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Word of the Day – Venal / Venality

  • Noun:  Venal
  1. capable of being bought or obtained for money or other valuable consideration: purchasable; especially : open to corrupt influence and especially bribery : mercenary <a venal legislator>.
  2. originating in, characterized by, or associated with corrupt bribery <a venal arrangement with the police>
  • Noun: Venality
  1. The condition of being susceptible to bribery or corruption.
  2. The use of a position of trust for dishonest gain.
  3. is a vice associated with being bribable or of selling one’s services or power, especially when one should act justly instead. In its most recognizable form, dishonesty, venality causes people to lie and steal for their personal advantage, and is related to bribery and nepotism, among other vices

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Word of the Day – Ennui

  • Noun: Ennui ennui
    1. a feeling of listlessness and dissatisfaction arising from a lack of occupation or excitement.
  •  Synonyms:
    1. boredom
    2. tedium
    3. listlessness
    4. lethargy
    5. lassitude
    6. languor
    7. weariness
    8. enervation
  • Usage:
    1. The recent retiree was experiencing ennui as he struggled to find meaning in the post-apocalypse world of early retirement.
  • Encountered:
    1. While playing Cards Against Humanity, it was one the white answer cards

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Word of the of the Day – Hirsutism

  • Noun: Hirsutismbreaded lady
    1. abnormal growth of hair on a person’s face and body, especially on a woman.
  •  Synonyms:
    1. hirsuteness
    2. hirsutism
    3. hairiness
    4. pilosity
  • Usage:
    1. Hirsutism had been very profitable for the breaded lady.
  • Encountered:
    1. List of possible side effects for a medication my sweet baboo is taking.

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Word of the Day – Chicanery

  • Noun: ChicaneryPhotograph_of_General_William_T._Sherman_and_Commissioners_in_Council_with_Indian_Chiefs_at_Fort_Laramie,_Wyoming,_ca._1_-_NARA_-_531079
    1. deception by artful subterfuge or sophistry
    2. a piece of sharp practice (as at law)
    3. a quibble or subterfuge used to trick, deceive, or evade.
  •  Synonyms:
    1. trickery
    2. deception
    3. deceit
    4. deceitfulness
    5. duplicity
    6. dishonesty
    7. deviousness
    8. unscrupulousness
    9. underhandedness
    10. subterfuge
    11. fraud
    12. fraudulence
    13. swindling
    14. cheating
    15. duping
    16. hoodwinking;
  • Usage:
    1. It was only by chicanery in the Supreme Court that Bush became President.
  • Encountered:
    1. A news story somewhere…

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Word of the Day – Hyperbole

  • Noun:  Hyperbole
    1. obvious and intentional exaggeration.
    2. an extravagant statement or figure of speech not intended to be taken literally, as “to wait an eternity.”
  •  Synonyms:
    1. exaggeration
    2. overstatement
    3. magnification
    4. embroidery
    5. embellishment
    6. excess
    7. overkill
    8. rhetoric
  • Usage:
    1. The CPA’s client tended toward hyperbole when listing his expenses.”
  • Encountered:
    1. In a discussion of Fox News’ paradigm.

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Word of the Day – Coxswain

  • Noun: Coxswain
    1. a person who is in charge of a ship’s boat and its crew, under an officer, and who steers itSDC10294
    2. a steersman of a racing shell who usually directs the rowers
  •  Synonyms:
    1. cox
  • Usage:
    1. The Coast Guard coxswain steered his crew adroitly next to the sinking sail boat.
  • Encountered:
    1. Robin was working a crossword puzzle and this was the clue

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Word of thd Day – Conspiracy

  • Noun:  Conspiracy
    1. a secret plan by a group to do something unlawful or harmful
    2. the action of plotting or conspiring.
  •  Synonyms:
    1. plot
    2. scheme
    3. subterfuge
    4. collusion
    5. intrigue
  • Usage:
    1. The CPA engaged in a conspiracy with the old man’s relatives to bilk him of his fortune.”
  • Encountered:
    1. I used the word in a blog article causing further discussion on conspiracy theories

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Word of the Day – Skein

  • Noun:  Skein
    1.  a loosely coiled length of yarn or thread wound on a reel
    2. something suggesting the twists or coils of a skein :  tangle
    3. a flock of wildfowl (as geese or ducks) in flight
  •  Synonyms:
    1. tangle
    2. complication
    3. labyrinth
    4. snarl
  • Usage:
    1. “All day long, Cosette remained in a sort of bewilderment. She scarcely thought, her ideas were in the state of a tangled skein in her brain,she could not manage to conjecture anything, she hoped through a tremor, what? ”
  • Encountered:
    1. While reading Les Miserables by Victor Hugo

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Word of the Day – Genuflect

  • Verb:  Genuflect
  • Noun: Genuflection
    1. to bend the knee
    2. to touch the knee to the floor or ground especially in worship
    3. to be servilely obedient or respectful
  •  Synonyms:
    1. bow
    2. curtsy
    3. kowtow
    4. salaam
    5. obeisance
  • Usage:
    1. “Genuflection before the idol or before money wastes away the muscles which walk and the will which advances.”
  • Encountered:
    1. While reading Les Miserables by Victor Hugo

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Word of the Day – Irascible

  • Adjective:  Irascible
    1. becoming angry very easily : having a bad temper
    2. characterized or produced by anger
  •  Synonyms:
    1. Irritable
    2. quick-tempered
    3. short-tempered
    4. hot-tempered
    5. testy
    6. touchy
    7. tetchy
    8. edgy
    9. crabby
    10. petulant
    11. waspish
    12. Dyspeptic
    13. snappish
  • Usage:
    1. “Cournet was a man of lofty stature; he had broad shoulders, a red face, a crushing fist, a bold heart, a loyal soul, a sincere and terrible eye. Intrepid, energetic, irascible, stormy; the most cordial of men, the most formidable of combatants.
  • Encountered:
    1. While reading Les Miserables by Victor Hugo

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