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PROGRESS UPDATE

Learn a new word every day for a year

A goal of Shelly Lorrain Durkee on their 101 Things in 1001 Days: Take 2! list with a status of Done.
175 - Tutelary - Providing protective supervision; watching over or safeguarding

176 - Quotidian - Of or occurring every day; daily

177 - Rodomontade - Boastful or inflated talk or behavior

178 - Gewgaw - a Showy thing, especially one that is useless or worthless

179 - Tintinnabulation - The ringing or sounding of bells

180 - Arriviste - An ambitious or ruthlessly self-seeking person, especially one who has recently acquired wealth or social status

181 - Astraphobia - An abnormal fear of lightning and thunder

182 - Tyro - A person with little experience; a beginner/novice

183 - Harridan - A strict, bossy or belligerent old woman

184 - Interregnum - The time between two reigns, governments, etc.

185 - Vapid - Offering nothing that is stimulating or challenging

186 - Badinage - Humorous or witty conversation

187 - Prognathous - Having a projecting lower jaw or chin

188 - Brobdingnagian - marked by tremendous size

189 - Raddled - Showing the wearing effects of overwork or care or suffering

190 - Sibylline - Relating to or characteristic of a sibyl; prophetic and mysterious

191- Prescind - Leave out of consideration

192 - Imperium - Absolute Power

193 - Temerarious - Reckless/rash

194 - Lucubration - Study, meditation

195 - Raffish - Unconventional and slightly direputable, especially in an attractive manner.

196 - Factotum - An employee who does all kinds of work

197 - Brannigan - A brawl or violent argument

198 - Shunpike - A secondary road used to avoid turnpikes and expressways

199 - Nocuous - Noxious, harmful or poisonous

200 - Bonzer - Excellent; first-rate

201 - Parvenue - A person of obscure origin who has gained wealth, influence or celebrity

202 - Icarian - Relating to or characteristic of Icarus, especially in being excessively ambitious

203 - Prolix - (Of speech or writing) using or containing too many words; tediously lengthy.

204 - Odalisque - A female servant in a Turkish harem

205 - Arable - Used or suitable for growing crops

206 - Surcease - A stopping.

207 - Risible - Arousing or provoking laughter

208 - Selenian - Of or relating to the moon.

209 - Nugatory - Of no value or importance. Useless.

210 - Skosh - A small amount; a little.

211 - Superjacent - Lying over or above something else; overlying

212 - Condign - Appropriate to the crime or wrongdoing; fitting and deserved

213 - Widdershins - In a left-handed, wrong or contrary direction

214 - Clerisy - A distinct class of learned or literary people.

215 - Raconteur - A person who tells anecdotes in a skillful and amusing way

216 - Perorate - Speak at length

217 - Bathetic - PRoducing an unintentional effect of anticlimax

218 - Vox populi - The opinions or beliefs of the majority

219 - Pablum - Worthless or oversimplified ideas. A soft form of cereal for infants.

220 - Defalcation - Misappropriation of money or funds held by an official, trustee, or other fiduciary. The sum misappropriated.

221 - Supernumerary - Present in excess of the normal or requisite number

222 - Flummery - Empty compliments, nonsense. A sweet dish made with beaten eggs, milk sugar and flavorings

223 - Orgulous - Haughty

224 - Sedulous - Showing dedication and diligence

225 - Refulgent - Shining radiantly; resplendent

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