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		<title><![CDATA[Today's Word "imprimatur"]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[imprimatur \im-pruh-MAH-toor or im-PRIH-muh-toor\ (noun) - A license to 
print or publish; official approval or sanction.

"Several members on the faculty were reprimanded for using students as 
subjects for medical experiments without the ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/vocabulary/s-1110216</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Oct/19/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Today's Word "canorous"]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[canorous \kuh-NOR-us; KAN-or-uhs\ (adjective) - Richly melodious; pleasant sounding; musical.

"Even the most horrible of news was easier to take when delivered in the dulcet tones of Martin's canorous voice."

Canorous comes from the Latin canor,...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/vocabulary/s-1110084</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Oct/18/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Today's Word "Fiction"]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[fiction \FIK-shehn\ (noun) - 1 : The process of creative fabrication or its 
result, a creative fabrication; that is, something dreamed up and not real. 
2 :  A kind of completely creative writing in which the characters and 
actions have no basis...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/vocabulary/s-1108670</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Oct/17/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Today's Word "Illation"]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[illation \i-LAY-shuhn\ (noun) - 1 : The act of inferring. 2 : An inference 
or conclusion drawn.

"As her friends were quick to point out, Courtney's political illations 
were by any standards excessively childish."

 From Late Latin illation-, ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/vocabulary/s-1107038</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Oct/16/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Today's Word "Chuffed"]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[chuffed \chuft\ (adjective) - Pleased; satisfied.

"While not convinced that he had done his absolute best, Mike was chuffed 
that he had won the blue ribbon in spite of all the obstacles in front of him."

 From chuff (boor, churl), from Middle ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/vocabulary/s-1107549</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Oct/15/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Today's Word "laconic"]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[laconic \luh-KON-ik (adjective) - Sparing with words, concise, terse.

"Lana's laconic way of speaking was completely at odds with her wordy, rambling prose style."

From Latin Laconicus, from Greek Lakonikos, from Lakon, Laconian, a resident of ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/vocabulary/s-1106907</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Oct/14/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Today's Word "recrudescent"]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[recrudescent \ree-kroo-DES-uhnt\ (adjective) - Breaking out again after temporary abatement or suppression; as, a recrudescent epidemic.

"Jenna's recrudescent acne had a tendency to make its appearance at the most inconvenient of times, such as ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/vocabulary/s-1106479</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Oct/13/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Today's Word "Fain"]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[fain \fayn\ (adverb) - 1 : Willingly; gladly. 2 : Rather. (adjective) - 1 :  Pleased. 2 : Obliged. 3 : Eager.

"As the delay continued Mordecai was both busy and happy at the Mill, for he liked and loved this damsel well, and was fain of her ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/vocabulary/s-1105165</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Oct/12/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Today's Word "Libertine"]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[libertine \LI-behr-teen\ (noun) - 1 : A free-thinker (originally used to 
refer to an emancipated slave or freedman). 2 : A person who lives without 
constraints, including moral ones.

"In her third affair in as many months, Michelle is treading ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/vocabulary/s-1104121</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Oct/11/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Today's Word "Corybantic"]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[corybantic \kor-i-BAN-tik\ (adjective) - Wild; frenzied; uncontrolled.

"Harold felt that the radio show was worse than merely 'bad,' thinking that it penetrated the mind, filling it with a babble of distractions, blasts of corybantic or ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/vocabulary/s-1103496</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Oct/10/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Today's Word "Thalassic"]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[<b>thalassic</b> <i>\theh-LAE-sik\</i> (adjective) - Pertaining to the sea; 
marine.

"We can dream thalassic dreams until the occasion for a thalassic respite 
from work presents itself."
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		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/vocabulary/s-1102831</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Oct/09/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Today's Word "Goth"]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Goth /goth/ (noun) - A rude or uncivilized person.

"The speaker's announcements swung wildly between statesman and Goth."

 From Goth, one of a Germanic tribe who invaded the Roman empire during the 
third, fourth and fifth centuries.
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		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/vocabulary/s-1103166</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Oct/08/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Today's Word "ploce"]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ploce \PLO-see\ (noun) - The repetition of a word or phrase to gain special emphasis or to indicate an extension of meaning, as in Ex. 3:14: "I am that I am.'

"Popeye's ploce of 'I am what I am' seemed to Terry to be the perfect mantra for an ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/vocabulary/s-1101782</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Oct/07/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Today's Word "perforce"]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[perforce \pur-FORS\ (adverb) - By necessity; by force of circumstance.

"Should it actually come to pass, even those who followed every twist and turn of the process will perforce rub their eyes, incredulous that such a man could be elected to ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/vocabulary/s-1101266</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Oct/06/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Today's Word "Runagate"]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[runagate \REHN-eh-geyt\ (noun) - The same as that of "renegade:" 1 : an 
apostate, someone who deserts a religion, cause or obligation; 2 : an 
outlaw, especially one who runs rampant over a territory.

"The new music teacher put together a jazz ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/vocabulary/s-1100409</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Oct/05/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Today's Word "Snook"]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[snook \SNOOK\ (noun) - 1 : A gesture of defiance and/or derision. 2 : Any 
of several kinds of salt-water fish of family Centropomidae, such as the 
sergeant-fish and the robalo.

"Sarah's rendition of 'I'm still standing' at the karaoke evening ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/vocabulary/s-1100305</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Oct/04/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Today's Word "explicate"]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[explicate \EK-spluh-kayt\ (transitive verb) - To explain; to clear of difficulties or obscurity.

"Every day I would come home from the office to find him waiting and he would stay until dinnertime. During that time I would read and explicate a ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/vocabulary/s-1099863</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Oct/03/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Today's Word "bivouac"]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[bivouac \BIV-wak, BIV-uh-wak\ (noun) - An encampment for the night, usually under little or no shelter.

(intransitive verb) - To encamp for the night, usually under little or no shelter.

"When the weather suddenly turned snowy and cold, Jack and...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/vocabulary/s-1099526</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Oct/02/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Today's Word "Unique"]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[<b>unique</b> <i>\yu-NEEK\</i> (adjective) - Sole, one of a kind, without 
equal or match.

"Going out with Mary Ellen to the county sausage-eating contest was an 
almost unique experience in my life."
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		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/vocabulary/s-1098012</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Oct/01/2026</pubDate>
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