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Word of the Day – February 29, 2020

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tontine

[ˈtäntēn]

NOUN
  1. an annuity shared by subscribers to a loan or common fund, the shares increasing as subscribers die until the last survivor enjoys the whole income.
    • a life insurance plan in which the beneficiaries are those who survive and maintain a policy to the end of a given period.

Word of the Day -February 15, 2020

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pejorative

[pəˈjôrədiv]

ADJECTIVE
  1. expressing contempt or disapproval.
    “permissiveness is used almost universally as a pejorative term”
    synonyms:
NOUN
  1. a word expressing contempt or disapproval.
    “most of what he said was inflammatory and filled with pejorative.

 

Word of the Day – February 1, 2020

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vituperative

[vīˈt(y)o͞opəˌrādiv, vəˈt(y)o͞op(ə)rədiv]

ADJECTIVE
  1. bitter and abusive.
    “the criticism soon turned into a vituperative attack”
    synonyms:

Word of the Day – January 25, 2020

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obdurate

(ŏb′do͝o-rĭt, -dyo͝o-)

adj.

1. Not changing in response to argument or other influence; obstinate or intractable: “Everyone in the region has been obdurate in water negotiations with everyone else” (Marq de Villiers).
2.

a. Hardened in wrongdoing or wickedness; stubbornly impenitent: “obdurate conscience of the old sinner” (Sir Walter Scott).
b. Hardened against feeling; hardhearted: an obdurate miser.

Word of the Day – December 28, 2019

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subterfuge

(sŭb′tər-fyo͞oj′)

n.

1. Deception used to achieve an end: tried to get her to sign the contract by subterfuge.
2. A deceptive stratagem or device: The meeting was a subterfuge to get him out of his office while it was searched.
[French, from Old French suterfuge, from Late Latin subterfugium, from Latin subterfugere, to escape : subter, secretly, beneath; see upo in Indo-European roots + fugere, to flee.] CITE: http://www.freedictionary.com