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

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Word of the Day 7h ago

📕 Word of the Day: laudable

laudable • \LAW-duh-bul\ • adjective

Laudable is a somewhat formal word used to describe something as worthy of praise. It is a synonym of commendable.

// Thanks to the laudable efforts of dozens of volunteers, the town's Spring Festival was an enjoyable event for everyone.

📝 Examples:
"Fair and equal access to higher education, regardless of socioeconomic status or geographical location, is a laudable aim." — The Irish Times, 2 July 2025

📜 Did you know?
Let's have a hearty round of applause for laudable, a word that never fails to celebrate the positive. Laudable comes ultimately from Latin laud- or laus, meaning "praise," as does laudatory. Take care, however, to consider the differences between the pair: laudable means "deserving praise" or "praiseworthy"; it is typically used to describe things people try to do or achieve ("a laudable goal/aim") or the work they expend to do so ("laudable efforts"). Meanwhile, laudatory means "giving praise" or "expressing praise"; it is almost always used to describe a favorable response to something, as in "laudatory remarks," and "laudatory media coverage."

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DailyEnglish 8h ago

🇬🇧 **Word of the Day:** use

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Mathrubhumi English 12h ago

Word of the Day, April 07: ‘Shenanigans’ https://english.mathrubhumi.com/features/books/word-of-the-day-shenanigans-april-07-2026-l1lrlirt?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #WordOfTheDay #Shenanigans #Vocabulary #LearnEnglish #Language

bok 15h ago

I was folding clothes — three socks without mates: a personal record — and listening to "The Far Distant Dead”, one of the final four The Avengers: The Lost Episodes, where Big Finish made #AudioPlays of missing season-one episodes of #TheAvengersUKTV

It's the second Keel-only episode¹. In this one Dr. Keel is vacationing in Mexico when a big storm hits and he volunteers to help out at the worst-hit town. Then stuff happens…

What I note is that characters repeatedly call the storm a "cyclone," which seems wrong, as big storms in both the North Atlantic and the Northeast Pacific are called "hurricanes."² So it's not even the case of an old BBC show accidentally using the British term. #terminology

[1] They really considered him as the lead the first season, with Steed merely a convenient way to get a doctor involved in crime and spy cases.

[2] Western Pacific big storms are called typhoons, while Southern hemisphere big storms are called cyclones. (The dividing line between typhoons and cyclones runs southeast from Singapore, between Papua New Guinea and Australia, then north of New Zealand.) #vocabulary

Smartphone Photographer 1d ago

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

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Word of the Day 1d ago

📕 Word of the Day: cotton

cotton • \KAH-tun\ • verb

The verb cotton is used with on or on to to mean “to begin to understand something; to catch on.” Cotton used with to alone means “to begin to like someone or something.”

// It took a while, but they are finally starting to cotton on.

// She quickly cottoned on to why her friend was nudging her, and stopped talking just before their teacher entered the room.

// We cottoned to our new neighbors right away.

📝 Examples:
“An insatiable reader, he enjoyed a wide range of literary acquaintances, some of whom—Rudyard Kipling, Owen Wister, and Joel Chandler Harris—became personal friends, and others, including Mark Twain (“a man wholly without cultivation”) ... he never quite cottoned to.” — David S. Brown, In the Arena: Theodore Roosevelt in War, Peace, and Revolution, 2025

📜 Did you know?
The noun cotton, from the Arabic word quṭun or quṭn, first appeared in English in the 14th century. The substance and the word that named it were soon both culturally prominent, so English did a very English thing to do—it created a verb from the noun. By the late 15th century, cotton could mean “to form a fuzzy or downy surface on (cloth).” This verb sense (as well as other cotton-related verb meanings) is a lexical dust bunny at this point, but our modern-day uses spun from it. By the mid 16th century cotton could mean “to go on prosperously, to develop well, to succeed.” The metaphor is not difficult to see, as cotton cloth with a nice nap has indeed developed well. By the early 17th century, the verb had shifted again, and cottoning was, as it still often is, about taking a liking to someone or something. It wasn’t until the early 20th century that someone who cottoned to or on to something had come to understand it.

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