The word for today is… tabula rasa (noun): 1: the mind in its hypothetical primary blank or empty state before receiving outside impressions 2: something existing in its original pristine state Source : Merriam -Webster Etymology : Philosophers have been arguing that babies are born with minds that are essentially blank slates
The word for today is… eponymous (adjective): : of, relating to, or being the person or thing for whom or which something is named : of, relating to, or being an eponym Source : Merriam -Webster Etymology : What’s in a name? If the name is eponymous, a name is in the name:
The word for today is… chivalry (noun): 1: mounted men-at-arms 2 archaic a: martial valor b: knightly skill 3: gallant or distinguished gentlemen 4: the system, spirit, or customs of medieval knighthood 5: the qualities of the ideal knight : chivalrous conduct Source : Merriam -Webster Etymology : The word chivalry
The word for today is… plausible (adjective): 1: superficially fair, reasonable, or valuable but often deceptively so 2: superficially pleasing or persuasive 3: appearing worthy of belief Source : Merriam -Webster Etymology : Today the word usually means “reasonable” or “believable,” but its origins lie in the sensory realm, rather than that
The word for today is… sinecure (noun): 1: an office or position that requires little or no work and that usually provides an income 2 archaic : an ecclesiastical benefice without cure of souls Source : Merriam -Webster Etymology : A sinecure is a job or title that usually comes with regular money
The word for today is… expedite (verb): 1: to accelerate the process or progress of : speed up 2: to execute promptly Source : Merriam -Webster Etymology : Need someone to do something in a hurry? You can tell that person to step on it—or you can tell them expedite it. Figurative
The word for today is… cachinnate (verb): : to laugh loudly or immoderately Source : Merriam -Webster Etymology : Cachinnate has been whooping it up in English since the 19th century. The word derives from the Latin verb cachinnare, meaning “to laugh loudly,” and cachinnare was probably coined in imitation of a loud
The word for today is… arboreal (adjective): 1: of, relating to, or resembling a tree 2: inhabiting or frequenting trees Source : Merriam -Webster Etymology : Arboreal took root in English in the 17th century, at a time when language influencers were eager to see English take on words from Latin and
The word for today is… victual (noun, verb): noun 1: food usable by people 2 victuals plural : supplies of food : provisions verb 1: eat 2: to lay in provisions Source : Merriam -Webster Etymology : The word derives via the Middle English and Anglo-French vitaille from the Late Latin plural noun
The word for today is… vicissitude (noun): 1a: the quality or state of being changeable : mutability b: natural change or mutation visible in nature or in human affairs 2a: a favorable or unfavorable event or situation that occurs by chance : a fluctuation of state or condition b: a difficulty or
The word for today is… carouse (verb, noun): verb 1: to drink liquor freely or excessively 2: to take part in a carouse : engage in dissolute behavior noun 1: a drunken revel 2 archaic : a large draft of liquor Source : Merriam -Webster Etymology : Sixteenth-century English revelers toasting each other’
The word for today is… orthography (noun): 1a: the art of writing words with the proper letters according to standard usage b: the representation of the sounds of a language by written or printed symbols 2: a part of language study that deals with letters and spelling Source : Merriam -Webster
The word for today is… reprehensible (adjective): : worthy of or deserving reprehension : culpable Source : Merriam -Webster Etymology : It may be easy to grasp that reprehensible is all about blame, but the word’s origins tell a grabbier story. The word comes from the Latin reprehendere (literally “to hold back”), a
The word for today is… gravamen (noun): : the material or significant part of a grievance or complaint Source : Merriam -Webster Etymology : Gravamen is not a word you hear every day (even rarer is gravamina, the less expected of its two plural forms; gravamens is the other), but it does show
The word for today is… beguile (verb): 1: hoodwink 2: to engage the interest of by or as if by guile 3: to lead by deception 4: to while away especially by some agreeable occupation Source : Merriam -Webster Etymology : A number of English words have traveled a rather curious path
The word for today is… wistful (adjective): 1: full of yearning or desire tinged with melancholy 2: musingly sad : pensive Source : Merriam -Webster Etymology : The etymology of wistful, while intriguing, is not entirely clear. It’s thought that the word is a combination of wistly, a now-obsolete word meaning
