Category Archives: Classical Words

Classical Words of the Day

epistolary (Wordsmith) libation (Dictionary.com)

Classical Words of the Day

mathematicaster (Wordsmith) acedia (Merriam-Webster … should use it in a report card comment) idiotism (Worthless Word for the Day)

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subintelligitur (Wordsmith … great word) pedestrian (Dictionary.com) crepuscular (Merriam-Webster) cliosophic (Worthless Word for the Day)

Classical Words of the Day

clou (Wordsmith) micronymy (Worthless Word for the Day)

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au fait (Wordsmith) temerity (Dictionary.com) oligopsony (Merriam-Webster) polyonymosity (Worthless Word for the Day)

Classical Words of the Day

sanguine (Dictionary.com) disquiparant (Worthless Word for the Day)

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contumacious (Wordsmith) pleonasm (Merriam-Webster) mobile (OED) mutuatitial (Worthless Word for the Day)

Classical Words of the Day

cacestogenous (Worthless Word for the Day) ellipsis (Dictionary.com) spume (… sort of; Merriam-Webster)

Latin in the Globe

Wow … what bills itself as “Canada’s National Newspaper” (we Westerners were always skeptical of such)  incipits a piece thusly: Word play occurs in unexpected places. Diane Lane, while promoting her recent movie Nights in Rodanthe, branched into a brief discussion of “cide.” “To decide is a great word,” she said, “because it’s like fratricide, [...]

Classical Words of the Day

expurgate (Dictionary.com) idiolalia (Worthless Word for the Day)

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lexical (Merriam-Webster) tome (Dictionary.com)

Classical Words of the Day

pied (Wordsmith) osteopath (Dictionary.com) anecdote (Merriam-Webster)

Classical Words of the Day

columbarium (Wordsmith) metathesis (Merriam-Webster) meronym (OED) jactancy (Worthless Word for the Day)

Classical Words of the Day

interdict (Wordsmith) hypotyposis (Worthless Word for the Day) prescriptive (OED) cognate (Merriam-Webster) virtuoso (Dictionary.com)

Classical Words of the Day

lares and penates (Wordsmith) acclaim (Dictionary.com) indubitable (Merriam-Webster) congregational (OED)

Classical Words of the Day

dramatis personae (Wordsmith) primogeniture (Merriam-Webster) project (OED)

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in medias res (Wordsmith) obtuse (Merriam-Webster)

Classical Words of the Day

ex libris (Wordsmith) vacuous (Dictionary.com) implacable (Merriam-Webster)

Classical Words of the Day

encomiastic (Worthless Word for the Day) palatable (Merriam Webster) qualitative (Dictionary.com) endemic (endemic)

Classical Words of the Day

gradation (OED) cohere (Wordsmith) obscure (Dictionary.com) oxymoron (Podictionary)

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