6/10/14 to 12/10/14
Monday: entelechy - The realization of potential
Tuesday: trite - (Of a remark or idea) lacking originality or freshness; dull on account of overuse: e.g. ‘this point may now seem obvious and trite’
Wednesday: tapster - A person who draws and serves alcoholic drinks at a bar
Thursday: sfumato - (Art) The technique of allowing tones and colours to shade gradually into one another, producing softened outlines or hazy forms
Friday: contronym - A word with two opposite meanings: e.g. sanction (which can mean both ‘a penalty for disobeying a law’ and ‘official permission or approval for an action’)
Saturday: arrogate - Take or claim (something) without justification: e.g. ‘they arrogate to themselves the ability to divine the nation’s true interests’; ‘In this, the government with a good majority is actually arrogating the powers of Parliament'
Sunday: crotchety - Irritable: e.g. ‘he was tired and crotchety’
Words and definitions from Oxford Dictionaries Online's Word of the Day.
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