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Discuss Email this Feedback RSS/XML Permalink A.Word.A.Day--titivate This week's theme: Words that seem risque. titivate (TIT-i-vayt) verb tr., intr. To make smarter; to spruce up; to decorate. [From earlier tidivate, perhaps from tidy + elevate. The word titillate is from Latin titillare (to tickle).] Today's word in Visual Thesaurus. -Anu Garg (words at wordsmith.org) "[Karen Kilimnik's] journey has been marked by theatricality -- such as putting small, roughly painted pictures in a Venetian palazzo titivated with flowers and feathers." Philippa Stockley; A Wacky Take on the 18th Century; Evening Standard (London, UK); Feb 21, 2007. X-Bonus The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion. -Arthur C Clarke, science fiction writer (1917- )

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