people; also, a group of highly esteemed persons.
- slaver: to slobber; to drool.
- unguent: an ointment.
- abeyance: suspension; temporary cessation.
- concinnity: elegance -- used chiefly of literary style.
- peripatetic: walking about or traveling from place to place.
- frangible: capable of being broken; easily broken.
- hebetude: mental dullness or sluggishness.
- soi-disant: self-styled; so-called.
- opprobrium: reproach mingled with contempt.
- quandary: a state of difficulty or perplexity.
