https://wordoftheday.co.za Your World, in a Word. Tue, 07 Sep 2010 07:27:50 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 https://wordoftheday.co.za/verb/castigate Sat, 20 Mar 2010 05:00:07 +0000 Castigate – To criticize or chastise severely.

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• To criticize or chastise severely.
• To inflict severe punishment on.

Synonyms: baste, bawl out, beat, berate

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• To amuse (oneself) in a light, frolicsome manner.
• To display.

Synonyms: amusement, entertain, frolic, merriment

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• To avoid telling the truth by being ambiguous, evading, or misleading.
• To stray from or evade the truth; equivocate.

Synonyms: beat around the bush, beg the question, belie

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• Blindly or naively optimistic.

Synonyms: Utopian, assured, bright

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• To hold spellbound; captivate
• To enslave.

Synonyms: absorb, beguile, bewitch

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• To play amorously; flirt
• To trifle; toy.
• To waste time; dawdle.

Synonyms: boondoggle, drag, fool around, fool with

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• Used in the healing or treating of wounds.

Synonyms: alleviative, beneficial, corrective

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The post Vulnerary first appeared on Word of the Day.]]> https://wordoftheday.co.za/verb/mingle-2 Sat, 13 Mar 2010 05:00:00 +0000 http://www.thefreedictionary.com/mingle Mingle – To bring or combine together or with something else.

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• To mix or bring together in combination, usually without loss of individual characteristics.
• To mix so that the components become united; merge.

Synonyms: admix, alloy, blend, coalesce

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• To wash; bathe.
• To lap or wash against.

Synonyms: bath, bathe, brush u

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The post Lave first appeared on Word of the Day.]]> https://wordoftheday.co.za/noun/languor Thu, 11 Mar 2010 05:00:00 +0000 http://www.dictionary.com/wordoftheday/archive/2010/03/08.html Languor – Lack of physical or mental energy; listlessness.

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• Lack of physical or mental energy; listlessness.
• A dreamy, lazy mood or quality

Synonyms: apathy, dullness, fatigue, idleness

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