Word of the Day!

[Chakramaster]

Welcome to the Word of the Day thread! Once a day a word will be posted here along with it's definition. It could vary from interesting, to dark, or just out right crazy! Who knows what word will pop up tomorrow. There's so many out there many of us don't even know is a word. So a little word trivia could be fun, who knows. So let's get this started, have some fun, and maybe even a few laughs from this. Oh and double points for whoever uses the word of the day on the forum and links us to it here!

This thread was originally intended to be run by Noble. If she wants to take back the reins once she gets back from a trip she's taking soon then that's fine! I'll hand it back off to her. Plus it may change up the style of how it's run and the word choice will be a little different. Which would be interesting too.


Today's word is!... Ineluctable

Definition: certain or inevitable; unable to be resisted or avoided; inescapable.

Used in a sentence: Some events in our life are just ineluctable.


Log of Words
20161. Ineluctable 06/23/16
2. Ostentatious (http://www.pokemoncrossroads.com/forum/showthread.php?10384-Word-of-the-Day!&p=208881&viewfull=1#post208881) 6/24/16
3. Benevolence (http://www.pokemoncrossroads.com/forum/showthread.php?10384-Word-of-the-Day!&p=209097&viewfull=1#post209097) 6/27/16
4. Cordage (http://www.pokemoncrossroads.com/forum/showthread.php?10384-Word-of-the-Day!&p=209542&viewfull=1#post209542) 7/03/16
5. Sonorous (http://www.pokemoncrossroads.com/forum/showthread.php?10384-Word-of-the-Day!&p=212809&viewfull=1#post212809) 7/27/16
6. Numinous (http://www.pokemoncrossroads.com/forum/showthread.php?10384-Word-of-the-Day!&p=212931&viewfull=1#post212931) 7/28/16
7. Flounder (http://www.pokemoncrossroads.com/forum/showthread.php?10384-Word-of-the-Day!&p=213074&viewfull=1#post213074) 7/29/16
8. Littoral (http://www.pokemoncrossroads.com/forum/showthread.php?10384-Word-of-the-Day!&p=213241&viewfull=1#post213241) 7/30/16
9. Homily (http://www.pokemoncrossroads.com/forum/showthread.php?10384-Word-of-the-Day!&p=213354&viewfull=1#post213354) 7/31/16
10. Kerfuffle (http://www.pokemoncrossroads.com/forum/showthread.php?10384-Word-of-the-Day!&p=213704&viewfull=1#post213704) 8/01/16
11. Fletcherize (http://www.pokemoncrossroads.com/forum/showthread.php?10384-Word-of-the-Day!&p=213914&viewfull=1#post213914) 8/03/16
12. Vinculum (http://www.pokemoncrossroads.com/forum/showthread.php?10384-Word-of-the-Day!&p=214429&viewfull=1#post214429) 08/05/16
13. Panotopic (http://www.pokemoncrossroads.com/forum/showthread.php?10384-Word-of-the-Day!&p=216119&viewfull=1#post216119) 08/18/16
14. Hypocorism (http://www.pokemoncrossroads.com/forum/showthread.php?10384-Word-of-the-Day!&p=216431&viewfull=1#post216431) 08/21/16
15. Collude (http://www.pokemoncrossroads.com/forum/showthread.php?10384-Word-of-the-Day!&p=217820&viewfull=1#post217820) 08/31/16
16. Peradventure (http://www.pokemoncrossroads.com/forum/showthread.php?10384-Word-of-the-Day!&p=218209&viewfull=1#post218209) 09/01/16
17. Oenophile (http://www.pokemoncrossroads.com/forum/showthread.php?10384-Word-of-the-Day!&p=218292&viewfull=1#post218292) 09/02/16
18. Trepidation (http://www.pokemoncrossroads.com/forum/showthread.php?10384-Word-of-the-Day!&p=218552&viewfull=1#post218552) 09/03/16
19. Mordant (http://www.pokemoncrossroads.com/forum/showthread.php?10384-Word-of-the-Day!&p=218851&viewfull=1#post218851) 09/05/16
20. Minatory (http://www.pokemoncrossroads.com/forum/showthread.php?10384-Word-of-the-Day!&p=219484&viewfull=1#post219484) 09/11/16
21. Jejune (http://www.pokemoncrossroads.com/forum/showthread.php?10384-Word-of-the-Day!&p=220148&viewfull=1#post220148) 09/23/16
22. Petulant (http://www.pokemoncrossroads.com/forum/showthread.php?10384-Word-of-the-Day!&p=220584&viewfull=1#post220584) 10/02/16
23. Gustary (http://www.pokemoncrossroads.com/forum/showthread.php?10384-Word-of-the-Day!&p=220721&viewfull=1#post220721) 10/03/16
24. Nyctaphobia (http://www.pokemoncrossroads.com/forum/showthread.php?10384-Word-of-the-Day!&p=221150&viewfull=1#post221150) 10/07/16
25. Sepulchral (http://www.pokemoncrossroads.com/forum/showthread.php?10384-Word-of-the-Day!&p=221195&viewfull=1#post221195) 10/08/16
26. Berserk (http://www.pokemoncrossroads.com/forum/showthread.php?10384-Word-of-the-Day!&p=221551&viewfull=1#post221551) 10/10/16
27. Thanatopsis (http://www.pokemoncrossroads.com/forum/showthread.php?10384-Word-of-the-Day!&p=221690&viewfull=1#post221690) 10/11/16
18. Perdition (http://www.pokemoncrossroads.com/forum/showthread.php?10384-Word-of-the-Day!&p=221867&viewfull=1#post221867) 10/12/16
19. Preternatural (http://www.pokemoncrossroads.com/forum/showthread.php?10384-Word-of-the-Day!&p=222335&viewfull=1#post222335) 10/15/16
201720. Angst (http://www.pokemoncrossroads.com/forum/showthread.php?10384-Word-of-the-Day!&p=229573&viewfull=1#post229573) 1/11/17
21. Lachrymose (http://www.pokemoncrossroads.com/forum/showthread.php?10384-Word-of-the-Day!&p=229761&viewfull=1#post229761) 1/12/17
22. Cantankerous (http://www.pokemoncrossroads.com/forum/showthread.php?10384-Word-of-the-Day!&p=230223&viewfull=1#post230223) 1/15/17
23. Abstemious (http://www.pokemoncrossroads.com/forum/showthread.php?10384-Word-of-the-Day!&p=230615&viewfull=1#post230615) 1/17/17
24. Chanticleer (http://www.pokemoncrossroads.com/forum/showthread.php?10384-Word-of-the-Day!&p=233335&viewfull=1#post233335) 1/28/17
25. Hard-Boiled (http://www.pokemoncrossroads.com/forum/showthread.php?10384-Word-of-the-Day!&p=234503&viewfull=1#post234503) 2/1/17
26. Abyssal (http://www.pokemoncrossroads.com/forum/showthread.php?10384-Word-of-the-Day!&p=235281&viewfull=1#post235281) 2/3/17
27. Recidivate (http://www.pokemoncrossroads.com/forum/showthread.php?10384-Word-of-the-Day!&p=235604&viewfull=1#post235604) 2/4/17
28. Paralogize (http://www.pokemoncrossroads.com/forum/showthread.php?10384-Word-of-the-Day!&p=236025&viewfull=1#post236025) 2/6/17
29. Canard (http://www.pokemoncrossroads.com/forum/showthread.php?10384-Word-of-the-Day!&p=237759&viewfull=1#post237759) 2/13/17
30. Billet-doux 2/14/17 (http://www.pokemoncrossroads.com/forum/showthread.php?10384-Word-of-the-Day!&p=237953&viewfull=1#post237953)
31. Punctilio 3/19/17 (http://www.pokemoncrossroads.com/forum/showthread.php?10384-Word-of-the-Day!&p=243503&viewfull=1#post243503)
32. Gratitude 3/20/17 (http://www.pokemoncrossroads.com/forum/showthread.php?10384-Word-of-the-Day!&p=243632&viewfull=1#post243632)
33. Unreconstructed 3/25/17 (http://www.pokemoncrossroads.com/forum/showthread.php?10384-Word-of-the-Day!&p=244045&viewfull=1#post244045)

