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February 2012

Feb 01 heyday
Feb 02 stiction
Feb 03 gam
Feb 04 lymphatic
Feb 05 circumvent
Feb 06 propinquity
Feb 07 cacography
Feb 08 prescind
Feb 09 adulation
Feb 10 ludic
Feb 11 catercorner

January 2012

Jan 01 incommunicado
Jan 02 rapporteur
Jan 03 parochial
Jan 04 headlong
Jan 05 epithet
Jan 06 calaboose
Jan 07 tome
Jan 08 mordant
Jan 09 spendthrift
Jan 10 defer
Jan 11 kudos
Jan 12 valorous
Jan 13 thole
Jan 14 crucible
Jan 15 xylography
Jan 16 ostensible
Jan 17 graupel
Jan 18 junket
Jan 19 fustian
Jan 20 darling
Jan 21 weltschmerz
Jan 22 leonine
Jan 23 yegg
Jan 24 contaminate
Jan 25 intercalate
Jan 26 loath
Jan 27 arbalest
Jan 28 bright-line
Jan 29 Cook's tour
Jan 30 elixir
Jan 31 gambol

December 2011

Dec 01 genuflect
Dec 02 stratagem
Dec 03 nightmare
Dec 04 crux
Dec 05 salient
Dec 06 emblazon
Dec 07 diligent
Dec 08 wallaroo
Dec 09 kibosh
Dec 10 compendious
Dec 11 perdition
Dec 12 zeitgeist
Dec 13 swivet
Dec 14 taciturn
Dec 15 conversazione
Dec 16 foment
Dec 17 raillery
Dec 18 kegler
Dec 19 ethereal
Dec 20 subterfuge
Dec 21 wreak
Dec 22 echelon
Dec 23 perquisite
Dec 24 dulcet
Dec 25 tiding
Dec 26 intrepid
Dec 27 flagrant
Dec 28 duckboard
Dec 29 gloss
Dec 30 maladroit
Dec 31 amenable

November 2011

Nov 01 cerulean
Nov 02 onomatopoeia
Nov 03 patina
Nov 04 discriminate
Nov 05 visceral
Nov 06 ruminate
Nov 07 archipelago
Nov 08 overwhelm
Nov 09 fey
Nov 10 ziggurat
Nov 11 cumulate
Nov 12 lachrymose
Nov 13 gyre
Nov 14 bamboozle
Nov 15 tramontane
Nov 16 mountebank
Nov 17 haberdasher
Nov 18 vulcanize
Nov 19 gargantuan
Nov 20 elucidate
Nov 21 strudel
Nov 22 splenetic
Nov 23 trammel
Nov 24 impute
Nov 25 placid
Nov 26 bemuse
Nov 27 feisty
Nov 28 coquetry
Nov 29 regardless
Nov 30 fascicle

October 2011

Oct 01 obsequious
Oct 02 newspeak
Oct 03 corrade
Oct 04 Annie Oakley
Oct 05 pathos
Oct 06 mnemonic
Oct 07 widdershins
Oct 08 nutmeg
Oct 09 QWERTY
Oct 10 sustain
Oct 11 Cockaigne
Oct 12 languid
Oct 13 sop
Oct 14 hendiadys
Oct 15 regurgitate
Oct 16 bumbershoot
Oct 17 Aesopian
Oct 18 broadside
Oct 19 conversant
Oct 20 exodus
Oct 21 sublimate
Oct 22 importunate
Oct 23 layman
Oct 24 infotainment
Oct 25 pediculous
Oct 26 jitney
Oct 27 catachresis
Oct 28 precipitate
Oct 29 encapsulate
Oct 30 impetuous
Oct 31 virga

September 2011

Sep 01 coruscate
Sep 02 finicky
Sep 03 synecdoche
Sep 04 palliate
Sep 05 perspicacious
Sep 06 pelf
Sep 07 marginalia
Sep 08 tutoyer
Sep 09 flatfoot
Sep 10 contumacious
Sep 11 megrim
Sep 12 perpend
Sep 13 solace
Sep 14 haruspex
Sep 15 stridulate
Sep 16 wardrobe
Sep 17 bioturbation
Sep 18 doughty
Sep 19 hamartia
Sep 20 condone
Sep 21 preprandial
Sep 22 ruction
Sep 23 bildungsroman
Sep 24 impugn
Sep 25 climacteric
Sep 26 baksheesh
Sep 27 adapt
Sep 28 moiety
Sep 29 factitious
Sep 30 gridiron

