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WORD OF THE DAY DETAILS

# Title Description Date
1 Faustian

sacrificing spiritual values for power, knowledge, or material gain.

25-Oct-2021
2 Cryosphere

the part of the earth’s surface where, at temperatures below 32°F (0°C), the water is frozen solid.

22-Oct-2021
3 Shivaree

a mock serenade with kettles, pans, horns, and other noisemakers given for a newly married couple; charivari.

21-Oct-2021
4 Burgeon

to grow or develop quickly; flourish.

20-Oct-2021
5 Manticore

a legendary monster with a man's head, horns, a lion's body, and the tail of a dragon or, sometimes, a scorpion.

19-Oct-2021
6 Mojo

exceptional ability, good luck, success.

18-Oct-2021
7 Penumbral

relating to or being a shadowy, indefinite, or marginal area.

15-Oct-2021
8 Chaebol

a South Korean conglomerate, usually owned by a single family, based on authoritarian management and centralized decision-making.

14-Oct-2021
9 Empyrean

the highest heaven, supposed by the ancients to contain the pure element of fire.

13-Oct-2021
10 Hex

to bewitch; practice witchcraft on.

12-Oct-2021
11 Fartlek

a training technique, used especially among runners, consisting of bursts of intense effort loosely alternating with less strenuous activity.

11-Oct-2021
12 Armscye

the armhole opening in a garment through which the hand, and then the arm, passes, and to which a sleeve may be attached.

09-Oct-2021
13 Gramarye

occult learning; magic.

06-Oct-2021
14 Inculcate

to implant by repeated statement or admonition; teach persistently and earnestly.

05-Oct-2021
15 Weltanschauung

a comprehensive conception or image of the universe and of humanity's relation to it.

04-Oct-2021
16 Scrimp

to be sparing or frugal; economize.

01-Oct-2021
17 Aureate

golden or gilded.

30-Sep-2021
18 Cordial

courteous and gracious.

29-Sep-2021
19 Rout

a defeat attended with disorderly flight; dispersal of a defeated force in complete disorder.

28-Sep-2021
20 Chernozem

a soil common in cool or temperate semiarid climates, very black and rich in humus and carbonates.

27-Sep-2021
21 Codicil

any supplement; appendix.

25-Sep-2021
22 Butte

an isolated hill or mountain rising abruptly above the surrounding land.

24-Sep-2021
23 Trident

a three-pronged instrument or weapon.

23-Sep-2021
24 Muliebrity

womanly nature or qualities.

22-Sep-2021
25 Serotinal

pertaining to or occurring in late summer.

21-Sep-2021
26 Iridescent

displaying a play of lustrous colors like those of the rainbow.

20-Sep-2021
27 Yore

time past.

18-Sep-2021
28 Wampum

cylindrical beads made from shells, pierced and strung, used by North American Indians as a medium of exchange, for ornaments, and for ceremonial and sometimes spiritual purposes.

17-Sep-2021
29 Azure

of or having a light, purplish shade of blue, like that of a clear and unclouded sky.

16-Sep-2021
30 Repentance

deep sorrow, compunction, or contrition for a past sin, wrongdoing, or the like.

15-Sep-2021
31 Camion

a truck, as for military supplies.

14-Sep-2021
32 Exclave

a portion of a country geographically separated from the main part by surrounding foreign territory.

10-Sep-2021
33 glitz

ostentatious glitter or sophistication.

09-Sep-2021
34 Cathartic

of or relating to the purging of the emotions or relieving of emotional tensions, especially through certain kinds of art, as tragedy or music.

08-Sep-2021
35 lucubrate

to work, write, or study laboriously, especially at night.

07-Sep-2021
36 indefatigable

incapable of being tired out; not yielding to fatigue; untiring.

06-Sep-2021
37 Connubial

of marriage or wedlock; matrimonial; conjugal.

04-Sep-2021
38 Moratorium

a suspension of activity.

03-Sep-2021
39 Lodestone

Something that attracts strongly.

02-Sep-2021
40 Alma mater

a school, college, or university at which one has studied and, usually, from which one has graduated.

01-Sep-2021
41 gorgonize

hypnotize; petrify.

31-Aug-2021
42 Nostrum

a pet scheme or remedy, especially for social or political ills; panacea.

30-Aug-2021
43 orogeny

the process of mountain making or upheaval.

27-Aug-2021
44 Xanadu

a place of great beauty, luxury, and contentment.

26-Aug-2021
45 mishpocha

an entire family network comprising relatives by blood and marriage and sometimes including close friends; clan.

25-Aug-2021
46 rapprochement

an establishment or reestablishment of harmonious relations.

24-Aug-2021
47 prelapsarian

characteristic of or pertaining to any innocent or carefree period.

23-Aug-2021
48 arete

the aggregate of qualities, as valor and virtue, making up good character.

21-Aug-2021
49 Phlegethon

a stream of fire or fiery light.

19-Aug-2021
50 vamoose

to leave hurriedly or quickly; decamp.

18-Aug-2021