WOD - Word Of the Day dictionary

                       WOD - Word Of the Day dictionary
                           (nobbled from Webster's)

                         WOD Master - Bob Whitehurst.
                 Used without Mr. Whitehurst's permission :-)

The words listed below are taken directly from Webster's New Colligate Dictionary. This was a project born from boredom. Unfortunately the boredom was replaced with work and thus the WOD came to an end.

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PASS I (passing through the dictionary selecting one word from each letter)

  affine      - a relative by marriage, geometric transformation of line.
  boondoggle  - handcraft article of leather of wicker.  wasteful project
                or activity.
  churl       - a medieval peasant.  a rude ill-bred person.  a stingy
                morose person.
  diablerie   - black magic; mischievous conduct or manner.
  egad        - used as a mild oath.
  foist       - to pass off as a genuine or worthy.
  gerent      - one that rules or manages.
  highfalutin - expressed in or marked by the use of high flown bombastic
                languages; pompous.
  inspissate  - to make thick or thicker.
  junto       - a group of persons joined for a common purpose.
  kitsch      - something that appeals to popular or low-brow taste and is
                often of poor quality.
  looby       - an awkward clumsy fellow.
  mendicancy  - the condition of being a begger; the practice of begging.
  niggle      - to spend too much effort on minor details; to find fault
                in a petty way.
  otiose      - being at leisure; producing no useful result.
  pasquinade  - a lampoon posted in a public place; a satirical writing.
  quivive     - alert; lookout
  reliquary   - a container or shrine in which sacred relics are kept.
  soporific   - causing or tending to cause sleep; lethargic.
  telic       - tending toward an end.

  usufruct    - the legal right of using and enjoying the fruits or
                profits of something belonging to another.
  velleity    - the lowest degree of volition; a slight wish or tendancy;
                inclination.
  whiffet     - a small, young, or unimportant person.
  xenobiotic  - a chemical compound that is foreign to a living organism.
  yenta       - one that meddles; blabermouth, gossip.
  zeugma      - the use of a word to modify or govern two or more words
                in such a manner that it applies to each in a different
                sense or makes sense with only one.

PASS II

  adrem       - to the point or purpose; relevently.
  bon mot     - a clever remark; whitticism.
  curmudgeon  - a crusty, ill-tempered, and usually old man.
  doyen       - a person uniquely skilled by long experience in some
                field of endeaver.
  effete      - worn out with age; marked by weakness or decadence.
  flivver     - a small cheap usually old automobile.
  gleg        - sharp; quick.
  harpy       - a foul malign creature in Greek mythology that is part
                woman and part bird; a preditory person; leech.
  insouciance - lighthearted unconcern; nonchalance.
  jointress   - a woman having a legal jointure (dowing).
  knout       - a whip used for flogging.
  lection     - a liturgical lesson for a particular day.
  metis       - one of mixed blood; half-breed.
  nobble      - to win over to one's side; steal, cheat, swindle.
  nethog      - one who obstructs a computer network with useless transmissions.
  oubliette   - a dungeon with an opening only at the top.
  peccant     - guilty of a moral offense; sinning; faulty.
  quidnunc    - one who seeks to know all the latest news or gossip.
* quidnull    - one who seeks to know nothing at all.
  ronyon      - a mangy or scabby creature.
  sciolism    - a superficial show of learning
  technoid    - a technically oriented person.

Please feel free to find new words that you think qualify as WOD words and submit them to wod@travelmall.com with a subject of "add wod".