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#WordOfTheDay #MerriamWebster 21 June 2026

assiduous

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Word of the Day: Assiduous

While assiduous means “showing great care, attention, and effort,” and in some situations may be an appropriate substitute for careful, it’s got a bit more oomph than careful in that it suggests a

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longueur

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Word of the Day: Longueur

You’ve probably come across long, tedious sections of books, plays, or musical works before, but perhaps you didn’t know there was a word for them. The French borrowing longueur has been doing the job

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indomitable

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acquiesce

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wifty

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Word of the Day: Wifty

Whence wifty? Wordsmiths have been wondering for a while. The earliest print evidence of wifty comes from the early 20th century, though the word was certainly being used in spoken English before that

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gamut

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tenuous

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Word of the Day: Tenuous

Lean into the history of tenuous and you’ll find that the word comes to English from the Latin adjective tenuis, meaning “fine-drawn, thin, narrow, or slight,” and is a relative of thin. Like that

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emblazon

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Word of the DayJun 13

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hale

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backchat
noun
1: back talk
2: gossipy or bantering conversation
Don't give me any backchat!
there'll be no backchat from you, young lady.

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