Words for the day

Emaciated(Adj) : Very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold "emaciated bony hands"

(V): 1. Cause to grow thin or weak "The treatment emaciated him"

2. Grow weak and thin or waste away physically "She emaciated during the chemotherapy"

Arcane(Adj): Requiring secret or mysterious knowledge "the arcane science of dowsing"

Vacuous(Adj): Devoid of intelligence, devoid of significance or point "vacuous comments".

Devoid of matter "a vacuous space"

Void of expression

Phenotype(N): What an organism looks like as a consequence of the interaction of its genotype and the environment

Dredge(N): A power shovel to remove material from a channel or riverbed

(V): 1. Cover before cooking"dredge the chicken in flour before frying it"

2. Search (as the bottom of a body of water) for something valuable or lost

3. Remove with a power shovel, usually from a bottom of a body of water

Ensconced(V): Fix firmly "He ensconced himself in the chair"

Eccentric(Adj): Conspicuously or grossly unconventional or unusual"famed for his eccentric spelling"

(N): A person with an unusual or odd personality

A person of a specified kind (usually with many eccentricities) "a friendly eccentric"

Eccentricity(N): Strange and unconventional behaviour

Acquiesce(V): To agree or express agreement