Aphorism -
- A concise statement of a principle.
Past Winners:
Vertiginous -
- Characterized by or suffering from vertigo or dizziness.
Churaumi -
- “Beautiful Ocean” in Okinawan (Japan)
Agrarian -
- Characteristic of farmers or their way of life
Battue -
- The beating of woods and bushes to flush game.
Muckrake -
- To search out and publicly expose real or apparent misconduct of a prominent individual or business.
Fratricide -
- One that murders or kills his or her own brother or sister or an individual (as a countryman) having a relationship like that of a brother or sister.
Tawdry -
- Cheap and showy; garish
Dais -
- A raised platform, as in a lecture hall or room,generally for speakers.
Plenary -
- Full in all respects; complete; absolute.
- A plenary authority.
Synecdoche -
- A figure of speech by which a part is put for the whole or whole for a part or general for the special or vice versa.
- We’re using the part-for-whole type of synecdoche, for instance, when we describe a smart person as a “brain.”
Paralogism -
- An illogical or fallacious argument.
- “Politicains are masters of paralogism.”
Indefatigable -
- Incapable or seemingly incapable or becoming tired or fatigued.
- “Though generally laid back and quiet, she was indefatigable in the courtroom.”
Pariah -
- Any person despised and ostracized; outcast
- “Because of his prison record, he became the town pariah.”
Peristalsis –
- Is the rhythmic contraction of smooth muscles to propel contents through the digestive tract.
- In much of the gastrointestinal tract, smooth muscles contract in sequence to produce a peristaltic wave which forces a ball of food (called a bolus while in the esophagus and gastrointestinal tract and chyme in the stomach) along the tract.
