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		<title><![CDATA[Today's Word "Iniquity"]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[iniquity \i-NIK-wi-tee\ (noun) - 1 : Gross immorality or injustice; wickedness. 2 : A grossly immoral act; a sin.

"Kenny detected an innate iniquity in the company, given that the top brass made in excess of millions of dollars while the hard-...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/vocabulary/s-938425</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>May/07/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Today's Word "Anile"]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[anile \AN-yl, AY-nyl\ (adjective) - Of or like an old woman.

"Thirty-year-old Margaret was constantly cursing her prematurely anile bones, which kept her from doing many physical activites which she had previously taken great pleasure in."

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		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/vocabulary/s-938426</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>May/06/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Today's Word "quibble"]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[quibble \kwi-bl\  (verb) - To raise petty questions, to hesitate or argue over trivial issues, to cavil.

"Always one to quibble, Ivan would tend to cause club meetings to run hours longer than necessary while he debated petty minutiae that ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/vocabulary/s-937802</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>May/05/2026</pubDate>
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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 
...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<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[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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