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Since I moved this month and was also out of town a fair bit I decided to make this month’s challenge super easy: to learn a new word everyday. All it involved was getting a daily email from dictionary.com.

1. Substrate – A Substratum – something that is spread or laid under something else; a stratum or layer lying under another.
2. Darkle – To grow dark, gloomy, etc.
3. Nebulize – To become vague, or indistinct
4. Braird – To sprout; appear above the ground.
5. Paralipsis – The suggestion, by deliberately brief treatment of a topic, that much of significance is being omitted, as in “not to mention other faults.”
6. Gammon – To deceive.
7. Aplomb – Assurance of manner or of action; self-possession; confidence; coolness
8. Inculcate – To teach and impress by frequent repetition or instruction.
9. Chichi – Affectedly trendy.
10. Bellwether – A leader of a movement or activity; also, a leading indicator of future trends.
11. Elegiac – Relating to the mourning or remembering of the dead.
12. Dilatory – Tending to put off what ought to be done at once; given to procrastination.
13. Panache – Dash or flamboyance in manner or style.
14. Fey – Possessing or displaying a strange and otherworldly aspect or quality; magical or fairylike; elfin.
15. Bacchanalia – A riotous, boisterous, or drunken festivity; a revel
16. Punctilious – Strictly attentive to the details of form in action or conduct; precise; exact in the smallest particulars.
17. Postprandial – Happening or done after a meal.
18. Pleonasm – The use of more words than are necessary to express an idea; as, “I saw it with my own eyes.”
19. Acme – The highest point of something; the highest level or degree attainable.
20. Irrefragable – Impossible to refute; incontestable; undeniable; as, an irrefragable argument; irrefragable evidence.
21. Rapine – The act of plundering; the seizing and carrying away of another’s property by force.
22. Copacetic - Very satisfactory; fine.
23. Lionize - To treat or regard as an object of great interest or importance.
24. Tchotchke – A trinket, a knickknack.
25. Sapid - Having taste or flavor, especially having a strong pleasant flavor
26. Gadabout - Someone who roams about in search of amusement or social activity.
27. Portend - To indicate (events, misfortunes, etc.) as in future; to foreshadow; to bode.
28. Woolgathering - Indulgence in idle daydreaming.
29. Votary - One who is devoted, given, or addicted to some particular pursuit, subject, study, or way of life.

And it looks like a missed a day somewhere? Oops