Word of the Day Archive
March 2008
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- amanuensis: one employed to take dictation or to copy manuscripts.
- garrulous: talkative; also, wordy.
- recherche: exotic; rare; also, affected, pretentious.
- probity: complete and confirmed integrity.
- busker: a street musician or performer.
- rara avis: a rare or unique person or thing.
- cabal: a group that seeks power usually through intrigue.
- kismet: destiny; fate.
- gewgaw: a trinket; a bauble.
- inchoate: partly but not fully in existence or operation.
- assuage: to soften; to ease, or lessen.
- diffident: bashful or unassertive.
- rodomontade: pretentious, bragging speech.
- bedizen: to dress or adorn in gaudy manner.
- sojourn: to dwell for a time; also, a temporary stay.
- chagrin: acute vexation or embarrassment.
- indolent: lazy; inactive.
- nefarious: wicked in the extreme.
- transmute: to change from one nature, form, substance, or state into another.
- acerbic: sharp, biting, or acid in temper, expression, or tone.
- myriad: consisting of a very great but indefinite number; also, a very great many.
- remunerate: to pay an equivalent to for any service, loss, or expense.
- anathema: a curse; a person or thing cursed, or intensely disliked.
- plethora: excess.
- repine: to feel or express discontent.
- misnomer: a misnaming.
- acrid: sharp and harsh; bitter.
- hullabaloo: a confused noise; uproar.
- excrescence: something growing out from something else; also, a disfiguring or unwanted part.
- obsequious: servilely attentive; fawning.
- xenophobia: fear or hatred of what is strange or foreign.
