Category: Today’s Word

Definition: (noun) Extreme care in spending money; reluctance to spend money unnecessarily. Synonyms: penny-pinching, thrift. Usage: Due to the parsimony of the local council, only …

noun: 1. A mythical horse-like creature with a horn on the forehead. 2. Something or someone rare or unusual: highly desirable but hard or impossible …

Definition: (verb) To throw into a state of confusion. Synonyms: befuddle, confound, confuse, fox, bedevil, fuddle, throw. Usage: The student's surprising question discombobulated the teacher, …

Definition: (noun) Careful consideration. Synonyms: weighing, deliberation. Usage: The petition was taken under advisement. Discuss

Definition: (adjective) Not being burdened by trouble, worry, or care; happy and carefree. Synonyms: lightsome, blithe. Usage: We knew that things were hard for our …

verb intr.: To take a winding course.

Definition: (adjective) Abrupt and curt in manner or speech; discourteously blunt. Synonyms: curt, short, gruff. Usage: I did not think of asking him for details, …

noun: 1. Strong, dangerous winds. 2. An improvised lantern. 3. A country bumpkin.

Definition: (noun) An abject coward. Synonyms: craven, recreant. Usage: What a miserable little poltroon had fear, engendered of unjust punishment, made of me in those …

noun: An ex-convict.

Definition: (noun) Renunciation of your own interests in favor of the interests of others. Synonyms: self-denial. Usage: The monks took to abnegation and scourging as …

noun: Punishment before trial.

Definition: (noun) Fighting with the fists. Synonyms: boxing, pugilism. Usage: We used to settle our arguments with fisticuffs, but now that we are mature adults, …

adjective: Golden; lavish.

Definition: (adjective) Excessively forward. Synonyms: assumptive. Usage: You might think it presumptuous of me to offer you relationship advice when we barely even know each …

Definition: (noun) A mournful poem; a lament for the dead. Synonyms: lament, requiem, dirge. Usage: Standing beside his departed friend's casket, Mike delivered a moving …

Definition: (adjective) Utterly stupid or silly. Synonyms: fatuous, inane, vacuous, mindless. Usage: The class clown's asinine behavior in the classroom landed him, once again, in …

adjective: 1. Using experience, instinct, or guesswork as opposed to methodical planning. 2. Done without instruments.

Definition: (noun) Morally objectionable behavior. Synonyms: evil, wickedness, immorality. Usage: Each member of the congregation, the most innocent girl, and the man of hardened breast, …

noun: A member of police or military trained for carrying out a sudden assault, especially one marked by brutality and violence.

Definition: (noun) <i>(Often plural)</i> A feeling of uncertainty, apprehension, or doubt. Synonyms: unease, worry, anxiety, suspicion, reservation, hesitation, distrust, qualm, trepidation, scruple, dubiety. Usage: Within …

noun: In opera, drama, film, etc.: 1. A role in which a female character pretends to be a male. 2. A male part played by …

Definition: (adjective) Causing irritation or annoyance. Synonyms: annoying, bothersome, galling, irritating, nettlesome, pesky, pestering, plaguey, teasing, pestiferous. Usage: Our new acquaintance had become involved in …

adjective: 1. Relating to pleasant warm weather. 2. Informal; direct. 3. Hardworking; having a can-do attitude.

Definition: (verb) Ask for or request earnestly. Synonyms: adjure, entreat, conjure, bid, press. Usage: Daddy, I beseech you to stop smoking before it is too …

noun: Someone attractive, silly, or pretentious. adjective: Snobbish; pretentious; newfangled; overly complicated.

Definition: (verb) Annoy continually or chronically. Synonyms: beset, harass, harry, hassle, molest, plague, provoke. Usage: The senator is very demanding and is reputed to endlessly …

Definition: (noun) An unrestrained expression of emotion. Synonyms: effusion, outburst, blowup, gush. Usage: The count bit his lips till the blood almost started, to prevent …

Definition: (verb) Give out as one's portion or share. Synonyms: divvy up, share, deal. Usage: It is not for us men to apportion the shares …

adjective: 1. Unfaithful to a cause, duty, person, belief, etc. 2. Cowardly. noun: 1. A disloyal person. 2. A coward.

Definition: (noun) A chance circumstance. Synonyms: coincidence. Usage: Marriage loomed only as an outgrowth of happenstance; you met a person. Discuss

verb intr.: To obsessively repeat meaningless words and phrases.

Definition: (noun) A clumsy or stupid person. Synonyms: gawk, goon, lout, lubber, oaf, stumblebum, clod, lump. Usage: The beefy lummox blundered through the buffet line, …

adjective: Relating to a vow, wish, desire, etc..

Definition: (noun) A newcomer, especially one who is unfamiliar with the ways of a place or group. Synonyms: novice, beginner, apprentice, naïf, learner, ingénue, tyro, …

noun: 1. An officer on a merchant ship who is in charge of the cargo. 2. A superintendent or an agent.

Definition: (adjective) Affectedly dainty or refined. Synonyms: dainty, niminy-piminy, prim, twee. Usage: And the prince, imagining that he was mimicking his wife, made a mincing …

noun: The practice of, love of, or addiction to, archery.

Definition: (adjective) So lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness. Synonyms: boring, deadening, irksome, tedious, tiresome, wearisome, dull, slow. Usage: Lectures on human psychology …

Definition: (noun) Criminal offense of making false statements under oath. Synonyms: bearing false witness, lying under oath. Usage: After evidence of my innocence came to …