Word of the Day Archive
October 2012
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- utile: useful.
- hamartia: tragic flaw.
- true: to make true; shape, adjust, place exactly or accurately.
- agita: agitation; anxiety.
- hirtellous: minutely hirsute.
- fracas: a noisy, disorderly disturbance or fight; riotous brawl; uproar.
- tardigrade: slow in pace or movement.
- apophasis: denial of one's intention to speak of a subject that is in fact named.
- catachresis: misuse or strained use of words in error or for rhetorical effect.
- anacoluthon: a construction involving a break in grammatical sequence.
- litotes: understatement, especially that in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of its contrary.
- zeugma: the use of a word to modify two or more words when it is appropriate to only one.
- draggle: to soil by dragging over damp ground or in mud.
- crasis: composition; constitution; makeup.
- versicolor: changeable in color.
- mucro: a short point projecting abruptly, as at the end of a leaf.
- fulgurant: flashing like lightning.
- ombudsman: a government official who investigates complaints by private citizens.
- veloce: played at a fast tempo.
- assoil: to absolve; acquit; pardon.
- recusant: a person who refuses to submit, comply, etc.
- acephalous: without a leader or ruler.
- parturient: bearing or about to bear young; travailing.
- delate: to inform against; denounce or accuse.
- uncanny: having or seeming to have a supernatural or inexplicable basis; beyond the ordinary.
- supernormal: in excess of the normal or average.
- teratoid: resembling a monster.
- cantrip: a magic spell; trick by sorcery.
- eidolon: a phantom; apparition.
- loup-garou: a werewolf; lycanthrope.
- lily-livered: weak or lacking in courage; cowardly; pusillanimous.
