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June 06, 2007 03:07 PM EDT -- UNIQUE Unique may be the foremost example of an absolute term – a term that, in the eyes of traditional grammarians, should not allow comparison or modification by an adverb of degree like very, . . . more
April 25, 2007 10:18 AM EDT -- A DEFINE-A-THON is the new word game sensation created by the Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries. Why are they taking us beyond the spelling bee? Because being able to SPELL a word doesn't . . . more
April 13, 2007 09:36 AM EDT -- AUTHOR   From an etymological perspective, the word author ought to be pronounced almost like otter. Author ultimately comes from Latin auctor, “creator,” a noun derived from the verb . . . more
June 01, 2007 09:31 AM EDT -- STOOP   Originally brought to the Hudson Valley of New York by settlers from the Netherlands, a few items of Dutch vocabulary have survived there from colonial times until the present. Stoop, “a . . . more
April 18, 2007 09:41 AM EDT -- NON SEQUITUR noun   A statement that does not follow logically from what precedes it.   Anticipation began to plague her with such ferocity that the thought of a husband, on which all her . . . more
June 15, 2007 09:13 AM EDT -- DOGIE  In the language of the American West, a stray or motherless calf is known as a dogie. In Western Words, the noted scholar Ramon F. Adams gives one possible etymology for dogie, a word whose . . . more
June 29, 2007 02:36 PM EDT -- VENOM Anyone who has ever been lovesick will appreciate the etymology of the word venom. Venom descends from the Latin word venenum, “potion, drug,” which could originally be used to designate . . . more
July 31, 2007 02:32 PM EDT -- A DEFINE-A-THON is the new word game sensation created by the Editors of the American Heritage ® Dictionaries. Why are they taking us beyond the spelling bee? Because being able to SPELL a word doesn't . . . more
August 31, 2007 01:47 PM EDT --    Vamoose     The verb to vamoose, "to leave hurriedly," has a full range of tenses and grammatical moods in English, and it can be used with all grammatical persons: . . . more
November 28, 2007 01:43 PM EST -- A DEFINE-A-THON is the new word game sensation created by the Editors of the American Heritage ® Dictionaries. Why are they taking us beyond the spelling bee? Because being able to SPELL a word doesn't . . . more
June 11, 2008 02:32 PM EDT --   A DEFINE-A-THON is the new word game sensation created by the Editors of the American Heritage ® Dictionaries. Why are they taking us beyond the spelling bee? Because being able to SPELL . . . more
July 18, 2008 11:18 AM EDT --   COUPON A Roman might have had difficulty predicting what would become of the Latin word colaphus, which meant "a blow with the fist."   As the variety of Latin spoke in . . . more
May 09, 2007 09:21 AM EDT -- comedic / comic / comical The word comedy has a broad range of meanings, but in general it indicates a dramatic or literary work that is light and often humorous or satirical in tone and that usually . . . more
May 11, 2007 09:40 AM EDT -- TABLOID   We often hear the complaint that factoids and sound bytes dominate news media in the 21st century, and simplistic and superficial reporting is often considered to be a malady of modern . . . more
May 24, 2007 10:53 AM EDT -- A DEFINE-A-THON is the new word game sensation created by the Editors of the American Heritage(R) Dictionaries. Why are they taking us beyond the spelling bee? Because being able to SPELL a word doesn't . . . more
May 16, 2007 04:21 PM EDT -- DILETTANTE noun  A person with a superficial interest in an art or field of knowledge; a dabbler. adjective  Superficial; amateurish.   Before long, I’d catalogued the various . . . more
June 25, 2007 10:58 AM EDT -- A DEFINE-A-THON is the new word game sensation created by the Editors of the American Heritage(R) Dictionaries. Why are they taking us beyond the spelling bee? Because being able to SPELL a word doesn't . . . more
July 06, 2007 01:59 PM EDT -- UGLY The standard sense of the adjective ugly, “unsightly,” becomes figurative in the common expression an ugly temper. Regional American speech shared this figurative sense and makes it . . . more
September 07, 2007 03:40 PM EDT -- barracuda Barracuda are fierce-looking fish that live mostly in tropical seas like the Caribbean. They have a projecting lower jaw, and their large mouth holds two rows, one behind the other, of fanglike . . . more
December 05, 2007 01:22 PM EST -- ACRIMONY Noun   Bitter, sharp hostility, especially in speech.   Some conversations I have heard in our own country sound like old records, long-playing, left over . . . more
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