Word of the Day Archive
January 2006
- vim: energy; vigor.
- plenary: full; complete.
- gastronome: a lover of good food and drink.
- sine qua non: an indispensable thing.
- exegete: one who explains or interprets difficult parts of written works.
- recondite: difficult to understand.
- diktat: an authoritative decree or order.
- esurient: hungry; greedy.
- ineffable: incapable of being expressed.
- dubiety: the condition or quality of being doubtful; also, a matter of doubt.
- pugilist: a boxer.
- renascent: rising again into being; showing renewed vigor.
- sesquipedalian: (of words) long; having many syllables.
- encumbrance: a burden, impediment, or hindrance.
- pugnacious: combative; quarrelsome.
- capricious: whimsical; changeable.
- comity: a state of mutual harmony, friendship, and respect.
- quondam: former; sometime.
- ergo: therefore; consequently.
- susurration: a whispering; a soft murmur.
- irrefragable: impossible to refute.
- tutelage: guardianship; protection; also, instruction.
- incommunicado: without means or right to communicate.
- predilection: an established preference.
- flippant: showing inappropriate levity; pert.
- grandee: a man of elevated rank or station; a nobleman.
- wunderkind: one who achieves success or acclaim during youth.
- lucre: money; profit.
- epigone: an inferior imitator.
- sang-froid: coolness in trying circumstances.
- consanguineous: related by blood; descended from the same ancestor.
