Word of the Day Archive
November 2006

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1. prevaricate: to depart from or evade the truth.
2. ostracize: to banish or expel.
3. fillip: a snap; also, a stimulus.
4. apocryphal: of doubtful authority or authenticity.
5. harangue: a speech addressed to a public assembly; also, a noisy or pompous speech.
6. copse: a thicket of small trees or bushes; a small wood.
7. obfuscate: to make obscure or unclear; also, to darken.
8. agrestic: pertaining to fields or the country.
9. congeries: a collection; an aggregation.
10. peripatetic: walking about or traveling from place to place.
11. turgid: swollen, bloated; also, bombastic, pompous.
12. idyll: a poem or prose work depicting rural or pastoral life; also, a carefree episode or experience.
13. ab ovo: from the beginning.
14. gauche: lacking social polish; tactless.
15. inexorable: unyielding; relentless.
16. putative: commonly thought or deemed; supposed.
17. dotage: feebleness of mind due to old age.
18. bootless: unavailing; useless.
19. proclivity: a natural inclination.
20. exacerbate: to aggravate; to make worse.
21. subaltern: subordinate.
22. mollify: to reduce in intensity; to soothe; to soften.
23. trencherman: a hearty eater.
24. avoirdupois: weight; heaviness.
25. inclement: harsh; severe -- especially said of the weather.
26. travail: painful, arduous work; also, agony, anguish.
27. equivocate: to be deliberately ambiguous or unclear.
28. redact: to edit.
29. vapid: flat; dull; spiritless.
30. galvanic: pertaining to a direct current of electricity; also, having the effect of an electric shock.