Category: Today’s Word

Definition: (noun) An area where you can be alone. Synonyms: retreat. Usage: During the summers, we leave the city behind and get some much-needed rest …

adjective: Having slender fingers or toes.

Definition: (verb) To damage or sully (someone's good name, reputation, etc.). Synonyms: sully, taint, corrupt, cloud. Usage: My father was an honest man, and I …

adjective: Having the form or appearance of a bear.

Definition: (noun) Violent and noisy commotion or disturbance of a crowd or mob. Synonyms: garboil, uproar. Usage: He could hear a great tumult in the …

noun: The young of an animal, especially of a sheep or a goat. adjective: New-born; infant.

Definition: (noun) The rear part of an aircraft. Synonyms: tail. Usage: The pop superstar is so vain that she had her likeness plastered across her …

Definition: (noun) Someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime. Synonyms: criminal, crook, felon, outlaw. Usage: A judge having …

Definition: (adjective) Marked by a carefree unconventionality or disreputableness. Synonyms: devil-may-care, raffish. Usage: A black patch over one eye gave him a fearfully rakish look. …

adjective: 1. Relating to wine. 2. Of the color of red wine: reddish.

Definition: (adjective) Tough and callous by virtue of experience. Synonyms: hard-boiled, pugnacious. Usage: He graduated from college a naïve idealist, but just a few years …

adjective: Having a purpose, motivation, or meaning in itself; not driven by external factors.

Definition: (adjective) Lacking refinement or cultivation or taste. Synonyms: rough-cut, vulgar, coarse, common. Usage: He was an uncouth fellow, ragged and dirty and unshaven. Discuss

adjective: 1. Relating to a nettle. 2. Stinging.

Definition: (noun) A child who spends most of his time in the streets especially in slum areas. Synonyms: street urchin. Usage: In Shaw's <i>Pygmalion</i>, an …

noun: A feeling or state of elation or well-being.

Definition: (adjective) Tediously repetitious or lacking in variety. Synonyms: humdrum. Usage: Spending eight hours a day on an assembly line is monotonous work, but I …

Definition: (adjective) Determined to have one's own way. Synonyms: stubborn, willful, obstinate. Usage: Every man is in his youth impetuous, headstrong, and obstinate in maintaining …

Definition: (adjective) Impressive in appearance. Synonyms: imposing, noble, stately. Usage: Just as he had constructed a baronial residence for himself and his posterity, the fire …

adjective: Clumsy; tactless; lacking social grace.

Definition: (adjective) Not capable of being violated or infringed. Synonyms: inviolable, absolute. Usage: These rights we consider infrangible, no matter what else you may take …

Definition: (verb) Censure severely or angrily. Synonyms: chew out, chide, rebuke, reproof, scold, lambast, reprimand, remonstrate. Usage: The coach berated the players for their lackluster …

adjective: 1. Clumsy; unimaginative; uninspired. 2. Forthright. 3. Unprepared. 4. Uncompromising. 5. Having the arch of the foot flattened so the entire sole touches the …

Definition: (noun) The act of removing the contents of something. Synonyms: emptying, evacuation. Usage: The voidance of one's inbox after a long vacation is an …

noun: A fortress; defense; protection.

Definition: (noun) The gracefulness of a person or animal that is quick and nimble. Synonyms: agility, lightsomeness. Usage: Common house cats have an extraordinary legerity …

Definition: (verb) Affect with wonder. Synonyms: amaze, astonish. Usage: I used to believe that nothing could astound me, but daredevil skydiver Felix Baumgartner proved me …

Definition: (verb) Engage in boisterous, drunken merrymaking. Synonyms: carouse, riot. Usage: Grab your hats and your flasks, lads; we're going to roister till sunup. Discuss

Definition: (noun) The act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows. Synonyms: whacking, beating, drubbing, licking, thrashing, trouncing. Usage: If my mother ever caught me …

adjective: Of or relating to worms.

Definition: (verb) Assign a name or title to. Synonyms: designate. Usage: The creature … even went to the trouble of teaching me the rudiments of …

adjective: Bluish or grayish green.

Definition: (adjective) Unsupported by other evidence. Synonyms: unsubstantiated. Usage: Reports of a tornado are uncorroborated at this time, but residents have begun seeking shelter anyway. …

adjective: 1. Coming from outside: not inherent or native. 2. Happening by chance. 3. Appearing in an unusual or abnormal place.

Definition: (adjective) Serving no useful purpose; having no excuse for being. Synonyms: superfluous, wasted, pointless, senseless. Usage: More than half of his acceptance speech was …

adjective: Characterized by apathy, boredom, or sloth.

Definition: (adjective) Firm and dependable, especially in loyalty. Synonyms: steadfast, unswerving. Usage: John is a staunch supporter of free speech, but it nonetheless pains him …

adjective: Growing in windy conditions.

Definition: (adjective) Artfully persuasive in speech. Synonyms: glib. Usage: Then uprose smooth-tongued Nestor, the facile speaker of the Pylians, and the words fell from his …

Definition: (noun) An unforeseen obstacle. Synonyms: rub, hitch, snag. Usage: My real estate agent says there are some legal hang-ups that might delay the sale …