Word of the Day - More

more
[mawr, mohr]

adjective
1. in greater quantity, amount, measure, degree, or number: I need more money.

2. additional or further: Do you need more time? More discussion seems pointless.

noun
3. an additional quantity, amount, or number: I would give you more if I had it. He likes her all the more. When I could take no more of such nonsense, I left.

4. a greater quantity, amount, or degree: More is expected of him. The price is more than I thought.

5. something of greater importance: His report is more than a survey.

6. ( used with a plural verb ) a greater number of a class specified, or the greater number of persons: More will attend this year than ever before.

adverb
7. in or to a greater extent or degree (in this sense often used before adjectives and adverbs, and regularly before those of more  than two syllables, to form comparative phrases having the same force and effect as the comparative degree formed by the termination -er ): more interesting; more slowly.

8. in addition; further; longer; again: Let’s talk more another time. We couldn’t stand it any more.

9. moreover.

Idioms
10. more and more, to an increasing extent or degree; gradually more: They became involved more and more in stock speculation.

11. more or less,
     a. to some extent; somewhat: She seemed more or less familiar with the subject.
     b. about; in substance; approximately: We came to more or less the same conclusion.

Word of the Day - Smitten

smit·ten
[smit-n]

adjective
1. struck, as with a hard blow.

2. grievously or disastrously stricken or afflicted.

3. very much in love.

verb
4. a past participle of smite.

Word of the Day - Slight

slight
[slahyt]

adjective
1. small in amount, degree, etc.: a slight increase; a slight odor.

2. of little importance, influence, etc.; trivial: a slight cut.

3. slender or slim; not heavily built.

4. frail; flimsy; delicate: a slight fabric.

5. of little substance or strength.

verb (used with object)
6. to treat as of little importance.

7. to treat (someone) with indifference; ignore, especially pointedly or contemptuously; snub: to be slighted by society.

8. to do negligently; scamp: to slight one’s studies.

noun
9. an act or instance of slighting  indifference or treatment: Slights marred his work.

10. a pointed and contemptuous discourtesy; affront: She considered not being invited an unforgivable slight.

Word of the Day - Example

ex·am·ple
[ig-zam-puhl, -zahm-]

noun
1.one of a number of things, or a part of something, taken to show the character of the whole: This painting is an example of his early work.

2.a pattern or model, as of something to be imitated or avoided: to set a good example.

3.an instance serving for illustration; specimen: The case histories gave carefully detailed examples of this disease.

4.an instance illustrating a rule or method, as a mathematical problem proposed for solution.

5.an instance, especially of punishment, serving as a warning to others: Public executions were meant to be examples to the populace.

6.a precedent; parallel case: an action without example.

verb (used with object)
7.Rare . to give or be an example of; exemplify  (used in the passive).

Word of the Day - Embrace

em·brace
[em-breys]

verb (used with object)
1. to take or clasp in the arms; press to the bosom; hug.

2. to take or receive gladly or eagerly; accept willingly: to embrace an idea.

3. to avail oneself of: to embrace an opportunity.

4. to adopt (a profession, a religion, etc.): to embrace Buddhism.

5. to take in with the eye or the mind.

6. to encircle; surround; enclose.

7. to include or contain: An encyclopedia embraces a great number of subjects.

verb (used without object)
8. to join in an embrace.

noun
9. an act or instance of embracing.

Word of the Day - Deleterious

del·e·te·ri·ous
[del-i-teer-ee-uhs]

adjective
1. injurious to health: deleterious gases.

2. harmful; injurious: deleterious influences.

Word of the Day - Instigate

in·sti·gate
[in-sti-geyt]

verb (used with object)
1. to cause by incitement; foment: to instigate a quarrel.

2. to urge, provoke, or incite to some action or course: to instigate the people to revolt.

Word of the Day - Divert

di·vert
[dih-vurt, dahy-]

verb (used with object)
1. to turn aside or from a path or course; deflect.

2. British . to route (traffic) on a detour.

3. to draw off to a different course, purpose, etc.

4. to distract from serious occupation; entertain or amuse.

verb (used without object)
5. to turn aside; veer: It is sad to see so much talent divert to trivial occupations.

