Word of the Day
Definition: (verb) To stimulate to action. Synonyms: startle. Usage: The appeal has galvanized them into taking positive action. Discuss
Definition: (noun) Whiskey illegally distilled from a corn mash. Synonyms: bootleg, corn liquor. Usage: I drank too much moonshine last night, and now I have a terrible hangover. Discuss
Definition: (verb) Speak unfavorably about. Synonyms: badmouth, drag through the mud, traduce. Usage: He is always maligning his wife when she is not around, telling people what a bad spouse and mother she is. Discuss
Definition: (noun) A small, roofed structure in a park or garden affording shade and rest. Synonyms: gazebo. Usage: George decided that the summerhouse, open to the sights, smells, and sounds of the garden that Anna adored, would be the perfect place to ask for her hand in marriage. Discuss
Definition: (noun) Mercifulness as a consequence of being lenient or tolerant. Synonyms: lenience, mildness. Usage: I promise to show all the lenity in my power; but if the charges brought against this Bonapartist hero prove correct, why, then, you really must give me leave to order his head to be cut off. Discuss
Definition: (adjective) Grave or even gloomy in character. Synonyms: melancholy. Usage: The Colonel, with little sense of humor and of the fitness of things, related a somber episode of those dark and bitter days. Discuss
Definition: (noun) An indifference to pleasure or pain. Synonyms: stolidness. Usage: With the stoicism of the brutes who had raised him he endured his suffering quietly. Discuss
Definition: (adjective) Expressed without speech. Synonyms: mute, unspoken, tongueless. Usage: Never a hearty breakfaster, he had found himself under the influence of her wordless disapproval physically unable to consume the fried egg that confronted him. Discuss
Definition: (noun) The state of being satisfactorily full and unable to take on more. Synonyms: satiation, satiety. Usage: Then Tarzan and Sheeta feasted to repletion. Discuss
Definition: (noun) Elegance by virtue of fineness of manner and expression. Synonyms: breeding, genteelness. Usage: She was ladylike, too, after the manner of the feminine gentility of those days; characterized by a certain state and dignity, rather than by the delicate…grace which is now recognized as its indication. Discuss