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Word of the Day Archive
December 2004
- ne plus ultra: the acme; also, the most profound degree.
- empyrean: the highest heaven; the heavens; the sky.
- malversation: misconduct in public office.
- cadre: a core or nucleus of trained or otherwise qualified personnel around which an organization is formed.
- exhort: to urge strongly.
- genuflect: to bend the knee, as in worship; also, to grovel.
- demur: to object; also, to delay.
- perfervid: ardent; impassioned.
- solecism: a nonstandard usage or grammatical construction.
- extemporaneous: composed, performed, or uttered on the spur of the moment.
- forgo: to do without.
- raiment: clothing in general; garments.
- aborning: (while) being produced or born.
- dulcet: melodious.
- hoi polloi: the common people; the masses.
- recherche: exotic; rare; also, affected, pretentious.
- permeate: to spread or diffuse through.
- germane: appropriate or fitting; relevant.
- disconsolate: hopelessly sad; also, saddening; cheerless.
- languid: lacking vigor or force.
- etiolate: to blanch or bleach; to make sickly.
- moil: to labor; to toil; to drudge.
- exegesis: exposition; explanation.
- cornucopia: the horn of plenty; also, an abundance.
- benison: blessing; benediction.
- punctilious: precise; exact in the smallest particulars.
- brackish: somewhat salty; also, distasteful.
- raillery: good-humored banter or teasing repartee.
- sedition: incitement of rebellion against lawful authority.
- riposte: a quick and effective reply by word or act.
- tintinnabulation: a tinkling sound, as of a bell or bells.
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