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Date  | Word | Description |
| 12 Feb 2015 | misnomer | -
Any misnaming of a person or thing; a wrong or inapplicable name or title.
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| 11 Feb 2015 | noisome | - Noxious to health; hurtful; mischievous; unwholesome; insalubrious; destructive; as, noisome effluvia.
- Offensive to the smell or other senses; disgusting; fetid.
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| 10 Feb 2015 | banal | -
Commonplace; trivial; hackneyed; trite.
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| 9 Feb 2015 | obdurate | - Hardened in feelings, especially against moral or mollifying influences; unyielding; hard-hearted; stubbornly wicked.
- Hard; harsh; rugged; rough; intractable.
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| 8 Feb 2015 | prescience | -
Knowledge of events before they take place; foresight.
--prescient, adjective
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| 7 Feb 2015 | erroneous | -
containing or characterized by error; as, "erroneous conclusions"
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| 6 Feb 2015 | copious | - large in number or quantity; as, "she took copious notes."
- affording an abundant supply
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| 5 Feb 2015 | confluence | - The act of flowing together; the meeting or junction of two or more streams; the place of meeting.
- Any running together of separate streams or currents; the act of meeting and crowding in a place; hence, a crowd; a coming together of people; a concourse; an assemblage.
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| 4 Feb 2015 | en masse | |
| 3 Feb 2015 | fatuous | - . Feeble in mind; weak; silly; stupid; foolish.
- . Without reality; illusory, like the ignis fatuus.
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| 2 Feb 2015 | paucity | - Fewness; smallness of number; scarcity.
- Smallness of quantity; insufficiency.
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| 1 Feb 2015 | specious | - Apparently right; superficially fair, just, or correct, but not so in reality; appearing well at first view; plausible; as, specious reasoning; a specious argument.
- deceptively pleasing
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| 31 Jan 2015 | facile | - Easy to be done or performed: not difficult; performable or attainable with little labor.
- Arrived at without due care or effort; lacking depth; as, "too facile a solution for so complex a problem"
- Ready; quick; expert; as, "he is facile in expedients"; "he wields a facile pen."
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| 30 Jan 2015 | métier | -
Calling; vocation; business; trade; an occupation for which one is especially well suited
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| 29 Jan 2015 | juju | - an object superstitiously believed to embody magical powers
- the power associated with a juju
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| 28 Jan 2015 | sedulous | -
marked by care and persistent effort; steadily industrious; assiduous; as, the sedulous bee.
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| 27 Jan 2015 | impecunious | -
Not having money; habitually without money; poor.
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| 26 Jan 2015 | edify | -
To instruct and improve, especially in moral and religious knowledge; to teach.
--edifying, adjective
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| 25 Jan 2015 | parvenu | -
a person who has suddenly risen to a higher economic status but has not gained social acceptance of others in that class
--parvenu, adjective:
of or characteristic of a parvenu; characteristic of someone who has risen economically or socially but lacks the social skills appropriate for this new position
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| 24 Jan 2015 | tumult | - . The commotion or agitation of a crowd, usually accompanied with great noise, uproar, and confusion of voices; hurly-burly; noisy confusion.
- . Violent commotion or agitation, with confusion of sounds; as, ``the tumult of the elements.''
- . Irregular or confused motion; agitation; high excitement; as, ``the tumult of the spirits or passions.''
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| 23 Jan 2015 | winsome | - . Cheerful; merry; gay; light-hearted.
- . Causing joy or pleasure; gladsome; pleasant.
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| 22 Jan 2015 | incongruous | - . lacking in harmony or compatibility or appropriateness; "a plan incongruous with reason"; "incongruous behavior"; "a joke that was incongruous with polite conversation"
2. inconsistent with reason or logic or common sense
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| 21 Jan 2015 | dour | - : stubbornly unyielding; as, "dour determination"
- : harshly uninviting or formidable in manner or appearance; as, "a dour, self-sacrificing life"
- : showing a brooding ill humor; as, "the proverbially dour New England Puritan"
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| 20 Jan 2015 | eleemosynary | - Relating to charity, alms, or alms-giving; intended for the
distribution of charity; as, ``an eleemosynary corporation.''
- Given in charity or alms; having the nature of alms; as,
``eleemosynary assistance''
- Supported by charity; as, ``eleemosynary poor.''
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| 19 Jan 2015 | colloquial | -
characteristic of informal spoken language or conversation; "wrote her letters in a colloquial style"; "the broken syntax and casual enunciation of colloquial English"; hence, unstudied; informal; as, colloquial phrases; a colloquial style.
