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Date  | Word | Description |
| 23 Jun 2014 | prepotency | - The quality or condition of having superior power, influence, or force; predominance.
- (Biology) The capacity, on the part of one of the parents, as compared with the other, to transmit more than his or her own share of characteristics to their offspring.
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| 22 Jun 2014 | stasis | - A state of balance, equilibrium, or stagnation.
- Stoppage of the normal flow of a bodily fluid or semifluid.
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| 21 Jun 2014 | torpid | - Having lost motion or the power of exertion and feeling; numb; benumbed.
- Dormant; hibernating or estivating.
- Dull; sluggish; apathetic.
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| 20 Jun 2014 | camarilla | -
A group of secret and often scheming advisers, as of a king; a cabal or clique.
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| 19 Jun 2014 | roseate | - Overly optimistic; bright or cheerful.
- Resembling a rose especially in color.
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| 18 Jun 2014 | fanfaronade | - Swaggering; empty boasting; blustering manner or behavior; ostentatious display.
- Fanfare.
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| 17 Jun 2014 | relegate | - To assign to an inferior position, place, or condition.
- To assign to an appropriate category or class.
- To assign or refer (a matter or task, for example) to another for appropriate action.
- To send into exile; to banish.
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| 16 Jun 2014 | quorum | - Such a number of the officers or members of any body as is legally competent to transact business.
- A select group.
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| 15 Jun 2014 | diaphanous | - Of such fine texture as to allow light to pass through; translucent or transparent.
- Vague; insubstantial.
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| 14 Jun 2014 | peregrination | -
A traveling from place to place; a wandering.
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| 13 Jun 2014 | factotum | -
A person employed to do all kinds of work or business.
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| 12 Jun 2014 | equivocate | -
To be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or to avoid committing oneself to anything definite.
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| 11 Jun 2014 | intractable | - Not easily governed, managed, or directed; stubborn; obstinate; as, "an intractable child."
- Not easily wrought or manipulated; as, "intractable materials."
- Not easily remedied, relieved, or dealt with; as, "intractable problems."
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| 10 Jun 2014 | malfeasance | -
Wrongdoing, misconduct, or misbehavior, especially by a public official.
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| 9 Jun 2014 | disconcert | - To disturb the composure of.
- To throw into disorder or confusion; as, "the emperor disconcerted the plans of his enemy."
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| 8 Jun 2014 | busker | -
A person who entertains (as by playing music) in public places.
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| 7 Jun 2014 | importunate | -
Troublesomely urgent; overly persistent in request or demand; unreasonably solicitous.
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| 6 Jun 2014 | apostasy | -
Total desertion or departure from one's faith, principles, or party.
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| 5 Jun 2014 | bumptious | -
Crudely, presumptuously, or loudly self-assertive.
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| 4 Jun 2014 | immure | - To enclose within walls, or as if within walls; hence, to shut up; to
imprison; to incarcerate.
- To build into a wall.
- To entomb in a wall.
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| 3 Jun 2014 | coeval | -
Of the same age; originating or existing during the same period of time -- usually followed by 'with'.
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| 2 Jun 2014 | prelapsarian | -
Pertaining to or characteristic of the time or state before the Fall.
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| 1 Jun 2014 | monomania | - Pathological obsession with a single subject or idea.
- Excessive concentration of interest upon one particular subject or idea.
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| 31 May 2014 | lineament | - One of the outlines, exterior features, or distinctive marks of a body or figure, particularly of the face.
- A distinguishing or characteristic feature; -- usually in the plural.
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| 30 May 2014 | extirpate | - To pull up by the stem or root.
- To destroy completely.
- To remove by surgery.
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| 29 May 2014 | pari passu | -
At an equal pace or rate.
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| 28 May 2014 | temerity | -
Unreasonable or foolhardy contempt of danger; rashness.
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| 27 May 2014 | deleterious | -
Harmful; destructive; pernicious.
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| 26 May 2014 | sesquipedalian | - Given to or characterized by the use of long words.
- Long and ponderous; having many syllables.
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| 25 May 2014 | ribald | -
Characterized by, or given to, vulgar humor; coarse.
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| 24 May 2014 | concomitant | -
Accompanying; attendant; occurring or existing concurrently.
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| 23 May 2014 | refulgent | -
Shining brightly; radiant; brilliant; resplendent.
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| 22 May 2014 | cynosure | - Anything to which attention is strongly turned; a center of attraction.
- That which serves to guide or direct.
- [Capitalized]. The northern constellation Ursa Minor, which contains the North Star; also, the North Star itself.
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| 21 May 2014 | intransigent | -
Refusing to compromise; uncompromising.
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| 20 May 2014 | cupidity | -
Eager or excessive desire, especially for wealth; greed; avarice.
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| 19 May 2014 | afflatus | -
A divine imparting of knowledge; inspiration.
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| 18 May 2014 | facetious | - Given to jesting; playfully jocular.
- Amusing; intended to be humorous; not serious.
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| 17 May 2014 | wastrel | - A person who wastes, especially one who squanders money; a
spendthrift.
- An idler; a loafer; a good-for-nothing.
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| 16 May 2014 | nadir | - [Astronomy]. The point of the celestial sphere directly opposite the zenith and directly below the observer.
- The lowest point; the time of greatest depression or adversity.
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| 15 May 2014 | hirsute | -
Covered with hair; set with bristles; shaggy; hairy.
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| 14 May 2014 | appurtenance | - An adjunct; an accessory; something added to another, more important thing.
- [Plural]. Accessory objects; gear; apparatus.
- [Law]. An incidental right attached to a principal property right for purposes such as passage of title, conveyance, or inheritance.
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| 13 May 2014 | polymath | -
A person of great or varied learning; one acquainted with various subjects of study.
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| 12 May 2014 | sobriquet | -
A nickname; an assumed name; an epithet.
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| 11 May 2014 | moribund | - In a dying state; dying; at the point of death.
- Becoming obsolete or inactive.
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| 10 May 2014 | persiflage | -
Frivolous or bantering talk; a frivolous manner of treating any subject, whether serious or otherwise; light raillery.
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| 9 May 2014 | diffident | - Lacking self-confidence; distrustful of one's own powers; timid; bashful.
- Characterized by modest reserve; unassertive.
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| 8 May 2014 | turpitude | - Inherent baseness or vileness of principle, words, or actions; depravity.
- A base act.
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| 7 May 2014 | rara avis | - BR>
A rare or unique person or thing.
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| 6 May 2014 | perspicacity | -
Clearness of understanding or insight; penetration, discernment.
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| 5 May 2014 | aesthete | -
One having or affecting great sensitivity to beauty, as in art or nature.
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