Word of the Day Archive
April 2004
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- puckish: whimsical; mischievous; impish.
- coterminous: of equal extent or duration.
- mountebank: a quack; also, a charlatan.
- tirade: a long angry speech.
- palaver: idle talk; also, to talk idly.
- vertiginous: causing dizziness; also, giddy; dizzy.
- remonstrate: to present and urge reasons in opposition.
- bailiwick: a person's specific area of knowledge, authority, interest, skill, or work.
- impregnable: able to resist attack.
- renege: to go back on a promise or commitment.
- apprise: to give notice to; to inform.
- improvident: lacking foresight; negligent; thoughtless.
- carom: to strike and rebound; also, a glancing off.
- myrmidon: a loyal follower.
- privation: the state of being deprived of something.
- ossify: to harden or to become bone.
- troglodyte: someone who dwells in a cave.
- wan: pale; also, lacking vitality or intensity.
- peremptory: precluding or putting an end to all debate or action.
- harbinger: a precursor; one that presages what is to come.
- small beer: weak beer; also, matters of little importance.
- commodious: comfortably spacious; roomy.
- scapegrace: one who is wild and reckless.
- nascent: beginning to exist.
- gravid: pregnant.
- lucubration: laborious work, study, thought, etc., esp. at night.
- supine: lying on the back; also, indolent; listless.
- heterodox: holding unorthodox opinions.
- predilection: an established preference.
- verisimilitude: the quality of seeming to be true.
