English Learning Online: Vocabulary: Word of The Day 16 December 2012

English Learning Online: Vocabulary: Word of The Day 16 December 2012

For this post, in Vocabulary section, I would like to continue sharing with you latest words of the day as following...

glean \GLEEN\, verb:

1. To learn, discover, or find out, usually little by little or slowly.
2. To gather (grain or the like) after the reapers or regular gatherers.
3. To gather slowly and laboriously, bit by bit.


franchise \FRAN-chahyz\, noun:

1. The right to vote.
2. A privilege of a public nature conferred on an individual,group, or company by a government.


quid \KWID\, noun:

1. A piece of something to be chewed but not swallowed.
2. One pound sterling.

cahoots \kuh-HOOT\, noun:

In partnership; in league.

nictitate \NIK-ti-teyt\, verb:

To wink.

disbosom \dis-BOOZ-uhm\, verb:

To reveal; confess.

armistice \AHR-muh-stis\, noun:

A temporary suspension of hostilities by agreement of the warring parties.

troth \TRAWTH\, noun:

1. Faithfulness, fidelity, or loyalty.
2. One's word or promise, especially in engaging oneself to marry.

pigeonhole \PIJ-uhn-hohl\, verb:

1. To lay aside for use or reference at some later, indefinite time.

noun:
1. One of a series of small, open compartments, as in a desk,cabinet, or the like, used for filing or sorting papers, letters,etc.
2. In printing, white space created by setting words or lines too far apart.

dovetail \DUHV-teyl\, verb:

1. To join or fit together compactly or harmoniously.
2. In carpentry, a joint formed of one or more such tenons fitting tightlywithin corresponding mortises.
3. To join or fit together by means of a carpentry dovetail or dovetails.

noun:
1. In carpentry, a tenon broader at its end than at its base; pin.

ogle \OH-guhl\, verb:

1. To look at amorously, flirtatiously, or impertinently.
2. To eye; look or stare at.

terpsichorean \turp-si-kuh-REE-uhn\, adjective:

1. Pertaining to dancing.

noun:
1. A dancer.

dog-ear \DAWG-eer\, verb:

1. To fold down the corner of a page in a book.

noun:
1. (In a book) a corner of a page folded over like a dog's ear, as by careless use, or to mark a place.
2. In architecture, another term for a crossette.

bird-dog \BURD-dawg\, verb:

1. To follow, watch carefully, or investigate.
2. In slang, to steal or attempt to steal another person's date.

noun:
1. One of various breeds of dogs trained to hunt or retrieve birds.
2. A person hired to locate special items or people, especially a talent scout who seeks out promising athletes.

fob \FOB\, noun:

1. A short chain, usually with a medallion or similar ornament, worn hanging from a pocket.
2. A small pocket just below the waistline in trousers for a watch, keys, change, etc.

verb:
1. To cheat someone by substituting something spurious or inferior.
2. To put (someone) off by deception or trickery.

giblets \JIB-lits\, noun:

The heart, liver, gizzard, and the like, of a fowl, often cooked separately.

balsamaceous \bawl-suh-MEY-shuhs\, adjective:

Possessing healing or restorative qualities.

agape \ah-GAH-pey\, noun:

1. Unselfish love of one person for another without sexual implications.
2. The love of Christians for other persons, corresponding to the love of God for humankind.

potvaliancy \POT-val-yuhn-see\, noun:

Brave only as a result of being drunk.

amygdaliform \uh-MIG-duh-luh-fawrm\, adjective:

Shaped like an almond.

fainaigue \fuh-NEYG\, verb:

1. To shirk; evade work or responsibility.
2. To renege at cards.

rime \RAHYM\, noun:

A coating of tiny, white, granular ice particles, caused by the rapid freezing of water droplets.

biblioklept \BIB-lee-uh-klept\, noun:

A person who steals books.

svelte \SFELT\, adjective:

1. Slender, especially gracefully slender in figure.
2. Suave; blandly urbane.

trundle \TRUHN-dl\, verb:

To move or walk with a rolling gait.

empurple \em-PUR-puhl\, verb:

1. To color or become purple or purplish.
2. To darken or redden; flush.

effervescent \ef-er-VES-uhnt\, adjective:

1. High-spirited; vivacious; lively.
2. Effervescing; bubbling.

alexipharmic \uh-lek-suh-FAHR-mik\, adjective:

1. Warding off poisoning or infection; antidotal; prophylactic.
2. An alexipharmic agent, especially an internal antidote.

pontificate \pon-TIF-i-keyt\, verb:

1. To speak in a pompous or dogmatic manner.
2. To perform the office or duties of a pontiff.
3. To serve as a bishop, especially in a Pontifical Mass.

noun:
1. The office or term of office of a pontiff.

erinaceous \er-uh-NEY-shuhs\, adjective:

Of the hedgehog kind or family.

quench \kwench\, verb:

1. To slake, satisfy, or allay (thirst, desires, passion, etc.).
2. To put out or extinguish (fire, flames, etc.).
3. To cool suddenly by plunging into a liquid, as in tempering steel by immersion in water.
4. To subdue or destroy; overcome; quell: to quench an uprising.
5. Electronics. To terminate (the flow of electrons in a vacuum tube) by application of a voltage.

anopisthograph \an-uh-PIS-thuh-graf\, noun:

Manuscript, parchment, or book having writing on only one side of the leaves.

mulligrubs \MUHL-i-gruhbz\, noun:

Ill temper; colic; grumpiness.

moor \moor\, verb:

1. To fix firmly; secure.
2. To secure (a ship, boat, dirigible, etc.) in a particular place, as by cables and anchors or by lines.
3. To moor a ship, small boat, etc.
4. To be made secure by cables or the like.

noun:
1. The act of mooring.

apopemptic \ap-uh-PEMP-tik\, adjective:

1. Pertaining to leave-taking or departing; valedictory.

noun:
1. Obsolete. A farewell address; valedictory.

plication \plahy-KEY-shuhn\, noun:

1. The act or procedure of folding.
2. The state or quality of being folded; a fold.
3. Surgery. A. The folding in and suturing of tucks, so as to tighten weakened or stretched tissue. B. The folding of an organ, as a section of the intestine, and the attaching of it to another organ or tissue.

adiaphorous \ad-ee-AF-er-uhs\, adjective:

Doing neither good nor harm, as a medicine.

cruciverbalist \kroo-suh-VUR-buh-list\, noun:

A designer or aficionado of crossword puzzles.

For Example:

- Glean (v): 1. To learn, discover, or find out, usually little by little or slowly.

Eg: I like to glean after join today seminar.

- Troth \TRAWTH\, noun: 1. Faithfulness, fidelity, or loyalty.

Eg: Husband and wife, both must have troth in their life after marriage.