Word of the Day Archive
July 2006
- plaudit: enthusiastic approval.
- depredation: an act of plundering or ravaging.
- complaisant: exhibiting a desire to please.
- emblazon: to display pompously; to decorate.
- apotheosis: a model of excellence or perfection of a kind.
- hubris: overbearing pride or presumption.
- genuflect: to bend the knee, as in worship; also, to grovel.
- histrionic: theatrical.
- quisling: a collaborator; a traitor.
- cap-a-pie: from head to foot.
- mountebank: a quack; also, a charlatan.
- connubial: of or pertaining to marriage.
- florid: flushed with red; also, excessively ornate.
- arrant: outright; thoroughgoing.
- quandary: a state of difficulty or perplexity.
- imbroglio: a complicated and embarrassing state of things.
- innocuous: harmless; also, unlikely to offend or provoke.
- scuttlebutt: gossip; rumor.
- bon ton: the height of the fashion; fashionable society.
- nescience: lack of knowledge or awareness.
- exculpate: to clear from alleged fault or guilt.
- cursory: hastily or superficially performed.
- mordant: biting; caustic; sarcastic.
- limn: to draw or paint; also, to describe.
- plebeian: common; vulgar.
- grandiloquent: expressed in a lofty style; pompous; bombastic.
- apologia: a formal defense or justification.
- germane: appropriate or fitting; relevant.
- eschew: to shun; to avoid.
- heterogeneous: consisting of dissimilar elements.
- contretemps: something inopportune or embarrassing.
