Word of the Day Archive
November 2011

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1. aioli: a sauce made of oil and eggs, usually flavored with garlic, from the Provence region of France.
2. metempirical: beyond or outside the field of experience.
3. obscurantism: opposition to the increase and spread of knowledge.
4. prehensible: able to be seized or grasped.
5. quean: an overly forward, impudent woman; shrew; hussy.
6. junket: a trip, usually by an official or legislative committee, paid out of public funds and ostensibly to obtain information.
7. canny: careful; cautious; prudent.
8. plebiscite: a direct vote of the qualified voters of a state in regard to some important public question.
9. kef: a state of drowsy contentment
10. pansophy: universal wisdom or knowledge.
11. zeal: fervor for a person, cause, or object; eager desire or endeavor; enthusiastic diligence; ardor.
12. rankle: to cause keen irritation or bitter resentment in.
13. lyard: streaked or spotted with gray or white.
14. fascicle: a section of a book or set of books published in installments as separate pamphlets or volumes.
15. apocrypha: various religious writings of uncertain origin regarded by some as inspired, but rejected by most authorities.
16. opuscule: a small or minor work.
17. bibliophage: an ardent reader; a bookworm.
18. omnibus: a volume of reprinted works of a single author or of works related in interest or theme.
19. knavery: unprincipled, untrustworthy, or dishonest dealing; trickery.
20. mitigate: to lessen in force or intensity, as wrath, grief, harshness, or pain; moderate.
21. salvo: something to save a person's reputation or soothe a person's feelings.
22. poltroon: a wretched coward; craven.
23. crepitate: to make a crackling sound; crackle.
24. appetence: intense desire; strong natural craving; appetite.
25. dipsomania: an irresistible, typically periodic craving for alcoholic drink.
26. procrustean: tending to produce conformity by violent or arbitrary means.
27. stertor: a heavy snoring sound.
28. panegyrize: to eulogize; to deliver or write a panegyric about.
29. serry: to crowd closely together.
30. churlish: boorish or rude.