[Fate]

Gimme. (http://www.pokemoncrossroads.com/forum/showthread.php?10321-Quiz-Which-Hogwarts-House-Do-You-Belong-To&p=208796&viewfull=1#post208796)

[Chakramaster]

Today's Word of the Day is: Ostentatious

characterized by vulgar or pretentious display; designed to impress or attract notice.


Used in a sentence: The displays at the art gallery were more ostentatious than I imagined for a small exhibit.

[Ganyu]

This thread is ostentatious.

[Chakramaster]

Small update: After a weird weekend and getting over a little something personal along with busy work. I'm back with a new update! Sorry for the delay!

Today's Word of the Day is: Benevolence

wish or activity in doing good

Used in a sentence: Most people tend to have their own sense of benevolence.

[Chakramaster]

After a brief intermission, WotD is back!

Today's Word of the Day is: Cordage

Definition: Ropes or cords collectively hence anything made of rope or cord as those parts of the rigging of a ship which consist of ropes

[Noblejanobii]

Hey Chakramaster, I'd be willing to take this over for you now, if you'd be okay with that.

[Chakramaster]

Hey Chakramaster, I'd be willing to take this over for you now, if you'd be okay with that.

Sorry for the delay! Sure, go for it. I dunno if it was the words or just the fact I got so busy around the time I put this on hiatus, but it kinda slowed down. Actually, once I actually got some time to myself again I completely forgot about this =/

So go for it! =D

[Noblejanobii]

Today's Word of the Day is: Sonorous

Definition:
1. Rich and full in sound, as language or verse.
2. Giving out or capable of giving out a sound, especially a deep, resonant sound, as a thing or place.

Used in a sentence:
The cave's echo made the hikers believe it was very sonorous.

[Noblejanobii]

Today's Word of the Day is...: Numinous

Definition:
1. Supernatural, Mysterious
2. Filled with a sense of the presence of divinity
3. Appealing to the higher emotions or to the aesthetic sense

Used in a Sentence:
1. Pilgrims to the shrine spoke to the congregation about their numinous experiences.
2. "… the stories, different as they were from one another, shared a sense of horror as something numinous and elusive, too tricky to be approached head-on." — Terrence Rafferty, The New York Times, 5 June 2016

[Scytherwolf]

Numinous is an awesome word. I'm going to have to use that one soon.

[Noblejanobii]

The Word of the Day: Flounder

Definition:
1. to struggle to move or obtain footing : thrash about wildly
2 : to proceed or act clumsily or ineffectually

Examples:

1. "The four Royal Air Force pilots ditched their broken bomber and dropped into the North Sea, near Britain. It was February 23, 1942…. Floundering in the frigid water, the pilots released their last hope: a tiny, bedraggled carrier pigeon named Winkie." — Sarah Kaplan, The Washington Post, 9 June 2016

2. "But She-Ra's sales floundered from the start. Roger Sweet, a Mattel toy creator and the author of Mastering the Universe, estimated her total sales at $60 million, an anemic number compared with He-Man ($2 billion) or Barbie ($350 million)." — Maria Teresa Hart, The Atlantic, 16 June 2016

[Noblejanobii]

The Word of the Day: Littoral

Definition:
1. of, relating to, or situated or growing on or near a shore especially of the sea

Examples:
1. The report shows dramatic improvement in the condition of the state's littoral waters since the cleanup effort began.
"But this project will permanently add new sand to the beach and dune system of Dauphin Island's East End, and the new sand will stay in the littoral system for centuries." — Scott Douglass, The Mobile (Alabama) Register, 6 Mar. 2016

