Month 2- Word of the day 20
Dendrophilia
literally means
“love of trees”
Dendrophilia
literally means
“love of trees”
Today’s word is Befriend means to make friends or become friendly with; act as a friend to; help; aid: to befriend the poor and the weak. Upon this my benevolent friend thought that here was a grand opportunity to befriend me. ~ Redburn. His First Voyage Herman Melville
Word for today is Lexicographer means a writer, editor, or compiler of a dictionary. The word was derived from Late Greek lexikographos. Lexicon meaning “a wordbook or dictionary which comes from the Greek lexis meaning “speech, word.”
Guffoon means One who titters at new, illuminating material that may be cool and interesting but is also too long to read or watch. so you are a guffoon… …I thought so – Willy Wonka
Connotation means the associated or secondary meaning of a word or expression in addition to its explicit or primary meaning. or something suggested or implied by a word or thing, rather than being explicitly named or described. or in Logic. the set of attributes constituting the meaning of a term and thus determining the range of objects…
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…
Today’s word is Gimcrack means showy but useless. or a showy, useless trifle; gewgaw. Gimcrack comes from the Middle English term gibe crake and is of uncertain origin. It may be related to the Old French giber meaning “to shake.”
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