vengeful
Definition: (adjective) Disposed to seek revenge or intended for revenge. Synonyms: revengeful, vindictive. Usage: The murderer believed he was being haunted by the vengeful ghost …
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Today’s Word
mound
Definition: (noun) A collection of objects laid on top of each other. Synonyms: cumulation, heap, pile, cumulus, agglomerate. Usage: At one point upon the bosom …
jactation
noun: 1. Boasting. 2. Involuntary bodily movements, such as tossing or twitching.
commutation
Definition: (noun) (Law) The reduction in severity of a punishment imposed by law. Synonyms: re-sentencing. Usage: The change from consecutive prison sentences to concurrent sentences …
bibble
verb tr.: 1. To eat or drink noisily. verb intr.: 2. To drink habitually or to excess. 3. To produce bubbles or a bubbling sound. …
endocarp
Definition: (noun) The hard inner (usually woody) layer of the pericarp of some fruits (as peaches or plums or cherries or olives) that contains the …
polyphony
noun: 1. The combination of independent melodic lines sounded together. For example, a fugue. 2. The representation of different sounds by a letter or symbol. …
risible
Definition: (adjective) Arousing or provoking laughter. Synonyms: amusing, comic, comical, funny, laughable, mirthful. Usage: The dramatic performance's unintentionally trite and risible dialogue drew hearty laughs …
grizzle
verb tr.: To make gray. verb intr.: 1. To turn gray. 2. To fuss; to gripe or grumble. noun: 1. An animal with gray or …
solace
Definition: (verb) To give comfort or cheer to (a person) in time of sorrow or distress. Synonyms: comfort, console, soothe. Usage: I grieved quietly and …
onolatry
noun: 1. Worship of the donkey or ass. 2. Devotion to foolishness.
mensuration
Definition: (noun) The act or process of assigning numbers to phenomena according to a rule. Synonyms: measuring. Usage: The mensuration of the faculties of the …
voracious
Definition: (adjective) Having or marked by an insatiable appetite for an activity or pursuit; greedy. Synonyms: rapacious, ravening. Usage: She was a voracious reader and …
nidify
verb intr.: To build a nest.
specious
Definition: (adjective) Based on pretense; deceptively pleasing. Synonyms: gilded, meretricious. Usage: "You are a specious fellow," returned Sir John, fixing his eyes upon him, "and …
quetch
verb intr.: 1. To twitch or stir. 2. To break the silence by uttering a sound.
torrent
Definition: (noun) A heavy, uncontrolled outpouring. Synonyms: deluge, flood, inundation. Usage: She frowned and overwhelmed Pierre with a torrent of reproaches and angry words. Discuss
peregrinate
verb tr., intr.: To travel, especially to wander from place to place.
wring
Definition: (verb) To clasp and twist or squeeze (one's hands), as in distress. Synonyms: wrench. Usage: And the little princess began to cry capriciously like …
spanghew
verb tr.: To throw violently into the air.
rector
Definition: (noun) A person authorized to conduct religious worship. Synonyms: curate, minister, parson, pastor. Usage: She was the daughter of a clergyman, and it was …
insufflate
verb tr.: 1. To blow or breathe into. 2. To treat by blowing air, gas, vapor, or powder into a body cavity. 3. To bless …
sibylline
Definition: (adjective) Resembling or characteristic of a prophet or prophecy. Synonyms: divinatory, mantic, vatic. Usage: It was a sibylline book with ready and infallible answers …
gallantry
Definition: (noun) Nobility of spirit or action; courage. Synonyms: heroism, valor. Usage: Never have I seen such gallantry in the face of danger than I …
archaeolatry
noun: Excessive reverence for the past: an earlier time, old customs, antiquity, etc.
canophilist
noun: A person who loves dogs.
didactics
Definition: (noun) The activities of educating or instructing; activities that impart knowledge or skill. Synonyms: education, instruction, pedagogy, teaching. Usage: After reading several books on …
sarcophagus
noun: A stone coffin, often inscribed or decorated.
jeer
Definition: (verb) To speak or shout derisively; mock. Synonyms: scoff, flout, gibe, barrack. Usage: The crowd jeered at the speaker, and she ran offstage in …
melomania
noun: An inordinate enthusiasm for music.
prehensile
Definition: (adjective) Immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth. Synonyms: avaricious, covetous, grabby, grasping, greedy. Usage: His prehensile employers were so stingy that they replaced their …
ombrophobe
noun: 1. One who hates or fears rain. 2. A plant that cannot tolerate rainy conditions.
yammer
Definition: (verb) To complain peevishly or whimperingly. Synonyms: grizzle, yawp, whine. Usage: I refused to do my chores, electing instead to yammer and whine about …
suppositious
Definition: (adjective) Based primarily on surmise rather than adequate evidence. Synonyms: conjectural, divinatory, hypothetical, suppositional. Usage: Theories about the extinction of dinosaurs are still highly …
alkali
Definition: (noun) Any of various water-soluble compounds capable of turning litmus blue and reacting with an acid to form a salt and water. Synonyms: base. …
siderodromophobia
noun: The fear of trains.
sepulchral
Definition: (adjective) Gruesomely indicative of death or the dead. Synonyms: charnel, ghastly. Usage: The sepulchral darkness of the catacombs sent a chill down my spine. …
abulia
noun: An inability to make decisions.
voluminous
Definition: (adjective) Large in number or quantity (especially of discourse). Synonyms: copious. Usage: She took voluminous notes during the lecture, and her classmates begged for …
rupestrian
adjective: Relating to, composed of, or carved on rocks.