Word of the Day Archive
April 2008

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1. jollification: merrymaking; revelry.
2. deus ex machina: an agent who appears unexpectedly to solve an apparently insoluble difficulty.
3. bellwether: a leader or leading indicator.
4. ostentation: excessive or pretentious display.
5. camarilla: a group of secret and often scheming advisers.
6. importunate: troublesomely urgent.
7. woebegone: woeful; also, run-down.
8. voluble: characterized by a ready flow of speech.
9. afflatus: a divine inspiration.
10. pugnacious: combative; quarrelsome.
11. caesura: a break or pause in a line of verse; also, any break or pause.
12. salubrious: healthful.
13. abulia: loss or impairment of the ability to act or to make decisions.
14. pin money: money for incidental expenses; also, a trivial sum.
15. miasma: a thick vaporous atmosphere, often noxious.
16. objurgate: to scold or rebuke sharply.
17. roister: to revel; to carouse.
18. inveigle: to persuade or obtain by ingenuity or flattery.
19. portent: a sign or omen.
20. lambaste: to scold sharply; also, to beat.
21. chimera: a mental fabrication.
22. lionize: to treat or regard as an object great interest or importance.
23. ubiquitous: being everywhere.
24. winsome: light-hearted.
25. epigone: an inferior imitator.
26. confluence: a flowing or coming together.
27. posit: to postulate; also, to suggest.
28. maelstrom: a large, powerful whirlpool; also, a violent, disordered, or turbulent state of affairs.
29. gimcrack: a showy but useless or worthless object.
30. lenity: the state or quality of being lenient.