Word of the Day Archive
May 2005
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- palindrome: a word, verse, phrase, or sentence that reads the same backward or forward.
- supplicate: to make a humble and earnest petition.
- labile: open to change; apt or likely to change.
- traduce: to vilify.
- claque: a group of fawning admirers.
- frisson: a brief moment of intense excitement.
- extempore: without premeditation or preparation.
- cosset: to treat with excessive indulgence; to pamper.
- aver: to assert as true.
- wayworn: wearied by traveling.
- ameliorate: to make or grow better.
- concomitant: accompanying; attending.
- triskaidekaphobia: fear of the number 13.
- indolent: lazy; inactive.
- lenity: the state or quality of being lenient.
- camarilla: a group of secret and often scheming advisers.
- ablution: the washing of the body or some part of it.
- untoward: not favorable or fortunate; also, improper.
- menagerie: a collection of wild or unusual animals; also, a diverse group.
- presage: an omen; also, to predict.
- abnegate: refuse or deny oneself; also, to give up (rights, claims, etc.).
- faction: a usually contentious group or party; also, internal dissension.
- pallor: unusual or extreme paleness.
- suffuse: spread through or over; to flush.
- artifice: an artful trick, stratagem or device; also, cleverness, skill.
- saturnine: sluggish in temperament; gloomy; taciturn.
- lionize: to treat or regard as an object great interest or importance.
- finical: finicky.
- pliant: easily bent or flexed; also, easily influenced; compliant.
- dissemble: to hide under a false appearance; also, to assume a false appearance.
- recreant: cowardly; also, unfaithful or disloyal.
