adjective 1. resulting from whim or caprice instead of from a rule or reason.The committee’s decision seemed completely arbitrary. 2. exercising power with no legal restrictions; despotic.One arbitrary leader after another ruled…
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WOTD: shoddy
adjective of low quality; poorly made or carried out; shabby.A shoddy pair of shoes like that will fall apart in no time.Shoddy workmanship went into this furniture. noun a low-grade fiber obtained…
WOTD: designate
transitive verb 1. to distinguish by means of description, marks, name, or the like; specify.The committee designated those houses that would have to be removed to make way for the highway.The announcement…
WOTD: pauper
noun an extremely poor person, esp. one who must live on public charity.Widowed and disabled, she became a pauper living on hand-outs. transitive verb to cause to be a pauper; impoverish. See…
WOTD: gaffe
noun a crude social error; blunder; faux pas.The politician’s tasteless remark on the talk show was a gaffe that brought him ridicule in the national press. See the full entry