Word Of The Day

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deride

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to laugh at mockingly

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cavil

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to raise trivial or frivolous objections

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farrago

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medley

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demagogue

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1. A leader who obtains power by means of impassioned appeals to the emotions and prejudices of the populace.
2. A leader of the common people in ancient times.

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quaff

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to drink with relish

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hirsute

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hairy;shaggy

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tenebrous

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dark;gloomy

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ostentation

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boastful showiness

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officious

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marked by excessive eagerness;meddlesome

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afflatus

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inspiration

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quorum

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a select group

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hauteur

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arrogant

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xenophobia

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fear of anything foreign or strange

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bacchanalia

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a riotous, boistorous, or drunken festivity

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immure

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1. To enclose within walls, or as if within walls; hence, to shut up; to imprison; to incarcerate.
2. To build into a wall.
3. To entomb in a wall.

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deliquesce

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1. To melt away or to disappear as if by melting.
2. (Chemistry) To dissolve gradually and become liquid by attracting and absorbing moisture from the air, as certain salts, acids, and alkalies.
3. To become fluid or soft with age, as certain fungi.
4. To form many small divisions or branches -- used especially of the veins of a leaf.

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capitulate

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to surrender under agreed conditions

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adventitious

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Added extrinsically; not essentially inherent.

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modicum

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A small or moderate or token amount.

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fetid

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having an offensive smell

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gimcrack

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a showy but useless object

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banal

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commonplace;trivial;trite

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halcyon

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1. A kingfisher.
2. A mythical bird, identified with the kingfisher, that was fabled to nest at sea about the time of the winter solstice
and to calm the waves during incubation.

adjective:
1. Calm; quiet; peaceful

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adamant

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unyielding

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jocund

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mirthful;light-hearted

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segue

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smooth transition

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puerile

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exibiting lack of maturity;juvenile;childish

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nadir

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the lowest point; the time of greatest depression or adversity

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effulgence

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bright;radient

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inchoate

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just begun