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		<title><![CDATA[Today's Word "Tommyrot"]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[tommyrot /TOM-ee-rot/ (noun) - Nonsense; foolishness.

"While most in the neighborhood were convinced that the old Clancy place 
was haunted, Bigby was quick to dismiss such notions as utter tommyrot."
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		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/vocabulary/s-937246</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>May/04/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Today's Word "Pococurante"]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[pococurante \po-ko-koo-RAN-tee, -kyoo-\ (adjective) - Indifferent, apathetic, nonchalant.

"James' only claim to fame was a single pococurante addition to the company's rules and regulations yet this, along with his esteemed name, was enough to ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/vocabulary/s-936716</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>May/03/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Today's Word "Pococurante"]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[pococurante \po-ko-koo-RAN-tee, -kyoo-\ (adjective) - Indifferent, apathetic, nonchalant.

"James' only claim to fame was a single pococurante addition to the company's rules and regulations yet this, along with his esteemed name, was enough to ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/vocabulary/s-936262</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>May/02/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Today's Word "verisimilitude"]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[verisimilitude \ver-uh-suh-MIL-uh-tood; -tyood\ (noun) - 1 : The appearance of truth; the quality of seeming to be true. 2 : Something that has the appearance of being true or real.

"For those plays, Ms. Smith interviewed hundreds of people of ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/vocabulary/s-935915</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>May/01/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Today's Word "Relegate"]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[relegate \RE-leh-geyt\ (verb) - 1 : To refer or assign to an insignificant 
position or priority, as to relegate a diplomat to an obscure post or 
relegate a task to someone of little authority; 2 : To turn over, refer or 
assign, as to relegate a...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/vocabulary/s-934977</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Apr/30/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Today's Word "Magisterial"]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[magisterial \maj-uh-STEER-ee-uhl\ (adjective) - 1 : Having the 
characteristics of a master or teacher; authoritative. 2 : Domineering or 
overbearing. 3 : Of or relating to a magistrate.

"Everyone agreed that Jason's magisterial qualities ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/vocabulary/s-933924</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Apr/29/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Today's Word "multifarious"]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[multifarious \muhl-tuh-FAIR-ee-uhs\ (adjective) - Having great diversity or variety; of various kinds; diversified.

"Others will follow, others will outstrip me on the same lines; and I hazard the guess that man will be ultimately known for a ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/vocabulary/s-934015</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Apr/28/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Today's Word "Acumen"]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[acumen \AE-kyu-mehn\ (noun) - Sharpness of perception, keenness of mind, 
precise insightfulness.

"Kay is not only intelligent and well-educated; her acumen leads us through 
the murkiest problems quickly and surely."
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		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/vocabulary/s-933267</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Apr/27/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Today's Word "manse"]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[manse \MAN(T)S\ (noun) - 1 : A large and imposing residence. 2 : The residence of a clergyman (especially a Presbyterian clergyman).

"That Carmela was a certified divorcee was one of many facts about her which failed to fit, along with her still ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/vocabulary/s-932466</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Apr/26/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Today's Word "spoliation"]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[spoliation \spo-lee-AY-shun\ (noun) - 1 : The act of pillaging and plundering. 2 : Seizure of neutral ships at sea in time of war. 3 : The deliberate destruction or alteration of a document.

"Before the company's acquisition and inevitable ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/vocabulary/s-932092</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Apr/25/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Today's Word "Victual"]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[victual \VIT-ehl\ (noun) - Human food; (Plural) food and provisions

"Carrie was quick to point out that they had enough victuals in the house 
to live for three months without leaving it."
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		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/vocabulary/s-931569</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Apr/24/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Today's Word "Natter"]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[natter \NAE-dehr\ (verb) - 1 : To nag, grumble, complain (mostly Scotland 
and Northern England); 2 : to chatter mindlessly.

"Whenever Angela gets lonely she comes over to natter the afternoon away 
with me over tea."
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		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/vocabulary/s-930389</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Apr/23/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Today's Word "Catercorner"]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[catercorner \KAE-deh(r)-kor-nehr or teh(r)\ (adverb) - Located diagonally 
across from something else.

"Jason is the sort whose thinking runs absolutely catercorner to everyone 
else's."
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		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/vocabulary/s-930484</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Apr/22/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Today's Word "albatross"]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[albatross \AL-buh-tros\ (noun) plural albatross or albatrosses - 1 : Any of several large, web-footed birds constituting the family Diomedeidae, chiefly of the oceans of the Southern Hemisphere, and having a hooked beak and long, narrow wings. 2 :...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/vocabulary/s-929785</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Apr/21/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Today's Word "Kibosh"]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[<b>kibosh</b> <i>\KI-bahsh or ki-BAHSH\</i> (noun) - 1 : (Slang) A 
restraining element; something that stops or halts something else. 2 : 
(Slang) Nonsense; palaver.

"Jasmine had an idea for a weekend getaway, but her husband's plans to go 
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		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/vocabulary/s-929262</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Apr/20/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Today's Word "bootless"]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[bootless \BOOT-lis\ (adjective) - Unavailing; useless; without advantage or benefit.

"I have seen a swan
With bootless labour swim against the tide."
-- Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part III

Bootless is from Old English bot, "advantage, profit" + -...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/vocabulary/s-928046</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Apr/19/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Today's Word "Martinet"]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[<b>martinet</b> <i>\mar-tehn-ET\</i> (noun) - An unreasonably harsh and 
unyielding disciplinarian; an extreme stickler for detail and form.

"Elliot is such a martinet in the office you could cut the tension with a 
knife."
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		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/vocabulary/s-928134</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Apr/18/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Today's Word "Falstaffian"]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Falstaffian \fohl-STA-fee-ehn\ (adjective) - Characterized by joviality and 
conviviality.

"Colton's bushy beard, boisterous manner, and overall Falstaffian 
personality endeared him to as many people as it put off."
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		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/vocabulary/s-926936</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Apr/17/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Today's Word "Neanderthal"]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Neanderthal \nee-AN-duhr-thol\ (adjective) also Neandertal - 1 : Of, or 
pertaining to Neanderthal man, a member of an extinct subspecies of Homo 
sapiens who lived in caves in Europe and the Mediterranean 100,000 to 
30,000 years ago. 2 : Boorish...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/vocabulary/s-926769</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Apr/16/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Reader 'Emotes' Over 'Burgling' of Nouns to Make Verbs]]></title>
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A subhead for a recent New York Times story about the audit of a federal
department read, "Auditors declined to opine on the agency's financial
numbers."

"O the Times! O the Customs!" emailed one of my readers, slyly alluding
to Cicero's lament...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/thewordguy/s-4070505</link>
 
    <pubDate>Apr/15/2026</pubDate>
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