Word of the Day Archive/May 2002
-
-
condign:
deserved; adequate.
-
blandishment:
flattering speech or action; allurement.
-
plenary:
full; complete.
-
-
sang-froid:
coolness in trying circumstances.
-
brio:
vigor; vivacity.
-
-
protean:
readily assuming different shapes or forms.
-
eschew:
to shun; to avoid.
-
somniferous:
causing or inducing sleep.
-
gregarious:
seeking and enjoying the company of others.
-
lassitude:
lack of vitality or energy.
-
inchoate:
partly but not fully in existence or operation.
-
esurient:
hungry; greedy.
-
subterfuge:
a deceptive device or stratagem.
-
gastronome:
a lover of good food and drink.
-
affable:
easy to speak to; also, gracious.
-
precipice:
a very steep, perpendicular, or overhanging place.
-
purblind:
having greatly reduced vision.
-
fulminate:
to issue or utter verbal attacks or censures.
-
cogitate:
to think; to ponder.
-
lambent:
playing on the surface; flickering.
-
zeitgeist:
the spirit of the time.
-
pugnacious:
combative; quarrelsome.
-
acumen:
quickness or keenness of perception or discernment.
-
rapine:
the act of plundering.
-
autodidact:
one who is self-taught.
-
dilatory:
given to, or marked by, procrastination or delay.
-
bete
noire: something or someone particularly detested or avoided.
-
chary:
wary; cautious.