The word for today is… hangar (noun, verb): noun : shelter, shed – especially : a covered and usually enclosed area for housing and repairing aircraft verb : to place or store in a hangar Source : Merriam -Webster Etymology : Borrowed from French, “shed open on one or more sides for storing agricultural products, farm
The word for today is… frivolous (adjective): 1a: of little weight or importance b: having no sound basis (as in fact or law) 2a: lacking in seriousness b: marked by unbecoming levity Source : Merriam -Webster Etymology : The word frivolous is applied to things that don’t deserve serious attention—though
The word for today is… injunction (noun): 1: a writ granted by a court of equity whereby one is required to do or to refrain from doing a specified act 2: the act or an instance of enjoining : order, admonition Source : Merriam -Webster Etymology : Injunction, injunction, what’s your function?
The word for today is… orotund (adjective): 1: marked by fullness, strength, and clarity of sound : sonorous 2: pompous, bombastic Source : Merriam -Webster Etymology : Shaping one’s mouth into an o-shape is pretty much a surefire way to produce an orotund or resonant sound, that is full, strong, and loud.
The word for today is… pareidolia (noun): : the tendency to perceive a specific, often meaningful image in a random or ambiguous visual pattern Source : Merriam -Webster Etymology : If you’ve ever spotted an image of a dog or a shoe in the clouds, you’ve exhibited what is called pareidolia,
The word for today is… ambiguous (adjective): 1a: doubtful or uncertain especially from obscurity or indistinctness b: inexplicable 2: capable of being understood in two or more possible senses or ways Source : Merriam -Webster Etymology : Ambiguous has, like many words in English, more than one possible meaning; a quality some
The word for today is… gauntlet (noun): 1: a glove worn with medieval armor to protect the hand 2: any of various protective gloves used especially in industry 3: an open challenge (as to combat) – used in phrases like throw down the gauntlet 4: a dress glove extending above the
The word for today is… oleaginous (adjective): 1: resembling or having the properties of oil : oily also : containing or producing oil 2: marked by an offensively ingratiating manner or quality Source : Merriam -Webster Etymology : The oily oleaginous slipped into English via Middle French oleagineux, coming from Latin oleagineus, meaning “of
The word for today is… upbraid (verb): 1: to criticize severely : find fault with 2: to reproach severely : scold vehemently Source : Merriam -Webster Etymology : First things first: do not confuse upbraid with topknot lest you be upbraided for it. Topknot is a noun referring to a hairstyle, while upbraid is
The word for today is… embargo (noun, verb): noun 1: an order of a government prohibiting the departure of commercial ships from its ports 2: a legal prohibition on commerce 3: stoppage, impediment, especially : prohibition 4: an order by a common carrier or public regulatory agency prohibiting or restricting freight
The word for today is… pundit (noun): 1: pandit 2: a learned person : teacher 3: a person who gives opinions in an authoritative manner usually through the mass media : critic Source : Merriam -Webster Etymology : The original pundits were highly learned scholars and teachers in India. Our English word pundit comes
The word for today is… caustic (adjective, noun): adjective 1: capable of destroying or eating away by chemical action : corrosive 2: marked by incisive sarcasm 3: relating to or being the surface or curve of a caustic noun 1: a caustic agent: such as a: a substance that burns or
The word for today is… assay (verb, noun): verb 1a: to analyze (something, such as an ore) for one or more specific components b: to judge the worth of : estimate 2: try, attempt noun 1: examination and determination as to characteristics (such as weight, measure, or quality) 2: analysis (as
The word for today is… myriad (noun, adjective): noun 1: ten thousand 2: a great number adjective 1: innumerable 2: having innumerable aspects or element Source : Merriam -Webster Etymology : Recent criticism of the use of myriad as a noun, both in the plural form myriads and in the phrase a
The word for today is… suffrage (noun): 1: a short intercessory prayer usually in a series 2: a vote given in deciding a controverted question or electing a person for an office or trust 3: the right of voting : franchise Source : Merriam -Webster Etymology : Why would a 17th-century writer warn
The word for today is… retribution (noun): 1: recompense, reward 2: the dispensing or receiving of reward or punishment especially in the hereafter 3: something given or exacted in recompense, especially punishment Source : Merriam -Webster Etymology : With its prefix re-, meaning “back”, retribution means literally “payback”. And indeed we usually
