gomesite/wotd/wotd_data.csv

1	10/9/2022	bridegome	ˈbriːdɡoːmə	Noun	A bridegroom; a man recently married or to be married.	God as Christendom’s partner.
2	10/10/2022	enfeoff	ɛnˈfɛf	Verb	To transfer a fief to, to endow with a fief; to put in legal possession of a freehold interest.	To give up completely; to surrender, to yield.
3	10/11/2022	soi-disant	ˌswɑːdɪˈzɑːn	Adjective	Self-styled; self-proclaimed.
4	10/12/2022	funambulist	fjuːˈnæmbjʊlɪst	Noun	A tightrope walker or a similar performer on a slack rope.
5	10/13/2022	hodiernal	ˌhoʊdiˈɝnəl	Adjective	Of or pertaining to the present day or today; hodiern.
6	10/14/2022	effluvium	ɨˈfluːvi.əm	Noun	A gaseous or vaporous emission, especially a foul-smelling one.	A condition causing the shedding of hair.
7	10/15/2022	merlon	ˈmɝlən	Noun	Any of the upright projections between the embrasures of a battlement, originally for archers to shield behind while shooting arrows over the embrasures, or through loopholes in the merlons.
8	10/16/2022	cosmogony	kɑːzˈmɑːɡəni	Noun	The study of the origin, and sometimes the development, of the universe or the solar system, in astrophysics, religion, and other fields.	Any specific theory, model, myth, or other account of the origin of the universe.	The creation of the universe.
9	10/17/2022	hexameron	hɛkˈsæmɝən	Noun	The six days in which God created the world according to the biblical creation story.
10	10/18/2022	machicolation	məˌtʃɪkəˈleɪʃən	Noun	An opening between corbels that support a projecting parapet, or in the floor of a gallery or the roof of a portal, of a fortified building from which missiles can be shot or heated items dropped upon assailants attacking the base of the walls.	A projecting parapet with a series of such openings.
11	10/19/2022	cheesewright	ˈtʃiːzɹaɪt	Noun	A cheesemaker.
12	10/20/2022	vernal	ˈvɝnəl	Adjective	Pertaining to or occurring in spring.	Having characteristics like spring; fresh, young, youthful.
13	10/21/2022	apotropaic	ˌæpətɹəˈpeɪ.ɪk	Adjective	Intended to ward off evil.	Noun	An agent intended to ward off evil.
14	10/22/2022	POETS day	ˈpoʊɪts deɪ	Noun	Piss Off (or Push Off) Early, Tomorrow’s Saturday.	i.e., Friday, the last day of the working week.
15	10/23/2022	autogolpe	ˈɑːtoʊɡɔlpə	Noun	A coup d’état in which a nation’s leader, despite having come to power through legal means, dissolves or renders powerless the national legislature and unlawfully assumes extraordinary powers.
16	10/24/2022	bildungsroman	ˈbɪl.dʊŋzˌɹoʊ.mən	Noun	A novel tracing the spiritual, moral, psychological, or social development and growth of the main character, usually from childhood to maturity.
17	10/25/2022	dilettante	ˈdɪlɪˌtɑnt	Noun	An amateur, someone who dabbles in a field out of casual interest rather than as a profession or serious interest.
18	10/26/2022	sodality	soʊˈdæl.ɪ.ti	Noun	A fraternity, a society or association.	Spiritual communion with a divine being, a fellowship.
19	10/27/2022	lenticular	lɛnˈtɪk.jʊ.lɚ	Adjective	Of or pertaining to a lens.	Shaped like a biconvex lens.	Relating to a lenticular image.
20	10/28/2022	toilet	ˈtɔɪ.lət	Noun	A covering of linen, silk, or tapestry, spread over a dressing table in a chamber or dressing room.	The table covered by such a cloth; a dressing table.	Personal grooming; the process of washing, dressing and arranging the hair.	One’s style of dressing: dress, outfit.	A dressing room.	Verb	To dress and groom oneself.
21	10/29/2022	disponible	dɪˈspɑːnsəbl̩	Adjective	Available. (Generally an error made by non-native speakers. Available is about 3,000 times more common.)
22	10/30/2022	miasma	miˈæzmə	Noun	A noxious atmosphere or emanation once thought to originate from swamps and waste, and to cause disease.	A noxious atmosphere or influence, an ominous environment.
