Word of the Day Archive
2013

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1. exordium: the beginning of anything. (Tuesday January 01)
2. advert: to remark or comment; refer. (Wednesday January 02)
3. violescent: tending to a violet color. (Thursday January 03)
4. couthie: agreeable; genial; kindly. (Friday January 04)
5. aumildar: a manager or agent. (Saturday January 05)
6. birl: to spin or cause to rotate. (Sunday January 06)
7. pseudonymous: bearing a false or fictitious name. (Monday January 07)
8. pseudology: lying considered as an art. (Tuesday January 08)
9. pseudomorph: an irregular or unclassifiable form. (Wednesday January 09)
10. pseudoclassic: falsely or spuriously classic. (Thursday January 10)
11. pseudepigraphy: the false ascription of a piece of writing to an author. (Friday January 11)
12. filch: to steal (especially something of small value); pilfer. (Saturday January 12)
13. eurhythmic: characterized by a pleasing rhythm; harmoniously ordered or proportioned. (Sunday January 13)
14. also-ran: a person who loses a contest, election, or other competition. (Monday January 14)
15. vertex: the highest point of something; apex; summit; top. (Tuesday January 15)
16. preconcert: to arrange in advance or beforehand, as by a previous agreement. (Wednesday January 16)
17. hypnopompic: pertaining to the semiconscious state prior to complete wakefulness. (Thursday January 17)
18. Camelot: any idyllic place or period, especially one of great happiness. (Friday January 18)
19. shindy: a row; rumpus. (Saturday January 19)
20. jubilarian: a person who celebrates or has celebrated a jubilee. (Sunday January 20)
21. allocution: a formal speech, especially one of an incontrovertible or hortatory nature. (Monday January 21)
22. gorgonize: to hypnotize; petrify. (Tuesday January 22)
23. en règle: in order; according to the rules; correct. (Wednesday January 23)
24. kibitzer: a giver of uninvited or unwanted advice. (Thursday January 24)
25. brabble: to argue stubbornly about trifles; wrangle. (Friday January 25)
26. antipathetic: opposed, averse, or contrary. (Saturday January 26)
27. intemerate: inviolate; undefiled; unsullied; pure. (Sunday January 27)
28. word-hoard: a person's vocabulary. (Monday January 28)
29. plotz: to collapse or faint, as from surprise, excitement, or exhaustion. (Tuesday January 29)
30. wellaway: used to express sorrow. (Wednesday January 30)
31. jackanapes: an impertinent, presumptuous person, especially a young man. (Thursday January 31)
32. atavistic: reverting to or suggesting the characteristics of a remote ancestor or primitive type. (Friday February 01)
33. boustrophedon: an ancient method of writing in which the lines run alternately from right to left and from left to right. (Saturday February 02)
34. counterfactual: a conditional statement the first clause of which expresses something contrary to fact, as “If I had known.” (Sunday February 03)
35. dyslogistic: conveying disapproval or censure; not complimentary or eulogistic. (Monday February 04)
36. epexegesis: the addition of a word or words to explain a preceding word or sentence. (Tuesday February 05)
37. feuilleton: a part of a European newspaper devoted to light literature, fiction, criticism, etc. (Wednesday February 06)
38. gastronomy: the art or science of good eating. (Thursday February 07)
39. hent: to seize. (Friday February 08)
40. irrefrangible: not to be broken or violated; inviolable. (Saturday February 09)
41. Jacobin: an extreme radical, especially in politics. (Sunday February 10)
42. kinchin: a child. (Monday February 11)
43. lollapalooza: an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance. (Tuesday February 12)