Word of the Day Archive
January 2012
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- novation: the introduction of something new; innovation.
- truss: to tie, bind, or fasten.
- solecism: a breach of good manners or etiquette.
- fetial: concerned with declarations of war and treaties of peace.
- gasconade: extravagant boasting; boastful talk.
- sprat: a small or inconsequential person or thing.
- Cimmerian: very dark; gloomy; deep.
- profligacy: reckless extravagance.
- heterotelic: having the purpose of its existence or occurrence apart from itself.
- paregmenon: the juxtaposition of words that have a common derivation, as in “sense and sensibility.”
- expostulate: to reason earnestly with someone against something that person intends to do or has done.
- bonny: pleasing to the eye.
- viscid: having a glutinous consistency; sticky; adhesive.
- desinence: a termination or ending, as the final line of a verse.
- outrance: the utmost extremity.
- perspicacious: having keen mental perception and understanding; discerning.
- alate: having wings; winged.
- persnickety: overparticular; fussy.
- shiv: a knife, especially a switchblade.
- deucedly: devilishly; damnably.
- remora: an obstacle, hindrance, or obstruction.
- natheless: nevertheless.
- slimsy: flimsy; frail.
- educe: to draw forth or bring out, as something potential or latent.
- bleb: a bubble.
- mettle: courage and fortitude.
- conciliate: to overcome the distrust or hostility of; placate; win over.
- birr: force; energy; vigor.
- hotchpot: the bringing together of shares or properties in order to divide them equally.
- neoterism: an innovation in language, as a new word, term, or expression.
- idoneous: appropriate; fit; suitable; apt.