23	10/31/2022	aetiology	ɛtiːˈɑːlədʒi	Noun	The establishment of a cause, origin, or reason for something.	The study of causes or causation.	The study or investigation of the causes of disease; a scientific explanation for the origin of a disease.	A cause of disease or of any particular case of a disease.
24	11/1/2022	emic	ˈiːmɪk	Adjective	Of or pertaining to the analysis of a cultural system or its features from the perspective of a participant in that culture.
25	11/2/2022	etic	ˈɛtɪk	Adjective	Of or pertaining to analysis of a culture from a perspective situated outside all cultures.
26	11/3/2022	efflux	ˈɛflʌks	Noun	The process of flowing out.	That which has flowed out.
27	11/4/2022	inflood	ˈinˌflʌd	Noun	The act or process of flooding or flowing in; an inflow or influx.	Verb	Of a river, water, etc.: to flood or flow into (a place).	To flood or flow in; to inflow.
28	11/5/2022	glade	ɡleɪd	Noun	An open passage through a wood; a grassy open or cleared space in a forest.	An everglade.	An open space in the ice on a river or lake.	A bright surface of ice or snow.	A gleam of light.	A bright patch of sky; the bright space between clouds.
29	11/6/2022	laund	lɔːnd	Noun	A grassy plain or pasture, especially surrounded by woodland; a glade.
30	11/7/2022	etaoin shrdlu	ˈɛtəɔɪn ˈʃɚdluː	Noun	Nonsense, filler text, or an example of accidental typing.
31	11/8/2022	Batavo-	bəˈtɑːvo	Prefix	Relating to the Netherlands or the Dutch people, language, or culture.
32	11/9/2022	dehiscent	dɪˈhɪsənt	Adjective	(Of a pod or wound) characterized by splitting or bursting open.
33	11/10/2022	repast	ɹɪˈpæst	Noun	A meal.	A period of refreshment or rest.	Food or drink that may be consumed as a meal.	Something that is intellectually or spiritually nourishing.	The consumption of food; also, refreshment obtained from eating; refreshment; rest.
34	11/11/2022	desuetude	dəˈsuːəˌtuːd	Noun	The state when something (for example, a custom or a law) is no longer observed nor practised; disuse, obsolescence.	A cessation of practising or using something.
35	11/12/2022	hecatomb	ˈhɛkətoʊm	Noun	A great feast and public sacrifice to the gods, originally of a hundred oxen.	Any great sacrifice; a great number of people, animals or things, especially as sacrificed or destroyed; a large amount.
36	11/13/2022	word salad	wɝd ˈsæləd	Noun	A nonsensical assemblage of words, typical of patients with schizophrenia, Wernicke’s aphasia, and some other mental disorders.	Meaningless text generated by a computer.	An intentionally nonsensical and voluminous statement.
37	11/14/2022	cryptolect	ˈkɹɪptəˌlɛkt	Noun	A secretive language form used by a subculture; an arcane cant.
38	11/15/2022	derisible	dəˈɹɪzəbəl	Adjective	Deserving derision, i.e., deserving disdain or contempt.
39	11/16/2022	verisimilitude	vɛɹɪsɪˈmɪlɪtuːd	Noun	The property of seeming true, of resembling reality; resemblance to reality, realism.	A statement which merely appears to be true.	(of a story) Faithfulness to its own rules; internal cohesion.
40	11/17/2022	spangled	ˈspæŋ.ɡəld	Noun	Possessing spangles.	(Spangles are small sparkling decorations.)
41	11/18/2022	konjac	ˈkoʊn.jæk	Noun	A foul-smelling plant grown in Asia (Amorphophallus konjac).
42	11/19/2022	perspicacity	ˌpɜːɹ.spɪˈkæs.ɪ.ti	Noun	Acute discernment or understanding; insight.	The human faculty or power to mentally grasp or understand clearly.	Keen eyesight.
43	11/20/2022	abele	əˈbil	Noun	The white poplar (<i>Populus alba</i>).
44	11/21/2022	dolichocephalic	ˌdɑlɪkoʊsəˈfælɪk	Noun	Having a head that is long from front to back (relative to its width from left to right).
