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#WordOfTheDay #MerriamWebster 7 May 2025

bumptious

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Word of the Day: Bumptious

While evidence dates bumptious to the beginning of the 19th century, the word was uncommon enough decades later that Edward Bulwer-Lytton included the following in his 1850 My Novel: ''She holds her

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bowdlerize
verb
bowdlerized; bowdlerizing
transitive verb
1 literature: to expurgate (something, such as a book) by omitting or modifying parts considered vulgar
bowdlerize the text
2: to modify by abridging, simplifying, or distorting in style or content

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exculpate

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Word of the Day: Exculpate

There’s no need to say 'my bad' if you’re unfamiliar with exculpate; while the word is far from rare, it is most often encountered in formal writing in reference to the clearing of someone of alleged

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plethora

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Word of the Day: Plethora

Plethora was first used in English to refer to a medical condition marked by an excess volume of blood or other bodily fluid, with associated swelling and redness. (Its Greek ancestor, the noun

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risible

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Word of the Day: Risible

Say 'cheese'! Now say thank you to the risorius muscles near the corners of your mouth for helping you smile. You might find this exercise a bit ridiculous—risible, even—but we’re here to explain that

Word of the Day4d ago

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sleuth

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Word of the Day: Sleuth

'They were the footprints of a gigantic hound!' Those canine tracks in Arthur Conan Doyle's The Hound of the Baskervilles set the great Sherlock Holmes sleuthing on the trail of a murderer. It was a

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ziggurat

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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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convoluted

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Word of the Day: Convoluted

If you’ve ever felt your brain twisting itself into a pretzel while trying to follow a complicated or hard-to-follow line of reasoning, you’ll appreciate the relative simplicity of the adjective

Robbie đŸ‘ŸApr 30
The youngling reveled in their insouciance swinging from branch to branch wildly and diving into greenery below. They never gave a single thought to the dangers lurking both above and below.
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insouciance

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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