Word of the Day

Oleoresinous (adj) ol-ee-o-rez-in-us Consisting of drying oils and resins that usually have been cooked. Oleoresinous,…

Algorithm (noun) al-go-ri-thm an ordered set of instructions applied repeatedly to data to solve a…

Costive (adj) kos-tiv suffering from constipation / slow in action or in expressing ideas, opinions,…

Vaunt (verb) vaw-nt to speak vaingloriously of; boast of 1350–1400; Middle English vaunten, Middle French…

Tenebrism (noun) ten-eb-rizm (sometimes capital) a school, style, or method of painting, adopted chiefly by…

Netsuke (noun) net-skee a small figure of ivory, wood, metal, or ceramic, originally used as…

Mansuetude (noun) man-swi-tewd Mildness, gentleness. Mansuetude, “mildness, gentleness,” comes from Latin mānsuētūdō, which is equivalent…