Word of the Day
Definition: (noun) Semisolid preparation (usually containing a medicine) applied externally as a remedy or for soothing an irritation. Synonyms: ointment, salve, balm, unction. Usage: The doctor instructed her to apply the unguent to her rash every day for a week.
Definition: (verb) Overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself. Synonyms: binge, glut, gorge, ingurgitate, overeat, overindulge, pig out, scarf out, satiate, stuff. Usage: After June all the little Court Society of Pumpernickel used to … make for a hundred watering-places, where they drank at the wells, … rushed with hundreds of their kind […]
Definition: (adjective) Experiencing or manifesting ecstatic joy or delight. Synonyms: rapt, rhapsodic. Usage: The audience greeted the speaker with rapturous applause. Discuss
Definition: (noun) Desk or stand with a slanted top used to hold a text at the proper height for a lecturer. Synonyms: reading desk. Usage: On the small rock platform stood an old bronze lectern or reading-stand, groaning under a great German Bible. Discuss
Definition: (noun) A motley assortment of things. Synonyms: farrago, gallimaufry, hodgepodge, melange, mishmash, mingle-mangle, oddments, omnium-gatherum. Usage: The bottom drawer of the teacher's desk contained a ragbag of confiscated items ranging from comic books to false teeth. Discuss
Definition: (noun) The sport of sitting on the back of a horse while controlling its movements. Synonyms: horseback riding. Usage: Arthur and Jennifer debated the finer points of equitation as they rode side by side across the field.
Definition: (adjective) Marked by excessive enthusiasm for and intense devotion to a cause or idea. Synonyms: fanatical, rabid. Usage: The pop star's overzealous fans climbed over the security barriers in an attempt to get closer to her. Discuss
Definition: (verb) Regret strongly. Synonyms: bewail, deplore, lament. Usage: When he is under the depressing influence of the after-consequences, he bemoans his sufferings and his errors, and charges them both upon me. Discuss
Definition: (adjective) Using or containing too many words. Synonyms: verbose, wordy, tedious, windy. Usage: To say the politician's speech was long-winded would be to utter an understatement as unequaled as his pontification was protracted. Discuss
Definition: (adjective) Quickly aroused to anger. Synonyms: hot-tempered, hotheaded, irascible, quick-tempered, short-tempered. Usage: Gordon was a man by nature ill-suited to be a schoolmaster: he was impatient and choleric.