WOTD – May 3rd, 2005: labile

labile: open to change; apt or likely to change (adj) No one could ever accuse me of being labile. For example, I have been at the same job for over 5 years, though I constantly complain about it. Plus, I dislike the idea of moving, even though I long to return home to the state [...]

WOTD – May 2, 2005: supplicate

supplicate: to make a humble and earnest petition (intransitive verb); to make a humble petition to; to beseech (transitive verb) With the loss of everything he had, Henry had tried to find ways to make ends meet. He had only his daughter and himself to support and he hated to see the pain and shame [...]

WOTD – May 1st, 2005: palindrome

palindrome: a word, verse, phrase, or sentence that reads the same backward or forward (noun) Mary Caine left school excited to tell her parents that she’d learned an especially large, complicated word in class today. Her teacher had taught her all about palindromes, how some of the most common words many of the students said [...]