Learn One Day Word
Learn just one day word or two every
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your brain sharp. Here are one day word listings from April
2007.
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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."
