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		<title><![CDATA[And Now for Some Trash Talk]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[With the help of Mim Harrison's delightful book "Words at Work," let's
go Dumpster diving and examine some jargon from the world of garbage
collection ... er, "waste management."

If you still think of a garbage truck in the generic terms of your
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		<link>http://www.arcamax.com/thewordguy/s-1147924</link>
 
    <pubDate>May/23/2012</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Today's Word "Brook"]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[<b>brook</b> <i>\brUk</i> (verb) - To put up with or stand for; to tolerate.

<i>"Rick will brook any amount of nonsense as long as his girlfriend keeps 
his number on speed-dial."</i>
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		<link>http://www.arcamax.com/vocabulary/s-1147793</link>
 
    <pubDate>May/22/2012</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Today's Word "Earwig"]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[<b>earwig</b><i> \EER-wig\</i> (verb) - To annoy or attempt to influence by 
private talk

<i>"Jericho earwigged the Web mogul at the software conference, asking him 
to take the lead in banning spyware advertising from the sites he hosted."</i>

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		<link>http://www.arcamax.com/vocabulary/s-1147413</link>
 
    <pubDate>May/22/2012</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Today's Word "indigence"]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[indigence \IN-dih-juhn(t)s\ (noun) - A state of extreme poverty or destitution.

"Such was the band's indigence that all they could afford was 'loser's lunch', a meal which consisted of baloney on hand, as they could not afford even bread."

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		<link>http://www.arcamax.com/vocabulary/s-1147353</link>
 
    <pubDate>May/21/2012</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Today's Word "Absquatulate"]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Absquatulate \ahb-SQWAH-chu-leyt\ (verb) - 1 : To depart, abscond, take 
off; to die. 2 :  To argue.

"David seems to have absquatulated with my date while I was in the 
bathroom; would you like to dance?"

Today's word is not one you would want ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://www.arcamax.com/vocabulary/s-1146906</link>
 
    <pubDate>May/21/2012</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Today's Word "Jocund"]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[jocund \JAH-kehnd or JO-kehnd\ (adjective) - Happy, light-hearted, 
pleasant, carefree, cheerful.

"Sally would always point out that a jocund home was a good place for 
children to grow up, so she would encourage everyone to laugh often."
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		<link>http://www.arcamax.com/vocabulary/s-1146602</link>
 
    <pubDate>May/20/2012</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Today's Word "complement"]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[complement \KOM-pluh-muhnt\ (noun) - 1 : Something that fills up or completes. 2 : The quantity or number required to make up a whole or to make something complete. 3 : One of two parts that complete a whole or mutually complete each other; a ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://www.arcamax.com/vocabulary/s-1146501</link>
 
    <pubDate>May/19/2012</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Today's Word "Pragmatic"]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[pragmatic \praeg-MAE-tik\ (adjective) - 1 : Realistic, relating to facts, 
causal relations, and action as opposed to speculation, theory, or abstract 
principles; 2 : a school of philosophy that claims that nothing without 
real, observable ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://www.arcamax.com/vocabulary/s-1145110</link>
 
    <pubDate>May/17/2012</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Today's Word "Sapient"]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[sapient \SEY-pi-yehnt\ (adjective) - Possessed of notable wisdom; sagacious 
to the point of prescience. <i>The noun is "sapience" and the adverb, 
"sapiently." It is a somewhat more erudite term for "sagacious."</i>

"Jace indicated that he would...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://www.arcamax.com/vocabulary/s-1144603</link>
 
    <pubDate>May/16/2012</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[These Boots Were Made For...]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today, two random dispatches from the Word Front. First, "Talking the Walk"

"I am a slow walker," Abraham Lincoln once said, "but I never walk
back."

If only today's politicians would follow honest Abe's example. Every
day, it seems some public ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://www.arcamax.com/thewordguy/s-1144628</link>
 
    <pubDate>May/15/2012</pubDate>
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