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Word of the Day for Tuesday March 21, 2006
aubade
\oh-BAHD\, noun:
A song or poem greeting the dawn; also, a composition suggestive of morning.
He was usually still awake when the birds began to warble their aubade.
-- Christopher Buckley -
Word of the Day for Wednesday March 22, 2006
succor
\SUH-kuhr\, noun:
1. Aid; help; assistance; especially, assistance that relieves and delivers from difficulty, want, or distress.
2. The person or thing that brings relief.
transitive verb:
1. To help or relieve when in difficulty, want, or distress; to assist and deliver from suffering; to relieve.
In Asakusa, a crowd sought succor around an old and lovely Buddhist temple, dedicated to Kannon, goddess of mercy.
-- Richard B. Frank, Downfall: The End of the Imperial Japanese Empire -
Word of the Day for Thursday March 23, 2006
paterfamilias
\pay-tuhr-fuh-MIL-ee-uhs; pat-uhr-; pah-\, noun;
plural patresfamilias \pay-treez-; pat-reez-; pah-treez-\:
The male head of a household or the father of a family.
His father served as paterfamilias to the entire GarcÃa clan, dispensing money and advice to those who needed it, and the family, in turn, revered him.
-- Leslie Stainton, Lorca: A Dream of Life -
Word of the Day for Friday March 24, 2006
stolid
\STOL-id\, adjective:
Having or revealing little emotion or sensibility; not easily excited.
The inherent irrationality of markets was first demonstrated in the 17th century, when the normally stolid Dutch population was seized by a tulip craze that caused the people to pay insane prices for a single bulb