Word of the Day Archive
May 2002

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1. enervate: to weaken.
2. condign: deserved; adequate.
3. blandishment: flattering speech or action.
4. plenary: full; complete.
5. cosset: to treat with excessive indulgence; to pamper.
6. sang-froid: coolness in trying circumstances.
7. brio: vigor; vivacity.
8. vociferous: clamorous; noisy.
9. protean: readily assuming different shapes or forms.
10. eschew: to shun; to avoid.
11. somniferous: causing or inducing sleep.
12. gregarious: seeking and enjoying the company of others.
13. lassitude: lack of vitality or energy.
14. inchoate: partly but not fully in existence or operation.
15. esurient: hungry; greedy.
16. subterfuge: a deceptive device or stratagem.
17. gastronome: a lover of good food and drink.
18. affable: easy to speak to; also, gracious.
19. precipice: a very steep, perpendicular, or overhanging place.
20. purblind: having greatly reduced vision.
21. fulminate: to issue or utter verbal attacks or censures.
22. cogitate: to think; to ponder.
23. lambent: playing on the surface; flickering.
24. Zeitgeist: the spirit of the time.
25. pugnacious: combative; quarrelsome.
26. acumen: quickness or keenness of perception or discernment.
27. rapine: the act of plundering.
28. autodidact: one who is self-taught.
29. dilatory: given to, or marked by, procrastination or delay.
30. bete noire: something or someone particularly detested or avoided.
31. chary: wary; cautious.

 

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