Word of the Day Archive
July 2008
- condign: deserved; adequate.
- laconic: using or marked by the use of a minimum of words.
- tutelage: guardianship; protection; also, instruction.
- dapple: a small contrasting blotch; also, to mark with spots.
- meticulous: extremely careful about details.
- palaver: idle talk; also, to talk idly.
- gustatory: pertaining to the sense of taste.
- troglodyte: someone who dwells in a cave.
- emolument: the wages or perquisites arising from office, employment, or labor.
- contemn: to scorn; to despise.
- propound: to put forward for consideration.
- puerile: juvenile; childish.
- antediluvian: extremely old.
- cupidity: eager or excessive desire, especially for wealth.
- fiduciary: relating to the holding of something in trust for another.
- mephitic: offensive to the smell; also, noxious.
- anodyne: serving to relieve pain.
- tatterdemalion: a person dressed in tattered clothing.
- malinger: to feign illness or inability.
- insensate: lacking sensation or awareness.
- supernumerary: exceeding a necessary or usual number.
- gamine: an urchin; also, a mischievous girl or young woman.
- vituperation: abusive language.
- melange: a mixture.
- sempiternal: everlasting; eternal.
- diadem: a crown.
- extol: to praise.
- quondam: former; sometime.
- pusillanimous: cowardly.
- sesquipedalian: (of words) long; having many syllables.
- egress: the act of going out or leaving; exit.
