Word Of The Day

To render more severe, violent, or bitter; to irritate; to aggravate; to make worse.

Unavailing; useless; without advantage or benefit.

Commonly thought or deemed; supposed; reputed.

Lacking social polish; tactless; awkward; clumsy.

1. A simple descriptive work, either in poetry or prose, dealing with simple, rustic life; pastoral scenes; and the like.
2. A narrative poem treating an epic, romantic, or tragic theme.
3. A lighthearted carefree episode or experience.
4. A romantic interlude.

1. Of or pertaining to walking about or traveling from place to place; itinerant.
2. Of or pertaining to the philosophy taught by Aristotle (who gave his instructions while walking in the Lyceum at Athens), or to his followers.

noun:
1. One who walks about; a pedestrian; an itinerant.
2. A follower of Aristotle; an Aristotelian.

Pertaining to fields or the country; rural; rustic.

A thicket or grove of small trees.

1. (Bible) Pertaining to the Apocrypha.
2. Not canonical. Hence: Of doubtful authority or authenticity; equivocal; fictitious; spurious; false.

1. To banish or expel from a community or group; to cast out from social, political, or private favor.
2. [Greek Antiquity] To exile by ostracism; to banish by a popular vote, as at Athens.

1. Having a pale or sickly hue; pale; pallid.
2. Lacking vitality, as from weariness, illness, or unhappiness; feeble.
3. Lacking in intensity or brightness; dim or feeble.

Originating, existing, or occurring at the same time.

1. Firmly established by long persistence; deep-rooted; of long standing.
2. Fixed in habit by long persistence; confirmed; habitual.

1. Sideways.
2. In a cautiously indirect manner.

1. Suitably applied or expressed; appropriate; apt.
2. Happy; delightful; marked by good fortune.

1. Subordinate; subsidiary.
2. Auxiliary; helping.

noun:
1. Something that is subordinate to something else.

In the capacity or character of; as.

1. A model or pattern to be copied or imitated.
2. A typical or standard specimen.
3. An ideal model or type.
4. A copy of a book or text.

1. Easily done or performed; not difficult.
2. Arrived at without due care or effort; lacking depth; as, "too facile a solution for so complex a problem."
3. Ready; quick; expert; as, "he is facile in expedients"; "he wields a facile pen."

1. Coming from or existing on the outside.
2. Introduced from an outside source.
3. Not essential or intrinsic; foreign.
4. Not pertinent to the matter at hand; irrelevant.

Of, pertaining to, or occurring in the state of drowsiness preceding sleep.

1. A braggart.
2. Empty boasting.
3. A swaggering, cocky manner.

1. To dance and skip about in play; to frolic.

noun:
1. A skipping or leaping about in frolic.

Having the guardianship or charge of protecting a person or a thing; guardian; protecting; as, "tutelary goddesses."

Incapable of being subdued or overcome; unconquerable.