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Word of the Day Archive
February 2004
- surreptitious: done, made, or gotten by stealth; also, marked by stealth.
- quixotic: foolishly impractical; also, capricious, impulsive.
- languor: lack of energy or vitality.
- pulchritude: beauty.
- censure: to criticize severely; also, an expression of disapproval.
- hector: to bully or harass.
- miasma: a thick vaporous atmosphere, often noxious.
- rapport: relation characterized by sympathetic understanding.
- forcible: effected by force used against resistance; also, powerful.
- bombinate: to buzz, hum, or drone.
- insuperable: incapable of being passed over, surmounted, or overcome.
- latitudinarian: having or expressing broad and tolerant views.
- hinterland: backcountry.
- buss: a kiss; to kiss.
- discrete: constituting a separate thing; also, consisting of distinct or unconnected parts.
- plaintive: expressive of sorrow or melancholy.
- tractable: docile; manageable, governable.
- quietus: final acquittance, as from debt; also, rest; death.
- inscrutable: difficult to fathom or understand.
- avatar: an incarnation.
- expiate: to make amends for; to atone for.
- gauche: lacking social polish; tactless.
- lambaste: to scold sharply; also, to beat.
- recrudescent: breaking out again.
- flibbertigibbet: a silly, flighty, or excessively talkative person.
- malapropism: the usually unintentionally humorous misuse of a word, especially by confusion with one of similar sound; also, an example of such misuse.
- raffish: tawdry; also, rakish.
- vet: to subject to thorough appraisal; to evaluate.
- pleonasm: the use of more words than are necessary to express an idea.
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