Word of the Day Archive
June 2008

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1. harridan: a scolding, vicious woman.
2. countermand: to revoke (a former command) or recall by a contrary order.
3. bagatelle: a trifle; also, a short, light literary or musical piece.
4. lachrymose: given to causing tears.
5. tremulous: shaking, quivering; also, affected with fear.
6. repletion: the condition of being completely or excessively full.
7. potentate: one who possesses great power or sway.
8. minatory: threatening; menacing.
9. raconteur: one who excels in telling stories and anecdotes.
10. surfeit: excess; an excessive amount.
11. patrician: a nobleman; also, a person of refined upbringing, manners, and taste.
12. hyperbole: extravagant exaggeration.
13. apprise: to give notice to; to inform.
14. prink: to primp.
15. claque: a group of fawning admirers.
16. dilatory: given to, or marked by, procrastination or delay.
17. verdure: greenness.
18. cogent: appealing to the mind or to reason; convincing.
19. defenestrate: to throw out of a window.
20. renascent: rising again into being; showing renewed vigor.
21. choler: anger.
22. malediction: a curse.
23. capacious: able to contain much.
24. glutinous: gluey; sticky.
25. forlorn: sad and lonely because deserted, abandoned, or lost.
26. Cockaigne: an imaginary land of ease and luxury.
27. harbinger: a precursor; one that presages what is to come.
28. mazy: resembling a maze; intricate or confusing.
29. interpolate: to insert between; also, to alter or corrupt by insertion.
30. indigent: extremely poor.