Word of the Day - Hygiene

hy·giene
[hahy-jeen]

noun
1. Also, hygienics. the science that deals with the preservation of health.

2. a condition or practice conducive to the preservation of health, as cleanliness.

Word of the Day - No

no
[noh]

adverb
1. (a negative used to express dissent, denial, or refusal, as in response to a question or request)

2. (used to emphasize or introduce a negative statement): Not a single person came to the party, no, not a one.

3. not in any degree or manner; not at all (used with a comparative): He is no better.

4. not a (used before an adjective to convey the opposite of the adjective’s meaning): His recovery was no small miracle.

adjective
5. not a (used before a noun to convey the opposite of the noun’s meaning): She’s no beginner on the ski slopes.

noun
6. an utterance of the word “no.”

7. a denial or refusal: He responded with a definite no.

8. a negative vote or voter: The noes have it.

verb (used with object)
9. to reject, refuse approval, or express disapproval of.

verb (used without object)
10. to express disapproval.

Idiom
11. no can do, Informal . it can’t be done.

Word of the Day - Disheveled

di·shev·eled
[dih-shev-uhld]

adjective
1. hanging loosely or in disorder; unkempt: disheveled hair.

2. untidy; disarranged: a disheveled appearance.

Word of the Day - Reap

reap
[reep]

verb (used with object)
1. to cut (wheat, rye, etc.) with a sickle or other implement or a machine, as in harvest.

2. to gather or take (a crop, harvest, etc.).

3. to get as a return, recompense, or result: to reap large profits.

verb (used without object)
4. to reap a crop, harvest, etc.

Word of the Day - Family

fam·i·ly
[fam-uh-lee, fam-lee]

noun
1. a. a basic social unit consisting of parents and their children, considered as a group, whether dwelling together or not: the traditional family.
    b. a social unit consisting of one or more adults together with the children they care for: a single-parent family.

2. the children of one person or one couple collectively: We want a large family.

3. the spouse and children of one person: We’re taking the family on vacation next week.

4. any group of persons closely related by blood, as parents, children, uncles, aunts, and cousins: to marry into a socially prominent family.

5. all those persons considered as descendants of a common progenitor.

6. Chiefly British . approved lineage, especially noble, titled, famous, or wealthy ancestry: young men of family.

7. a group of persons who form a household under one head, including parents, children, and servants.

8. the staff, or body of assistants, of an official: the office family.

9. a group of related things or people: the family of romantic poets; the halogen family of elements.

10. a group of people who are generally not blood relations but who share common attitudes, interests, or goals and, frequently, live together: Many hippie communes of the sixties regarded themselves as families.

11. a group of products or product models made by the same manufacturer or producer.

12. Biology . the usual major subdivision of an order or suborder in the classification of plants, animals, fungi, etc., usually consisting of several genera.

13. Slang . a unit of the Mafia or Cosa Nostra operating in one area under a local leader.

14. Linguistics . the largest category into which languages related by common origin can be classified with certainty: Indo-European, Sino-Tibetan, and Austronesian are the most widely spoken families of languages. Compare stock ( def. 12 ) , subfamily ( def. 2 ) .

15. Mathematics .
     a. a given class of solutions of the same basic equation, differing from one another only by the different values assigned to the constants in the equation.
     b. a class of functions or the like defined by an expression containing a parameter.
     c. a set.

adjective
16. of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a family: a family trait.

17. belonging to or used by a family: a family automobile; a family room.

18. suitable or appropriate for adults and children: a family amusement park.

19. not containing obscene language: a family newspaper.

Idiom
20. in a / the family way, pregnant.

Word of the Day - Slave

slave
[sleyv]

noun
1. a person who is the property of and wholly subject to another; a bond servant.

2. a person entirely under the domination of some influence or person: a slave to a drug.

3. a drudge: a housekeeping slave.

4. a slave ant.

5. Photography . a subsidiary flash lamp actuated through its photoelectric cell when the principal flash lamp is discharged.

6. Machinery . a mechanism under control of and repeating the actions of a similar mechanism. Compare master ( def. 19 ) .

verb (used without object)
7. to work like a slave; drudge.

8. to engage in the slave trade;  procure, transport, or sell slaves.

verb (used with object)
9. to connect (a machine) to a master as its slave.

10. Archaic . to enslave.