The word for today is… chlamys (noun) - : a short oblong mantle worn by young men of ancient Greece Source : Merriam-Webster Etymology : If you had been a man of ancient Greece, you'd likely have worn a chlamys from time to time. This cloak was a short, oblong mantle,
The word for today is… anneal (verb) - transitive verb 1a: to heat and then cool (a material, such as steel or glass) usually for softening and making less brittle, also : to cool slowly usually in a furnace b: to cause two complementary strands of nucleic acid (such as DNA or
The word for today is… comely (adjective) - 1: pleasurably conforming to notions of good appearance, suitability, or proportion 2: having a pleasing appearance : not homely or plain Source : Merriam-Webster Etymology : Although comely is now typically used to describe the appearance of human beings, it was once used more broadly
The word for today is… sultry (adjective) - 1a: very hot and humid : sweltering b: burning hot : torrid 2a: hot with passion or anger b: exciting or capable of exciting strong sexual desire Source : Merriam-Webster Etymology : Sultry days and glances both burn hot—one literally, and the other figuratively. Sultry
The word for today is… breadbasket (noun) - 1 slang : stomach 2: a region that is a major producer of grain crops (such as wheat) Source : Merriam-Webster Etymology : Breadbasket has been used as slang in English since at least the mid-1700s. (It has been used even longer to mean
The word for today is… erroneous (adjective) - 1: containing or characterized by error : mistaken 2 archaic : wandering Source : Merriam-Webster Etymology : Erroneous basically means "containing errors", and, since most of us are constantly suffering from mistaken notions, the word is often used in front of words such as
The word for today is… kludge (noun) - : a haphazard or makeshift solution to a problem and especially to a computer or programming problem Source : Merriam-Webster Etymology : As long as the origins of kludge (also spelled kluge) are uncertain, any attempt to pin them down will itself be a bit
The word for today is… aerie (noun) - 1: the nest of a bird on a cliff or a mountaintop 2 obsolete : a brood of birds of prey 3: an elevated often secluded dwelling, structure, or position Source : Merriam-Webster Etymology : This word is better known to me as eyrie. English
The word for today is… ginkgo (noun) - : a gymnospermous dioecious tree (Ginkgo biloba) of eastern China that is widely grown as an ornamental or shade tree and has fan-shaped leaves and foul-smelling yellowish fleshy seed coats, called also maidenhair tree Source : Merriam-Webster Etymology : There is only one
The word for today is… boustrophedon (noun) - : the writing of alternate lines in opposite directions (as from left to right and from right to left) Source : Merriam-Webster Etymology : Before the standardization of writing from left to right, ancient Greek inscribers once used a style called boustrophedon, a word meaning
The word for today is… ignominious (adjective) - 1: humiliating, degrading 2: deserving of shame or infamy : despicable 3: marked with or characterized by disgrace or shame : dishonorable Source : Merriam-Webster Etymology : The "-nom-" of "ignominious" comes from "nomen," the Latin word for "name&
The word for today is… nurture (noun, verb) - noun 1: training, upbringing 2: something that nourishes : food 3: the sum of the environmental factors influencing the behavior and traits expressed by an organism verb 1: to supply with nourishment 2: educate 3: to further the development of : foster Source : Merriam-
The word for today is… maverick (noun) - 1: an unbranded range animal, especially : a motherless calf 2: an independent individual who does not go along with a group or party Source : Merriam-Webster Etymology : When a client gave Samuel A. Maverick 400 cattle to settle a $1,200 debt, the
The word for today is… raffish (adjective) - 1: marked by or suggestive of flashy vulgarity or crudeness 2: marked by a careless unconventionality : rakish Source : Merriam-Webster Etymology : Raffish sounds like it should mean "resembling raff." But what is raff? Originally, "raff" was a word meaning
The word for today is… hypochondria (noun) - : excessive concern about one's health especially when accompanied by imagined physical ailments ,specifically : illness anxiety disorder Source : Merriam-Webster Etymology : In earlier times: "organs of the upper abdomen behind the ribs, including the liver and gallbladder, are thought to be
The word for today is… susurrous (adjective) - : full of whispering sounds Source : Merriam-Webster Etymology : Susurrous derives from the Latin noun susurrus, meaning "a hum" or "a whisper," and may be a distant relative of swarm (think of the collective hum of a beehive). Susurrus is
