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Word of the Day Index: 2022

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. (Crossword puzzles will be available at the end of each month.)

JANUARY

  • Rime
  • Vexillology
  • Inglenook
  • Corybantic
  • Howbeit
  • Welkin
  • Simulacrum
  • Telos
  • Tchotchke
  • Sangfroid
  • Reify
  • Tutelary
  • Apodictic
  • Compère
  • Diluvial
  • Napery
  • Coriaceous
  • Whigmaleerie
  • Ziggurat
  • Paseo

FEBRUARY

  • Pleach
  • Layette
  • Occlude
  • Tantivy
  • Gossamer
  • Yakka
  • Naches
  • Eggcorn
  • Parure
  • Fictile
  • Slapdash
  • Andiron
  • Benthos
  • Xebec
  • Gnomon
  • Literatim
  • Farinaceous
  • Ennead
  • Maquillage

MARCH

  • Holophrasis
  • Vouchsafe
  • Exemplum
  • Ort
  • Epochal
  • Polyhistor
  • Azimuth
  • Passe-partout
  • Barcarolle
  • Pi
  • Ides
  • Enchiridion
  • Hibernian
  • Embourgeoisement
  • Plage
  • Stoichiometry
  • Scud
  • Kinesis
  • Autogenous
  • Athenaeum
  • Mise en scène
  • Mahalo
  • Firth

APRIL

  • Approbate
  • Deuteragonist
  • Palladium
  • Saccade
  • Noumenon
  • Cicatrix
  • Yegg
  • Reliquary
  • Xyst
  • Haček
  • Cavort
  • Rufous
  • Pentimento
  • Pedagogue
  • Lacuna
  • Brackish
  • Transmute
  • Numeracy
  • Fossick
  • Antepenultimate
  • Macroscopic

MAY

  • Makai
  • Mauka
  • Notaphily
  • Remontant
  • Saponaceous
  • Biennial
  • Brummagem
  • Tatterdemalion
  • Frijol
  • Triskaidekaphobia
  • Colcannon
  • Sagacious
  • Offing
  • Tenebrific
  • Hootenanny
  • Estival
  • Desultory
  • Obelus
  • Irascible
  • Galumph
  • Pollex

JUNE

  • Extemporize
  • Unclubbable
  • Neep
  • Perfunctory
  • Sphygmomanometer
  • Deasil
  • Tattarrattat
  • Churrasco
  • Grandisonant
  • Volplane
  • Apricate
  • Generatrix
  • Dactylonomy
  • Capoeira
  • Halcyon
  • Meed
  • Syzygy
  • Hirrient
  • Supernumerary
  • Darg
  • Syllepsis

JULY

  • Assoil
  • Argy-Bargy
  • Daedal
  • Circumambulate
  • Parapraxis
  • Inconnu
  • Amphigory
  • Voltaic
  • Deipnosophist
  • Charrette
  • Esophagogastroduodenoscopy
  • Paraph
  • Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
  • Charcuterie
  • Serio-comic
  • Mbira
  • Heliacal
  • Smorzando
  • Apropos

AUGUST

  • Ataraxy
  • Brouhaha
  • Flokati
  • Schema
  • Solus
  • Plenilune
  • Viator
  • Contradistinction
  • Perse
  • Anthropoglot
  • Coruscate
  • Bel-Esprit
  • Latibulate
  • Quidnunc
  • Efficacy
  • Acme
  • Krumkake
  • Xenial
  • Ambsace
  • MacGuffin
  • Onomatopoeia
  • Metaverse

SEPTEMBER

  • Juku
  • Concatenate
  • Visagiste
  • Counterpane
  • Terza Rima
  • Phronesis
  • Quasi
  • Zeugmatography
  • Xocolatophobia
  • Infracaninophile
  • Phlogiston
  • Ersatz
  • Corsair
  • Verdigris
  • Perspicacious
  • Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia
  • Rifacimento
  • Geitonogamy
  • De Novo
  • Keystone
  • Gamboge

OCTOBER

  • Vibrissae
  • Phoenix
  • Apastron
  • Periastron
  • Spindrift
  • Nethermost
  • Areology
  • Bombinate
  • Philately
  • Withal
  • PercontationPoint
  • Sprechangesang
  • Diglot
  • Accreditation
  • Hyponym
  • Frondescence
  • Thither
  • Hither
  • Extrapolate
  • Contranym
  • Hallux
  • Ensorcell
  • Ramfeezled 
  • Lycanthropy

NOVEMBER

  • HuggerMugger
  • Apercu
  • Phrontistery
  • Epithalamium
  • Baetyl
  • Conversazione
  • Trilithon
  • Realia
  • Gouache
  • Overmorrow
  • Yeuk
  • Succedaneum
  • Xeric
  • Anent
  • Quadriga
  • Zakuska
  • Jejune
  • OortCloud
  • Prepone

DECEMBER

  • Deucedly
  • Writhen
  • Quieten
  • Raffine
  • Ingeminate
  • Tubbale
  • Alabastrine
  • Devoir
  • Busker
  • Dwy
  • Morass
  • Christougenniatiophobia
  • Sugarplum
  • Renascent
  • Palinode
  • Niveous