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Word of the Day Index: 2015

Words of the Day Archive

Below are the words the LRC used for the Word of the Day posts and for the accompanying crossword. For more detailed information on a word, click on the link above the set of words.

MAY

  • Acquiesce
  • Acronym
  • Ambiguity
  • Analogy

JUNE

  • Anachronism
  • Andragogy
  • Antithesis
  • Antonym
  • Articulate
  • Assonance
  • Benchmarking
  • Brainstorming
  • Circumspect
  • Clandestine
  • Cognition
  • Collaborate
  • Colloquial
  • Connotation
  • Contrived
  • Conundrum
  • Correlation
  • Criterion

JULY

  • Cumulative
  • Curriculum
  • Deference
  • Developmental
  • Dialect
  • Diction
  • Didactic
  • Dissertation
  • Divergent
  • Egregious
  • Eloquence
  • Emergent
  • Empathy
  • Enigma
  • Epitome
  • Epiphany
  • Epitaph

AUGUST

  • Erudite
  • Existential
  • Exponential
  • Formative
  • Holistic
  • Homonym
  • Hubris
  • Hyperbole
  • Incongruous
  • Infamy

SEPTEMBER

  • Initiation
  • Innate
  • Intellectual
  • Interactive
  • Irony
  • Jargon
  • Juxtaposition
  • Malapropism
  • Magnanimous
  • Mentor
  • Metaphor
  • Meticulous
  • Mnemonic
  • Monologue
  • Motif
  • Myriad
  • Nemesis
  • Nominal

OCTOBER

  • Oxymoron
  • Paradox
  • Paraphrase
  • Pedantic
  • Pedagogy
  • Phonemes
  • Phonological
  • Plagiarism
  • Plethora
  • Posthumously
  • Proposition
  • Pretentious
  • Pseudonym
  • References
  • Reflection
  • Rubric
  • Sardonic
  • Satire
  • Simile

NOVEMBER

  • Soliloquy
  • Superfluous
  • Syntax
  • Thesis
  • Validity
  • Vernacular
  • Virtual
  • Vocational

Words College Students Should Know 2015