Category: Word of the Day
Daily posts of an individual word study
Word of the Day: Beguile
Today’s word of the day, courtesy of the Word Guru daily email, is beguile. Pronounced / bɪˈgaɪl /, this verb means “to influence by trickery, flattery, etc.; mislead; delude,” “to […]
Word of the Day: Adumbrate
Today’s word of the day, courtesy of Word Guru’s daily email, is adumbrate. Dictionary.com offers two possible pronunciations, / æˈdʌm breɪt, / and / ˈæd əmˌbreɪt /, with the stress […]
Word of the Day: Appraise
Today’s word of the day, thanks to Vocabulary.com’s Word of the Day (https://www.vocabulary.com/word-of-the-day/), is appraisal. Pronounced / əˈpreɪ zəl /, the noun, derived from the verb appraise, means “the act […]
Word of the Day: Flagrant
Today’s word of the day, courtesy of the Word Guru daily email, is flagrant. Pronounced / ˈfleɪ grənt /, it is an adjective that means “shockingly noticeable or evident; obvious; […]
Word of the Day: Oscillate
Today’s word of the day, thanks to Words Coach (https://www.wordscoach.com/dictionary), is oscillate. Pronounced / ˈɒs əˌleɪt /, with a secondary stress on the third syllable, oscillate means “to swing or […]
Word of the Day: Laconic
Today’s word of the day, courtesy of Words Coach (https://www.wordscoach.com/dictionary), is laconic. Pronounced / ləˈkɒn ɪk /, with the stress on the second syllable, laconic is an adjective that means […]
Word of the Day: Piebald
Today’s word of the day, thanks to Words Coach (https://www.wordscoach.com/dictionary), is piebald. Pronounced / ˈpaɪˌbɔld /, just as it’s spelled, the adjective means “having patches of black and white or […]
Word of the Day: Farraginous
Today’s word of the day, courtesy of Words Coach (https://www.wordscoach.com/dictionary), is farraginous. Pronounced / fəˈrædʒ ə nəs /, with the stress on the second syllable, farraginous is an adjective meaning […]
Word of the Day: Kaleidoscope
Today’s word of the day, courtesy of Word Guru, is kaleidoscope. Pronounced / kəˈlaɪ dəˌskoʊp /, the noun refers to “an optical instrument in which bits of glass, held loosely […]
Word of the Day: Myrmidon
Today’s word of the day, courtesy of Words Coach (https://www.wordscoach.com/dictionary), is myrmidon. Pronounced / ˈmɜr mɪˌdɒn / or / ˈmɜr mɪˌdn /, myrmidon is a noun that means “a person […]
Word of the Day: Mansuetude
Today’s word of the day, courtesy of the Words Coach (https://www.wordscoach.com/dictionary), is mansuetude. Pronounced / ˈmæn swɪˌtud, / or / ˈmæn swɪˌtyud / (personally, given that the last syllable opens […]
Word of the Day: Irascible
Today’s word of the day, courtesy of the Word Guru daily email, is irascible. According to Dictionary.com, it is pronounced / ɪˈræs ə bəl / (https://www.dictionary.com/browse/irascible), but I think I […]