Word of the Day List - 10/27/10

Professor Feraldi asked me to post the word of the day list and I will update it as we continue through this term :) Enjoy!

• vivisection - animal experimentation that causes distress to living animals; minute examination or criticism.
• sentient - conscious of sense expression; finely sensitive in perception or feeling.
• flume – narrow gorge with a stream running through it.
• propinquity – nearness of blood (kinship); nearness in place or time (proximity)
• gitches – underwear (yesteryear)
• gittern – a medieval guitar.
• specious – false look of truth or genuineness.
• excelsior – fine, curled wood shavings used especially for packing fragile items.
• anamnesis(ses) – a recalling to mind (reminiscence); a preliminary medical or psychiatric case history of a patient.
• yttrium – a silvery, metallic element included in the rare-earth elements in minerals used in phosphors, YAG lasers, and super alloys.
• coprolalia – the use of vulgar, obscene, or sacrilegious language as in schizophrenia and Tourette’s syndrome.
• effulgent (adj.) – shining brilliantly; effulgence (n.).
• concatenation (n) – a linking together or being linked together in a series; a series of things or events regarded as casually or dependently connected.
• detritivore – an organism (as an earthworm or fungus) that feeds on dead or decomposing organic matter.
• fillister (n)- a plane for cutting grooves in wood; a groove as in a window frame for holding the glass.