Word of the Day Archive
December 2010
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- palingenesis: rebirth; regeneration.
- tristful: full of sadness; sorrowful.
- divagate: to wander; stray.
- scurf: the small shreds of epidermis that are continually exfoliated from the skin.
- hyaline: glassy or transparent.
- pogonip: an ice fog that forms in the mountain valleys of the western U.S.
- estivate: to spend the summer, as at a specific place or in a certain activity.
- bespoke: made to individual order; custom-made.
- farouche: sullenly unsociable or shy.
- fletcherize: to chew (food) slowly and thoroughly.
- philter: a potion, charm, or drug supposed to cause the person taking it to fall in love.
- gallivant: to wander about, seeking pleasure or diversion; gad.
- prosopography: a description of a person's appearance, career, personality, etc.
- brazen: shameless or impudent.
- boondocks: a remote rural area.
- liminal: relating to the point beyond which a sensation becomes too faint to be experienced.
- horripilate: to produce a bristling of the hair on the skin from cold, fear, etc.; goose flesh.
- replevy: to recover goods or chattels wrongfully taken or detained.
- Nth: being the last in a series of infinitely decreasing or increasing values, amounts, etc.
- ferret: to search out, discover, or bring to light.
- caliginous: misty; dim; dark.
- lagniappe: a small gift given with a purchase to a customer, for good measure.
- zenith: a highest point or state; culmination.
- chaffer: to bargain; haggle.
- eleemosynary: relating to charity; charitable.
- powwow: to confer.
- eschatological: regarding last, or final, matters, often of a theological nature.
- gambrinus: a mythical Flemish king, the reputed inventor of beer.
- engram: a hypothetical physical trace of memory in the brain.
- dithyrambic: wildly enthusiastic.
- Hogmanay: a gift given on New Year's Eve.
