Category Archives: Word of the Week

Jeremiad – noun a prolonged lamentation or complaint.

Opprobrium - noun disgrace rising from shameful conduct; infamy. scorn; contempt. the cause of such a disgrace.

Splenetic – adjective Irritable; peevish; spiteful. Of the spleen. Archaic: Affected with, characterized by, or tending to produce melancholy.

Moral – Adjective of or relating to principles of right and wrong in behavior expressing or teaching a conception of right behavior conforming to a standard of right behavior sanctioned by or operative on one’s conscience or ethical judgment capable of right and wrong … Continue reading →

Apastron – Noun The point at which two stars orbiting each other in a binary star system are farthest apart. The point at which an object, such as a planet or comet, is farthest from the star it is orbiting.