Friday's Top 5 Words of the Day for August 8, 2008

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1. Quaff (Transitive Verb) To drink with relish; to drink copiously of; to swallow in large draughts.

Example: "He gets drunk with his guides, makes eyes at the girls and gamely quaffs snake wine." -Pico Iyer "Snake Wine and Socialism"

2. Hebetude (Noun) Mental dullness or sluggishness.

Example: Ski bums enjoy an innocent hebetude disposition that I sometimes wish I had taken advantage of while I had the opportunity.

3. Malapropism (Noun) The usually unintentional humorous misuse of a word, especially by confusion with one of a similar sound; also, an example of such misuse.

Example: Her silver-tongued attempts were often thwarted with her inadvertent malapropisms.

4. Grandiloquent (Adjective) Lofty in style; pompous; bombastic.

Example: His silence while in the boutique aside, he suddenly became grandiloquent as we entered the Guggenheim.

5. Bowdlerize (Transitive Verb) To remove and modify the parts considered offensive.

Example: He refused to bowdlerize what he considered his opus, even if it meant he were to be stricken from the anthology.


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