Since receiving a Word A Day Calendar, I’ve decided to write a short something including my new word each day.

noun

1.  (in ancient Greece) an official expounder of rites of worship and sacrifice.

2.  any interpreter of sacred mysteries or esoteric principles; mystagogue.

Mulder is a hierophant of unexplained phenomena.  Scully is a hierophant of Mulder

Since receiving a Word A Day Calendar, I’ve decided to write a short something including my new word each day.

noun

1. a plaster for the shin or leg.

2. Informal.

1. a piece of paper money of a denomination lower than one dollar.
2. money of little value, as that issued on insufficient security.

The cost of the necklace was so low, a mere shinplaster, that she was suspicious of it’s origin.

Since receiving a Word A Day Calendar, I’ve decided to write a short something including my new word each day.

truculent

adjective

1.  fierce; cruel; savagely brutal.

2. brutally harsh; vitriolic; scathing:  his truculent criticism of her work.

3. aggressively hostile; belligerent.

The truculent barbs from the school bully made seventh grade excrutiating for the boy who had no idea his future was so bright. 

Since receiving a Word A Day Calendar, I’ve decided to write a short something including my new word each day.

Vaporware

noun

1.   Computer Slang. a product, especially software, that is promoted or marketed while it is still in development and that may never be produced.

Sales refused to sell the new product until they actually saw it.  They had been fooled by vaporware too many times in the past.  Why do business boys continue to try to fool each other? 

Since receiving a Word A Day Calendar, I’ve decided to write a short something including my new word each day.

babblative

adjective

tending to babble, prattle; loquacious

There seem to be so many babblative people on the internet.  Take some time. simmer down and enjoy the silence.  Perhaps you’ll think of something profound to say.  

note:  this is, by far, my favorite word of the day to date!

Since receiving a Word A Day Calendar, I’ve decided to write a short something including my new word each day.

Osculate

verb (used without object), osculated, osculating.

1.   to come into close contact or union.

2.  Geometry. (of a curve) to touch another curve or another part of the same curve so as to have the same tangent and curvature at the point of contact.

I osculate daily with insanity, by the mere fact of conversing with my co-workers.

Since receiving a word of the day calendar, I am writing a something short with my new words each day.

fraxinella

noun frax·i·nel·la ˌfrak-sə-ˈne-lə

Definition of fraxinella

1. :  a Eurasian perennial herb (Dictamnus albus) of the rue family with flowers that emit an aromatic flammable vapor in hot weather —called also gas plant

I continuously misspell fraxinella as franzenella.  A flower that emails an aromatic flammable vapor feels like it should be spelled that way.

Since receiving a Word A Day Calendar, I’ve decided to write a short something including my new word each day.

palpate

verb pal·pate ˈpal-ˌpāt

Simple Definition of palpate

• medical : to examine (part of the body) by touching it

The hot doctor said he had to palpate my side to understand what was going on.  Who am I to argue?

Since receiving a Word A Day Calendar, I’ve decided to write a short something including my new word each day.

fusty

adjective fus·ty ˈfəs-tē

Simple Definition of fusty

• : full of dust and unpleasant smells : not fresh

• : very old-fashioned

The litter box gets fusty if my human doesn’t clean it out every day.