The word for today is… olfactory (adj) – Of, relating to, or contributing to the sense of smell. Source : The Free Dictionary Etymology : Olfactory derives from the past participle of the Latin olfacere (“to smell”), which was formed from the verb ol?re (“to give off a smell”) and facere (“to
The word for today is… misprision (noun) – 1. Neglect in performing the duties of public office. 2. (Law) The criminal offense of concealing, or neglecting to report or prevent, a felony or act of treason one had knowledge of but did not participate in. 3. Seditious conduct. 4. (a) Misunderstanding
The word for today is… martinet (noun) – 1. A rigid military disciplinarian. 2. One who demands absolute adherence to forms and rules. Source : The Free Dictionary Etymology : When France’s King Louis XIV appointed Lieutenant Colonel Jean Martinet to be inspector general of the infantry in the late 17th century,
The word for today is… labile (adj) – 1. Open to change; readily changeable or unstable. 2. Fluctuating widely: labile hypertension. 3. Decomposing readily. Source : The Free Dictionary Etymology : We are confident that you won’t slip up or err in learning today’s word, despite its etymology. Labile was borrowed
The word for today is… kludge (noun) – 1. A system, especially a computer system, that is constituted of poorly matched elements or of elements originally intended for other applications. 2. A clumsy or inelegant solution to a problem. Source : The Free Dictionary Etymology : The first recorded use of the word
The word for today is… issuable (adj) – 1. Authorised for issue or to be issued. 2. Open to debate or litigation. 3. Capable of being accrued. https://www.thefreedictionary.com/issuableSource : The Free Dictionary Etymology : Although issuable now tends to appear in financial contexts (such as in reference to shares
Patriot Realm While sitting in my car contemplating the vastness of the Universe, as I am oft to do, I noted a very simple, everyday occurrence. A pedestrian left a building and stood by a crosswalk. An approaching vehicle stopped and waved the pedestrian on. The pedestrian entered the crosswalk
The word for today is… irascible (adj) – Easily provoked, testy, touchy, short-tempered. Source : The Free Dictionary Etymology : If you try to take apart irascible in the same manner as irrational, irresistible, or irresponsible, you might find yourself wondering what ascible means—but that’s not how irascible came to
The word for today is… iconoclast (noun) – 1. One who attacks and seeks to overthrow traditional or popular ideas or institutions. 2. One who destroys sacred religious images. Source : The Free Dictionary Etymology : “Breaker or destroyer of images,” 1590s, from French iconoclaste and directly from Medieval Latin iconoclastes, from Late
The word for today is… germane (adj) – Related to a matter at hand, especially to a subject under discussion. Source : The Free Dictionary Etymology : “Wert thou a Leopard, thou wert Germane to the Lion.” So wrote William Shakespeare in his tragic play Timon of Athens, using an old (and now-
James Davidson To the regular person the internet is used for social media, YouTube, surfing the internet, work and definitely a lot of procrastination. For paedophiles, however, it is the perfect breeding ground to find and to begin to exploit their victims. We currently live in an age where kindness
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The word for today is… fecund (adj) – 1. (a) Capable of producing offspring or vegetation; fruitful. (b) Characterised by or suggestive of fertility. 2. Characterised by intellectual productivity. Source : The Free Dictionary Etymology : Fecund and its synonyms fruitful and fertile all mean producing or capable of producing offspring or fruit,
The word for today is… deleterious (adj) – Having a harmful effect. Source : The Free Dictionary Etymology : Pernicious, baneful, noxious, and detrimental are the wicked synonyms of deleterious. All five words refer to something exceedingly harmful. Of the group, deleterious is most often used for something that is unexpectedly harmful. Pernicious
Doug “Uncola” Lynn TheTollOnline “We read to know we’re not alone.” Although that particular truism is often mistakenly attributed to the author C.S. Lewis, it was actually William Nicholson who wrote those words in his 1989 play “Shadowlands”, a story about C.S. Lewis. Indeed. The power of
The word for today is… continual (adj) – 1. Recurring regularly or frequently. 2. Not interrupted; steady. Source : The Free Dictionary Etymology : Since the mid-19th century, many grammarians have drawn a distinction between continual and continuous. Continual should only mean “occurring at regular intervals,” they insist, whereas continuous should be
