Carolina Institute for Faith & Culture

Today’s word of the day is lugubrious, an adjective meaning 1. “sad or gloomy” or 2. “exaggeratedly mournful,” according to Word Genius (https://www.wordgenius.com/). Dictionary.com defines it as “mournful, dismal, or […]

The word of the day for today is aphorism, a noun which means “a terse saying embodying a general truth, or astute observation” (https://www.dictionary.com/browse/aphorism?s=t). It’s interesting to me that the […]

Today’s word of the day, courtesy of WordThink, is virulent, an adjective which means, according to the website, “Extremely severe or harmful in its effects. Bitterly hostile or antagonistic; hateful” […]

The word of the day for today is ephemeral. Ephemeral, according to www.dictionary.com, can be used as an adjective or as a noun. As an adjective, it can mean 1. […]

Today’s word of the day is luminary. Luminary can be either a noun or an adjective. As a noun, it actually has three meanings: 1. “a celestial body, as the […]

Thanks to WordGenius.com for today’s word of the day, panacea. The website gives two definitions for panacea: 1. “A mythical remedy for all illness and disease,” and 2. “A solution […]

The word of the day is courtesy of WordThink.com: surreal. Surreal is an adjective that means “Having the disorienting quality of a dream; unreal; fantastic” (http://www.wordthink.com/). According to www.dictionary.com, it […]

Today’s word of the day, courtesy of the Oxford English Dictionary, is halcyon. If you have ever heard this word in conversation or seen this word in print, you probably […]

Today’s word of the day is censor. It is one of those English words that can be used as a noun or as a verb. As a noun, it refers […]

Today’s word of the day, courtesy of the Oxford English Dictionary, is cyberpunk. According to the OED, cyberpunk is a “subgenre of science fiction typified by a bleak, high-tech setting […]

Today’s word of the day is hubris (/ ˈhyu brɪs, ˈhu- /–the ˈhu- indicates an acceptable alternative pronunciation; it is not uncommon in English for a word to have more than […]

Today’s word of the day comes from the Wordsmith website, https://wordsmith.org/words/homily.html. The word is homily. It’s pronounced / ˈhɒm ə li /. Notice that the first syllable is stressed, the second syllable […]