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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
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		<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[Today's Word "semitic"]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[semitic \seh-MI-tik\ (adjective) - Pertaining to the Semites: the Hebrew,
Aramaic, Arabic, Ethiopic, and Assyrian peoples. Also pertaining to an
Afro-Asiatic family of languages that includes Hebrew, Aramaic and modern
Syriac, Amharic, Tigre, and ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/vocabulary/s-914271</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Mar/26/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Today's Word "fossick"]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[fossick \FA-sik\ (verb) - 1 :  To search for gold in a
disorganized manner, especially in abandoned mines. 2 :  To fossick about:
to rummage around for something, to nose about.

"Jason's dog was wont to spend his days fossicking about the yard ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/vocabulary/s-913200</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Mar/25/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Today's Word "quintessence "]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[quintessence \kwin-TES-ehns\ (noun) - The purest essence of
something. Originally it was, earth, air, fire, and water, Aristotle's
fifth element (thus "fifth essence;" see Etymology) of which the heavenly
bodies were made and which was latent in ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/vocabulary/s-912534</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Mar/24/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Today's Word "lycanthropy "]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[lycanthropy \lI-KAEN-therh-pi\ (noun) - The supposed power of
certain human beings to convert themselves into wolves; the belief in such
power; the delusion that one has become a wolf. In other words, today's
word is the scientific term for "...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/vocabulary/s-911932</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Mar/23/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Today's Word "arcane"]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[arcane \ahr-KEYN\ (adjective) - Known or understood by only a
few.

"Lydia's knowledge of arcane economic principles occasionally pays off."

Latin arcanus "shut up, closed" hence "secret" from arca "a chest, box", as
in Ark (Arc) of the Covenant....<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/vocabulary/s-911433</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Mar/22/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Today's Word "usufruct"]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[usufruct \YU-seh-frehkt or YU-zyu-frehkt\ (noun) - A usufruct is the right
of using and receiving profits (the fruits) from a property that belongs to
someone else.

"Albert married Angela in hopes of getting his hands on her ranch. He soon
...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/vocabulary/s-911002</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Mar/21/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Today's Word "austral"]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[austral \A-strehl\ (adjective) - Of, pertaining to, or coming
from the south.

"My cousin from Georgia speaks with a quaint austral accent"

A word for "southern" on a somewhat higher plane: "austral winds", "austral
climes", "austral gravitation"...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/vocabulary/s-910700</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Mar/20/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Today's Word "agora"]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[agora \AEH-geh-reh\ (noun) - A meeting place or marketplace.

"Jenny agreed that the university was the town's intellectual agora, while
her house was neighborhood's the social agora."

From Greek agora "marketplace," the noun from ageirein "to ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/vocabulary/s-909796</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Mar/19/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA['Verban Legends' Clog Arteries of the Internet]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[

You've probably encountered a rather macabre treatise titled "Life in
the 1500s," a ghastly goulash of completely false etymologies that's
been sludging through the arteries of the Internet for decades.

I suppose there's no harm in chuckling at...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/thewordguy/s-4044196</link>
 
    <pubDate>Mar/18/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Today's Word "bonanza"]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[bonanza \beh-NAEN-zeh\ (noun) - 1 : An unexpectedly rich pocket of ore in a
mine, a mother lode; 2 :  an unexpectedly great supply of anything, as to
find a beach with a bonanza of sea shells.

"In their window I spotted a small quartz specimen ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/vocabulary/s-909161</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Mar/18/2026</pubDate>
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