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		<title><![CDATA[Today's Word "traduce"]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[traduce \truh-DOOS; -DYOOS\ (transitive verb) - To expose to contempt or shame by means of false statements or misrepresentation; to represent as blamable; to vilify.

"In his idle moments, Henry would wonder whether those who traduce today's ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/vocabulary/s-172954</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Apr/14/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Today's Word "Futilitarian"]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[futilitarian \fyoo-til-i-TAR-ee-uhn\ (adjective) - Holding the belief that human striving is useless. (noun) One who holds such belief.

"While management had promised an all-out effort to improve profits, everyone in the office seemed to have ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/vocabulary/s-80195</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Apr/13/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Today's Word "zany"]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[zany \ZAY-nee\ (adjective) - Amusingly strange, comical, or clownish.

"The annual variety show, designed for children in kindergarten through the
sixth grade, is full of zany illusions, silly jokes, and features plenty of
audience participation."...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/vocabulary/s-924339</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Apr/12/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Today's Word "digamy"]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[digamy \DI-deh-mi\ (noun) - A second marriage after a divorce or the
passing of a spouse, deuterogamy.

"All my friends become digamous so fast, it is difficult to say that that
none are bigamous."

Bigamy is marriage to two spouses simultaneously...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/vocabulary/s-923746</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Apr/11/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Today's Word "piebald"]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[piebald \PI-bald\ (adjective) - Having patches of different colors,
particularly black and white spots. Used most frequently in reference to
animals.

"We have such a piebald array of attitudes on our team, it is difficult to
complete tasks on ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/vocabulary/s-923180</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Apr/10/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Today's Word "blarney"]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[blarney \BLAHR-nee\ (noun) - 1 : The gift of eloquent speech; 2 : empty
words, double-talk, fabrication, nonsense.

"Ted's story of how he completed his PhD at Harvard in two years is pure
blarney."

Today's word is an eponym from Blarney Village ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/vocabulary/s-922456</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Apr/09/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Today's Word "reify"]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[reify \REE-eh-fy\ (verb) - To perceive or portray an abstract
object as a real one.

<i>"The second hindrance to objectivity is the ubiquitous tendency to reify
the word, to assume the word itself somehow carries its own meaning." - C.
E. Osgood, ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/vocabulary/s-922029</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Apr/08/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Today's Word "serendipity"]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[serendipity \se-rehn-dip-i-tee\ (noun) - The act of making a fortunate
discovery by capricious or quixotic accidence or such accidence (fortuity)
itself.

"Rick had not breathed a word about his plans to learn C++ and yet Marge
brought home a book...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/vocabulary/s-921618</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Apr/07/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Today's Word "bridewell"]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[bridewell \BRYD-wel\ (noun) - A prison

"Men arrested for crimes such as trespass, public intoxication, lewdness, and domestic violence could be confined to the demiprison of the bridewell."

After a prison that formerly stood near the church of ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/vocabulary/s-920669</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Apr/06/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Today's Word "lackaday"]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[lackaday \LAEK-eh-dey\ (adverb) - An archaic interjection
used to express disapproval or regret.

"We got James's grades in the mail this afternoon. Lackaday, but that boy
is lackadaisical about his studies."

Shortened from "alack the day," where...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/vocabulary/s-919917</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Apr/05/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Today's Word "landloper"]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[landloper \LAND-lo-puhr\ (noun) - A wanderer; vagabond; vagrant ; also
landlouper and landleaper

"Through a series of games and dreamlike fantasies, the dynamic of the lead
character's struggle between good and evil established him as both an
...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/vocabulary/s-919275</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Apr/04/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Today's Word "immanent"]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[immanent \I-meh-nehnt\ (adjective) - 1 : Permanently
in-dwelling, inherent. 2 : Mental, subjective, residing in the mind only.
Antonym: transcendent "beyond human knowledge."

"Steven felt that he might be guilty of an immanent affection for his ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/vocabulary/s-918639</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Apr/03/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Today's Word "Sartorial"]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[<b>sartorial</b> <i>\sah(r)-TOR-i-yehl\</i> (adjective) - Related to 
tailors and tailoring and, more broadly, to clothes.

"Molly couldn't imagine even the Duke of Wales bedecked in more sartorial 
splendor than Thomas wore that evening."<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/vocabulary/s-27065</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Apr/02/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Today's Word "Nympholepsy"]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[<b>nympholepsy</b> <i>\NIM-feh-lep-see\</i> (noun) - Frenzied emotions 
resulting from being captured by nymphs or, for weaker souls, simply seeing 
them. Hence, emotional anxiety brought on by attempts to attain the 
unattainable.

"Years of work...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/vocabulary/s-26600</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Apr/01/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Today's Word "gauntlet"]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[gauntlet /GANT-let/ (noun) - 1 : The glove of a suit of armor. 2 : Two
lines of tormentors with flailing sticks between which someone must run as
punishment or initiation.

"To get to Maude's wonderful dinner we had to run the gauntlet of
Harrison...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/vocabulary/s-916894</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Mar/31/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Today's Word "preponderate"]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[preponderate \prih-PON-duh-rayt\ (intransitive verb) - 1 : To exceed in weight. 2 : To incline or descend, as the scale of a balance; to be weighed down. 3 : To exceed in influence, power, importance, number, amount, etc.

"As John was quick to ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/vocabulary/s-916307</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Mar/30/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Today's Word "voraginous"]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[voraginous \veh-RAE-ji-nehs\ (adjective) - 1 : Of, related to, or
resembling a gorge, chasm, or abyss; 2 : voracious, ravenous: capable of
ingesting as much as a chasm or abyss.

"Neil woke in the morning to discover that his car had vanished in a...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/vocabulary/s-915696</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Mar/29/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Today's Word "fillip"]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[fillip \FI-lip\ (noun) - 1 : A flick of the finger, a snap made by
compressing a finger behind the thumb, then releasing it so that it pops
outward to strike against something; 2 : anything small and minor, either
trivial, as a broken fingernail, ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/vocabulary/s-915084</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Mar/28/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Today's Word "lacuna"]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[lacuna \leh-KU-neh\ (noun) - A cavity or hollow; a hiatus or
gap left by a missing part.

"Every mention my friend Jason made of his political campaign last fall
resulted in a lengthy lacuna in the conversation at the New Year's Eve party."

From ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/vocabulary/s-914630</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Mar/27/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Can't Do It By Yourself? Try Plan 'Bee']]></title>
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And now some questions about etymology ... or should I say entomology?

Q: I know you must be as busy as a bee at apple blossom time, but my
13-year-old grandson, Lucas, would like to know the origin of "spelling
bee." -- Luke McEntire, ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/thewordguy/s-4050652</link>
 
    <pubDate>Mar/25/2026</pubDate>
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