Learn One Day Word
Learn just one day word or two every
week and you add riches to your vocabulary. One day word every
few days - that's all it takes to build your vocabulary and keep
your brain sharp. We hope you enjoy the Word of the Day section,
where you can keep your brain sharp and build your vocabulary
one word at a time. In this section, you will also find a
free word
of the day,
famous quotes about
life and
fun interesting facts.
April 30: Exacerbate (transitive verb)
- To render more severe, violent, or bitter; to irritate; to aggravate; to make
worse.
- "To reduce the stress that exacerbates my stuttering, I have meditated, done
deep-breathing exercises, and floated under a condition of sensory deprivation
in a dark, enclosed isolation tank."
April 28:
Equivocate (intransitive verb)
- To be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or to avoid
committing oneself to anything definite.
- "The witness shuffled, equivocated, pretended to misunderstand the questions."
"By
equivocating, hesitating, and giving ambiguous answers, she effected her
purpose."
April 26: Menagerie (noun)
- A collection of live and often exotic animals on
exhibition.
- "I'm sure the buffalo, bears, and the rest of the
menagerie the brochure rambles on about were there,
but I only saw screaming children."
April 23:
Graduand (noun)
- One who is about to
graduate from a university.
- "After finishing his finals, the graduand was
finished with school"
April 19: Avast (interjection)
- Stop (used as a command to stop or desist).
- "The best part, though, is the music. It dips and swells in the game
right along with the action. Avast, there's treasure here!"
April 16: Gauche (adjective)
- Lacking social polish; tactless; awkward; clumsy.
- "He was largely exempted from the formal socializing he said he found so hard to
manage, flustered and gauche in polite company as he had always been."
April 12: Proclivity (noun)
- A natural inclination; predisposition.
- "Chicago is full of people like Mr. Johnson -- life-long bibliophiles with a
proclivity for accumulation, holed up in compact spaces in the intimate company
of thousands upon thousands upon thousands of books."
April 9: Obfuscate (verb)
- To darken or
render indistinct or dim; to make obscure or difficult
to understand or make sense of; to confuse or bewilder.
- "Yet little has been written of him (he obfuscated details of his life in
interviews), and his art is little recalled."
April 5: Ensconce (verb)
- To fix firmly.
- "Kevin would ensconce himself on the living
room couch for weeks whenever new editions of his
favorite video games were released."
April 2: Unguent (noun)
- A salve for sores, burns, or the like; an ointment.
- "The nurse began to swab a stinging green unguent
on the throbbing wound."
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