45	11/22/2022	adytum	ˈædɪtəm	Noun	The innermost sanctuary or shrine in a temple, from where oracles were given.	A private chamber; a sanctum.
46	11/23/2022	bewray	bɪˈɹeɪ	Verb	To accuse; malign; speak evil of.	To reveal, divulge, or make something known; disclose.	To reveal or disclose and show the presence or true character of, especially if unintentionally or incidentally, or else if perfidiously, prejudicially, or to one’s discredit.	To expose or rat someone out.	To expose to harm.	To expose a deception.
47	11/24/2022	welkin	ˈwɛlkən	Noun	The sky which appears to an observer on the Earth as a dome in which celestial bodies are visible; the firmament.	The upper atmosphere occupied by clouds, flying birds, etc.	The place above the Earth where God or other deities live; heaven.
48	11/25/2022	synagogical	ˌsɪ.nəˈɡɑɡɪkəl	Adjective	Of or pertaining to a synagogue.
49	11/26/2022	prozymite	ˈpɹɑzəˌmaɪt	Noun	One who administers the Eucharist with leavened bread, in particular a member of the Eastern Orthodox Church.
50	11/27/2022	azymite	ˈæzɪmaɪt	Noun	One who administers the Eucharist with unleavened bread, in particular a member of the Latin Church or Roman Catholic Church.
51	11/28/2022	superpermutation	ˈsupɚpɝmjuːˌteɪʃən	Noun	For some value <i>n</i>, a string that contains each permutation of <i>n</i> symbols as a substring.
52	11/29/2022	mouthbrooder	ˈmaʊθˌbɹudɚ	Noun	Any animal that cares for its offspring, either eggs or juveniles, by holding them in its mouth for extended periods of time.
53	11/30/2022	yepsen	ˈjɛp.sən	Noun	Amount that can be held in two hands cupped together.	Two hands cupped together.
54	12/1/2022	gowpen	ˈɡaʊpən	Noun	A bowl made of the two hands cupped together.
55	12/2/2022	uguisubari	ˌuːɡuː.iːsuːˈbɑːɹi	Noun	A wooden floor specifically designed to creak or “chirp” at the slightest pressure, thus warning the inhabitants of any surreptitious approach.
56	12/3/2022	regolith	ˈɹɛɡəlɪθ	Noun	The layer of loose rock, dust, sand, and soil, resting on the bedrock, that constitutes the surface layer of most dry land on Earth, the Moon, and other large solid aggregated celestial objects. Submarine regolith also exists.
57	12/4/2022	updation	ʌpˈdeɪʃən	Noun	The act or process of updating.	An instance of that process: an update.
58	12/5/2022	antejentacular	ˌæn.tədʒɛnˈtækjəlɚ	Adjective	Occurring before breakfast.
59	12/6/2022	breviloquent	bɹɛˈvɪl.ə.kwənt	Adjective	Exhibiting brevity in speech; concise.
60	12/7/2022	chyron	ˈkaɪɹɑn	Noun	A set of graphics or words at the bottom of a television screen, sometimes unrelated to the current viewing content.
61	12/8/2022	peregrinate	ˈpɛ.ɹɪ.ɡɹəˌneɪt	Verb	To travel from place to place, or from one country to another, especially on foot; hence, to sojourn in foreign countries.	To travel through a specific place, e.g., “to peregrinate a country”.
62	12/9/2022	eke	ik	Noun	An addition.	A small stand on which a beehive is placed.	A spacer put between or over or under hive parts to make more space.	Verb	To add to, to augment; to increase; to lengthen.	Adverb	Also; in addition to.
63	12/10/2022	disphotic	dɪsˈfoʊtɪk	Adjective	Having enough light to see, but not enough to carry out photosynthesis.
64	12/11/2022	nudiustertian	nʊdi.əsˈtɝʃɪən	Adjective	Of or relating to the day before yesterday; very recent.
65	12/12/2022	allodial	əˈloʊdiəl	Adjective	Pertaining to land owned by someone absolutely, without any feudal obligations; held without acknowledgement of any superior; allodial title.	Noun	Anything held allodially.
66	12/13/2022	otiose	ˈoʊ.ti.oʊs	Adjective	Having no effect.	Done in a careless or perfunctory manner.	Reluctant to work or to exert oneself.	Of a person, possessing a bored indolence.	Having no reason for existing; having no point, reason, or purpose.
