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Word of the Week: bonhomie (bŏn-ə-MĒ)

Stephanie Whetstone2023-09-11T12:34:16-04:00

Word of the Week: bonhomie (bŏn-ə-MĒ) Definition (Noun) Good nature; the quality of being a good fellow. In Context "Democratic and Republican leaders of Congress emerged from their first budget meeting with President Obama at the White House at midday Friday and, in a rare show of bipartisan bonhomie, jointly expressed confidence that the two parties will reach an agreement before the end of the year to avert economy-rattling tax increases and across-the-board spending cuts." Jackie Calmes, "At White House, Top Lawmakers Say They Expect Budget Deal," The New York Times, November 16, 2012.

Word of the Week: bonhomie (bŏn-ə-MĒ)Stephanie Whetstone2023-09-11T12:34:16-04:00

Word of the Week: misanthrope (MĬS-ən-thrōp)

Stephanie Whetstone2023-09-11T12:22:58-04:00

Word of the Week: misanthrope (MĬS-ən-thrōp) Definition (Noun) A hater of mankind; a person who distrusts and avoids other people. In Context "To be introduced to Jennings and not be taken with his affability, his earnest good nature, you would have to be a misanthrope." Mark Singer, Funny Money, 1985.

Word of the Week: misanthrope (MĬS-ən-thrōp)Stephanie Whetstone2023-09-11T12:22:58-04:00

Word of the Week: polymath (PŎL-ē-măth)

Stephanie Whetstone2023-09-11T12:18:50-04:00

Word of the Week: polymath (PŎL-ē-măth) Definition (Noun) A person of great or varied learning; a person acquainted with many fields of study; an accomplished scholar. In Context "Possibly the last true polymath, von Neumann made a brilliant career – half a dozen brilliant careers – by plunging fearlessly and frequently into any area where highly abstract mathematical thought could provide fresh insights." Sylvia Nasar, A Beautiful Mind: A Biography of John Forbes Nash, Jr., Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, 1994, 1998.

Word of the Week: polymath (PŎL-ē-măth)Stephanie Whetstone2023-09-11T12:18:50-04:00

Word of the Week: tonsorial (tahn-SOR-ee-ul)

Stephanie Whetstone2023-05-08T11:24:05-04:00

Word of the Week: tonsorial (tahn-SOR-ee-ul) Definition Of or relating to a barber or the work of a barber In Context "Once again Ryan's Barber Shop and Shaving Parlor … provided the tonsorial team the chairs and the needed supplies for the men to sit down and get their faces cleaned up or hair trimmed." Steve Moran, The Asbury Park (New Jersey) Press, 6 Dec. 2018

Word of the Week: tonsorial (tahn-SOR-ee-ul)Stephanie Whetstone2023-05-08T11:24:05-04:00

Word of the Week: synecdoche (sĭ-NĔK-də-kē)

Stephanie Whetstone2023-05-03T10:46:20-04:00

Word of the Week: synecdoche (sĭ-NĔK-də-kē) Definition (Noun) A figure of speech in which a more inclusive term is used for a less inclusive one or vice versa, as a whole for a part or a part for a whole. In Context "But if the convention didn't tell, it definitely showed: It was less an advertisement for Donald Trump than a perfect synecdoche for his entire ascent, with every element of the Trump phenomenon distilled into four strange days of drama." Ross Douthat, "The Donald Trump Show," The New York Times, July 23, 2016.

Word of the Week: synecdoche (sĭ-NĔK-də-kē)Stephanie Whetstone2023-05-03T10:46:20-04:00

Word of the Week: cordillera (kôr-dl-YÂR-ə)

Stephanie Whetstone2023-05-03T10:41:37-04:00

Word of the Week: cordillera (kôr-dl-YÂR-ə) Definition (Noun) A mountain chain or ridge, one of a series of parallel ridges; in plural applied originally by the Spanish to the parallel chains of the Andes in South America (las Cordilleras de los Andes), subsequently extended to the continuation of the same system through Central America and Mexico. In Context "A ride of seven hours across grassy plains covered with herbage, with patches of snow here and there, and ranges of hills with fine masses of rocks, forming a setting to the distant peaks of the cordillera, brought us to the post-house of [...]

Word of the Week: cordillera (kôr-dl-YÂR-ə)Stephanie Whetstone2023-05-03T10:41:37-04:00

Word of the Week: atavic (ĂT-ə-vĭk)

Stephanie Whetstone2023-05-03T10:39:13-04:00

Word of the Week: atavic (ĂT-ə-vĭk) Definition (Adjective) Of or pertaining to a remote ancestor. In Context "By the time of the Revolution there was sufficient recrudescence of feudalism to cause an atavic reversion to chivalric standards." Arthur W. Calhoun, The American Family in the Colonial Period, 1917.

Word of the Week: atavic (ĂT-ə-vĭk)Stephanie Whetstone2023-05-03T10:39:13-04:00

Word of the Week: demagogue (DĔM-ə-gôg)

Stephanie Whetstone2023-05-03T10:43:44-04:00

Word of the Week: demagogue (DĔM-ə-gôg) Definition (Noun) In a bad sense: A leader of a popular faction, or of the mob; a political agitator who appeals to the passions and prejudices of the mob in order to obtain power or further his own interests; an unprincipled or factious popular orator. In Context "Because of his enormous personal power – built on an immense fortune, the proprietorship of a media empire, the rhetorical skills of a demagogue and the control of a political party that he created – Mr. Berlusconi has been able to attain the loyalty of many people." Maurizio [...]

Word of the Week: demagogue (DĔM-ə-gôg)Stephanie Whetstone2023-05-03T10:43:44-04:00

Word of the Week: gudgeon (GŬJ-ən)

Stephanie Whetstone2023-05-03T10:37:41-04:00

Word of the Week: gudgeon (GŬJ-ən) Definition (Noun) One that will bite at any bait or swallow anything: a credulous, gullible person. In Context "And that makes me for to take it the less to heart, when I do see you be such a gudgeon, Tim, with no more sense than to swallow neat down every thing that do come in your way." Frances Burney, The Wanderer: Or, Female Difficulties, 1814.

Word of the Week: gudgeon (GŬJ-ən)Stephanie Whetstone2023-05-03T10:37:41-04:00

Word of the Week: pellucid (pə-LŌŌ-sĭd)

Stephanie Whetstone2023-05-03T10:35:34-04:00

Word of the Week: pellucid (pə-LŌŌ-sĭd) Definition (Adjective) Clear in sense and expression, lucid. In Context "For there is a remarkable diversity in Cicero's style, ranging from the solemn rotundity of his oratorical perorations, through the pellucid but still formal rhythms of his treatises, to the various degrees of colloquialism in his letters." Michael Grant, Translator, Cicero: Selected Works, 1960. This word was suggested by Robert Sweet in the Office of Development.

Word of the Week: pellucid (pə-LŌŌ-sĭd)Stephanie Whetstone2023-05-03T10:35:34-04:00

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