Word of the Day Archive
September 2008
- admonition: gentle or friendly reproof; friendly warning.
- comestible: suitable to be eaten.
- glower: to stare angrily or with a scowl.
- immolate: to kill or destroy, often by fire.
- bevy: a group; an assembly.
- laudable: praiseworthy; commendable.
- plaintive: expressive of sorrow or melancholy.
- cosmopolite: a cosmopolitan person.
- regale: to entertain with something that delights.
- torrid: drying or scorching with heat; burning; parching.
- evanescent: fleeting.
- hoary: tedious from familiarity; stale.
- auspicious: favorable; also, prosperous; fortunate.
- kitsch: art in pretentious bad taste.
- suffuse: spread through or over; to flush.
- disconcert: to disturb the composure of.
- vociferous: clamorous; noisy.
- tintinnabulation: a tinkling sound, as of a bell or bells.
- misprize: to despise; also, to undervalue.
- proponent: an advocate.
- beneficence: the practice of doing good.
- undulate: to move in waves.
- scion: a descendant; an heir.
- numismatics: the collection and study of coins.
- edify: to instruct and improve.
- melee: a confused conflict.
- capitulate: to surrender under agreed conditions.
- panache: dash or flamboyance in manner or style.
- verbiage: an overabundance of words.
- fettle: a state or condition of fitness, order, or mind.
