22/9/14 to 28/9/14
Monday: dinkum - Australian/NZ, informal - genuine, honest, true: e.g. 'a real dinkum bloke'
Tuesday: hypnopompic - Relating to the state immediately preceding waking up
Wednesday: dissonant - lacking harmony
Thursday: avenge - Inflict harm in return for (an injury or wrong done to oneself or another): e.g. 'he vowed in silent fervour to avenge their murders'
Friday: quiescent - In a state or period of inactivity or dormancy: e.g. 'strikes were headed by groups of workers who had previously been quiescent'
Saturday: gesundheit - Used to wish good health to a person who has just sneezed; from the German for 'health'
Sunday: lambent - (Of light or fire) glowing, gleaming, or flickering with a soft radiance: e.g. ‘the magical, lambent light of the north’; ‘his eyes were huge and lambent in his starved face’
Words and definitions from Oxford Dictionaries Online's Word of the Day.
