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📕 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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in-timbrian, wk.v: to instruct. (in-TIM-bri-ahn / ɪn-ˈtɪm-brɪ-an)
Image: Scholastic Miscellany; France (Paris), c. 1309-1316; British Library, MS Burney 275, f. 293.
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The #ConnectedAtBirth #etymology of the week is LUNAR/MOONLIGHT #wotd #lunar #moonlight #Artemis #ArtemisII

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Here is the #WOTD.... Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for Apr 6 is "cotton": www.merriam-webster.com/word-of-the-...

Word of the Day: Cotton

📕 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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cēping, f.n: observation. (KAY-ping / ˈkeː-pɪŋ)
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📕 Word of the Day: verdant

verdant • \VER-dunt\ • adjective

Verdant describes something that is green in tint or color, or green because it is covered with growing plants. Verdant can also describe a person who is inexperienced or has not yet developed good judgment.

// The golf course is noted for its tricky hazards and lush, verdant borders along its fairways.

📝 Examples:
“On the other side, the lusher Santa Cruz Mountains, a place of dank redwood forests, organic farming communes, and uppity vineyards, form a verdant curtain between the Valley and the ocean.” — Brian Barth, Front Street: Resistance and Rebirth in the Tent Cities of Techlandia, 2025

📜 Did you know?
English speakers have been using verdant as a ripe synonym of green since at least the 16th century, and as a descriptive term for inexperienced or naive people since the 19th century. (By contrast, the more experienced green has colored our language since well before the 12th century, and was first applied to inexperienced people in the 16th century.) Verdant traces back to the Old French word for “green,” vert, which itself is from the Latin word viridis. Some lesser-known words for shades of green in English include prasine (“having the green color of a leek”), smaragdine (“yellowish green in color like an emerald”), and another viridis descendent, viridescent (“slightly green”).

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sigor-wuldor, n.n: triumphant glory, glory of the victor. (SIH-gor-WULL-dor / ˈsɪ-gɔr-ˌwʌl-dɔr)
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