Word a Day

• adjective
• 1.intellectually or morally ignorant; unenlightened: benighted ages of barbarism and superstition.
• 2.overtaken by darkness or night.

• 1. Of, relating to, or involving elegy or mourning or expressing sorrow for that which is irrecoverably past: an elegiac lament for youthful ideals.
• 2. Of or composed in elegiac couplets.

• adj.1. In an initial or early stage; incipient.
• 2. Imperfectly formed or developed: a vague, inchoate idea.

extraordinary in some bad way; glaring; flagrant: an egregious mistake; an egregious liar.2.Archaic . distinguished or eminent.