Word of the Day Archive
September 2005
- capacious: able to contain much.
- trammel: something that impedes activity, progress, or freedom; also, to hamper.
- busker: a street musician or performer.
- sybarite: a person devoted to luxury and pleasure.
- deride: to laugh at with contempt.
- cavil: to raise trivial objections; also, a trivial objection.
- farrago: an assortment; a medley.
- demagogue: a leader who obtains power by means of appeals to the emotions and prejudices of the populace.
- quaff: to drink heartily.
- hirsute: covered with hair or bristles.
- tenebrous: dark; gloomy.
- ostentation: excessive or pretentious display.
- officious: meddlesome.
- afflatus: a divine inspiration.
- quorum: such a number of the officers or members of any body as is legally competent to transact business.
- hauteur: haughtiness; arrogance.
- xenophobia: fear or hatred of what is strange or foreign.
- bacchanalia: a revel.
- immure: to imprison.
- deliquesce: to melt away or become liquid.
- capitulate: to surrender under agreed conditions.
- adventitious: added extrinsically; not essentially inherent.
- modicum: a small or token amount.
- fetid: stinking.
- gimcrack: a showy but useless or worthless object.
- banal: commonplace; trivial.
- halcyon: peaceful; undisturbed; happy.
- adamant: not susceptible to persuasion; unyielding.
- jocund: light-hearted; mirthful.
- segue: to proceed without interruption.
