• Of, or relating to, conflict within a nation, an organization, or a group.
• Mutually destructive; involving, or accompanied by, mutual slaughter.
• Deadly; destructive; marked by slaughter.

Word for 24 October: ignoble

Definition:

• Of low birth or family; not noble; not illustrious; plebeian; common; humble.
• Not noble in quality, character, or purpose; characterized by baseness, lowness, or meanness.

Noun: ignobility, ignobleness
Adverb: ignobly

Synonyms:
1. degraded, dishonorable, ignominious, contemptible.
3. lowly, obscure, plebeian, peasant.

Antonyms:
1. honorable.
2. superior.

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Word for 17 October: puckish

Definition: Whimsical; mischievous; impish

Adjective: puckishly

Noun: puckishness

Word for 10 October: abulia

Definition: Loss or impairment of the ability to act or to make decisions

Adjective: abulic

Word for 3 October: recidivism

Definition:
A tendency to lapse into a previous condition or pattern of behavior; especially, a falling back or relapse into prior criminal habits.

Noun, Adjective: recidivist
Adjective: recidivistic, recidivous

• Lying on the back, or with the face upward.
• Indolent; listless; inactive; mentally or morally lethargic.

Word for 12 September: mimetic

Definition:

• Apt to imitate; given to mimicry; imitative.
• Characterized by mimicry; -- applied to animals and plants; as, mimetic species; mimetic organisms.

Adverb: mimetically

Word for 28 August: pernicious


Definition: Highly injurious; deadly; destructive; exceedingly harmful.

Adverb: perniciously
Noun: perniciousness

Synonyms:

1. harmful, detrimental, deleterious, destructive, damaging, baneful, noxious, malicious
2. lethal

Word for 22 August: salutary

Definition:

1. Promotive of, or contributing to, some beneficial purpose; beneficial; advantageous; as, a salutary design.
2. Wholesome; healthful; promoting health; as, salutary exercise.

Word for 15 August: felicitous

Definition:

1. Happily applied or expressed; appropriate; well suited; apt
2. Happy; delightful; marked by good fortune.

Adverb: felicitously

Noun: felicitousness

Word for 8 August: efface

Definition:

• To cause to disappear by rubbing out, striking out, etc.; to erase; to render illegible or indiscernible; as, to efface the letters on a monument, or the inscription on a coin.
• To destroy, as a mental impression; to wipe out; to eliminate completely.
• To make (oneself) inconspicuous

Adjective: effaceable
Noun: effacement, effacer

Word for 1 August: expeditious

Definition: Characterized by speed and efficiency

Adverb: expeditiously
Noun: expeditiousness

Synonyms: prompt, swift, speedy, fast, rapid
Antonyms: slow, leisurely, deliberate

Word for 25 July: itinerant

Adjective:

• Passing or traveling about a country; going from place to place; wandering; not settled; as, an itinerant preacher; an itinerant peddler.

Adverb: itinerantly

Noun:

• a laborer who moves from place to place as demanded by employment; "itinerant traders"

Synonyms: wandering, nomadic, migratory, unsettled, roving, roaming; peripatetic

Antonyms: settled

Word for 18 July: unctuous

Adverb: unctuously

Noun: unctuousness, unctuosity

Word for 11 July: aspersion

• A damaging or derogatory remark; slander.
• The act of defaming or slandering.
• A sprinkling with water, especially in religious ceremonies.

Synonyms: censure, reproach.

Word for 4 July: claque

• A group hired to applaud at a performance.
• A group of fawning admirers.

Word for 27 June: pertinacious

• Holding or adhering to any opinion, purpose, or design, with obstinacy.


• Stubbornly or perversely persistent; as, pertinacious plotters; a pertinacious beggar.

Synonyms: 1. persevering. 2. dogged.

• Ineffective; futile.


• Being at leisure; lazy; indolent; idle.


• Of no use.

• lazy, slothful.


• idle, vain, profitless.


• redundant, worthless, pointless.
  

For the past few months, I have learnt several new words on some blogs I read. So I figure it will be good if I do the same.

Word for 13 June: equanimity

Definition: Evenness of mind; that calm temper or firmness of mind which is not easily elated or depressed; patience; calmness; composure; as, to bear misfortunes with equanimity.

Synonyms: serenity, self-possession, aplomb.

Antonyms: panic, disquiet, discomposure, agitation.