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Today’s word comes from the language of admiration, used to describe someone or something that represents the very best of its kind. https://english.mathrubhumi.com/features/books/word-of-the-day-april-05-paragon-meaning-pronunciation-synonyms-gahu87bu?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #WordOfTheDay #Paragon #Vocabulary #EnglishLearning

SG 5h ago

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Smartphone Photographer 16h ago

My Word of the Day today is PATULOUS. Read the definition at 👉 https://www.pocket-ireland.com/words

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Word of the Day 19h ago

📕 Word of the Day: wiseacre

wiseacre • \WYZE-ay-ker\ • noun

A wiseacre is someone who says or does things that are funny but annoying. Wiseacre is an informal and old-fashioned word, as well as a synonym of smart aleck.

// Some wiseacre in the audience kept heckling the comedian throughout the performance.

📝 Examples:
"In 1982's hit action comedy 48 Hours, a young Eddie Murphy plays a wiseacre criminal on parole in order to help a veteran cop, played by Nick Nolte, solve a case." — Pete Hammond, Deadline, 4 Aug. 2025

📜 Did you know?
Given the spelling and definition of wiseacre, you might guess that the word was formed directly from the familiar adjective wise. And you might be wise to think so—a wiseacre, after all, is someone who thinks or pretends they're wiser (more crafty or knowing) than they are. But you would, alas, also be wrong. Unlike wisecrack and wisenheimer, wiseacre came to English not from wise but from the Middle Dutch word wijssegger, meaning "soothsayer." Wiseacre first appeared in English way back in the 16th century, while all those other wise words appeared centuries later. The etymologies of wiseacre and wise are not completely distinct, however; the ancestors of wiseacre are loosely tied to the same Old English root that gave us wise.

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DailyEnglish 20h ago

🇬🇧 **Word of the Day:** death

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Mathrubhumi English 1d ago

Word of the Day, April 04: ‘Meraki’ https://english.mathrubhumi.com/features/books/word-of-the-day-meraki-4-april-2026-ichun8je?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #WordOfTheDay #Meraki #Vocabulary #LearnEnglish #Language

ResearchBuzz: Firehose 1d ago

Grist: To keep climate science alive, researchers are speaking in code. “At the Department of Agriculture’s research division, everyone knows there’s one word they should never say, according to Ethan Roberts. ‘The forbidden C-word’ — climate. Roberts, union president at the National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research in Peoria, Illinois, has worked for the federal government […]

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Grist: To keep climate science alive, researchers are speaking in code

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WOW3D Learning 1d ago

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Smartphone Photographer 1d ago

My Word of the Day today is FLUVIATILE. Read the definition at 👉 https://www.pocket-ireland.com/words

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Word of the Day 1d ago

📕 Word of the Day: adroit

adroit • \uh-DROYT\ • adjective

Adroit describes someone or something that has or shows skill, cleverness, or resourcefulness in handling situations.

// We marveled at how adroit the puppeteers were, the marionettes responding to each precise shift of their hands, each flick of their wrists.

📝 Examples:
“She offers here the most invigorating of performances, technically adroit but also informed by equal measures of artistry and youth, and there’s a humility to her singing, along with a sense of her character’s smallness in the face of life’s travails and machinations …” — Chris Jones, The Chicago Tribune, 2 Feb. 2026

📜 Did you know?
The meaning and history of adroit is straightforward, so we’ll get right to the point. English speakers borrowed the word with its meaning from French in the mid 1600s, but the word’s ultimate source is the Latin adjective directus, meaning “straight, direct.” Adroit entered English as a means for describing physically skillful sorts, but it came to be applied to those known for their expertise, cleverness, and resourcefulness too. Today, adroit most often describes things people do especially well.

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