Word of the Day Archive
May 2009
- risible: exciting or provoking laughter.
- senescent: growing old.
- albatross: large web-footed bird chiefly of the Southern Hemisphere; a worrisome burden.
- tyro: a novice.
- quaff: to drink heartily.
- lugubrious: mournful; gloomy; dismal.
- coruscate: to emit vivid flashes of light; sparkle; scintillate; gleam.
- aliment: nutriment or sustenance.
- nostrum: a questionable remedy.
- munificent: very generous.
- bombinate: to buzz, hum, or drone.
- odium: intense hatred or dislike.
- abnegate: refuse or deny oneself; also, to give up (rights, claims, etc.).
- unctuous: marked by a false or smug earnestness or agreeableness.
- querulous: habitually complaining; also, expressing complaint.
- stolid: unexcitable; unemotional.
- exigency: state of requiring immediate action; also, that which is required in a particular situation.
- pernicious: deadly; destructive; exceedingly harmful.
- fey: possessing or displaying a strange and otherworldly aspect or quality.
- satiety: fullness to or beyond the point of satisfaction.
- immure: to imprison.
- buss: a kiss; to kiss.
- equanimity: calmness; composure.
- depredation: an act of plundering or ravaging.
- fillip: a snap; also, a stimulus.
- pejorative: disparaging; belittling.
- sagacious: having or showing keen discernment.
- avoirdupois: weight; heaviness.
- sybarite: a person devoted to luxury and pleasure.
- taciturn: not inclined to talk.
- venerate: to regard or treat with reverence; revere.
