talpa
noun: 1. A mole (the animal). 2. A cyst.
Category: Today’s Word
Today’s Word
ascetic
Definition: (noun) A person who renounces material comforts and leads a life of austere self-discipline, especially as an act of religious devotion. Synonyms: abstainer. Usage: …
vesta
noun: A short wooden match.
assuage
Definition: (verb) To make (something burdensome or painful) less intense or severe. Synonyms: alleviate, relieve, palliate. Usage: Food, however, became scarce, and I often spent …
reeve
verb tr.: To pass (a rope or the like) through. noun: A local official.
foretoken
Definition: (noun) An event that is experienced as indicating important things to come. Synonyms: augury, preindication, sign. Usage: He refused to think that the rain …
antre
noun: A cave, cavern, cavity, etc.
doggerel
Definition: (noun) Crudely or irregularly fashioned verse, often of a humorous or burlesque nature. Synonyms: jingle. Usage: I want the man I love and honor …
bombast
Definition: (noun) Grandiloquent, pompous speech or writing. Synonyms: claptrap, fustian. Usage: He found that he could look back upon the brass and bombast of his …
bolster
Definition: (verb) To buoy up or hearten. Synonyms: boost. Usage: Visitors bolstered the patient's morale. Discuss
gorgonian
adjective: Terrible; repulsive. noun: Any of various corals having a hard, treelike skeleton.
bravado
Definition: (noun) Defiant or swaggering behavior. Synonyms: bluster. Usage: In a moment it was hand-to-hand fighting, and Trent was cursing already the bravado which had …
vulcanic
adjective: 1. Relating to volcanoes. 2. Fiery; explosive; full of anger, energy, etc.
meretricious
Definition: (adjective) Attracting attention in a vulgar manner. Synonyms: flashy, garish, gaudy, tawdry, trashy, tacky. Usage: The town's tasteful welcome sign was replaced with a …
borasco
noun: 1. A sudden violent gust of wind, typically accompanied by rain, snow, or sleet. Also known as a squall. 2. A bad spell; something …
amatory
Definition: (adjective) Of, relating to, or expressive of love, especially sexual love. Synonyms: amorous, romantic. Usage: She showed her friends the stack of old love …
titanic
adjective: 1. Of great power, strength, size, etc. 2. Relating to or made of the element titanium.
sanguine
Definition: (adjective) Of a healthy reddish color. Synonyms: rubicund, ruddy. Usage: He had a sanguine complexion that was matched by his cheerful outlook. Discuss
aphrodisiac
noun: Something, such as a food or drug, that increases sexual desire. adjective: Arousing sexual desire.
apprise
Definition: (verb) To give notice to; inform. Synonyms: notify, advise. Usage: During the drive home from the airport, they had time to apprise her of …
apropos
Definition: (adjective) Being at once opportune and to the point. Synonyms: relevant, timely. Usage: His book about safe investment, published right before the stock market …
baneful
Definition: (adjective) Causing harm, ruin, or death; harmful. Synonyms: pernicious, pestilent, deadly. Usage: He instructed him in the poisonous qualities of arsenic, and furnished him …
manuduction
noun: 1. The act of guiding, leading, or introducing. 2. Something that guides, leads, or introduces.
captious
Definition: (adjective) Marked by a disposition to find and point out trivial faults. Synonyms: faultfinding. Usage: She found the new professor to be captious, marking …
cack-handed
adjective: 1. Clumsy; awkward. 2. Left-handed.
affront
Definition: (noun) A deliberately offensive act or something producing the effect of deliberate disrespect. Synonyms: insult. Usage: Your deliberate implication that I stole the money …
temerity
Definition: (noun) Foolhardy disregard of danger; recklessness. Synonyms: audaciousness, audacity. Usage: Everyone was shocked at her temerity in addressing the king in such a manner. …
two-fisted
adjective: 1. Tough; aggressive. 2. Energetic; enthusiastic. 3. Using both hands.
antecedent
Definition: (noun) Anything that precedes something similar in time. Synonyms: forerunner. Usage: This era is one of heedless consumption, but perhaps you can blame that …
palmate
adjective: Shaped like a hand with the fingers spread.
petulant
Definition: (adjective) Unreasonably irritable or ill-tempered. Synonyms: peevish, testy, cranky, fractious. Usage: After their fight, her friend came to make amends, but she was feeling …
blandishment
Definition: (noun) Flattery intended to persuade. Synonyms: cajolery, palaver. Usage: Not even his favorite daughter's blandishment could persuade him to submit to her whims. Discuss
clemency
Definition: (noun) A disposition to show mercy, especially toward an offender or enemy. Synonyms: mercy. Usage: He was willing to show clemency, promising not to …
wissenschaft
noun: Knowledge, learning, and science or their systematic pursuit.
languid
Definition: (adjective) Lacking energy or vitality; weak. Synonyms: lackadaisical, languorous. Usage: He gave a languid wave of the hand to signify his indifference. Discuss
kapu
noun: Taboo.
laggard
Definition: (noun) Someone who takes more time than necessary; someone who lags behind. Synonyms: dawdler, trailer, poke. Usage: He was such a laggard that his …
verstehen
noun: The use of empathy in understanding human actions and behavior, especially in interpreting sociological or historical events.
maudlin
Definition: (adjective) Effusively or tearfully sentimental. Synonyms: bathetic, mawkish, schmaltzy, mushy. Usage: When the farewells were in danger of becoming maudlin, he judged that it …
lei
noun: A garland, typically made of flowers, or leaves, shells, nuts, feathers, etc.