[Noblejanobii]

The Word of the Day:: Homily

Definition:
1 : a usually short sermon
2 : a lecture or discourse on a moral theme
3 : an inspirational catchphrase

Examples:
1. The calendar features serene photographs captioned by inspirational proverbs and homilies.
2. "Deacons are ordained ministers in the Catholic Church but do not have the rank of priest. They can give homilies and preside at weddings, funerals and baptisms, but they cannot celebrate Mass." — Tom Kington, The Los Angeles Times, 13 May 2016

[Noblejanobii]

The Word of the Day: Kerfuffle

Definition:
1. (chiefly British) disturbance, fuss

Examples:
1. I didn't mean to start such a kerfuffle when I suggested that we hold the company picnic at a different location this year.
2. "… there was quite a kerfuffle (in visual-arts circles, anyway) this fall when the Jeff Wall show that was supposed to open the museum was suddenly cancelled by the artist. The works had become unavailable." — Marsha Lederman, The Globe and Mail (Toronto, Ontario), 4 Dec. 2015

[Noblejanobii]

The Word of the Day: Fletcherize

Definition:
1. to chew (food) slowly and thoroughly.

Examples:
1. ... don't choke down your food. Eat slowly. Fletcherize--chew your food, you know. I know you're nearly famished, but you must gradually accustom yourself to a proper diet.
- L. Frank Baum, Aunt Jane's Nieces Out West, 1914
2. Maybe you don't know about Fletcherizing, and you ought to be thankful you don't, but you can't Fletcherize a gizzard, not if you chew all night, and if there's breast enough everybody, I think he'd better have that.
- Kate Langley Bosher, The Man in Lonely Land, 1913

[Noblejanobii]

Word of the Day: Vinculum

Pronunciation: ving-kyuh-luh m

Definition:
1. a bond signifying union or unity; tie.
2. Mathematics. a stroke or bracedrawn over a quantity consisting of several members or terms, as /(a+b), in order to show that they are to be considered together.

Examples:
1. Mr. Bowditch, too, refuses us; so fascinatingis the vinculum of the dulce natale solum. -Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson: Thomas Jefferson

2.The notion of the vinculum juris, so far as myknowledge extends, is exclusively Roman. -Ancient Law: Sir Henry James Sumner Maine

[Noblejanobii]

Word of the Day: Panoptic

Definition:
1. Being or presenting a comprehensive or panoramic view

Examples:
1. The new security cameras installed in the jewelry store capture panoptic views of the entrance and display cases.

2. "Interweaving the narratives of an aristocratic uptown family, an underground punk band, a Long Island adolescent, a black gay aspiring writer, and a journalist determined to uncover the obscure connections between them all, the more-than-900-page novel … casts a panoptic lens on 1970s New York City…." — Lauren Christensen, Vanity Fair, October 2015

[Suicune's Fire]

I feel like panoptic is a little harder to work into a sentence naturally BUT I LOVE KERFUFFLE. I didn't know there was an r in there so I used to think it was spelled 'kafuffle' because that's how we pronounce it. The 'er' part seems really odd in there now, haha.

[Noblejanobii]

I feel like panoptic is a little harder to work into a sentence naturally BUT I LOVE KERFUFFLE. I didn't know there was an r in there so I used to think it was spelled 'kafuffle' because that's how we pronounce it. The 'er' part seems really odd in there now, haha.

Really? I've always pronounced it with the "R", but then again I never really use it in daily life so it's just one of those things I guess.

Word of the Day: Hypocorism

Definition:
1. A pet name
2. The use of pet names

Examples:
1. People began to refer to the elusive and mysterious Loch Ness monster by the hypocorism "Nessie" in the 1940s.
2. "… the use of hypocorisms … is on the decline (only my Aunt Dorothy is still called Toots), and terms of endearment have come under suspicion ('Call me Dollboat or Sweetie-Pie one more time, Mr. Snodgrass, and you've got a harassment suit on your hands')." — William Safire, The New York Times, 27 Sept. 1992

[Suicune's Fire]

Really? I've always pronounced it with the "R", but then again I never really use it in daily life so it's just one of those things I guess.

Word of the Day: Hypocorism

Definition:
1. A pet name
2. The use of pet names

Examples:
1. People began to refer to the elusive and mysterious Loch Ness monster by the hypocorism "Nessie" in the 1940s.
2. "… the use of hypocorisms … is on the decline (only my Aunt Dorothy is still called Toots), and terms of endearment have come under suspicion ('Call me Dollboat or Sweetie-Pie one more time, Mr. Snodgrass, and you've got a harassment suit on your hands')." — William Safire, The New York Times, 27 Sept. 1992
Well of course you do, because you guys say your Rs differently to us. xD lel.

Wow, I thought it was related to hypocrisy. There you go!

[Noblejanobii]

Well of course you do, because you guys say your Rs differently to us. xD lel.

Wow, I thought it was related to hypocrisy. There you go!

I've also been recently informed that everyone who isn't American pronounces it "herb" whereas we say "erb". Welp.

That's what I thought. But no, it's pet names.

[Suicune's Fire]

I've also been recently informed that everyone who isn't American pronounces it "herb" whereas we say "erb". Welp.

That's what I thought. But no, it's pet names.
Yes. That is true. We do pronounce the H.

You learn something new every day!

[Noblejanobii]

Yes. That is true. We do pronounce the H.

You learn something new every day!

You weirdos! XD

Yeah it is cool that way isn't it?

[Ganyu]

How do Americans pronounce 'herbalist'? Without the 'h' as well?

Panoptic is one of the coolest sci-fiesuqe words. Fun fact, there's a prison design coined by Jeremy Bentham known as Panopticon, where by all the inmates under one watchman' eye, without them being able to tell whether they're being watched or not. So dystopian~

[Noblejanobii]

How do Americans pronounce 'herbalist'? Without the 'h' as well?

