December 2002
Word of the Day from dictionary.com
Terms
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- vim
- energy; vigor.
- officious
- meddlesome.
- jollification
- merrymaking; revelry.
- wayworn
- wearied by traveling.
- atelier
- a workshop; a studio.
- robustious
- boisterous; vigorous.
- meticulous
- extremely careful about details.
- irrefragable
- impossible to refute.
- lugubrious
- mournful; gloomy; dismal.
- doff
- to take off; to remove; also, to rid oneself of.
- cogent
- appealing to the mind or to reason; convincing.
- quiddity
- the essence or nature of a thing.
- gewgaw
- a trinket; a bauble.
- ukase
- an edict.
- conurbation
- an aggregation or continuous network of urban communities.
- propinquity
- nearness.
- badinage
- light, playful talk.
- succinct
- brief; concise.
- descant
- a discourse; also, to discourse.
- complement
- something that fills up or completes.
- flippant
- showing inappropriate levity; pert.
- subfusc
- dark or dull in color.
- palindrome
- a word, verse, phrase, or sentence that reads the same backward or forward.
- pugilist
- a boxer.
- parlous
- fraught with danger; hazardous.
- orotund
- full in sound; also, bombastic.
- castigate
- to punish or criticize severely.
- fetid
- stinking.
- posit
- to postulate; also, to suggest.
- callow
- immature.
- booboisie
- a class of people regarded as stupid or foolish.