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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[Today's Word "Glower"]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[glower \GLA-wehr\ (verb) - To stare menacingly.

"You don't have to glower like that just because I smashed the chocolate 
mousse onto your new white shirt"
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		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/vocabulary/s-926210</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Apr/15/2026</pubDate>
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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[Anagrammatic Word Pairs Display 'Latent Talent']]></title>
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"I just commented to my husband," writes Bobbie Lehigh of Edwards, N.Y.,
"that it seems quite quiet here on the Oswegatchie River this afternoon.
Hmmm ... 'quite quiet.' There must be other words that have the same
letters and like to sit side ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/thewordguy/s-4064224</link>
 
    <pubDate>Apr/08/2026</pubDate>
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