Word Of The Day

Harlequin

fancifully varied in color, decoration, etc.



Ineluctable

incapable of being evaded; inescapable.



Paschal

of or relating to Easter or to Passover.



Almsgiving

the act of donating money, food, or other items to poor or needy people, especially as a spiritual practice.



Ha?ek

a diacritic (ˇ) placed over a letter in some languages, as Czech and Lithuanian, and in some systems of phonetic transcription, especially to indicate that a sound is palatalized.



Sennachie

a professional storyteller of family genealogy, history, and legend.



Defenestrate

to throw (a person or thing) out of a window.



Chaparral

a dense growth of shrubs or small trees.



Quasar

one of over a thousand known extragalactic objects, starlike in appearance and having spectra with characteristically large redshifts, that are thought to be the most distant and most luminous objects in the universe.



Subgum

prepared with mixed vegetables, as with water chestnuts, mushrooms, and bean sprouts.