67	12/14/2022	sera	ˈsɪɹə	Noun	Plural of serum.
68	12/15/2022	paracosm	ˈpæɹəˌkɒzəm	Noun	A detailed imaginary world, especially one created by a child.
69	12/16/2022	definiendum	dəfɪniˈɛndəm	Noun	The word or phrase defined in a definition.
70	12/17/2022	pome	poʊm	Noun	A type of fruit in which the often edible flesh arises from the swollen base of the flower and not from the carpels, such as an apple.	A ball of silver or other metal, filled with hot water and used by a Roman Catholic priest in cold weather to warm his hands during the service.
71	12/18/2022	gnomess	noʊmɪs	Noun	A female gnome.
72	12/19/2022	gigot	ˈdʒɪɡət	Noun	A leg of lamb or mutton.	Short for “gigot sleeve”, a type of sleeve shaped like a leg of mutton.
73	12/20/2022	slaked	sleɪkt	Noun	Allayed; quenched; extinguished.	Mixed with water so that a true chemical combination has taken place.	Verb	Simple past tense and past participle of slake.
74	12/21/2022	chirurgeonly	kaɪˈɹɝdʒənli	Adjective	Having the characteristics of a chirurgeon, that is, a doctor or surgeon.
75	12/22/2022	dithyrambic	daɪθəˈɹæmbɪk	Adjective	Of, pertaining to, or resembling a dithyramb, that is, an impassioned hymn or speech.	Passionate, intoxicated with enthusiasm.
76	12/23/2022	esquamulose	iˈskweɪmjʊloʊs	Adjective	Not covered in scales or scale-like objects; having a smooth skin or outer covering.
77	12/24/2022	emollient	ɪˈmɒlɪənt	Adjective	Something which softens or lubricates the skin; moisturizer.	Anything soothing the mind, or that makes something more acceptable.
78	12/25/2022	rent	ɹɛnt	Noun	A tear or rip in some surface.	A division or schism.	Verb	Simple past tense and past participle of rend.	Adjective	That has been torn or rent; ripped; torn.
79	12/26/2022	bit bucket	ˈbɪt ˌbʌkət	Noun	A container for holding chad (small punched-out pieces of paper) from paper tape or punch cards used with teleprinters, early computers, and other machines; a chad box.	The supposed place where bits go when they fall off the end of a register during a shift operation; the notional resting place of lost or missing digital information.
80	12/27/2022	sphexish	ˈsfɛksɪʃ	Adjective	Of animal behaviour: deterministic, preprogrammed.
81	12/28/2022	abb	æb	Noun	A type of yarn for the warp.	A rough wool from the inferior parts of the fleece, used for the woof or weft.	A filling pick used in weaving.
82	12/29/2022	aba	əˈbɑ	Noun	A coarse, often striped, felted fabric from the Middle East, woven from goat or camel hair.	A loose-fitting sleeveless garment, made from aba or silk, traditionally worn by Arabs.
83	12/30/2022	abob	əˈbɑb	Adverb	Afloat; bouncing on the surface of a liquid.	Adjective	Same as above.
84	12/31/2022	owlful	ˈaʊlfʊl	Adjective	Full of owls.
85	1/1/2023	reptatorial	ˌɹɛp.təˈtɔ.ɹɪ.əl	Adjective	Crawling, creeping.
86	1/2/2023	onocentaur	ɑnəˈsɛntɑɹ	Noun	A centaur with the body of an ass, instead of a prototypical horse
87	1/3/2023	sputcheon	ˈspʌtʃən	Noun	The metal lining of a scabbard’s mouth.
88	1/4/2023	polychrestic	ˌpɑlɪˈkɹɛs.tɪk	Adjective	A medicine that serves for many uses, or that cures many diseases.
89	1/5/2023	ravel	ˈɹævəl	Verb	To entwine or (en)tangle confusedly.	To form or knit out of discrete elements, like weaving fabric from threads.	To unwind, pull apart, fray, unpick, or unravel.	To pull out from a piece of fabric, or a skein or reel.	To confuse or perplex.	To undo the intricacies of; to clarify, to disentangle.	To destroy or ruin, like unravelling fabric.	To become untwisted or unwound; to become unwoven; to fray, to unravel.	To become entangled or snarled.	Noun	A tangled mess; an entanglement, a snarl, a tangle.	A confusing, intricate, or perplexing situation; a complication.	A thread which has unravelled from fabric; also, a situation of fabric, coming apart; an unravelling.
