Word(s) Of The Day – For The Week Of January 17, 2021

January 17, 2021

Ethereal – adj. – Characterized by lightness and insubstantiality – intangible

January 18, 2021

Avuncular – adj. – Kind and friendly toward a younger or less experienced person

January 19, 2021

Licentious – adj. – Promiscuous and unprincipled – lacking moral discipline

January 20, 2021

Eviscerate – v. – Deprive or take away

January 21, 2021

Abate – v. – To reduce in amount, degree, or intensity

January 22, 2021

Futile – adj. – Incapable of producing any useful result

January 23, 2021

Ingratiate – v. – To bring oneself into favor or good graces of another, especially if by deliberate effort.

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Word(s) Of The Day – For The Week Of January 10, 2021

January 10, 2021

Irascible – adj. – Characterized by or arising from anger. Easily made angry.

January 11, 2021

Nescience – adj. – Lacking knowledge or ignorant

January 12, 2021

Acrid – adj. – Having an irritatingly strong and unpleasant taste or smell

January 13, 2021

Elucidate – v. – To make clear or to explain

January 14, 2021

Contrite – adj. – To be genuinely and deeply sorry. Something done or said out of a sense of guilt or remorse.

January 15, 2021

Precocious – adj. – Manifesting or characterized by unusually early development or maturity

January 16, 2021

Assertive – adj. – Inclined to bold or confident assertion; aggressively self-assured

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January 3, 2021

Recondite – adj. – Little known, obscure, abstruse.

January 4, 2021

Obsequious – adj. – Obedient or attentive to an excessive degree

January 5, 2021

Elegiac – adj. – Having a mournful quality

January 6, 2021

Colloquialism – adj. – Language used in ordinary conversation

January 7, 2021

Ignoble – adj. – Not honorable in character or purpose; shameful.

January 8, 2021

Tenuous – adj. – Very weak or slight, insubstantial.

January 9, 2021

Ostracize – v. – Exclude or be excluded from a society or group

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Word(s) Of The Day – For The Week Of December 27, 2020

December 27, 2020
Parvenu – n. – someone from the low social position suddenly acquires wealth, position and power.

December 28, 2020
Comstockery – n. – overzealous moral censorship of the fine arts and literature, often mistaking outspokenly honest works for salacious ones.

December 29, 2020
Temerity n. – reckless boldness; rashness

December 30, 2020
Chiliad – n. – a group of 1000.

December 31, 2020
Petrichor – n. – the smell of earth after a rain.

January 1, 2021
Futilarian – n. – a person who believes that human hopes are vain, and human striving unjustified.

January 2, 2021

Exhaustipated – adj. – too tired to give a shit.

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