Word of the Day Archive
March 2004
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- tenet: any opinion, principle, or doctrine held to be true.
- qua: in the capacity or character of; as.
- invective: insulting or abusive language.
- bowdlerize: to remove or modify the parts considered offensive.
- fait accompli: an accomplished and presumably irreversible deed or fact.
- pettifogger: a petty, unscrupulous lawyer; also, who quibbles over trivia.
- vagary: an extravagant, erratic, or unpredictable notion, action, or occurrence.
- idyll: a poem or prose work depicting rural or pastoral life; also, a carefree episode or experience.
- truckle: to act in a subservient manner.
- patrician: a nobleman; also, a person of refined upbringing, manners, and taste.
- apocryphal: of doubtful authority or authenticity.
- efficacious: producing, or capable of producing, a desired effect.
- deign: to condescend.
- sanctum: a place where one is free from intrusion.
- malinger: to feign illness or inability.
- redound: to have a consequence or effect.
- perfidy: faithlessness; treachery.
- doughty: valiant; brave.
- anathema: a curse; a person or thing cursed, or intensely disliked.
- salad days: a time of youthful inexperience, innocence, or indiscretion.
- connubial: of or pertaining to marriage.
- repletion: the condition of being completely or excessively full.
- woebegone: woeful; also, run-down.
- perorate: to conclude or sum up a long discourse; also, to speak at length.
- gambol: to dance and skip about in play.
- mephitic: offensive to the smell; also, noxious.
- inimical: unfriendly; unfavorable.
- ken: perception, view; especially, reach of sight or knowledge.
- proscribe: to forbid; to prohibit.
- grandiloquent: expressed in a lofty style; pompous; bombastic.
- approbation: formal or official approval; also, praise.