Panoptic is one of the coolest sci-fiesuqe words. Fun fact, there's a prison design coined by Jeremy Bentham known as Panopticon, where by all the inmates under one watchman' eye, without them being able to tell whether they're being watched or not. So dystopian~

Yes we do. We pronounce it "erbalist".

That sounds so awesome and high tech!

[Noblejanobii]

Word of the Day: Collude

Definition:
1. To work with others secretly especially in order to do something illegal or dishonest.

Example:
1. "I argued that when markets are free, and when government does not collude with business, greed is useful."- Fitting In at Fox Lloyd Grove December 5, 2009

2. "Collusive labor makes it easier for employers to collude to extract maximum rents from customers." -New York City Bus Strike: A Cosy Cartel, Running Out of Gas Megan McArdle January 16, 2013

3. "Nor, Cortazzo said, did he collude with the geologist to rip off Roy." -‘Sex Rehab’ Star Duncan Roy’s Jailhouse Blues Christine Pelisek March 24, 2012

[Noblejanobii]

Word of the Day: Peradventure

Definition:
1. Chance, doubt, or uncertainty
2. Surmise
3. Archaic. it may be; maybe; possibly; perhaps.

Examples:
1. "It must demonstrate beyond peradventure that it exists only to aid and assist the onward march and progress of all worthy causes ..." -Stewart C. McFarland, "Will Rotary Survive?" The Rotarian, April 1921

2. "Well, as luck would have it, he stumbled on the missing link in the process which poor Sprenger had been searching for ... and proved it beyond a peradventure on the very night when Bronson Jane had dined in Kensington Palace Gardens." -John Buchan, The Gap in the Curtain, 1932

[Rival Max]

Word of the Day: Peradventure

Definition:
1. Chance, doubt, or uncertainty
2. Surmise
3. Archaic. it may be; maybe; possibly; perhaps.

Examples:
1. "It must demonstrate beyond peradventure that it exists only to aid and assist the onward march and progress of all worthy causes ..." -Stewart C. McFarland, "Will Rotary Survive?" The Rotarian, April 1921

2. "Well, as luck would have it, he stumbled on the missing link in the process which poor Sprenger had been searching for ... and proved it beyond a peradventure on the very night when Bronson Jane had dined in Kensington Palace Gardens." -John Buchan, The Gap in the Curtain, 1932

So can you be planning for a pre-adventure and feel preadventurous about it? lol

[Noblejanobii]

So can you be planning for a pre-adventure and feel preadventurous about it? lol

EXACTLY

[Rival Max]

EXACTLY

mind officially blown.

[Suicune's Fire]

It's per-adventure, not preadventure. xD

Interesting word. It's a bit of a mouthful when you could just say "doubt" though. XD

[Rival Max]

It's per-adventure, not preadventure. xD

Interesting word. It's a bit of a mouthful when you could just say "doubt" though. XD

http://www.reshareit.com/wp-content/uploads/I-must-correct-you-anyway.jpg

[Suicune's Fire]

http://www.reshareit.com/wp-content/uploads/I-must-correct-you-anyway.jpg
I DIDN'T WANT YOU THINKING IT WAS SOMETHING ELSE!

Max, you should know by now that I correct because I care. <3

[Suicune's Fire]

http://www.reshareit.com/wp-content/uploads/I-must-correct-you-anyway.jpg
I DIDN'T WANT YOU THINKING IT WAS SOMETHING ELSE!

Max, you should know by now that I correct because I care. <3

[Noblejanobii]

Suicune's Fire It's great for writing purposes when you need descriptions and such.

[Suicune's Fire]

Suicune's Fire It's great for writing purposes when you need descriptions and such.
Yeah, that's a good point. xD

[Noblejanobii]

The Word of the Day is: Oenophile

Definition:
1. A lover or connoisseur of wine

Examples:
1. Serious oenophiles will not be impressed with this particular wine, but it should be up to the standards of less-discriminating consumers.
2. "Founded in 1992, New Orleans Wine and Food Experience has definitely earned its place as an event that oenophiles, gourmets and any combination thereof mark on their to-do list each year." — Sue Strachan, The Times-Picayune (New Orleans, Louisiana), 28 May 2016

[Noblejanobii]

Word of the Day is: Trepidation

Definition:
1. A feeling of fear that causes you to hesitate because you think something bad or unpleasant is going to happen.
2. Archaic A tremulous motion
3. A nervous or fearful feeling of uncertain agitation

Examples:
1. In the first minutes, hours, or even days of fieldwork most researchers feel trepidation about being an outsider, a stranger on the scene … —Marie D. Price, Geographical Review, January-April 2001
2. This was an ambitious project, and a number of us felt some trepidation about the possible results. —Brian Phillips, New Republic, 13 Dec. 1999
3. I came aboard the 319 with trepidation, to join the lives of utter strangers, a man untried by the circumstances they had known. —Henry G. Bugbee, Jr., “Naval History,” in Authors at Sea, Robert Shenk, ed., 1997
4. He had some trepidation about agreeing to their proposal.

[AD]

For some reason, i love the word Archaic. I guess maybe because i am an English Literary major? Maybe i am a bit pretentious, or just a butt nugget idk.

Trepidation is good for characters in a rather paranoid position, or even a bit of Absol-ing. Inspires me to use that in my COR backstories.

[Noblejanobii]

For some reason, i love the word Archaic. I guess maybe because i am an English Literary major? Maybe i am a bit pretentious, or just a butt nugget idk.

Trepidation is good for characters in a rather paranoid position, or even a bit of Absol-ing. Inspires me to use that in my COR backstories.

I've been trying to pick more descriptive words that aren't common so having "archaic" in the definition usually means it's a pretty old word, so it's less likely they you've heard of it before.

I've found myself using more and more of these words in my stories. And if you need to look up a definition, but you can't remember what word it is, I've created a link page in the first post that will link you to each word.

