Category: Word of the Day
Daily posts of an individual word study
Word of the Day: Recidivate
Carrying a heavy bat to make up for his modest 5’11”, 175-pound frame, Baker began showing more pop for the Athletics in 1911. It resulted with his leading the AL with 11 home runs—the most hit by any player in the junior circuit over the previous five years.
Word of the Day: Potentate
Today’s word of the day, thanks to WordThink.com, is potentate, which the website defines as “One who has the power and position to rule over others: A monarch or ruler.” […]
Word of the Day: Palindrome
Today’s word of the day is palindrome. It’s a noun that refers to “a word, line, verse, number, sentence, etc., reading the same backward as forward, as ‘Madam, I’m Adam’ […]
Word of the Day: Sagacious
Today’s word of the day, courtesy of www.dictionary.com, is sagacious, an adjective meaning “having or showing acute mental discernment and keen practical sense; shrewd.” The IPA transcription looks like this: […]
Word of the Day: Feuilleton
Today’s word of the day, courtesy of Anu Garg of “A.Word.a.Day” at the Wordsmith website, is feuilleton. The noun means “a part of a European newspaper devoted to light literature, […]
Word of the Day: Copious
Today’s word of the day, thanks to Quizlet, is copious. According to www.dictionary.com, copious means “large in quantity or number; abundant; plentiful,” or “having or yielding an abundant supply,” or […]
Word of the Day: Serendipity
Today’s word of the day, thanks to the 18th century English writer Horace Walpole, is serendipity. The noun means “an aptitude for making desirable discoveries by accident” or “good fortune; […]
Word of the Day: Boojum
Today’s word of the day, courtesy of the Oxford English Dictionary, boojum, a word coined by Lewis Carroll in his poem The Hunting of the Snark. The poem was originally […]
Word of the Day: Culpable
Today’s word of the day, thanks to Word Genius, is culpable, an adjective meaning 1. “Deserving of blame,” or 2. “Responsible for a crime,” according to the website. Dictionary.com defines […]
Word of the Day: Pithy
Today’s word of the day, thanks to the GRE Word of the Day website, is pithy. I mean, of course, that the word we are going to define is the […]
Word of the Day: Parasynonyms
Today’s word of the day, courtesy of Word Genius, is parasynonym, a linguistic term “to describe words with close similarities, but not exactly matching definitions.” According to Wiktionary, it is […]
Word of the Day: MacGuffin
Today’s word of the day, courtesy of Word Genius, is MacGuffin. A MacGuffin, according to Word Genius, is “1 An object or event that serves as a plot device in […]