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Word of the Day – Ignoramus

  •  Noun:  Ignoramus
    1. An ignorant or stupid person
    2. a person who does not know muchben carson
  • Synonyms:
    1. Blockhead
    2. Dimwit
    3. Dunce
    4. Fool
    5. Idiot
    6. Imbecile
    7. Numbskull
  • Usage: 
    • “They argue that they’ll get things done, Trump through the force of his will, and Carson because he is untainted by politics. Ask either one of them about a specific policy issue, and it quickly becomes clear that when it comes to the issues a president deals with, they’re utter ignoramuses, which is perhaps understandable, if less than reassuring. […]”
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Word of the Day – Anodyne

  • Adjective: Anodyne
    1. not likely to provoke dissent or offense; inoffensive, often deliberately so. “anodyne New Age music”
  • Noun: Anodyne
    1. a painkilling drug or medicine.
  • Synonyms (adjective):
  1. Harmless
  2. Benign
  3. Innocent
  4. Innocuous
  5. Inoffensive
  6. Safe
  • Usage:

“Like the Mule, it cut the ginger beer’s sweetness with half a lime, squeezed into the glass and then dropped into it. And like the Mule, it was based on the cutting-edge spirit of its day. In 1900—and here’s why I prefer the drink—that meant not an anodyne distillate like vodka, but rather a good, rich blended Scotch whisky.”

  • Encountered:

While reading an article on The Daily Beast – Mamie Taylor is the Original Moscow Mule

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Word of the Day – Chyron

  • Noun: Chyron
    1. an electronically generated caption superimposed on a television or movie screen.
  • Synonyms:
    1. None found
  • Usage:

“Reaction to the “nasty woman” line was ebullient on the left, trending on Twitter thanks to women appropriating the designation for themselves. Cable news was a garden of “nasty” chyrons for days afterwards..”

  • Encountered:

While reading an article on The Daily Beast – Trump Finally Pissed Off the Wrong Women. All of Them.

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Word of the Day – Sepulchral

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  •  Adjective: sepulchral
    1. very sad and serious : very dismal or gloomy
    2. of or relating to a sepulchre
  • Synonyms:
    1. Gloomy
    2. Lugubrious
    3. Somber
    4. Melancholy
    5. Melancholic
    6. Sad
    7. Sorrowful
    8. Mournful
    9. Doleful
    10. Dismal
    11. literary dolorous
  • Usage:

‘”Amuse yourself well!” replied Bonacieux, in a sepulchral tone.’

  • Encountered:

Reading The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

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Word of the Day – Alacrity

  •  Noun: Alacrity
  1. promptness in response : cheerful
  • Synonyms:
  1. Eagerness
  2. Willingness
  3. Readiness
  • Usage:

“The officer sprang out of the apartment with that alacrity which all the servants of the cardinal displayed in obeying him. “

  • Encountered:

Reading The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

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Word of the Day – Canard

  • Noun: Canard
    1. an unfounded rumor or story.
    2. a small winglike projection attached to an aircraft forward of the main wing to provide extra stability or control, sometimes replacing the tail.
  • Synonyms:
    1. Hoax
    2. Exaggeration
    3. Rumor
    4. Fabrication
    5. Fib
    6. Spoof
    7. Swindle
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Word of the Day – Habiliment

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  •  Noun: Habiliment (archaic and usual use is plural)
    1. Plural: characteristic apparatus; trappings
    2. The dress characteristic of an occupation or occasion – usually in the plural
    3. Clothes – usually in the plural
  • Synonyms:
    1. apparel
    2. attire
    3. clothes
    4. dress
    5. garb
    6. gown
    7. trappings
  • Usage:

“Behind this figure glowed a vast fireplace alive with leaping flames; great logs of oak blazed and crackled on the polished brass andirons whose flicker shone upon the superb habiliments of the lonely tenant of the room, which was illumined grandly by twin candelabra rich with wax-lights.”

  • Encountered:

While reading Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

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Word of the Day – Prig

  • Noun: Prig
  • Adjective: Priggish
    1. one who offends or irritates by observance of proprieties (as of speech or manners) in a pointed manner or to an obnoxious degree
    2. a self-righteously moralistic person who behaves as if superior to others.
  • Synonyms:
    1. prude
    2. puritan
    3. killjoy
    4. goody-goody
  • Usage:

“There was his wonderful, desirable life-rapidity, the rare quality of an utterly desirable man: and there was at the same time this ridiculous, mean effacement into a Salvator Mundi and a Sunday-school teacher, a prig of the stiffest type.”

  • Encountered:

While reading Women in Love by D.H. Lawrence

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Word of the Day – Feckless

  • Adjective: Feckless
  1. Having or resulting from a week character or nature
  2. irresponsible

 

  • Synonyms:
  1. Useless
  2. Worthless
  3. Incompetent
  4. Inept
  5. Good-for-nothing
  • Usage:

‘On Saturday, former Arkansas governor Mr. Huckabee described Mr. Obama’s foreign policy as “the most feckless in American history” and said the deal with Iran was “idiotic”.’

  • Encountered:feckless

BBC news article: Obama attacks Mike Huckabee over Israel ‘oven’ remarks

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Word of the Day – Churlish

  • Adjective: Churlish
    1. of, resembling, or characteristic of a churl
    2. marked by a lack of civility or graciousness
    3. difficult to work with or deal with
  • Synonyms:
    1. vulgar
    2. surly
    3. intractable
    4. rude
    5. ill-mannered
    6. ill-bred
    7. uncivil
  • Usage:

“’Perhaps,’ he said. ‘I don’t WANT her to furnish the rooms here—and I don’t keep her hanging on. Only, I needn’t be churlish to her, need I? At any rate, I shall have to go down and see them now. You’ll come, won’t you?’”

  • Encountered:

While reading Women in Love by D.H. Lawrence

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