[Noblejanobii]

Word of the Day: Mordant

Definition:
Adjective-
1. sharply caustic or sarcastic, as wit or a speaker; biting.
2. burning; corrosive.
3. having the property of fixing colors, as in dyeing.
Noun-
1. a substance used in dyeing to fix the coloring matter, especially a metallic compound, as an oxide or hydroxide, that combines with the organic dye and forms an insoluble colored compound or lake in the fiber.
2. an adhesive substance for binding gold or silver leaf to a surface.
3. an acid or other corrosive substance used in etching to eat out the lines, areas, etc.
4. Music a melodic embellishment consisting of a rapid alternation of a principal tone with the tone a half or a whole step below it, called single or short when the auxiliary tone occurs once and double or long when this occurs twice or more.
Verb-
1. to impregnate or treat with a mordant.

Examples:
1. "Such seemingly effortless—and mordant —improvisation can be a marvel to behold."
The Stacks: Robin Williams, More Than A Shtick Figure Joe Morgenstern August 15, 2014

2. "I like that the emotional lives of women are tinged with a kind of mordant humor for the most part."
Broadway's Comeback Kid Kevin Sessums November 1, 2011

3. "Bradlee is, at times, funny, mordant, surprisingly perceptive and disturbingly naïve."
An Ordinary, Extraordinary Life Barbara Kantrowitz March 30, 2009

[Noblejanobii]

Word of the Day:: Minatory

Definition:
1. Having a menacing quality

Examples:
1. The novel's protagonist is haunted by a minatory black specter.

Did You Know?
Knowing that minatory means "threatening," can you take a guess at a related word? If you're familiar with mythology, perhaps you guessed Minotaur, the name of the bull-headed, people-eating monster of Crete. Minotaur is a good guess, but as terrifying as the monster sounds, its name isn't related to minatory. The relative we're searching for is actually menace. Minatory and menace both come from derivatives of the Latin verb minari, which means "to threaten." Minatory was borrowed directly from Late Latin minatorius. Menace came to English via Anglo-French manace, menace, which came from Latin minac-, minax, meaning "threatening."

[Suicune's Fire]

XD Really, who's surprised that it's Latin? Oh, Latin. You sneaky language, you. I really like that word though! And you're right; I did think of Minotaur. xD Interesting to know!

[Noblejanobii]

XD Really, who's surprised that it's Latin? Oh, Latin. You sneaky language, you. I really like that word though! And you're right; I did think of Minotaur. xD Interesting to know!

There wasn't much to the word definition and sentence wise so I thought I'd throw in a fun fact for good measure.

[Suicune's Fire]

There wasn't much to the word definition and sentence wise so I thought I'd throw in a fun fact for good measure.
It was entertaining! 8D I love learning random little things like that.

[Noblejanobii]

Word of the Day: Jejune

Definition:
1. Not interesting
2. Too Simple
3. Lacking nutritive value
4. Devoid of significance or interest
5. Juvenile, puerile

Examples:
1. She made jejune remarks about life and art.
2. <another moralizing tale filled with jejune platitudes>

Did You Know:
Starved for excitement? You won't get it from something jejune. That term derives from the Latin jejunus, which means "empty of food," "meager," or "hungry." Back in the 1600s, English speakers used "jejune" in senses very similar to those of its Latin parent, lamenting "jejune appetites" and "jejune morsels." Something that is meager rarely satisfies, and before long "jejune" was being used not only for meager meals or hunger, but for things wanting in intellectual or emotional substance. The word most likely gained its "childish" sense when people confused it with the look-alike French word jeune, which means "young."

[Noblejanobii]

Word of the Day: Petulant

Definition:
1. Moved to or showing sudden, impatient irritation, especially over some trifling annoyance.
2. Irritable, impatient, or sullen in a peevish or capricious way

Examples:
1. A petulant toss of the head.
2. "I thought he carried it a little too long and began slip into petulant Rick mode, but he tied Romney for the best night." -Romney Rises Rich Galen January 26, 2012
3. "And Gunn reserves special contempt for Mizrahi, whom he portrays as a petulant, insufferable diva." -Tim Gunn's Tell-All Book Rebecca Dana September 5, 2010
4. "And like petulant preschoolers, Wall Street craves—and needs—rules, and the discipline to enforce them consistently." -Wall Street: Please Treat Us Like Five-Year-Olds Randall Lane July 20, 2010

[Noblejanobii]

Word of the Day: Gustatory

Definition:
1. Relating to taste or the sense of taste
2. Having to do with taste or eating

Examples:
1. The dinner was a gustatory pleasure for the palate.
2. The party included an array of gustatory desserts paired with wine.
3. The chef was trying to teach his students about the gustatory arts.

Did You Know:
Gustatory is a member of a finite set of words that describe the senses with which we encounter our world, the other members being visual, aural, olfactory, and tactile. Like its peers, gustatory has its roots in Latin-in this case the Latin word gustare, meaning "to taste." Gustare is a somewhat distant relative of several common English words, among them choose and disgust, but is a direct ancestor only of gustatory, gustation, meaning "the act or sensation of tasting," and degustation, meaning "the action or an instance of tasting especially in a series of small portions."

[Noblejanobii]

Word of the Day: Nyctophobia

Definition:
1. An abnormal fear of night or darkness.
2. A fear of night, darkness; also called noctiphobia

Examples:
1. For nyctophobia, try facing the darkness with another person that brings a feeling of safety, such as a parent or good friend.
2. Other standard phobias are nyctophobia, a fear of the dark, and ochlophobia a fear of crowds, from the Greek words for night and crowd respectively.
3. Nyctophobia is mostly present in young children, and starts out with night terrors and a healthy fear of the boogeyman.
4. The American Medical Association believes adult Ncytophobia is very rare and usually treatable with hypnosis and believe it or not, yes prescription drugs.

