Word of the Day Archive for December 2010

puckish - merry; mischievous; playful
collude - to conspire; to act in concert
postprandial - happening, or done, after dinner
bromide - a trite or obvious remark
raillery - good-humored teasing
nonplus - to puzzle; to perplex
histrionic - characteristic of actors and acting
dulcet - sweet to the ear; melodious
boulevardier - a man-about-town
hubris - overbearing pride or presumption
pulchritude - physical beauty; grace; loveliness
redivivus - living again; returned to life; revived
equine - of, pertaining to, or resembling, a horse
kobold - a haunting spirit in German mythology
apprise - to give notice to; to inform
anhedonia - an inability to experience pleasure
pleonasm - the use of more words than are necessary
flibbertigibbet - a silly, flighty person; a female fool
truculent - fierce; savage; ferocious
circumlocution - indirect or roundabout language
autocrat - a ruler with absolute authority
miasma - infectious particles or germs floating in the air
stolid - having little emotion or sensibility
sporadic - occurring in irregular or unpredictable instances
beatific - blissfully happy
efface - to cause to disappear by rubbing out
jollification - merrymaking; festivity; revelry
physiognomy - the face or facial features, general appearance
atrabilious - melancholy; gloomy; morbid
neoteric - modern; contemporary; new
gamine - a homeless girl who roams the streets