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The word for today is… fissiparous (adjective) - : tending to break or split up into parts : divisive Source : Merriam-Webster Etymology : When it first entered English in the 19th century, fissiparous was concerned with reproduction. In biology, a fissiparous organism is one that produces new individuals by fission; that is, by
The Good Oil Word of the Day
The word for today is… tacit (adjective) - 1: expressed or carried on without words or speech 2: implied or indicated (as by an act or by silence) but not actually expressed Source : Merriam-Webster Etymology : In the first chapter of Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights, the narrator Mr. Lockwood recounts
The Good Oil Word of the Day
The word for today is… bathetic (adjective) - : characterized by bathos Source : Merriam-Webster Etymology : When English speakers turned apathy into apathetic in the late 17th century, using the suffix -etic to turn the noun into the adjective, they were inspired by pathetic, the adjectival form of pathos, from Greek pathētikos.
The Good Oil Word of the Day
The word for today is… deepfake (noun) - : a digital image, video, voice, etc. that has been convincingly generated or altered to misrepresent someone as doing or saying something that was not actually done or said Source : Merriam-Webster Etymology : The old maxim "things aren’t always as they seem&
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