Category: Word of the Day
Daily posts of an individual word study
Word of the Day: Pernicious
Pernicious: Word of the Day Today’s word of the day, thanks to www.wordthink.com, is pernicious. It is an adjective meaning “Having a harmful effect, particularly in a gradual or subtle […]
Word of the Day: Delinquent
Today’s word of the day, courtesy of the website Number2.com, is delinquent, an adjective meaning “failing in or neglectful of a duty or obligation; guilty of a misdeed or offense,” […]
Word of the Day: Infinitesimal
Infinitesimal: Word of the Day Today’s word of the day, thanks to www.wordgenius.com, is infinitesimal, an adjective meaning “1. extremely small” or “2. too small to be measured.” According to […]
Word of the Day: Invigilate
Today’s word of the day, thanks to the joint BBC and BBC America television series Ripper Street, is invigilate. Invigilate is an intransitive verb (so it does not take a […]
Word of the Day: Wantwit
Today’s word of the day, thanks to Anu Garg and A.Word.A.Day on the Wordsmith.org website, is wantwit. According to Garg, the noun means “A fool; one lacking good sense” and […]
Word of the Day: Peonage
Today’s word of the day is peonage. According to www.dictionary.com, it means “the condition or service of a peon” or “the practice of holding persons in servitude or partial slavery, […]
Word of the Day: Job
Today’s word of the day is job, but not in its usual sense. I came across this today on the www.thoughtcatalog.com website in a list called “500 Archaic Words That […]
Word of the Day: Bissextile
Today’s word of the day, thanks to www.WordGenius.com, is bissextile, an adjective that means “(of a year) having the extra day (29 February) of a leap year,” or “anything related […]
Word of the Day: Memento Mori
Today’s word of the day is actually a phrase of the day, and it’s in Latin: memento mori. The Latin phrase means, according to www.dictionary.com, “1. remember that you must […]
Word of the Day: Fabulist
Today’s word of the day, thanks to the Word Genius website, is fabulist, a noun meaning “1 A person who composes or relates fables,” or “2 A liar, especially a […]
Word of the Day: Hugger-mugger
Today’s word of the day, thanks to the LifeHack website, is hugger-mugger, a noun meaning “secretive, or covert behavior” (https://www.lifehack.org/articles/communication/24-old-english-terms-you-should-start-using-again.html). According to www.dictionary.com, hugger-mugger can be a noun, meaning “disorder […]
Word of the Day: Gype
Today’s word of the day, thanks to the Oxford English Dictionary, is gype, a noun which has changed meaning during the centuries. The earlier definition was “A glutton; a greedy […]