Here are the words of the day for the past week. With the Wordsmyth Vocabulary Center activities, you can study these words, play games with them, and assess your knowledge of their…
WOTD: flagrant
flagrant adjective definition 1: exceptionally or glaringly noticeable.example: The audience tittered at the speaker’s flagrant slip of the tongue. definition 2: exceptionally bad; disgraceful; scandalous.examples: He could never return after his flagrant…
WOTD: blatant
blatant adjective definition 1: completely obvious or undisguised, sometimes offensively so.examples: The hostility between the two women was blatant. He resented their blatant attempt to win him over. His blatant adoration of…
WOTD: scathe
scathe transitive verb definition 1: to injure with criticism.examples: The writer scathed his contemporaries with his sardonic humor.The politician was so popular that no criticism from the press could scathe him. definition 2:…
WOTD: scintilla
scintilla noun definition: a tiny amount; trace.example: There was not a scintilla of truth in the rumor. See the full entry Note: “Scintilla” is usually used in negative constructions, as in “not…