90	1/6/2023	mirative	ˈmɪɹətɪv	Noun	A grammatical mood that expresses surprise at unexpected revelations or new information.	An instance of a form of a word which conveys this mood.	Adjective	Of or relating to the mirative mood.
91	1/7/2023	balconic	ˈbælkənɪk	Adjective	Of or pertaining to balconies.
92	1/8/2023	holm	hoʊm	Noun	Small island, islet.	An island in a lake, river or estuary; an eyot.	Rich flat land near a river, prone to being completely flooded; a river-meadow; bottomland.	A common evergreen oak of Europe, Quercus ilex; the holm oak.
93	1/9/2023	introjection	ɪntɹoʊˈdʒɛkʃən	Noun	The process whereby the ideas of another are unconsciously incorporated into one's own psyche.
94	1/10/2023	adsorbent	ædˈzɔɹ.bn̩t	Adjective	Tending to adsorb, i.e., of a liquid or gas, tending to accumulate and form a thin film on a solid surface.	Noun	The solid or liquid in the process of adsorption on which the adsorbate accumulates.
95	1/11/2023	ostensive definition	ɑˈstɛns.ɪv ˌdɛfɪˈnɪʃn̩	Noun	A way of demonstrating the meaning of a term by presenting examples and counterexamples.
96	1/12/2023	cephalad	ˈsɛfəlæd	Adverb	Towards the head (or anterior extremity), a direction that in humans corresponds to superior.
97	1/13/2023	doxastic	dɑkˈsæstɪk	Adjective	Of, pertaining to, or depending on opinion; conjectural.
98	1/14/2023	putsch	pʊtʃ	Noun	A <i>coup d’état</i>; an illegal effort to forcibly overthrow the current government.
99	1/15/2023	voluntell	ˌvɑlənˈtɛl	Verb	To tell or force someone to volunteer to do something.
100	1/16/2023	heteronym	ˈhɛt.ə.ɹoʊ.nɪm	Noun	A word having the same spelling as another, but a different pronunciation and meaning.	A fictitious character created by an author for the purpose of writing in a different style.
101	1/17/2023	propinquity	pɹoʊˈpɪŋ.kwɪ.ti	Noun	Nearness or proximity.	Affiliation or similarity.
102	1/18/2023	preprandial	ˌpɹiːˈpɹæn.di.əl	Adjective	Occurring before a meal, especially dinner.
103	1/19/2023	loupe	luːp	Noun	A magnifying glass, usually mounted in an eyepiece, often used by jewellers and watchmakers.	A type of short-range binoculars used by surgeons and dentists.
104	1/20/2023	solecism	ˈsoʊlɪsɪzəm	Noun	An erroneous or improper usage.	Error in the use of language.	A faux pas or breach of etiquette; a transgression against the norms of expected behavior.
105	1/21/2023	interdigitation	ˌɪntɚdɪdʒɪˈteɪʃən	Noun	The holding of hands with fingers interlinked.	An interlinking that resembles the fingers of two hands being locked together.
106	1/22/2023	debuccalize	diːˈbʌ.kə.laɪz	Verb	To undergo a sound change in which a consonant loses its original place of articulation and becomes [h] or [ʔ].
107	1/23/2023	eristic	ɛˈɹɪs.tɪk	Adjective	Provoking strife, controversy or discord.	Noun	One who makes specious arguments; one who is disputatious.	A type of dialogue or argument where the participants do not have any reasonable goal.
108	1/24/2023	philomath	ˈfɪləmæθ	Noun	A lover of learning; a scholar.	An astrologer or predictor.
109	1/25/2023	alexipharmic	əˌlɛksəˈfɑɹmɪk	Noun	A medical remedy or an antidote for protecting the body against a harmful substance, especially a poison or venom.	Adjective	Of or pertaining to an alexipharmic; acting as an alexipharmic by protecting against or warding off the ill effects of a harmful substance.
110	1/26/2023	gnomic	ˈnoʊmɪk	Adjective	Mysterious and often incomprehensible yet seemingly wise.	Expressing general truths or aphorisms.
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