Word of the Day

[Ame Yuki Kaze]

toothsome: delicious; attractive; luscious.  

[lola_siannodel]

Shinobi 1977

In the interest of expanding our collective vocabulary:

Word of the Day

redivivus: living again; revived; restored

My new favorate word! Like the Shichinintai!  

[Ame Yuki Kaze]

countermand: to revoke (a former command) or recall by a contrary order.  

[Ame Yuki Kaze]

expropriate: to deprive of possession; also, to transfer (property) to oneself.  

[Ame Yuki Kaze]

perambulate: to stroll; to walk through or over.  

[Ame Yuki Kaze]

contradistinction: distinction by contrast.  

[Ame Yuki Kaze]

ululate: to howl; to wail.  

[BlackenedPoetic]

::Giggles slightly::
I love the english language,
But I still find that some of our words are quite hilarious.
::Nods::

 

[Ame Yuki Kaze]

crapulous: sick from, or marked by, excessive drinking.  

[Yvl9921]

Greatest word of all time:

Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia

The fear of large words.  

[Ame Yuki Kaze]

parvenu: an upstart; one newly risen in class or economic status.  

[Ame Yuki Kaze]

manse: a large and imposing residence.  

[Ame Yuki Kaze]

uxorious: excessively fond of or submissive to a wife.  

[Ithaya]

Shinobi 1977

uxorious: excessively fond of or submissive to a wife.

From uxor (or similar) meaning wife, I'm guessing, as I seem to remember that uxoricide means the killing of one's wife. I know many -icide words...  

[Ame Yuki Kaze]

Ides: the fifteenth day of March, May, July, and October, and the thirteenth day of the other months.