August 2011

Aug 01 Lammas
Aug 02 sic
Aug 03 bower
Aug 04 irrefragable
Aug 05 paradise
Aug 06 variegated
Aug 07 calenture
Aug 08 retrocede
Aug 09 diluvial
Aug 10 sarcophagus
Aug 11 adventitious
Aug 12 fillip
Aug 13 predial
Aug 14 gumption
Aug 15 apocryphal
Aug 16 defenestration
Aug 17 toplofty
Aug 18 insouciance
Aug 19 ungainly
Aug 20 kerfuffle
Aug 21 objurgation
Aug 22 expedite
Aug 23 imbibition
Aug 24 homiletic
Aug 25 whirligig
Aug 26 colloquial
Aug 27 torpor
Aug 28 indite
Aug 29 quid pro quo
Aug 30 precatory
Aug 31 mettle

July 2011

Jul 01 supposititious
Jul 02 brouhaha
Jul 03 enervate
Jul 04 rarefied
Jul 05 cobalt
Jul 06 hard-boiled
Jul 07 chaffer
Jul 08 penchant
Jul 09 dreadnought
Jul 10 eccentric
Jul 11 raiment
Jul 12 chasten
Jul 13 flivver
Jul 14 lenient
Jul 15 juggernaut
Jul 16 bandbox
Jul 17 propitious
Jul 18 anacoluthon
Jul 19 convoluted
Jul 20 netsuke
Jul 21 sagacious
Jul 22 adumbrate
Jul 23 panache
Jul 24 confection
Jul 25 grotesque
Jul 26 exterminate
Jul 27 volition
Jul 28 gallivant
Jul 29 slaphappy
Jul 30 gullible
Jul 31 facsimile

June 2011

Jun 01 iota
Jun 02 lambent
Jun 03 nictitate
Jun 04 mumblety-peg
Jun 05 pomaceous
Jun 06 banshee
Jun 07 secular
Jun 08 reciprocate
Jun 09 uncouth
Jun 10 mutatis mutandis
Jun 11 Cassandra
Jun 12 genteel
Jun 13 roué:
Jun 14 paste
Jun 15 absinthe
Jun 16 efficacious
Jun 17 forebear
Jun 18 temporize
Jun 19 reprehensible
Jun 20 ritzy
Jun 21 decry
Jun 22 refection
Jun 23 shaggy-dog
Jun 24 vituperate
Jun 25 pigeon-livered
Jun 26 mosque
Jun 27 hyperborean
Jun 28 amanuensis
Jun 29 mantic
Jun 30 extenuate

May 2011

May 01 Beltane
May 02 vamoose
May 03 odious
May 04 wane
May 05 jalousie
May 06 gesundheit
May 07 curious
May 08 applesauce
May 09 venal
May 10 factoid
May 11 pursy
May 12 palooka
May 13 tin-pot
May 14 breadbasket
May 15 collaborate
May 16 mucilaginous
May 17 saguaro
May 18 acolyte
May 19 wistful
May 20 coiffure
May 21 ambiguous
May 22 clew
May 23 assay
May 24 samara
May 25 cryptography
May 26 prodigious
May 27 bombard
May 28 lexicographer
May 29 credulous
May 30 enfant terrible
May 31 deleterious

April 2011

Apr 01 riddle
Apr 02 meshuggener
Apr 03 doff
Apr 04 Ruritanian
Apr 05 abrogate
Apr 06 stultify
Apr 07 conventicle
Apr 08 cloud-cuckoo-land
Apr 09 organoleptic
Apr 10 panegyric
Apr 11 haphazard
Apr 12 concatenate
Apr 13 vestige
Apr 14 compurgator
Apr 15 scour
Apr 16 biophilia
Apr 17 lavation
Apr 18 condign
Apr 19 parable
Apr 20 disseise
Apr 21 haughty
Apr 22 primordial
Apr 23 meme
Apr 24 aspersion
Apr 25 vitrine
Apr 26 ensconce
Apr 27 axiomatic
Apr 28 catastrophe
Apr 29 ken
Apr 30 shivaree

March 2011

Mar 01 acceptation
Mar 02 enigmatic
Mar 03 declension
Mar 04 raffish
Mar 05 volte-face
Mar 06 lapidary
Mar 07 collop
Mar 08 deem
Mar 09 zibeline
Mar 10 ignoramus
Mar 11 fulvous
Mar 12 ancillary
Mar 13 hermetic
Mar 14 batten
Mar 15 continual
Mar 16 microcosm
Mar 17 galley-west
Mar 18 expatriate
Mar 19 Kafkaesque
Mar 20 truncate
Mar 21 savant
Mar 22 vespertine
Mar 23 billion
Mar 24 toothsome
Mar 25 nonplus
Mar 26 legerity
Mar 27 jimjams
Mar 28 farouche
Mar 29 wraith
Mar 30 proximity
Mar 31 osculate