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The Good Oil Word of the Day

The Good Oil Word of the Day

The word for today is… adulation (noun): : extreme or excessive admiration or flattery Source : Merriam -Webster Etymology : The word ultimately comes from the Latin verb adūlārī, meaning "to fawn on" (a sense used specifically of the affectionate behaviour of dogs) or "to praise insincerely." Adulation has

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The Good Oil Word of the Day

The Good Oil Word of the Day

The word for today is… fractal (noun): : any of various extremely irregular curves or shapes for which any suitably chosen part is similar in shape to a given larger or smaller part when magnified or reduced to the same size Source : Merriam -Webster Etymology : This term was coined in 1975

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The Good Oil Word of the Day

The Good Oil Word of the Day

The word for today is… requisition (noun): 1a: the act of formally requiring or calling upon someone to perform an action b: a formal demand made by one nation upon another for the surrender or extradition of a fugitive from justice 2a: the act of requiring something to be furnished

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The Good Oil Word of the Day

The Good Oil Word of the Day

The word for today is… kismet (noun): 1: a hypothetical force or personified power that determines the course of the future events : fate, destiny 2: an inevitable and often bad outcome, condition, or end that a particular person or thing will experience Source : Merriam -Webster Etymology : Is it your fate

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The Good Oil Word of the Day

The Good Oil Word of the Day

The word for today is… algorithm (noun): : a procedure for solving a mathematical problem (as of finding the greatest common divisor) in a finite number of steps that frequently involves repetition of an operation. Broadly - a step-by-step procedure for solving a problem or accomplishing some end. Source : Merriam -Webster

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The Good Oil Word of the Day

The Good Oil Word of the Day

The word for today is… equity (noun): 1a: fairness or justice in the way people are treated, often, specifically : freedom from disparities in the way people of different races, genders, etc. are treated b: something that is equitable 2a: the money value of a property or of an interest in

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The Good Oil Word of the Day

The Good Oil Word of the Day

The word for today is… phantasm (noun): 1: a product of fantasy: such as a: delusive appearance : illusion b: ghost, spectre c: a figment of the imagination 2: a mental representation of a real object Source : Merriam -Webster Etymology : Phantasm is from Middle English fantasme, a borrowing from Anglo-French fantasme,

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The Good Oil Word of the Day

The Good Oil Word of the Day

The word for today is… exclusive (adjective, noun): adjective 1a: excluding or having power to exclude b: limiting or limited to possession, control, or use by a single individual or group 2a: excluding others from participation b: snobbishly aloof 3a: accepting or soliciting only a socially restricted patronage (as of

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The Good Oil Word of the Day

The Good Oil Word of the Day

The word for today is… meld (verb, noun, verb, noun): verb (1) transitive verb : to declare or announce (a card or combination of cards) for a score in a card game especially by placing face up on the table intransitive verb : to declare a card or combination of cards as

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The Good Oil Word of the Day

The Good Oil Word of the Day

The word for today is… superfluous (adjective): 1a: exceeding what is sufficient or necessary : extra b: not needed : unnecessary 2 obsolete : marked by wastefulness : extravagant Source : Merriam -Webster Etymology : If, say, you were to go chasing waterfalls in addition to the rivers and the lakes that you’re used to,

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The Good Oil Word of the Day

The Good Oil Word of the Day

The word for today is… stigma (noun): 1a: a set of negative and unfair beliefs that a society or group of people have about something b: a mark of shame or discredit : stain c: plural usually stigmata : an identifying mark or characteristic, specifically : a specific diagnostic sign of a disease

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The Good Oil Word of the Day

The Good Oil Word of the Day

The word for today is… quip (noun, verb): noun 1a: a clever usually taunting remark : jibe b: a witty or funny observation or response usually made on the spur of the moment 2: quibble, equivocation 3: something strange, droll, curious, or eccentric : oddity verb : to make quips : jibe Source : Merriam

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The Good Oil Word of the Day

The Good Oil Word of the Day

The word for today is… astute (adjective) : having or showing shrewdness and an ability to notice and understand things clearly : mentally sharp or clever also : crafty, wily Source : Merriam -Webster Etymology : Road Runner always bests Wile E. Coyote in the famous Looney Tunes cartoon series, but both characters help demonstrate

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The Good Oil Word of the Day

The Good Oil Word of the Day

The word for today is… esoteric (adjective): 1a: designed for or understood by the specially initiated alone b: requiring or exhibiting knowledge that is restricted to a small group 2a: limited to a small circle b: private, confidential 3: of special, rare, or unusual interest Source : Merriam -Webster Etymology : The

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The Good Oil Word of the Day

The Good Oil Word of the Day

The word for today is… transmute (verb): 1: to change or alter in form, appearance, or nature and especially to a higher form 2: to subject (something, such as an element) to transmutation Source : Merriam -Webster Etymology : Transmutation changes something over into something else. Thus, a writer may transmute his

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