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| 18 Jan 2015 | innocuous | -
Harmless; producing no ill effect
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| 17 Jan 2015 | stoic | - . Stoic. Philosophy. A disciple of the philosopher Zeno; one of a Greek sect which held that men should be free from passion, unmoved by joy or grief, and should submit without complaint to unavoidable necessity, by which all things are governed.
- . Hence, a person not easily excited; an apathetic person; one who is apparently or professedly indifferent to pleasure or pain.
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| 16 Jan 2015 | solace | - . To cheer in grief or under calamity; to comfort; to relieve in affliction, solitude, or discomfort; to console; -- applied to persons; as, to solace one with the hope of future reward.
- . To allay; to assuage; to soothe; as, to solace grief.
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| 15 Jan 2015 | jovial | -
merry; joyous; jolly; mirth-inspiring; characterized by mirth or jollity; as, a jovial youth; a jovial company; a jovial poem.
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| 14 Jan 2015 | ascribe | - . To attribute, as to a cause; as, ``his death was ascribed to a poison''; ``they ascribed the poor harvest to drought.''
- . To attribute, as a quality; to consider or allege to belong; as, ``ascribed jealousy to the critics.''
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| 13 Jan 2015 | verbiage | -
The use of many words without necessity, or with little sense; a superabundance of words; verbosity; wordiness.
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| 12 Jan 2015 | insouciant | -
marked by blithe unconcern; nonchalant; as, "an elegantly insouciant manner"
--insouciance, noun
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| 11 Jan 2015 | superfluous | -
more than is wanted or is sufficient; rendered unnecessary by superabundance; unnecessary; useless; excessive
-- SUPERFLUOUSLY, adverb
-- SUPERFLUOUSNESS, noun
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| 10 Jan 2015 | aberrant | -
markedly different from an accepted norm; as, "aberrant behavior"
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| 9 Jan 2015 | raucous | -
1. unpleasantly loud and harsh; strident.
2. disturbing the public peace; loud and rough.
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| 8 Jan 2015 | genial | -
Contributing to, and sympathizing with, the enjoyment of life; sympathetically cheerful and cheering; jovial and inspiring joy or happiness; exciting pleasure and sympathy; enlivening; kindly; as, ``she was of a cheerful and genial disposition.''
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| 7 Jan 2015 | melee | -
A fight in which the combatants are mingled in one confused mass; a hand to hand conflict; an affray.
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| 6 Jan 2015 | antediluvian | -
1: of or relating to the period before the Biblical flood
2: so extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period; as, ``antediluvian ideas''
--noun:
1: one who lived before the Deluge
2: a very old (or old-fashioned) person
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| 5 Jan 2015 | listless | -
Having no desire or inclination; indifferent; heedless; spiritless.
--LISTLESSLY, adverb -- LISTLESSNESS, noun
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| 4 Jan 2015 | numismatics | -
the collection and study of money (and coins in particular).
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| 3 Jan 2015 | requisite | -
required by the nature of things, or by circumstances; necessary,
indispensable -- noun: that which is required, or is necessary; something
indispensable
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| 2 Jan 2015 | comestible | -
Suitable to be eaten; eatable; esculent -- noun:
Something suitable to be eaten; -- usually in the plural.
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| 1 Jan 2015 | bestow | -
To give or confer; to impart; -- with on or upon.
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| 31 Dec 2014 | grok | - To understand, especially in a profound and intimate way. Slang.
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| 30 Dec 2014 | tittle-tattle | - Idle, trifling talk; empty prattle.
- An idle, trifling talker; a gossip.
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| 29 Dec 2014 | eke | -
To increase; to add to; to augment; -- now usually used with
out, the notion conveyed being ``to add to, or piece out by a
laborious, inferior, or scanty addition''
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| 28 Dec 2014 | avarice | -
an excessive desire of gain; greediness
after wealth; covetousness; cupidity.
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| 27 Dec 2014 | comity | - a state or atmosphere of harmony or mutual civility and
respect.
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| 26 Dec 2014 | gnomic | -
sententious; uttering or containing maxims, or striking
detached thoughts; aphoristic.
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| 25 Dec 2014 | torrid | - :
Violenty hot; drying or scorching with heat; burning;
parching; as, ``torrid heat''
- : characterized by intense emotion; as, ``a torrid love affair''
- : emotionally charged and vigorously energetic; as, ``a torrid dance''
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