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Word of the Day Archive
March 2000
- indomitable: incapable of being subdued or overcome.
- argot: a specialized vocabulary peculiar to a particular group.
- impugn: to call in question; to make insinuations against.
- lascivious: lewd; lustful.
- parsimony: excessive sparingness in the expenditure of money.
- atrabilious: irritable; ill-natured.
- peccadillo: a slight offense; a petty fault.
- logorrhea: excessive talkativeness.
- travail: painful, arduous work; also, agony, anguish.
- acquiesce: to accept or consent passively or without objection.
- elucidate: to make clear or manifest.
- recalcitrant: stubbornly resistant to and defiant of authority or restraint.
- abstemious: temperate; abstinent; refraining from indulgence.
- gravitas: high seriousness.
- Ides: the fifteenth day of March, May, July, and October, and the thirteenth day of the other months.
- mendacious: untruthful; also, untrue.
- verdure: greenness.
- emblazon: to display pompously; to decorate.
- collude: to act in concert; to conspire.
- risible: exciting or provoking laughter.
- surcease: cessation; stop; end.
- adumbrate: to outline; also, to foreshadow; also, to suggest; also, to shade.
- Elysium: paradise.
- demagogue: a leader who obtains power by means of appeals to the emotions and prejudices of the populace.
- augury: an omen; prediction.
- fulminate: to issue or utter verbal attacks or censures.
- sycophant: one who seeks favor by flattery; a toady.
- vitiate: to make faulty or imperfect.
- factious: addicted to form parties and raise dissensions.
- quiescent: at rest; still; inactive.
- purblind: having greatly reduced vision.
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