Words of the Day

I nonchalantly weened myself from the obligation of posting a Word of the Day in my Myspace Bulletin every day. I was surprised by how many people read them, commented and responded that they loved them. But really, I'm much too busy for that now. Anyhow, I shall list some of my favorite "BIG" words here along with other words I tend to abuse.

1. Leitmotif - a dominant recurring theme.
2. Ameliorate - to make better or more tolerable.
3. Infamous - having an extremely bad reputation.
4. Notorious - generally known and talked of.
5. Assuage - To make milder or less severe; to reduce the intensity of; to ease; to relieve. To appease; to satisfy; to soothe or calm; to pacify.
6. Maudlin - Tearfully or excessively sentimental.
7. Multifarious - having great diversity or variety.
8. Exacerbate - to aggravate; to make worse.
9. Lackadaisical - Lacking spirit or liveliness; showing lack of interest.
10. Ineffable - Incapable of being expressed in words; unspeakable; unutterable; indescribable.
11. Melancholy - Depressions of spirits; a pensive mood.
12. Spurious - not genuine, authentic, or true; pretended; not from the claimed/proper source.
13. Licentious - lacking legal or moral restraints; : marked by disregard for strict rules of correctness.
14. Coquet - to deal with something playfully rather than seriously; to play the flirt (n- coquette).
15. Equivocate - To be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or to avoid committing oneself to anything definite.
16. Propinquity - Proximity; nearness. Kinship. Similarity in nature.
17. Ubiquitous - existing or being everywhere at the same time : constantly encountered : widespread.
18. Hiatus - a break or interruption in the continuity of a work, series, action, etc.
19. Jaded - to wear out by overwork or abuse : to tire or dull through repetition or excess.
20. Serendipitous - come upon or found by accident; fortuitous, good; beneficial; favorable.
21. Pretentious - characterized by assumption of dignity or importance : making an exaggerated outward show; ostentatious.
22. Ostentatious - characterized by or given to pretentious or conspicuous show in an attempt to impress others : intended to attract notice.
23. Capricious - apt to change suddenly; whimsical; changeable.
24. Callous - being hardened and thickened : feeling no emotion : feeling or showing no sympathy for others
25. Quixotic - extravagantly chivalrous or romantic; visionary, impractical, or impracticable : impulsive and often rashly unpredictable.
26. Vicarious - experienced or realized through imaginative or sympathetic participation in the experience of another : performed or suffered by one person as a substitute for another or to the benefit or advantage of another.
27. Anomaly - deviation from the common rule : something different, abnormal, peculiar, or not easily classified.
28. Surreptitious - done, made, or gotten by stealth.
29. Penchant - a strong inclination, taste, or liking for something.
30. Cohort - a group of individuals having a statistical or demographic factor in common.
31. Despondent - feeling or showing extreme discouragement or depression : implies a deep dejection arising from a conviction of the uselessness of further effort.
32. Muse: a source of inspiration; a state of deep thought or dreamy abstraction; to become absorbed in thought; to turn something over in the mind meditatively and often inconclusively.
33. Quandary: a state of perplexity or doubt.
34. Pensive: musingly or dreamily thoughtful : suggestive of sad thoughtfulness.
35. Transpicuous: clearly seen through or understood.
36. Besmirch: sully; soil.
37. Cantankerous: difficult or irritating to deal with.
38. Cumbersome: burdensome; troublesome; unwieldy because of heaviness or bulk.
39. Synopsis: a condensed statement or outline.
40. Copious: large in quantity or number; abundant; plentiful.
41. Plethora: overabundance; excess.
42. Disheveled: marked by disorder or disarray.
43. Exanimate : inanimate or lifeless; spiritless; disheartened.
44. Pugnacious: inclined to quarrel or fight readily; quarrelsome; belligerent; combative.
45. Intrinsic: belonging to the essential nature or constitution of a thing.
46. Epic: extending beyond the usual or ordinary especially in size or scope.
47. Rote: mechanical or unthinking routine or repetition.
48. Cupidity: strong desire; lust, particularly for wealth.
49. Erudition: extensive knowledge acquired chiefly from books.
50. Vituperation: the act of instance of speaking abusively; verbal abuse.
51. Verbose: containing more words than necessary; given to wordiness.
52. Antithesis: contrast; the direct opposite.
53. Prurience: inclined to have, or characterized by lascivious or lustful thoughts: causing lust: having a restless desire or longing.
54. Posthumous: following or occurring after death.
55. Nary: not any : not one: not a single.
56. Vacuous: emptied of or lacking content; marked by lack of ideas or intelligence; idle.