Word of the Day Archive
September 2006
- acquiesce: to accept or consent passively or without objection.
- confute: to refute conclusively.
- insouciant: marked by blithe unconcern; nonchalant.
- surcease: cessation; stop; end.
- arcane: understood or known by only a few.
- verisimilitude: the quality of seeming to be true.
- pervicacious: stubborn; obstinate.
- small beer: weak beer; also, matters of little importance.
- vade mecum: a book or other thing that one regularly carries about.
- suasion: the act of persuading.
- pejorative: disparaging; belittling.
- tetchy: peevish; testy; irritable.
- erudite: characterized by extensive reading or knowledge.
- fanfaronade: empty boasting; bluster.
- riparian: of or pertaining to the bank of a river.
- inhere: to be inherent.
- staid: steady or sedate in character.
- commodious: comfortably spacious; roomy.
- improvident: lacking foresight; negligent; thoughtless.
- cataract: a large waterfall; also, a downpour, a flood.
- solace: comfort in grief.
- opprobrium: reproach mingled with contempt.
- stanch: to stop the flowing of; to check.
- vertiginous: causing dizziness; also, giddy; dizzy.
- militate: to have force or influence.
- ostensible: appearing to be true, but not necessarily so.
- fulsome: offensive from excess of praise.
- aesthete: one who cultivates great sensitivity to beauty.
- monomania: obsession with a single subject.
- prescient: knowing or anticipating the outcome of events before they happen.
