Word of the Day
Definition: (verb) To grow or develop rapidly. Synonyms: increase, flower, progress, mature, thrive, flourish, bloom, bud, blossom, prosper. Usage: Our meager food supply simply cannot sustain the burgeoning population. Discuss
Definition: (noun) Concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child. Synonyms: childbed, confinement, parturiency, travail, labor. Usage: After seven hours of lying-in, Carol gave birth to a beautiful and healthy baby girl.
Definition: (verb) Challenge the accuracy, probity, or propriety of. Synonyms: question. Usage: Given your history of rumor-mongering, I am inclined to oppugn your claims in this matter. Discuss
Definition: (verb) To obtain or achieve by indirect, usually deceitful methods. Synonyms: wangle, manage. Usage: Howard was able to finagle an extra ten dollars out of his parents by telling them that he needed the money to buy a schoolbook. Discuss
Definition: (noun) Knowledge of an event before it occurs. Synonyms: foreknowledge. Usage: Many envied Maya's ability to know the future, but she considered her precognition a burden and a curse.
Definition: (adjective) Of, relating to, produced by, or characterized by internal dissension. Synonyms: divisive. Usage: Fouquet has raised against your majesty a troop of factious rioters to extricate his friends from punishment. Discuss
Definition: (noun) An especially luminous meteor (sometimes exploding). Synonyms: fireball. Usage: Nancy stared in awe through her telescope as a bolide rocketed into her view, shining brightly in the night sky. Discuss
Definition: (adjective) Feeling or showing extreme anger. Synonyms: irate. Usage: The ireful, angry chief was not so easily mollified. Discuss
Definition: (noun) A worsening of business or economic activity. Synonyms: downturn. Usage: Panicked investors scrambled to secure their assets as the market took a severe downswing for the third time in a month. Discuss
Definition: (noun) Seating at the rear of the main floor (beneath the balconies). Synonyms: parquet circle. Usage: They found the whole of the audience in the parterre standing up and directing their gaze towards the box formerly possessed by the Russian ambassador. Discuss