Word of the Day — Archive Page #495
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May 30, 2015
100% 0% #1 voteWhat does perinatology mean?
- perinatology(noun)
- the branch of obstetrics concerned with the anatomy and physiology and diagnosis and treatment of disorders of the mother and the fetus or newborn baby during late pregnancy and childbirth and the puerperium
May 29, 2015
100% 0% #1 voteWhat does recollective mean?
- retentive, recollective, long, tenacious(adj)
- good at remembering
May 28, 2015
100% 0% #1 voteWhat does braille mean?
- Braille, Louis Braille(noun)
- French educator who lost his sight at the age of three and who invented a system of writing and printing for sightless people (1809-1852)
May 27, 2015
100% 0% #1 voteWhat does tongue-in-cheek mean?
- bantering, facetious, tongue-in-cheek(adverb)
- cleverly amusing in tone
May 26, 2015
100% 0% #1 voteWhat does intemperate mean?
- intemperate(adj)
- (of weather or climate) not mild; subject to extremes
May 25, 2015
100% 0% #1 voteWhat does pell-mell mean?
- helter-skelter, pell-mell(adverb)
- with undue hurry and confusion
May 24, 2015
100% 0% #1 voteWhat does quincentennial mean?
- quincentennial, quincentenary(adj)
- the 500th anniversary (or the celebration of it)
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