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Today’s word of the day, courtesy of WordGenius, is malapropism. The website defines it as “The practice of unintentionally using the wrong word or phrase, usually to humorous effect.” Dictionary.com […]

Today’s word of the day, according to www.wordgenius.com, is uxorious. The word is an adjective which means “Excessively affectionate toward one’s wife.” Another definition is “doting upon, foolishly fond of, […]

Today’s word of the day comes courtesy of Word Genius, and it is the adjective superannuated (actually, it was their word of the day yesterday, but I was not feeling […]

Today’s word of the day, thanks to wordsmith.org’s “A.Word.A.Day,” is exemplum, a noun that means 1. “An example or model” or 2. “An anecdote used to illustrate a moral truth […]

Today’s word of the day comes to us via Number2.com, a website dedicated to providing free test preparation for students planning to take the ACT or GRE. The word is […]

Today’s word of the day, thanks to Word Genius, is Svengali. It’s a noun meaning “A manipulative person with sinister motives” or “Someone attempting to dominate another to do their […]

Today’s word of the day, courtesy of http://www.wordthink.com/, is equivocal, an adjective that means “Open to more than one interpretation; ambiguous. Uncertain or questionable in nature.” Dictionary.com provides three definitions: […]

Today’s word of the day, thanks to https://www.synonyms.com/wotd.php, is saturnine. It’s an adjective that means “sluggish in temperament; gloomy; taciturn,” “suffering from lead poisoning, as a person,” or “due to […]

Today’s word of the day, thanks to the Oxford English Dictionary, is psychohistory. Psychohistory is a noun that means “history or the writing of history employing the techniques of psychoanalysis […]

The first word of the day for the new year is vainglory, which www.dictionary.com  defines as “excessive elation or pride over one’s own achievements, abilities, etc.; boastful vanity” and “empty […]

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 […]