Word of the Day — Archive Page #298
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August 24, 2018
71% 29% #69 votesWhat does Progeny mean?
- offspring, progeny, issue(noun)
- the immediate descendants of a person
August 23, 2018
80% 20% #118 votesWhat does Savant mean?
- initiate, learned person, pundit, savant(noun)
- someone who has been admitted to membership in a scholarly field
August 22, 2018
67% 33% #31 votesWhat does Indigenous mean?
- autochthonal, autochthonic, autochthonous, endemic, indigenous(adj)
- originating where it is found
August 21, 2018
92% 8% #105 votesWhat does Metaphor mean?
- metaphor(noun)
- a figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally denote in order to suggest a similarity
August 20, 2018
91% 9% #60 votesWhat does Analogous mean?
- analogous, correspondent(adj)
- similar or equivalent in some respects though otherwise dissimilar
August 19, 2018
83% 18% #66 votesWhat does Embellish mean?
- embroider, pad, lard, embellish, aggrandize, aggrandise, blow up, dramatize, dramatise(verb)
- add details to
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