Since I didn’t get a chance to post any words of the week last week, I’m going to post ten words instead of five this week.  Here are this week’s words:

1. Penury: seriously impoverished condition; poverty.
2. Peregrination: a course of travel; journey.
3. Perfidy: deliberate breach of faith or trust; faithlessness; treachery.
4. Peripatetic: walking or traveling about; itinerant.
5. Pernicious: causing insidious harm or ruin; ruinous; injurious; hurtful.
6. Persiflage: light, bantering talk or writing.
7. Perspicacity: keenness of mental perception and understanding; discernment; penetration.
8. Physiognomy: the outward appearance of anything, taken as offering some insight into its character.
9. Platitude: a flat, dull, or trite remark, esp. one uttered as if it were fresh or profound.
10. Plenary: full; complete; entire; absolute; unqualified.

Happy birthday, Tyra!

Here are this week’s words:

1. Paucity: smallness or insufficiency of number; fewness.
2. Peccadillo: a very minor or slight sin or offense; a trifling fault.
3. Pellucid: allowing the maximum passage of light, as glass; translucent.
4. Penchant: a strong inclination, taste, or liking for something.
5. Penurious: extremely poor; destitute; indigent.

Here are this week’s words:

1. Panegyric: a lofty oration or writing in praise of a person or thing; eulogy.
2. Panoply: a complete suit of armor.
3. Paroxysm: any sudden, violent outburst; a fit of violent action or emotion.
4. Parsimonious: characterized by or showing parsimony; frugal or stingy.
5. Pathos: the quality or power in an actual life experience or in literature, music, speech, or other forms of expression, of evoking a feeling of pity or compassion.

Since I didn’t get a chance to post any words of the week last week, I’m going to post ten words instead of five this week.  Here are this week’s words:

1. Noisome: offensive or disgusting, as an odor.
2. Nostrum: a scheme, theory, device, etc., esp. one to remedy social or political ills; panacea.
3. Nugatory: of no force or effect; ineffective; futile; vain.
4. Obdurate: stubbornly resistant to moral influence; persistently impenitent.
5. Obstreperous: noisy, clamorous, or boisterous.
6. Onerous: burdensome, oppressive, or troublesome; causing hardship.
7. Opprobrium: the disgrace or the reproach incurred by conduct considered outrageously shameful; infamy.
8. Ossify: to convert into or cause to harden like bone.
9. Palliate: to try to mitigate or conceal the gravity of (an offense) by excuses, apologies, etc.; extenuate.
10. Panacea: a remedy for all disease or ills; cure-all.

Happy birthday, Robert!

Here are this week’s words:

1. Mordant: sharply caustic or sarcastic, as wit or a speaker; biting.
2. Moribund: in a dying state; near death.
3. Munificent: extremely liberal in giving; very generous.
4. Nadir: the lowest point; point of greatest adversity or despair.
5. Neophyte: a beginner or novice.

Happy birthday, Kati!

Here are this week’s words:

1. Mettle: courage and fortitude.
2. Mien: air, bearing, or demeanor, as showing character, feeling, etc.
3. Miscreant: a vicious or depraved person; villain.
4. Modicum: a moderate or small amount.
5. Monomania: an inordinate or obsessive zeal for or interest in a single thing, idea, subject, or the like.

Happy birthday, Shelli!

Here are this week’s words:

1. Mawkish: characterized by sickly sentimentality; weakly emotional; maudlin.
2. Mellifluous: sweetly or smoothly flowing; sweet-sounding.
3. Mendacious: false or untrue.
4. Mendicant: a person who lives by begging; beggar.
5. Meretricious: alluring by a show of flashy or vulgar attractions; tawdry.