Archives April 2007 Word of the Day Archives
The Word of the Day for Monday April 2, 2007 is AUTOGENOUS (au toj a nes)--self-produced, relating to substances produced within the body, or regarding metals self-fused without an external adhesive.
When you add together all the substances that the human body produces on a daily basis, no factory on earth can compare to our own autogenous craftsmanship in magnitude or ingenuity.
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The Word of the Day for Tuesday April 3, 2007 is PLATONIC (pla ton ik)--purely spiritual, friendly but not romantic, or when capitalized it means relating to Plato or his theories. PLATONISM is the noun from.
If Hillary Clinton ever really believed for one second that Bill's friendship with Monica Lewinsky was platonic, then she is far too naïve to be president.
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The Word of the Day for Wednesday April 4, 2007 is JETE (zhe ta)--in ballet a leap in any direction from one foot to the other. It can be used figuratively also.
The ballerina was so graceful on her feet that she barely made a sound as she demonstrated jete after jete and made them all look so effortless.
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The Word of the Day for Thursday April 5, 2007 is FABULIST (fab ya list)--a person who spins or relates stories or fables, or a liar.
O. Henry's engrossing short stories prove that a gifted fabulist can create memorable characters in just a few pages.
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The Word of the Day for Friday April 6, 2006 is TRIDUUM (trij oo em or trid yoo em)--a series of special religious observances during a three-day period in anticipation of a Christian feast--generally used in reference to the three days before Easter.
Good Friday is always the busiest day among the Easter triduum as Christians all over the world commemorate the day that Jesus was crucified.
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The Word of the Day for Monday April 9, 2007 is HIPPODROME (hip a droem)--an arena, stadium, or other structure designed for equestrian events and other spectacles, or in ancient times a track for chariot or horse races.
Reports of a massive crime wave sweeping the Superdome in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina were widely disseminated by allegedly credible news sources despite the inconvenient fact that no such misdeeds took place in New Orleans famed hippodrome.
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The Word of the Day for Tuesday April 10, 2007 is ZOOMORPHIC (zoo a mor fik)--relating to a deity or other entity that is conceived or depicted as having an animal form, characterized by specialized animal imagery, or represented by animal forms. ZOOMORPHISM is the noun form.
Believers in astrology could easily identify all of the zoomorphic signs of the zodiac.
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The Word of the Day for Wednesday April 11, 2007 is PALLOR (pal er)--extreme or out of the ordinary paleness, sluggishness, or exhaustion.
Juanita's natural pallor has earned her the nickname of "the family ghost" among her many relatives.
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The Word of the Day for Thursday April 12, 2007 is FANDANGO (fan dang goe)--an energetic Spanish dance performed by a man and a woman with castanets, music suitable for this dance, or a ball or dance--especially one held in the southwestern United States.
The disc jockey goofed and played a fandango as the dancers were about to commence a waltz.
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The Word of the Day for Friday April 13, 2007 is NISUS (ni ses)--an impulse or a calculated effort or plan to obtain a specific goal. The plural is also NISUS.
After decades of disastrous results, Elizabeth Taylor has finally managed to quell her innate nisus to get married.
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The Word of the Day for Monday April 16, 2007 is INTRAVITAL (in tre vit il)--occurring or taking place during life.
With the exception of cashing in a life insurance policy, the overwhelming majority of activities in which we partake will occur during our intravital days.
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The Word of the Day for Wednesday April 18, 2007 is POLYGAMOPHILE (pol ee gam a fil)--a person who approves or sanctions polygamy--especially when practiced by others.
Mitt Romney will never be elected president because America is not ready for someone who may not be a polygamophile but also fails to outright condemn the practice of polygamy rampant among various segments of his church.
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The Word of the Day for Thursday April 19, 2007 is DENEGATION (den a gay shen)--a contradiction or denial.
For a short time Buckingham Palace regularly issued indignant denegations concerning rumors of a problem in Charles and Diana's alleged storybook marriage, but after a while the truth became painfully obvious, and the royal family's public relations experts adopted a dignified silence.
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The Word of the Day for Friday April 20, 2007 is PEDESTRIANISM (pe des tee e niz im)--commonplace or trite manner, presentation, idea, personality, etc. PEDESTRIAN is the adjective form. Obviously these words also have the more commonly known meaning relating to foot traffic, and that meaning alone has the verb form of PEDESTRIANIZE.
So much of modern day so-called art indulges the pedestrian whims of the so-called artist at the expense of all aesthetic majesty.
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The Word of the Day for Monday April 23, 2007 is MOULAGE (moo lazh)--the act of making a mold--especially with plaster--of footprints, tire tracks, or other objects for the purpose of identifying someone or something, or the mold itself.
The suspect's feet fit perfectly into the moulage that the FBI's lad had made from footprints left at the crime scene.
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The Word of the Day for Tuesday April 24, 2007 is RABBLE (rab il)--a mob, commoners, the lower class, to congregate as a mob, a tool used for mixing the contents of a furnace, or to stir the contents of a furnace. The last definition can be used literally or figuratively.
After spending so many years in her mansion communicating with few (except for the servants) beneath her station, Mary snobbishly began holding the rabble in contempt.
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The Word of the Day for Wednesday April 25, 2007 is NAPPY (nap ee)--a small shallow serving dish, a diaper (in Great Britain), liquor (in Scotland), or covered with or resembling down or naps. In this case NAP means the fuzzy end of fibers.
The dog groomer panicked when that one nappy mutt came in because she knew that it would take hours of brushing to restore his coat to its proper texture.
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The Word of the Day for Thursday April 26, 2007 is BATTEN (bat en)--to grow fat, thrive from food, to eat or feed lavishly or greedily, to live luxuriously often at the expense of others, a piece of wood or metal used in constructing a building or ship, a piece of wood inserted into a boat's sail to keep it flat, to furnish with such a piece, to suspend from an overhead surface in a theater, to secure a machine to a stationary object, a swinging frame, or to beat into place (as a nail.)
It is a good thing that the captain had heavy battens installed on each mast because the heavy winds would have blown the vessel way of course without the added girding.
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The Word of the Day for Friday April 27, 2007 is SIPPET (sip it)--a tiny bit, fragment, a piece of bread or other food item suitable for dipping, or a crouton.
That new fondue restaurant has some of the most interesting sippet selections you'll ever encounter.
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The Word of the Day for Monday April 30, 2007 is VISCERAL (vis er al)--dealing with instinct rather than evidence or intellect, earthy, coarse, crude, or relating to the intestines. The noun form for the last meaning only is VISCERA.
Dom Imus' visceral humor was a radio staple for three decades, so how come when certain self-anointed powerbrokers decided they didn't like one of his jokes the networks and sponsored caved like paper in a hurricane?
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he Word of the Day for Wednesday May 2, 2007 is SCALLYWAG (skal ee wag)--a rascal, troublemaker, or a Southerner who cooperated with Union forces during Reconstruction often for personal gain. SCALAWAG is a synonym, and SCALLAWAG is the British spelling. SCALAWAGGERY means the activities of such a scamp and SCALAWAGGY is the adjective form. Neither of these forms appears to have alternative spellings.
Father Murphy is a beloved parish priest, so his congregation has trouble believing that he was guilty of a great deal of scalawaggery during his wayward youth.
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