Word Of The Day

Swizzle

to agitate a beverage with a rod for stirring highballs and cocktails.



Malic

pertaining to or derived from apples.



Aegrotat

an unclassified degree granted a university student who has fulfilled all requirements for graduation but was prevented by illness from attending the final examinations.



Shillelagh

a club or stick, traditionally of blackthorn or oak.



Arrivederci

until we see each other again; goodbye for the present.



Desegregation

the elimination of laws, customs, or practices under which people from different religions, ancestries, ethnic groups, etc., are restricted to specific or separate public facilities, neighborhoods, schools, organizations, or the like.



Gouache

an opaque watercolor prepared with gum used in painting.



Oort cloud

a region of our solar system far beyond the orbit of Pluto, in which billions of comets move in nearly circular orbits unless one is pulled into a highly eccentric elliptical orbit by a passing star.



Pantoum

a Malay verse form consisting of an indefinite number of quatrains with the second and fourth lines of each quatrain repeated as the first and third lines of the following one.



Democracy

government by the people; a form of government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised directly by them or by their elected agents under a free electoral system.