Word of the Day Archive
December 2008
- valediction: a farewell speech
- bulwark: a protective structure
- caitiff: a cowardly and mean person
- curio: something unusual that is collected
- dissever: to separate into parts
- sentinel: a person who watches out
- sequacious: having a sequence; following
- sepulcher: a grave chamber
- elocution: an expert manner of speaking
- homologous: corresponding in characteristics
- ablaut: vowel change
- beatific: giving joy
- cached: hidden, stored
- dastard: malicious coward
- ecclesiastical: churchly
- fabricate: make up
- gaffe: tactless act
- hackneyed: repeated too often
- iambic: having two syllables
- jaded: exhausted
- kibbutz: collective farm
- laggard: wasting time
- macrobiotic: promoting longevity
- narcissism: self-love
- oblique: diagonally arranged
- paltry: contemptibly small
- qualify: prove capable or fit
- ramble: move aimlessly
- sacrilege: blasphemous behavior
- tacit: necessarily indicated
- ultimate: furthest or highest
