Word Of The Day

Audacious

Audacious is an adjective used to describe people, or things that people make or do, that are confident and daring, or bold and surprising.

// She made the audacious decision to quit her job.

// The band has been making original and creative music for well over ten years, but their latest album is their most audacious to date.



Mawkish

characterized by sickly sentimentality; weakly emotional; maudlin.



Seriatim

in a series; one after another.



Semaphore

a system of signaling, especially a system by which a special flag is held in each hand and various positions of the arms indicate specific letters, numbers, etc.



Copacetic

fine; completely satisfactory; OK.



Parse

To parse something is to study it by looking closely at its parts. In grammar and linguistics, parse means "to divide (a sentence) into grammatical parts and identify the parts and their relations to each other."

// The lawyer meticulously parsed the wording of the final contract to be sure that her client would get all that he was asking for.



Curmudgeon

a bad-tempered, difficult, cantankerous person.



Retrospection

the action, process, or faculty of looking back on things past.



Fuliginous

Fuliginous is a formal adjective that is synonymous with sooty; it describes things related to, containing, or producing soot. It can also describe things that are figuratively sooty—that is, dark or murky, as in "fuliginous soul"—as well as things that are dark or sooty in color, from crystals and insects to the plumage of some bird species.



Phantasmagoria

a shifting series of phantasms, illusions, or deceptive appearances, as in a dream or as created by the imagination.