Word of the Day Archive
April 2010
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- hugger-mugger: secret; also, muddled, disorderly.
- slake: to satisfy or quench; also, to cause to lessen.
- malversation: misconduct in public office.
- manumit: to free from slavery or servitude.
- grok: to understand.
- land of Nod: sleep.
- megrim: a migraine; also, a fancy or whim; in the plural, low spirits.
- interlard: to insert between; to mix.
- indefatigable: untiring.
- Pyrrhic victory: a victory achieved at great cost.
- dishabille: the state of being carelessly or partially dressed.
- neologism: a new word or expression; the use or creation of new words or expressions.
- ne plus ultra: the acme; also, the most profound degree.
- bloviate: to speak or write in a pompous manner.
- pelf: money; riches.
- oneiric: pertaining to or suggestive of dreams.
- transmogrify: to transform.
- disport: to frolic; to amuse (oneself).
- scapegrace: one who is wild and reckless.
- agrestic: pertaining to fields or the country.
- empyrean: the highest heaven; the heavens; the sky.
- wastrel: a person who wastes; a loafer.
- moil: to labor; to toil; to drudge.
- perforce: by necessity.
- sough: to make a soft, low sighing or rustling sound.
- quisling: a collaborator; a traitor.
- quash: to annul; also, to crush; to subdue.
- pellucid: transparent, shining through; also, easily understandable.
- valetudinarian: a weak or sickly person.
- doula: a woman who assists in childbirth.