[Noblejanobii]

Word of the Day:: Sepulchral

Definition:
1. Of, relating to, or serving as a tomb.
2. Of or relating to burial.
3. Proper to or suggestive of a tomb; funereal or dismal.
4. Hollow and deep

Examples:
1. Sepulchral tones
2. One person described the atmosphere inside the network as “sepulchral.” - Collapse at CBS News Rebecca Dana August 30, 2010
3. Wilde called on a sepulchral Jefferson Davis at his Mississippi Plantation. - Wilde Ride Anthony Paletta January 2, 2013
4. The conical cairn must have been in use in Scotland during a longer period than any other sepulchral memorial. - The Archaeology and Prehistoric Annals of Scotland Daniel Wilson

[Noblejanobii]

Word of the Day:: Beserk

Definition:
1. Crazy, deranged, overtaken by a violent destructive frenzy
2. violently or destructively frenzied; wild; crazed; deranged
3. Also known as a berserker, an ancient Norse warrior who fought with frenzied rage in battle, possibly induced by eating hallucinogenic mushrooms

Examples:
1. He suddenly went berserk.
2. "What we are seeing is the good, old American berserk in action." - Is Obama the New Nixon? Lee Siegel September 14, 2009
3. "Well, get thee to horse, and make the most of thy time; my berserk here will guide thee past the guards." - Erling the Bold R.M. Ballantyne
4. "I am ordered to send this berserk with a troop of nineteen men to waylay thee." - Erling the Bold R.M. Ballantyne

[Noblejanobii]

Word of the Day: Thanatopsis

Defintion:
1. A view or contemplation of death.
2. A meditation on death, as in a poem
3. (with initial capital letter, italics) A poem (1817) by William Cullen Bryant.

Examples:
1. "The importance of "thanatopsis" is at once literary and historical." - The Scrap Book. Volume 1, No. 2 Various
2. "Do you think any city lad could have written "thanatopsis" at eighteen?" - Being a Boy Charles Dudley Warner
3. "His best-known poem, "thanatopsis," was written when he was only nineteen and delivered at his college commencement." - Graded Poetry: Second Year Various

Did You Know:
For all you Greek mythology nerds out there, this word does originate from the personification of Death, better known as Thanatos.

[Noblejanobii]

Word of the Day: Perdition

Definition:
1. The state of final spiritual ruin or eternal damnation to which the wicked are condemned
2. (in Christian theology) A state of eternal punishment and damnation into which a sinful and unpenitent person passes after death.
3. a state of final spiritual ruin; loss of the soul; damnation.
4. The future state of the wicked.
5. Hell
6. Utter destruction or ruin.
7. Obsolete. loss.

Examples:
1. "Then he looked back to the judgment-seat and cried, "With this blood, Appius, I devote thee and thy life to perdition."" - Stories From Livy Alfred Church
2. "To perdition with the professional man who gabs to his wife!" - The Return of Peter Grimm David Belasco
3. "Is it true, that the heathen world are sinking to perdition ?" - Thoughts on Missions Sheldon Dibble

[Noblejanobii]

Word of the Day: Preternatural

Definition:
1. Very unusual in a way that does not seem natural
2. Existing outside of nature
3. Exceeding what is natural or regular
4. Inexplicable by ordinary means

Examples:
1. "wits trained to preternatural acuteness by the debates" — G. L. ****inson
2. "preternatural phenomena"
3. "She has a preternatural ability to charm people."
4. "There was a preternatural quiet in the house."

[Noblejanobii]

I thought I'd start this up again because I enjoy this so here we go! I picked this word because I often see it being misused by my college fellows to mean "apathetic" or "uncaring" when in reality this is more along the lines of worrying or anxiety. So misuse this word no longer!

Word of the Day: Angst

Definition:
1. A feeling of deep anxiety or dread, typically an unfocused one about the human condition or the state of the world in general.
2. A feeling of persistent worry about something trivial.

Example:
1. My hair causes me angst.
2. ‘the existential angst of the middle classes’
3. Rock and Pop have a tradition of celebrating adolescent angst.
4. Business leaders expressed their angst over possible war and recession.

[Noblejanobii]

Word of the Day: Lachrymose

Definition:
1. Given to tears or weeping, tearful
2. Tending to cause tears, mournful

Examples
1. "… [Art] Garfunkel has always been partial to lachrymose sentiment. Listen, for instance, to his 1979 hit Bright Eyes, a song that targets the tear duct … and here summed up the tone of the evening." — Patrick Smith, The Daily Telegraph (London), 24 June 2016
2. "'Hallelujah' found a natural home in the hospital shows of the late-2000s, and it was frequently called upon to lend extra gravitas to a patient's dramatic death. On a particularly lachrymose episode of 'General Hospital,' the staff sings 'Hallelujah' as they bus into the mountains for a ski trip. The song then returns after their bus crashes in the snow." — Nick Murray, The New York Times, 21 Sept. 2016

Did You Know?
The adjective lachrymose comes from Latin lacrimosus (from the noun lacrima, meaning "tear"). Lachrymose didn't appear in English until around 1727, but another closely related adjective can be traced back to the 15th century. This earlier cousin, lachrymal (sometimes spelled lacrimal, particularly in its scientific applications), has a scientific flavor and is defined as "of, relating to, or being glands that produce tears" or "of, relating to, or marked by tears." In contrast, lachrymose typically applies to someone who is moved to tears because of strong emotions or to something that stimulates such feelings.

[Noblejanobii]

Word of the Day: Cantankerous

Definition:
1. Difficult or irritating to deal with

Examples:
1. "[Kenneth] Lonergan's brow was furrowed, and he was speaking, as he often does, in a low, growling mumble.… Among his theatre and movie-industry peers, he is famous for being famously cantankerous." — Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 7 Nov. 2016

2. "Far from being cantankerous, she says [Roald] Dahl was endlessly ingenious in his desire to amuse, even when mortally ill, and only grumpy when finishing a book." — Elizabeth Gricehow, The Daily Telegraph (London), 12 Nov. 2016

Did you Know?

