Month 5 – Word of the Day 14
Aeipathy
means
an enduring and consuming passion
Aeipathy
means
an enduring and consuming passion
Following is a recap of Month 2, for those who have missed. Denotation Connotation Connate Ethnic Gregarious Charade Pantomime Harlequin Buffoon Guffoon dendrophilous Dendrophilia Deciduous Quip Motley Sleight Antic Flimflam Humbug Deadpan Shtick Jocular Lampoon Gateway Digital technology GPS VPN Olympiad Olympic LAN Wi-fi
Rasasvada (Rusaasvaad) means the taste of bliss in the absence of all thoughts. Pronunciation – ‘ra-sas-‘va-da Origin- Sanskrit
Word for today is Frenemy means a person or group that is friendly toward another because the relationship brings benefits, but harbors feelings of resentment or rivalry or a person who pretends to be a friend but is actually an enemy; a rival with which one maintains friendly relations. Alice had a frenemy once and was troubled at…
Beguile means deceive Don’t let the mermaids beguile you with their siren songs.
Buffoon means a person who amuses others by tricks, jokes, odd gestures and postures, etc. or a person given to coarse or undignified joking. The word originated from French bouffon, from Italian buffone, from Medieval Latin būfō, from Latin: toad
The term private eye alludes simply to private i (short for an investigator). You may also call such a person a tec (short for detective), a gumshoe (from a quiet, rubber-soled footwear), a sleuth (from an Old Norse word for “trail”), a shamus (of Yiddish origin), or a hawkshaw (from a detective in the 1863 play The…