The word for today is… meticulous (adjective) – marked by extreme or excessive care in the consideration or treatment of details Source : Merriam -Webster Etymology : It may surprise you to learn that meticulous is derived from the Latin word for “fearful” – meticulosus – and ultimately comes from the Latin noun metus, meaning
The word for today is… luminary (noun) – 1 : a person of prominence or brilliant achievement 2 : a body that gives light Source : Merriam -Webster Etymology : Allow us to shed some light on “luminary.” It came to English by way of Anglo-French and Late Latin, and it traces back to
The word for today is… impunity (noun) – : exemption or freedom from punishment, harm, or loss Source : Merriam -Webster Etymology : Impunity (like the words pain, penal, and punish) traces to the Latin noun poena, meaning “punishment.” The Latin word, in turn, came from Greek poin?, meaning “payment” or “penalty.” People acting
The word for today is… smorgasbord (noun) – 1 : a luncheon or supper buffet offering a variety of foods and dishes (such as hors d’oeuvres, hot and cold meats, smoked and pickled fish, cheeses, salads, and relishes) 2 : an often large heterogeneous mixture Source : Merriam -Webster Etymology : Although smorgasbord might
The word for today is… williwaw (noun) 1a : a sudden violent gust of cold land air common along mountainous coasts of high latitudes b : a sudden violent wind 2 : a violent commotion Source : Merriam -Webster Etymology : In 1900, Captain Joshua Slocum (the first person to sail solo around the world,
The word for today is… atavistic (derived from atavism (noun)) 1a : recurrence in an organism of a trait or character typical of an ancestral form and usually due to genetic recombination b : recurrence of or reversion to a past style, manner, outlook, approach, or activity 2 : an individual or character
The word for today is… querulous (adjective) – 1 : habitually complaining 2 : fretful, whining : a querulous voice Source : Merriam -Webster Etymology : English speakers have tagged fearful whiners “querulous” since late medieval times. The Middle English form of the word, “querelose,” was an adaptation of the Latin adjective, querulus, which in turn
The word for today is… synonym (noun) – : one of two or more words or expressions of the same language that have the same or nearly the same meaning in some or all senses 2 : a word or phrase that by association is held to embody something (such as a concept
The word for today is… perspective (noun, adjective) – noun 1a : a mental view or prospect b : a visible scene giving a distinctive impression of distance : vista 2a : the interrelation in which a subject or its parts are mentally viewed : point of view b : the capacity to view things in their
The word for today is… organoleptic (adjective) – 1 : being, affecting, or relating to qualities (such as taste, color, odor, and feel) of a substance (such as a food or drug) that stimulate the sense organs 2 : involving use of the sense organs Source : Merriam -Webster Etymology : English speakers first got
The word for today is… grandiloquence (noun) – : a lofty, extravagantly colorful, pompous, or bombastic style, manner, or quality especially in language Source : Merriam -Webster Etymology : Grandiloquence, which first appeared in English in the late 16th century, is one of several English words pertaining to speech that derive from the Latin
The word for today is… turbid (adjective) – 1a : thick or opaque with or as if with roiled sediment b : heavy with smoke or mist 2a : deficient in clarity or purity b : characterized by or producing obscurity (as of mind or emotions) Source : Merriam -Webster Etymology : Turbid and “turgid” (which means
The word for today is… deference (noun) – respect and esteem due a superior or an elder Source : Merriam -Webster Etymology : The words deference and defer both derive from the Latin deferre, which means “to bring down” or “to carry away.” At the same time you might also hear that defer
The word for today is… gazette (noun, verb) – noun 1 : newspaper 2 : an official journal 3 British : an announcement in an official gazette -verb 1 chiefly British : to announce or publish in a gazette 2 British : to announce the appointment or status of in an official gazette Source : Merriam -Webster
The word for today is… vilify (verb) – 1 : to utter slanderous and abusive statements against : defame 2 : to lower in estimation or importance Source : Merriam -Webster Etymology : Vilify came to English by way of the Middle English vilifien and the Late Latin vilificare from the Latin adjective vilis, meaning “cheap”
The word for today is… slipshod (adjective) – 1a : wearing loose shoes or slippers b : down at the heel : shabby 2 : careless, slovenly Source : Merriam -Webster Etymology : The word shod is the past tense form of the verb shoe, meaning “to furnish with a shoe”; hence, we can speak of shoeing
