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The word for today is… extant (adjective) - 1a: currently or actually existing b: still existing : not destroyed or lost 2 archaic : standing out or above Source : Merriam-Webster Etymology : Latin exstant-, exstans, present participle of exstare to stand out, be in existence, from ex- + stare to stand. Middle English, from
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The word for today is… southpaw (noun) - : left-hander, especially boxers and baseball pitchers Source : Merriam-Webster Etymology : Southpaw is of obscure origin. A popular theory holds that it comes from the onetime position of baseball parks in relation to the sun. Supposedly, late 19th-century ballparks were laid out
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The word for today is… tilde (noun) - 1: a mark ˜ placed especially over the letter n (as in Spanish señor sir) to denote the sound \nʸ\ or over vowels (as in Portuguese irmã sister) to indicate nasality 2a: the mark used to indicate negation in logic and the geometric relation
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The word for today is… calumet (noun) - : a highly ornamented ceremonial pipe used by some Indigenous American peoples Source : Merriam-Webster Etymology : The calumet has long been an important component of the ceremonies of Native American groups, but the first inhabitants of the Americas did not give the venerated pipe
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The Good Oil Word of the Day
The word for today is… extant (adjective) - 1a: currently or actually existing b: still existing : not destroyed or lost 2 archaic : standing out or above Source : Merriam-Webster Etymology : Latin exstant-, exstans, present participle of exstare to stand out, be in existence, from ex- + stare to stand. Middle English, from