Word of the Day Archive
March 2011
- masticate: to chew.
- wunderkind: one who achieves success or acclaim during youth.
- gimcrack: a showy but useless or worthless object.
- gastronome: a lover of good food and drink.
- confute: to refute conclusively.
- demagogue: a leader who obtains power by means of appeals to the emotions and prejudices of the populace.
- chortle: to utter, or express with, a snorting, exultant laugh or chuckle.
- puckish: whimsical; mischievous; impish.
- fanfaronade: empty boasting; bluster.
- ersatz: being a substitute or imitation.
- epicene: having the characteristics of both the male and the female.
- prolix: wordy.
- aver: to assert as true.
- pusillanimous: cowardly.
- blandishment: flattering speech or action.
- apposite: of striking appropriateness and relevance.
- quaff: to drink heartily.
- truckle: to act in a subservient manner.
- interregnum: the interval between two reigns; also, any breach of continuity in an order.
- largess: generous giving; also, gifts of money or other valuables.
- prescience: knowledge of events before they take place.
- fugacious: lasting but a short time.
- eschew: to shun; to avoid.
- kismet: destiny; fate.
- bumptious: crudely, presumptuously, or noisily self-assertive.
- verisimilitude: the quality of seeming to be true.
- equivocate: to be deliberately ambiguous or unclear.
- afflatus: a divine inspiration.
- bedaub: to besmear; also, to overdecorate.
- lucre: money; profit.
- bivouac: a usually temporary encampment; also, to encamp.
