Word of the Day Archive
October 2006
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- swan song: a final or farewell appearance, action, or pronouncement.
- recalcitrant: stubbornly resistant to and defiant of authority or restraint.
- indomitable: incapable of being subdued or overcome.
- bloviate: to speak or write in a pompous manner.
- tutelary: guardian; protecting.
- privation: the state of being deprived of something.
- gambol: to dance and skip about in play.
- deprecate: to disapprove of; also, to belittle.
- braggadocio: empty boasting.
- perorate: to conclude or sum up a long discourse; also, to speak at length.
- hypnagogic: inducing sleep; of or pertaining to drowsiness.
- concinnity: elegance -- used chiefly of literary style.
- extraneous: coming from the outside; also, not essential; also, irrelevant.
- lascivious: lewd; lustful.
- facile: easily done or performed.
- tchotchke: a trinket; a knickknack.
- exemplar: an ideal model or type.
- obstreperous: noisily and stubbornly defiant; also, boisterous.
- qua: in the capacity or character of; as.
- ken: perception, view; especially, reach of sight or knowledge.
- ancillary: subordinate, subsidiary; auxiliary.
- perfidy: faithlessness; treachery.
- felicitous: apt or appropriate; also, delightful.
- solicitous: manifesting, expressing, or full of care or concern.
- crabwise: sideways; also, in a cautiously indirect manner.
- rapport: relation characterized by sympathetic understanding.
- inveterate: deep-rooted; of long standing.
- virtu: love of or taste for fine objects of art; also, productions of art.
- contemporaneous: originating, existing, or occurring at the same time.
- febrile: feverish.
- wan: pale; also, lacking vitality or intensity.
