Wiktionary:Word of the day/Archive/2011/September

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for September 1
cohort n
  1. A division of a Roman legion.
  2. A group of people supporting the same thing or person.
  3. An accomplice, associate, or colleague
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for September 2
ouroboric adj
  1. Relating to the Ouroboros, a snake eating its own tail; hence: self-consuming, self-referential, recursive
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for September 3
éclat n
  1. A brilliant or successful effect; brilliant, ostentatious show; glory, renown
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for September 4
lightfast adj
  1. Resistant to fading
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for September 5
thermoception n
  1. The sense of heat and cold
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for September 6
farrago n
  1. A collection containing a confused variety of miscellaneous things
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for September 7
fulcrum n
  1. (mechanics) The support about which a lever pivots
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for September 8
unstinted adj
  1. Not constrained, not restrained, or not confined
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for September 9
zealous adj
  1. Full of zeal; ardent, fervent; exhibiting enthusiasm or strong passion
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for September 10
variadic adj
  1. (Computing, mathematics, linguistics) Taking a variable number of arguments; especially, taking arbitrarily many arguments
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for September 11
in memoriam adv
  1. In memory (of); as a memorial
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for September 12
adjudicate v
  1. To settle a legal case or other dispute.
  2. To act as a judge
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for September 13
recalcitrant adj
  1. Stubbornly unwilling to obey authority
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for September 14
comeuppance n
  1. A negative outcome which is justly deserved
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15

(none; see Wiktionary:Word of the day/Archive/2010/September#15)

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for September 16
peanut gallery n
  1. A source of heckling, unwelcome commentary, or criticism
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for September 17
disillusionment n
  1. Disappointment from discovering that something is not what one had anticipated
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for September 18
piebald adj
  1. Spotted or blotched, especially in black and white
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for September 19
jump down someone's throat v
  1. To criticise with excessive and unexpected harshness
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for September 20
anthelmintic adj & n
  1. A drug for the treatment of intestinal worm infestation
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for September 21
infanticide n
  1. The murder of an infant
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for September 22
promontory noun
  1. A high point of land extending into a body of water, a headland; a cliff
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23

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for September 23
redact v
  1. To edit, to prepare (a text) for publication.
  2. To censor, to black out portions of (a text)
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24

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for September 24
heretofore adverb
  1. Prior to now, until now, up to the present time
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for September 25
lampoon v
  1. To satirize or poke fun at
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for September 26
exanimate adj
  1. Lifeless, not or no longer living.
  2. Spiritless, dispirited
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for September 27
hallux n
  1. The big toe
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for September 28
buoyancy n
  1. The ability of an object to stay afloat in a fluid
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for September 29
abnegate v
  1. To deny oneself (something), to renounce or give up (a right, power, claim, privilege or convenience).
  2. To deny, to reject (something, for example a truth or a commonly-held belief)
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30

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for September 30
cutify verb
  1. (from the Latin word for skin, "cutis") To form skin, as, the wound area was left to cutify.
  2. (from "cute" + "-ify", perhaps modeled on "beautify") To make cute, as, she cutified her room
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