Santiago Edison
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Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day is "dreidel" www.merriam-webster.com/word-of-the-...
Word of the Day: Dreidel
If your dreidel is spinning beneath the glow of the menorah, it’s probably the Jewish festival of lights known as Hanukkah. The holiday celebrates the miracle of a small amount of oil—enough for one
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December 15, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day is "dreidel" www.merriam-webster.com/word-of-the-...
Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day is "ziggurat" www.merriam-webster.com/word-of-the-...
Word of the Day: Ziggurat
French professor of archaeology François Lenormant spent a great deal of time poring over ancient Assyrian texts. In those cuneiform inscriptions, he pieced together a long-forgotten language, now
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May 2, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day is "ziggurat" www.merriam-webster.com/word-of-the-...
Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day is "insouciance" www.merriam-webster.com/word-of-the-...
Word of the Day: Insouciance
If you were alive and of whistling age in the late 1980s or early 1990s, chances are you whistled (and snapped your fingers, and tapped your toes) to a little ditty called 'Don’t Worry, Be Happy' by
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April 30, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day is "insouciance" www.merriam-webster.com/word-of-the-...
Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day is "malleable" www.merriam-webster.com/word-of-the-...
Word of the Day: Malleable
Language is constantly evolving; the meanings, spellings, and pronunciations of words are reshaped over time. Take, for example, the Latin noun malleus, meaning 'hammer.' This word was adapted to
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April 8, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day is "malleable" www.merriam-webster.com/word-of-the-...
Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day is "effusive" www.merriam-webster.com/word-of-the-...
Word of the Day: Effusive
English speakers have used effusive to describe excessive outpourings since the 17th century. Its oldest and still most common sense relates to the expression of abundant emotion or enthusiasm, but in
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April 2, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day is "effusive" www.merriam-webster.com/word-of-the-...
Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day is "cynosure" www.merriam-webster.com/word-of-the-...
Word of the Day: Cynosure
Ancient mariners noted that all the stars in the heavens seemed to revolve around a particular star, and they relied on that star to guide their navigation. The constellation that this bright star
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April 1, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day is "cynosure" www.merriam-webster.com/word-of-the-...
Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day is "elucidate" www.merriam-webster.com/word-of-the-...
Word of the Day: Elucidate
In 1974, the discovery of a remarkably intact Australopithecus skeleton elucidated a key moment in human evolution. She was famously nicknamed Lucy in reference to the Beatles’ 'Lucy in the Sky With
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March 29, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day is "elucidate" www.merriam-webster.com/word-of-the-...
Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day is "archetype" www.merriam-webster.com/word-of-the-...
Word of the Day: Archetype
In her 2024 book Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World, author Naomi Klein writes that 'the doppelganger archetype has appeared across time to explore issues of life and death, the body versus
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March 27, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day is "archetype" www.merriam-webster.com/word-of-the-...
Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day is "flippant" www.merriam-webster.com/word-of-the-...
Word of the Day: Flippant
Consider the spatula, humble friend to many a cook: admire the pliancy with which it flips pancakes, eggs, your more wieldy cuts of meat. We’re not being flippant—that is, facetious or smart-alecky—
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March 26, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day is "flippant" www.merriam-webster.com/word-of-the-...
Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day is "de rigueur" www.merriam-webster.com/word-of-the-...
Word of the Day: De Rigueur
It takes a lot of work to be cool. One needs to wear the right clothes, understand the right pop culture references, and use the right lingo before it ceases to be, ahem, on fleek. Rigor is required,
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March 24, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day is "de rigueur" www.merriam-webster.com/word-of-the-...
Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day is "permeate" www.merriam-webster.com/word-of-the-...
Word of the Day: Permeate
Permeate was borrowed into English in the 17th century from Latin permeatus, which comes from the prefix per- ('through') and the verb meare, meaning 'to go' or 'to pass.' Meare hasn't exactly
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March 21, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day is "permeate" www.merriam-webster.com/word-of-the-...
Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day is "vernal" www.merriam-webster.com/word-of-the-...
Word of the Day: Vernal
'The sun’s coming soon. / A future, then, of warmth and runoff, / and old faces surprised to see us. / A cache of love, I’d call it, / opened up, vernal, refreshed.' These are the closing lines of the
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March 21, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day is "vernal" www.merriam-webster.com/word-of-the-...
Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day is "juggernaut"
Word of the Day: Juggernaut
In the early 14th century, Franciscan missionary Friar Odoric brought to Europe the story of an enormous carriage that carried an image of the Hindu god Vishnu (whose title was Jagannāth, literally, '
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March 19, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day is "juggernaut"
Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day is "admonish" www.merriam-webster.com/word-of-the-...
Word of the Day: Admonish
We won't admonish you if you don't know the origins of admonish. This word, along with its archaic synonym monish, likely traces back to the Latin verb monēre, meaning 'to bring to the notice of,' 'to
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March 18, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day is "admonish" www.merriam-webster.com/word-of-the-...
Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day is "rife" www.merriam-webster.com/word-of-the-...
Word of the Day: Rife
English is rife with words that have been handed down to us from Old English—among them, rife. It comes from the Old English adjective rȳfe and first appeared in written form in the 12th century. Its
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March 16, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day is "rife" www.merriam-webster.com/word-of-the-...