The word for today is… verdant (adjective) – 1a : green in tint or color b : green with growing plants 2 : unripe in experience or judgment Source : Merriam -Webster Etymology : English speakers have been using “verdant” as a ripe synonym of “green” since the late 16th century, and as a descriptive term
I have a cunning plan. A plan so cunning…well you know how it goes with tails and weasels and so on. I am as guilty as many in being downbeat as to where we find ourselves at present; only yesterday I commented on this forum how depressing I found
The word for today is… pluvial (adjective) – 1a : of or relating to rain b : characterized by abundant rain 2 of a geologic change : resulting from the action of rain Source : Merriam -Webster Etymology : In the early 17th century, clerics began wearing long cloaks known as “pluvials” for protection against the
The word for today is… glean (verb) – 1 : to gather grain or other produce left by reapers – glean a field 2a : to gather (something, such as information) bit by bit b : to pick over in search of relevant material 3 : find out Source : Merriam -Webster Etymology : Glean comes from Middle
The word for today is… imbue (verb) – 1 : endow – ‘Spanish missions imbue the city with Old World charm’ 2 : to permeate or influence as if by dyeing – ‘the spirit that imbues the new constitution’ 3 : to tinge or dye deeply Source : Merriam -Webster Etymology : Like its synonym infuse, imbue implies
The word for today is… proleteriat (noun) – 1 : the laboring class especially : the class of industrial workers who lack their own means of production and hence sell their labor to live 2 : the lowest social or economic class of a community Source : Online Etymology Dictionary Etymology : “the lowest and poorest
The word for today is… sanctimonious (adjective) – 1 : hypocritically pious or devout 2 obsolete : possessing sanctity : holy Source : Merriam -Webster Etymology : There’s nothing sacred about “sanctimonious”-at least not any more. But in the early 1600s, the English adjective was still sometimes used to describe someone truly holy or
The word for today is… didactic (adjective)- 1 a : designed or intended to teach b : intended to convey instruction and information as well as pleasure and entertainment 2 : making moral observations Source : Merriam -Webster Etymology : Didaktikós is a Greek word that means “apt at teaching.” It comes from didáskein, meaning
The word for today is… malleable (adjective) – 1 : capable of being extended or shaped by beating with a hammer or by the pressure of rollers 2a : capable of being altered or controlled by outside forces or influences b : having a capacity for adaptive change Source : Merriam -Webster Etymology : There is
The word for today is… anfractuous (adjective) full of windings and intricate turnings : tortuous Source : Merriam -Webster Etymology : Plots and paths can be anfractuous. They twist and turn but do not break. Never mind that our English word comes from Latin anfractus (same meaning as anfractuous), which in turn comes
The word for today is… mordant (adjective, noun, verb) adjective 1 : biting and caustic in thought, manner, or style (a mordant wit) 2 : acting as a mordant (as in dyeing) 3 : burning, pungent noun 1 : a chemical that fixes a dye in or on a substance by combining with the
The word for today is… rigmarole (noun) – 1 : confused or meaningless talk 2 : a complex and sometimes ritualistic procedure Source : Merriam -Webster Etymology : In the Middle Ages, the term Rageman or Ragman referred to a game in which a player randomly selected a string attached to a roll of verses
The word for today is… peach (noun,verb) – noun 1a : a low spreading freely branching Chinese tree (Prunus persica) of the rose family that has lanceolate leaves and sessile usually pink flowers and is widely cultivated in temperate areas for its edible fruit which is a single-seeded drupe with
The word for today is… inroad (noun) – 1 : an advance or penetration often at the expense of someone or something 2 : a sudden hostile incursion : raid Source : Merriam -Webster Etymology : Inroad is a combination of in and road, both of which are pretty mundane, as far as words go. But
The word for today is… zealot (noun) – 1 : a zealous person; especially a fanatical partisan 2 capitalized : a member of a fanatical sect arising in Judea during the first century a.d. and militantly opposing the Roman domination of Palestine Source : Merria-Webster Etymology : In the 1st century A.D.
The word for today is… flotilla (noun) – 1 : a fleet of ships or boats; especially a navy organizational unit consisting of two or more squadrons of small warships 2 : an indefinite large number e.g. a flotilla of changes Source : Merriam -Webster Etymology : Flotilla comes from the diminutive form of
