Word of the Day Archive/April 2000
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coxcomb:
a vain, showy fellow.
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chicanery:
the use of trickery to deceive.
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habitué:
one who habitually frequents a place.
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pellucid:
transparent, clear; easily understandable.
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factitious:
artificial; sham; not natural.
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profligate:
dissipated; dissolute.
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bedaub:
to besmear or soil.
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bifurcate:
to divide into two branches.
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contumacious:
obstinate; stubbornly disobedient.
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firmament:
the sky or heavens.
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arcane:
understood by only a few.
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perfunctory:
performed mechanically.
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temerity:
unreasonable contempt of danger.
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superannuated:
discharged or disqualified on account of old age.
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egregious:
outrageously bad.
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tutelary:
guardian; protecting.
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condign:
deserved; adequate.
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lambent:
playing on the surface; flickering.
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confabulation:
familiar talk; also, a plausible but imagined memory.
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expiate:
to make amends for.
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somniferous:
causing or inducing sleep.
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aubade:
a song greeting the dawn.
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cogitate:
consider carefully and deeply; ponder.
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persiflage:
frivolous or bantering talk.
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obfuscate:
to darken; to obscure.
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calumny:
malicious misrepresentation; slander.
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ablution:
the washing of the body, or some part of it.
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undulate:
to move in waves.
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