Word of the Day: Infinitesimal
Infinitesimal: Word of the Day Today’s word of the day, thanks to www.wordgenius.com, is infinitesimal, an adjective meaning “1. extremely small” or “2. too small to be measured.” According to […]
Requiems and Reveries: Essays on Language, Literature, and Life
CIFC Staff Dr. Chad Chisholm, professor of English and Director of the Carolina Institute for Faith and Culture, has published a collection of his essays, Requiems and Reveries: Essays on Language, […]
Word of the Day: Invigilate
Today’s word of the day, thanks to the joint BBC and BBC America television series Ripper Street, is invigilate. Invigilate is an intransitive verb (so it does not take a […]
Word of the Day: Wantwit
Today’s word of the day, thanks to Anu Garg and A.Word.A.Day on the Wordsmith.org website, is wantwit. According to Garg, the noun means “A fool; one lacking good sense” and […]
Word of the Day: Peonage
Today’s word of the day is peonage. According to www.dictionary.com, it means “the condition or service of a peon” or “the practice of holding persons in servitude or partial slavery, […]
Sitting and Chatting With Brent Dongell
Brent Dongell is a professor at Southern Wesleyan University and has been for two years. He works for the Department of Religion, and he definitely sets his standards high. He […]
A Vignette of a Life Amongst a Thousand: A Review of 1917
The last film to bring tears to my eyes was 2017’s Dunkirk, mostly because I am of a generation of Christopher Nolan fan boys who cannot see him doing any wrong. […]
Word of the Day: Job
Today’s word of the day is job, but not in its usual sense. I came across this today on the www.thoughtcatalog.com website in a list called “500 Archaic Words That […]
Word of the Day: Bissextile
Today’s word of the day, thanks to www.WordGenius.com, is bissextile, an adjective that means “(of a year) having the extra day (29 February) of a leap year,” or “anything related […]
The Dutch House: A Book Review
When retelling a familiar story with your family or friends, have you realized they have different memories of those same events? In the novel The Dutch House, Ann Patchett, explores this […]
Word of the Day: Memento Mori
Today’s word of the day is actually a phrase of the day, and it’s in Latin: memento mori. The Latin phrase means, according to www.dictionary.com, “1. remember that you must […]
Word of the Day: Fabulist
Today’s word of the day, thanks to the Word Genius website, is fabulist, a noun meaning “1 A person who composes or relates fables,” or “2 A liar, especially a […]