It's irritating, but we're not absolutely sure where cantankerous comes from. Etymologists think it probably derived from the Middle English word contack (or contek), which meant "contention" or "strife." Their idea is that cantankerous may have started out as contackerous but was later modified as a result of association or confusion with rancorous (meaning "spiteful") and cankerous (which describes something that spreads corruption of the mind or spirit). Considering that a cantankerous person generally has the spite associated with contack and rancor, and the noxious and sometimes painful effects of a canker, that theory seems plausible. What we can say with conviction is that cantankerous has been used in English since at least the 1730s.

[Rival Max]

Word of the Day: Cantankerous

Definition:
1. Difficult or irritating to deal with

Examples:
1. "[Kenneth] Lonergan's brow was furrowed, and he was speaking, as he often does, in a low, growling mumble.… Among his theatre and movie-industry peers, he is famous for being famously cantankerous." — Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 7 Nov. 2016

2. "Far from being cantankerous, she says [Roald] Dahl was endlessly ingenious in his desire to amuse, even when mortally ill, and only grumpy when finishing a book." — Elizabeth Gricehow, The Daily Telegraph (London), 12 Nov. 2016

Did you Know?

It's irritating, but we're not absolutely sure where cantankerous comes from. Etymologists think it probably derived from the Middle English word contack (or contek), which meant "contention" or "strife." Their idea is that cantankerous may have started out as contackerous but was later modified as a result of association or confusion with rancorous (meaning "spiteful") and cankerous (which describes something that spreads corruption of the mind or spirit). Considering that a cantankerous person generally has the spite associated with contack and rancor, and the noxious and sometimes painful effects of a canker, that theory seems plausible. What we can say with conviction is that cantankerous has been used in English since at least the 1730s.

I aspire to be a cantankerous old man!

[Noblejanobii]

Word of the Day: Abstemious

Definition:
1. marked by restraint especially in the consumption of food or alcohol
2. reflection on the restraint of the consumption of food or alcohol

Examples:
1. Allie's midlife heart attack opened her eyes to the importance of taking care of her body and turned her to a more abstemious and healthful lifestyle.

2. "He is so abstemious that he once declared that to avoid temptation, he would never appear anywhere alcohol was served unless his wife was with him." — Michael Barbaro and Monica Davey, The New York Times, 16 July 2016

[Pokemon Trainer Sarah]

Cool, you're doing this again! :D Where do you find these words?! So many I've never heard of xD

[Rival Max]

Abstemious is a four letter word to those few who enjoy pizza more than life!

[Noblejanobii]

Cool, you're doing this again! :D Where do you find these words?! So many I've never heard of xD

Well Merriam-Webster does a good word of the day, so I usually check their first, and then if they don't have a good one, I usually look through a few more before going to a list of words that I've had to look up their definitions in the past.

[Suicune's Fire]

Riiight, derived from abstain. Seems like a handy one to have in the vocab reserves. Though I do hate to admit that I often fail to learn new words because I never remember them. xD Unless I repeatedly use them.

[Noblejanobii]

The Word of the Day is…: Chanticleer

Definition:
1. A rooster, often seen in Medievel folktales

Examples:
1. "You could even see plainly a Calvinistic chanticleer on one of the church towers!" - Heathen Master Filcsik by Klmn Mikszth
2. "Now, by the beard of Nassau, what joke is chanticleer playing us now?" - The Argus Pheasant by John Charles Beecham

This is for the year of the rooster!

[Noblejanobii]

]Word of the Day: Hard-Boiled

Definition:
1. Devoid of sentimentality : tough
2. Of, relating to, or being a detective story featuring a tough unsentimental protagonist and a matter-of-fact attitude towards violence
3. Hardheaded, practical

Examples:
1. The young tycoon proved that to be successful in the cutthroat world of business you need to occasionally put aside hard-boiled business practices and go with your gut instincts.

"The real attraction, as with previous books in the series, is [Tana] French's complex, deeply flawed detectives and her hard-boiled yet poetic way with words." — David Martindale, The Fort Worth (Texas) Star-Telegram, 28 Sep. 2016

[Pokemon Trainer Sarah]

Some people like hard-boiled, some people like fried,
To me Exeggutes taste best when eaten alive.

I asked my friend to come up with a rhyme to post in this thread. That escalated quickly.

[Chibi Altaria]

I asked my friend to come up with a rhyme to post in this thread. That escalated quickly.

I love your friend. xD Also he/she is very creepy.

[Noblejanobii]

This thread has gotten popular in the oddest way.

Word of the Day: Imprecate

Definition:
1. To invoke evil on
2. To curse

Examples:
1. "Mallory imprecated the weather when the ink froze in his fountain pen…." — Stanley Snaith, At Grips with Everest, 1938
2. "The people would pause, look out at the Missouri rolling past and quietly carrying down trees like doomed pinnaces, and the workers' sweating brows wrinkled, but I heard no one imprecate the river; each just went back to passing along stories and sandbags." — William Least Heat-Moon, River-Horse, 1999

[Rival Max]

This thread has gotten popular in the oddest way.

Word of the Day: Imprecate

Definition:
1. To invoke evil on
2. To curse

Examples:
1. "Mallory imprecated the weather when the ink froze in his fountain pen…." — Stanley Snaith, At Grips with Everest, 1938
2. "The people would pause, look out at the Missouri rolling past and quietly carrying down trees like doomed pinnaces, and the workers' sweating brows wrinkled, but I heard no one imprecate the river; each just went back to passing along stories and sandbags." — William Least Heat-Moon, River-Horse, 1999

This word is new to me ! Cool word but I would think it means something else based on how it sounds.

[Suicune's Fire]

Awesome word; I like it a lot. Perhaps in my writing I'll give it a shot!

