Sunday, October 24, 2004

Iniquity

(1) Gross immorality or injustice; wickedness.
(2) A grossly immoral act; a sin.

Wednesday, October 20, 2004

Popinjay

A vain and talkative person.

Friday, October 15, 2004

Engram

A physical alteration thought to occur in living neural tissue in response to stimuli, posited as an explanation for memory.

Saturday, October 09, 2004

Perfidy

(1) Deliberate breach of faith; calculated violation of trust; treachery: “the fink, whose perfidy was equaled only by his gall”
(2) The act or an instance of treachery.

Pabulum

(1) A substance that gives nourishment; food.
(2) Insipid intellectual nourishment: “TV... gobbled up comedy material and spat it out as pabulum”

Thursday, October 07, 2004

Pithy

(1) Precisely meaningful; forceful and brief: a pithy comment.
(2) Consisting of or resembling pith.

Wednesday, October 06, 2004

Coruscate

(1) To give forth flashes of light; sparkled and glitter.
(2) To exhibit sparkling virtuosity.

Monday, October 04, 2004

Prolix

(1) Tediously prolonged; wordy: editing a prolix manuscript.
(2) Tending to speak or write at excessive length. See Synonyms at wordy.

Milquetoast

One who has a meek, timid, unassertive nature.

Sunday, October 03, 2004

Teopan

Mexican temple.

Useless knowledge: Teopans was Trey Wright's game-winning word at the 2004 National Scrabble Championship.

Saturday, October 02, 2004

Penurious

(1) Unwilling to spend money; stingy.
(2) Yielding little; barren: a penurious land.
(3) Poverty-stricken; destitute.

Friday, October 01, 2004

Risible

(1) Relating to laughter or used in eliciting laughter.
(2) Eliciting laughter; ludicrous.
(3) Capable of laughing or inclined to laugh.

Thursday, September 30, 2004

Parsimonious

Excessively sparing or frugal.

Monday, September 27, 2004

Privation

(1a) Lack of the basic necessities or comforts of life.
(1b) The condition resulting from such lack.
(2) An act, condition, or result of deprivation or loss.

Limn

limned, limn·ing,
(1) To describe.
(2) To depict by painting or drawing. See Synonyms at represent.

"Let a painter carelessly limn out a million of faces, and you shall find them all different."