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# The Good Oil Word of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/the-good-oil-word-of-the-day-676/
- Published: 2026-06-24T18:15:08.000Z
- Updated: 2026-06-24T18:15:07.000Z
- Author: David Theobald
- Tags: General, Word of the Day

The word for today is…

inflection (noun) -

1: change in pitch or loudness of the voice  
2a: the change of form that words undergo to mark such distinctions as those of case, gender, number, tense, person, mood, or voice  
b: a form, suffix, or element involved in such variation  
c: accidence  
3: the act or result of curving or bending : bend  
4a: change in curvature of an arc or curve from concave to convex or conversely  
b: inflection point

Source : [Merriam-Webster](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/inflection?ref=goodoil.news)

Etymology : Changing the pitch, tone, or loudness of our words are ways we communicate meaning in speech, though not on the printed page. A rising inflection at the end of a sentence generally indicates a question, and a falling inflection indicates a statement, for example. Another way of inflecting words is by adding endings: -s to make a noun plural, -ed to put a verb in the past tense, -er to form the comparative form of an adjective, and so on.

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