Word of the Day Archive
April 2005

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1. jape: a trick or practical joke.
2. biddable: easily led or commanded; obedient.
3. cloy: to weary or become distasteful through excess.
4. amanuensis: one employed to take dictation or to copy manuscripts.
5. shibboleth: a word, pronunciation, saying, belief, practice, etc., that distinguishes one group from another.
6. complement: something that fills up or completes.
7. maudlin: excessively sentimental.
8. Panglossian: excessively or naively optimistic.
9. supervene: to take place or occur as something additional, extraneous, or unexpected.
10. hagiography: biography of saints; also, idealizing or idolizing biography.
11. malapropos: unseasonable or unseasonably; inappropriate or inappropriately.
12. redoubt: a stronghold.
13. detritus: debris.
14. obloquy: ill repute.
15. extant: still existing.
16. arbitrage: the nearly simultaneous purchase and sale of an asset in order to profit from price discrepancies.
17. panegyric: an expression of formal or elaborate praise.
18. masticate: to chew.
19. fettle: a state or condition of fitness, order, or mind.
20. cavalcade: a procession.
21. enervate: to weaken.
22. atavism: reversion to a remote ancestral type or to an earlier form.
23. rara avis: a rare or unique person or thing.
24. euphonious: pleasing or sweet in sound.
25. scintilla: a tiny amount; a spark.
26. matutinal: relating to or occurring in the morning.
27. detritus: debris.
28. pusillanimous: cowardly.
29. extol: to praise.
30. intransigent: uncompromising.