- Word of the Day: Gumption | Merriam-Webster
He makes catty comments about Ted at a press conference and fails to shake Ted’s hand after West Ham beats AFC Richmond But in episode four, the same one that depicts that match, Nate is already aching to apologize to Ted—he just can’t find the gumption to do it ” — Jen Chaney, Vulture, 2 June 2023
- Word of the Day: Kafkaesque | Merriam-Webster
Those living in poverty are expected to complete mountains of complicated paperwork to access aid and can be harshly penalized for any errors For help, they must rely on overtaxed social workers, who are themselves often stumped by the Kafkaesque bureaucracy their clients face ” — Lola Duffort, VTDigger org (Montpelier, Vermont), 6 Oct 2023
- Word of the Day: Embargo | Merriam-Webster
September 01, 2023 | a government order that limits trade in some way English speakers got embargo—both the word and the concept, it seems—from the Spanish in the early 17th century
- Word of the Day: Tenebrous | Merriam-Webster
September 23, 2023 | dark and murky Tenebrous can mean both “obscure” and “murky,” but its history is crystal clear Etymologists know that the word comes from the Latin noun tenebrae, meaning “
- Word of the Day: Parse | Merriam-Webster
Once some bots could handle that, captcha added other detection methods that included parsing images of motorbikes and trains, as well as sensing mouse movement and other user behavior " — Christopher Beam, WIRED, 14 Sept 2023
- Word of the Day: Wistful | Merriam-Webster
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- Word of the Day: Gravitate | Merriam-Webster
November 13, 2023 | to move or be attracted toward something The force is strong in the family of words descended from the Latin adjective gravis, meaning “heavy”: gravitation has it, graviton has it,
- Word of the Day: Auspicious | Merriam-Webster
April 09, 2023 | showing or suggesting that future success is likely Some word knowledge to crow about in your next tweetstorm: auspicious comes from Latin auspex, which literally means “bird seer” (
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