Word of the Day

hast·y

• Characterized by speed; rapid
• Done or made too quickly to be accurate or wise; rash
• Easily angered; irritable.

Synonyms: overhasty, precipitant, precipitate, precipitous.

Usage: Having been published without his usual elaborate revision, Poe may have wished to hide his hasty work under an assumed name.

References

• The Free Dictionary — hasty
• Wordle — Hasty

sac·er·do·tal

• Of or relating to priests or the priesthood.
• Of or relating to sacerdotalism.

Synonyms: hieratic, priestly.

Usage: The priest donned his sacerdotal vestments and entered the sanctuary.

References
The Free Dictionary — sacerdotal
Wordle — Sacerdotal

pre·scrip·tive

• Sanctioned or authorized by long-standing custom or usage.
• Making or giving injunctions, directions, laws, or rules.

Synonyms: normative.
Usage: Prescriptive grammar is concerned with norms of or rules for correct usage.

References

• The Free Dictionary — prescriptive
• Wordle —Prescriptive

trans·verse

• Extending or lying across; in a crosswise direction; at right angles to the long axis.

Synonyms: cross, thwartwise, transversal.

Usage: We agreed to meet under the transverse arches in the main hall of the college at two o’clock.

References

• The Free Dictionary — transverse
• Wordle — Transverse

id·i·om

• A speech form or an expression of a given language that is peculiar to itself grammatically or cannot be understood from the individual meanings of its elements
• An expression whose meanings cannot be inferred from the meanings of the words that make it up.

Synonyms: phrase.

Usage: The foreigner was utterly confused when his American host handed him an umbrella and told him it was “raining cats and dogs,” an idiom meaning that it is raining heavily.

References

• The Free Dictionary — idiom
• Wordle — Idiom