plenipotentiary!

Fig. 1: No thank you

I don't about you, but I'm increasingly baffled by Dictionary.com's Word of the Day. Lately I've gotten "pukka" and "mulct". Have you ever tried to use "pukka" or "mulct" in conversation? No, you haven't. Why haven't you? Because those are terrible words. Because besides being unnecessary synonyms for words that have alrwady have an abundance of perfectly synonyms, they sound unappealing. They sound like bodily fluids. What's the point of having your vocabulary enriched if the result will nauseate people? What I need, Dictionary.com, is a synonym for "creepy". I need several synonyms for "creepy". I need a month of synonyms for "creepy".

Either that, or I need things to stop being creepy. I'm not sure if Dictionary.com can eliminate all creepiness from the universe, but if they can dig up "mulct" they clearly have mysterious powers I cannot yet begin to grasp. Come on, Web 2.0; let's make this happen.