Word of the Day Archive
February 2005
- circumambient: surrounding; encompassing.
- ukase: an edict.
- discursive: digressive; rambling; also, marked by analytical reasoning.
- pukka: genuine, authentic, or good; proper.
- kvetch: to complain habitually.
- brio: vigor; vivacity.
- importunate: troublesomely urgent.
- dishabille: the state of being carelessly or partially dressed.
- purblind: having greatly reduced vision.
- asseverate: to affirm or declare positively or earnestly.
- celerity: quickness; swiftness.
- nefarious: wicked in the extreme.
- agitprop: propaganda.
- inamorata: a woman whom one is in love with.
- diffident: bashful or unassertive.
- polymath: a person of great or varied learning.
- fiduciary: relating to the holding of something in trust for another.
- perspicacity: clearness of understanding.
- legerdemain: sleight of hand.
- cavalcade: a procession.
- faineant: doing nothing; idle; also, a do-nothing.
- perforce: by necessity.
- mellifluous: flowing sweetly or smoothly.
- eschew: to shun; to avoid.
- blackguard: a scoundrel.
- mulct: to defraud.
- paean: a song or other expression of praise or joy.
- incipient: beginning to exist or appear.
