Month: May 2025
Word of the Day: Malfeasance
Today’s word of the day, thanks to the Words Coach, is malfeasance (https://www.wordscoach.com/dictionary). Malfeasance is a noun that refers to “wrongdoing or misconduct especially by a public official” (https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/malfeasance) or […]
Word of the Day: Gallivant
Today’s word of the day, thanks to the Words Coach, is gallivant. Gallivant, which can also be spelled galavant, is an intransitive verb (which means that it does not take […]
Word of the Day: Egregious
Today’s word of the day, thanks to the Words Coach, is egregious (https://www.wordscoach.com/dictionary). Egregious is an adjective that means “conspicuously bad” (https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/egregious). It can be pronounced in three or four […]
Word of the Day: Volatile
Today’s word of the day, thanks to Words Coach, is volatile. Volatile is an adjective that means several different things: Dictionary.com also has a definition for volatile as a noun, […]
Word of the Day: Harbinger
Today’s word of the day, thanks to Words Coach, is harbinger (https://www.wordscoach.com/dictionary). Merriam-Webster says that harbinger is a noun that means “something that foreshadows a future event : something that […]
Word of the Day: Rectitude
Today’s word of the day, courtesy of the Words Coach website, is rectitude (https://www.wordscoach.com/dictionary). Rectitude is a noun that means “the quality or state of being straight; moral integrity, righteousness; […]
Word of the Day: Peripeteia
Today’s word of the day, thanks to Words Coach, is peripeteia (https://www.wordscoach.com/dictionary). Peripeteia is a noun that means “sudden or unexpected reversal of circumstances or situation especially in a literary […]
Word of the Day: Limn
Today’s word of the day, courtesy of Merriam-Webster, is limn. Limn is a verb with several meanings: It’s pronounced / lɪm /, which means that it is an exact homophone of the […]
Word of the Day: Wizened
Today’s word of the day, courtesy of Hardeep Kaur’s “81 Old English Words to Enrich Your Vocabulary” (https://propenglish.com/old-english-words-to-enrich-your-vocabulary/), is wizened. Wizened is the past tense or past participle of the […]
Word of the Day: Voluble
Today’s word of the day, thanks to Merriam-Webster, is voluble. Voluble is an adjective that means “easily rolling or turning” or “characterized by ready or rapid speech” (https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/voluble). M-W adds, […]
Word of the Day: Levity
Today’s word of the day, thanks to Merriam-Webster, is levity. Levity means “excessive or unseemly frivolity” or “lack of steadiness : changeableness” (https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/levity). M-W goes on to add this: Levity […]
Word of the Day: Chagrin
Today’s word of the day, courtesy of Merriam-Webster, is chagrin. The word can be used as either a noun or a verb, but the pronunciation is the same in either […]