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  1. 17 hours ago

    'Taciturn' ("temperamentally disinclined to talk") is ultimately from Latin 'tacitus' (meaning "silent").

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  3. 20 hours ago

    Good morning! Today's is 'meliorism'

    Word of the Day October 4 2020 - meliorism - noun - MEE-lee-uh-riz-um - a belief that the world tends to improve
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  4. Oct 3

    A nice word for an October Saturday: 'Autumnity': quality or condition characteristic of autumn

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  5. Oct 3

    Good morning! Today's is 'enhance'

    Word of the Day - October 3, 2020 - enhance - verb - in-HANSS - to heighten or increase
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    Oct 2

    Lookups , in order: schadenfreude, fascism, white supremacist, racism, karma, poetic justice, FLOTUS, antifa, anagnorisis, irony, hubris, penultimate, hypocritical, morbidity, hoax

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  7. Oct 2

    'Quarantine' is used to separate and restrict the movement of well persons who may have been exposed to see if they become ill. 'Isolation' is used to separate ill persons who have a communicable disease from those who are healthy.

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  8. Oct 2

    dogma bread deterrence lethargy A look at the words from the week:

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  9. Oct 2

    📈 Lookups for 'schadenfreude' have spiked 30,500%

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  10. Oct 2

    Hello! Today's is 'pachyderm'

    Word of the Day October 2, 2020 - pachyderm - noun - PAK-ih-derm - a nonruminant, thick-skinned mammal
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  11. Oct 1

    124. 'Unclubbable': having or showing a disinclination for social activity : unsociable

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    Oct 1

    I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know the difference between 'iniquity' and 'inequity.'

    'Inequity': ⚖️ injustice or unfairness 'Iniquity': 😈 wickedness or sin
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  13. Oct 1

    When 'obnoxious' first came into English in the middle of the 16th century, its earliest use most often meant “exposed to something unpleasant or harmful.”

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  14. Oct 1

    📈Trending now for probably the first time in centuries:

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  15. Oct 1

    Hello! Today's is 'inordinate'

    October 1 2020 - inordinate - exceeding reasonable limits
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  16. Sep 30

    'Inequity': ⚖️ injustice or unfairness 'Iniquity': 😈 wickedness or sin

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  17. Sep 30

    Threshold Liminal state Scylla and Charybdis Words that are neither here nor there:

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  18. Sep 30

    Huh. Apparently it's . That works out.

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  19. Sep 30

    How "Not" to Start a Sentence (aka Never Trust a Grammarian)

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  20. Sep 30

    You've probably been taught at some point that certain words should never, ever start a sentence. This week on Word Matters, we look at why that is advice you should ignore.

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