29/9/14 to 5/10/14
Monday: bamboozle - Cheat or fool: e.g. ‘Documents rarely set out to trick historians, but they can bamboozle the unwary at every turn’
Tuesday: bouffant - (Of a person’s hair) styled so as to stand out from the head in a rounded shape: e.g. 'a blonde lady with bouffant hair'
Wednesday: flagitious - (Of a person or their actions) criminal; villainous: e.g. ‘Such a flagitious attempt could only be made under some general pretence by a state legislature’
Thursday: jaunty - Having or expressing a lively, cheerful, and self-confident manner: e.g. 'there was no mistaking that jaunty walk'
Friday: obstreperous - Noisy and difficult to control: e.g. 'the boy is cocky and obstreperous'
Saturday: peripeteia - A sudden reversal of fortune or change in circumstances, especially in reference to fictional narrative: e.g. '1936 is the peripeteia, the point where the action turned'
Sunday: hippogriff - A mythical creature with the body of a horse and the wings and head of an eagle, born of the union of a male griffin and a filly
Words and definitions from Oxford Dictionaries Online's Word of the Day.
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