Word of the Day Archive
February 2009
- victuals: supply of food
- chaff: seed coverings; detritus
- defalcate: take fraudulently
- virtuoso: exceptional performer
- unwitting: lacking knowledge
- erstwhile: former; formerly
- denigrate: belittle, attack maliciously
- highhanded: with haughty disregard
- toady: someone who is servile
- osteopath: therapist who manipulates body structure
- tome: large scholarly book
- froward: willfully contrary
- expurgate: to remove offensive parts
- myopia: nearsightedness
- pinchbeck: something that is counterfeit
- interminable: seeming to have no end
- burnish: to polish and make shiny
- consternation: a sudden dread
- tautological: needlessly repetitious
- ellipsis: omission of word(s)
- hermetic: airtight; protected
- nocuous: harmful
- beseech: ask for earnestly
- peculate: appropriate fraudulently
- openhanded: giving freely
- declaim: speak against
- hidebound: stubbornly conservative
- pedant: person holding books in esteem
