Word of the Day Archive
January 2013
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- exordium: the beginning of anything.
- advert: to remark or comment; refer.
- violescent: tending to a violet color.
- couthie: agreeable; genial; kindly.
- aumildar: a manager or agent.
- birl: to spin or cause to rotate.
- pseudonymous: bearing a false or fictitious name.
- pseudology: lying considered as an art.
- pseudomorph: an irregular or unclassifiable form.
- pseudoclassic: falsely or spuriously classic.
- pseudepigraphy: the false ascription of a piece of writing to an author.
- filch: to steal (especially something of small value); pilfer.
- eurhythmic: characterized by a pleasing rhythm; harmoniously ordered or proportioned.
- also-ran: a person who loses a contest, election, or other competition.
- vertex: the highest point of something; apex; summit; top.
- preconcert: to arrange in advance or beforehand, as by a previous agreement.
- hypnopompic: pertaining to the semiconscious state prior to complete wakefulness.
- Camelot: any idyllic place or period, especially one of great happiness.
- shindy: a row; rumpus.
- jubilarian: a person who celebrates or has celebrated a jubilee.
- allocution: a formal speech, especially one of an incontrovertible or hortatory nature.
- gorgonize: to hypnotize; petrify.
- en règle: in order; according to the rules; correct.
- kibitzer: a giver of uninvited or unwanted advice.
- brabble: to argue stubbornly about trifles; wrangle.
- antipathetic: opposed, averse, or contrary.
- intemerate: inviolate; undefiled; unsullied; pure.
- word-hoard: a person's vocabulary.
- plotz: to collapse or faint, as from surprise, excitement, or exhaustion.
- wellaway: used to express sorrow.
- jackanapes: an impertinent, presumptuous person, especially a young man.
