Word of the Day: Replete | Merriam-Webster September 06, 2024 | having much or plenty of something It’s no coincidence that replete and complete are close in meaning Both words come from the Latin verb plēre, meaning 'to fill,' and both
Word of the Day: Posterity | Merriam-Webster October 03, 2024 | people in the future When you envision the future, what do you imagine people doing? Zooming about in flying cars? Taking interstellar vacations across the galaxy? Whatever those
Word of the Day: Capitulate | Merriam-Webster January 24, 2024 | to surrender or cease resisting We hope you’ll acquiesce to some history about capitulate because we can’t resist When it first entered English in the 16th century, capitulate
Word of the Day: Approbation | Merriam-Webster Some of them break out and become incredibly popular The most successful by far is ‘ OK,’ which has become a universal means for expressing approbation OK has been adopted into many other languages, and it may be the most widely used expression on the planet ” — Roger Kreuz, Psychology Today, 16 Feb 2024
Word of the Day: Zeitgeist | Merriam-Webster December 31, 2024 | the general beliefs, ideas, and spirit of a time and place Scholars have long maintained that each era has a unique spirit, a nature or climate that sets it apart from all others
Word of the Day: Posse | Merriam-Webster January 02, 2024 | a group of friends or people with a common interest Posse started out in English as part of a term from common law, posse comitatus, which in Medieval Latin translates as “power or
Word of the Day: Harangue | Merriam-Webster January 19, 2024 | a ranting speech or piece of writing In Old Italian, the verb aringare meant 'to speak in public,' the noun aringo referred to a public assembly, and the noun aringa referred to a
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