VOCABULARY BUILDING

Words of the day:

unctuous: characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness

uxorious: excessively submissive or devoted to one's wife

solipsistic: the theory that the self is the only thing that can be known and verified

impecunious: lacking money; penniless

predilection: an established preference

verisimilitude: the quality of seeming to be true

vertiginous: causing dizziness; also, giddy; dizzy

anodyne: serving to relieve pain

schadenfreude: a malicious satisfaction in the misfortunes of others

obsequious: servilely attentive; fawning