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
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
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