[Noblejanobii]

Word of the Day: Abyssal

Definition:
1. Of or relating to the bottom waters of the ocean depths
2. Impossible to comprehend
3. Unfathomable

Examples:
1. "Since the accident, researchers from the Guangzhou Institute of Oceanology have mapped several deep eddies in the Xisha Trough, an area of abyssal ocean off Hainan." — David Hambling, The Guardian (UK), 29 Dec. 2016
2. "I'm referring to something that was revealed when the federal opposition parties were talking about a coalition government: The abyssal ignorance, even in parts of the media, about how our own parliamentary system works." — Josée Legault, The Gazette (Montreal), 26 Dec. 2008

[Rival Max]

Word of the Day: Abyssal

Definition:
1. Of or relating to the bottom waters of the ocean depths
2. Impossible to comprehend
3. Unfathomable

Examples:
1. "Since the accident, researchers from the Guangzhou Institute of Oceanology have mapped several deep eddies in the Xisha Trough, an area of abyssal ocean off Hainan." — David Hambling, The Guardian (UK), 29 Dec. 2016
2. "I'm referring to something that was revealed when the federal opposition parties were talking about a coalition government: The abyssal ignorance, even in parts of the media, about how our own parliamentary system works." — Josée Legault, The Gazette (Montreal), 26 Dec. 2008

Cool examples!

[Noblejanobii]

Word of the Day: Recidivate

Definition:
1. To return to a previous pattern of behavior.
2. Relapse
3. Go back to bad or criminal behavior.

Example"
1. “The convictions for those over sixty are unlikely to recidivate.”

[Noblejanobii]

Word of the Day: Paralogize

Definition:
1. to draw conclusions that do not follow logically from a given set of assumptions.

Examples:
1. "A brick," he retorted, "is a parallelogram; I am not a parallelogram, and therefore not a brick ..." "Charley Lightheart, you paralogize." - Stewart Edward White and Samuel Hopkins Adams, The Mystery, 1907
2. "Whether, moreover, in seeking to find an analogy between the laws of nature, and municipal laws, he does not paralogize, may perhaps be questioned." - Abraham Coles, Abraham Coles: Biographical Sketch, Memorial Tributes, Selections from His Works (Some Hitherto Unpublished), 1892

[Noblejanobii]

Word of the Day: Canard

Definition:
1. A false or unfounded rumor or story
2. A groundless rumor or belief
3. An airplane with horizontal stabilizing and control surfaces in front of supporting surfaces

Example:
1. “The tabloid included some of Hollywood’s oldest canards.”

Fun Fact:
1. It originates from the french word for duck.

[Suicune's Fire]

Wow! Didn't know that word. And lololol, duck. Amazing. I guess it's sort of like mallard.

[Noblejanobii]

Wow! Didn't know that word. And lololol, duck. Amazing. I guess it's sort of like mallard.

Well when you google canard usually ducks pop up so it makes sense

[Pokemon Trainer Sarah]

I like when words just have a really random third definition. XD

[Noblejanobii]

Word of the Day: Billet-doux

Definition:
1. A Love Letter

Examples:
1. "While cleaning out her parents' basement, Amy stumbled upon a box containing billets-doux written by her dad to his high-school sweetheart—her mom."
2. "… when you stop to think about it the entire panoply of behaviours we consider as romantic, from sending little billets-doux, to developing a shared vocabulary of pet names, are … infantile. What's romance, then, but a kind of childish make-believe?" — Will Self, Prospect, 13 Oct. 2016

Did You Know:
The first recorded use of the French word billet doux (literally, "sweet letter") in an English context occurs in John Dryden's 1673 play Marriage a-la-Mode. In the play, Dryden pokes fun at linguistic Francophiles in English society through the comic character Melanthe, who is described by her prospective lover Rodophil as follows: "No lady can be so curious of a new fashion as she is of a new French word; she's the very mint of the nation, and as fast as any bullion comes out of France, coins it immediately into our language." True to form, Melanthe describes Rodophil with the following words: "Let me die, but he's a fine man; he sings and dances en Français, and writes the billets doux to a miracle."

[Suicune's Fire]

How strange. Do you neither pronounce the t nor the x? xD

[Noblejanobii]

How strange. Do you neither pronounce the t nor the x? xD

Nope because it's french. Like Ballet.

[Noblejanobii]

Word of the Day: Punctilio

Definition:
1. A fine point, particular, or detail, as of conduct, ceremony, or procedure.
2. Strictness or exactness in the observance of formalities or amenities.
3. A minute detail of conduct in a ceremony or in observance of a code.
4. Careful observance of forms (as in social conduct)

Examples:
1. Without fail, the punctilio required during each of Ms. Layman’s garden parties was for the attendees to raise their glasses and give a cheer to the patron saint of married women.
2. The punctilio at the school’s annual awards day ceremony always called for the students to march into the gymnasium like little soldiers at the beginning of the ceremony.
3. Since the club had a strict code of conduct, the punctilio of reading the minutes seemed pointless due to the few trivial events that took place.

[Noblejanobii]

Word of the Day: Gratitude

Definition:
1. The quality or feeling of being grateful or thankful

Examples:
1. The way to summon a Shaymin is to show your gratitude.
2. He expressed his gratitude to everyone on the staff.

[Noblejanobii]

Word of the Day: Unreconstructed

Definition:
1. Not reconciled to political, economic, or social change.
2. Holding stubbornly to a particular belief, view, place, or style

Examples:
1. "When Jane Austen wrote 'Pride and Prejudice' in the early years of the 19th century, there was no heroic place for the unreconstructed nerd in the throbbing romantic novel." — Chris Jones, The Chicago Tribune, 22 Nov. 2016
2. "Writers of all descriptions are stampeding to buy word processors. Machines have already become so user-friendly that even the most unreconstructed of Luddites can be charmed into laying down the old sledgehammer and stroking a few keys instead." — Thomas Pynchon, The New York Times, 28 Oct. 1984