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		<title><![CDATA[Today's Word "collude"]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[collude \kuh-LOOD\ (intransitive verb) - To act in concert; to conspire; to plot.

"Sadly, well-heeled contributors and interest groups that seek political power routinely collude with needy office-seekers to find new paths around the hollow ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://www.arcamax.com/vocabulary/s-1094775</link>
 
    <pubDate>Feb/09/2012</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Today's Word "rebarbative"]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[rebarbative \ree-BAR-buh-tiv\ (adjective) - Serving or tending to irritate or repel.

"Over the several hours of the party a lot of rebarbative, ulcerated and embittered people had been working hard at bedding their resentments down in sensory-...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://www.arcamax.com/vocabulary/s-1094774</link>
 
    <pubDate>Feb/09/2012</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Today's Word "frisson"]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[frisson \free-SOHN\ (noun) - A moment of intense excitement; a shudder; an emotional thrill.

"While Carol loved the frisson of watching movies where hapless ladies became victims through no fault of their own, she hated to think about what she ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://www.arcamax.com/vocabulary/s-1094773</link>
 
    <pubDate>Feb/09/2012</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Today's Word "trencherman"]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[trencherman \TREN-chuhr-muhn\ (noun) - A hearty eater.

"Dr. Zollner was arranging his large lunch in front of him with the expertise of a real trencherman." -- Nelson DeMille, 'Plum Island'

Trencherman is from trencher, "a wooden board or ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://www.arcamax.com/vocabulary/s-1093904</link>
 
    <pubDate>Feb/07/2012</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Today's Word "languor"]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[languor \LANG-guhr; LANG-uhr\ (noun) - 1 : Mental or physical weariness or fatigue. 2 : Listless indolence, especially the indolence of one who is satiated by a life of luxury or pleasure. 3 : A heaviness or oppressive stillness of the air.

"She ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://www.arcamax.com/vocabulary/s-1093400</link>
 
    <pubDate>Feb/06/2012</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Today's Word "gewgaw"]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[gewgaw \G(Y)OO-gaw\ (noun) - A showy trifle; a trinket; a bauble.

"Many in the office felt that new secretary's tendency to be festooned with gewgaws, as well as her gaudy makeup, reflected poorly on the company's image."

The origin of gewgaw is...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://www.arcamax.com/vocabulary/s-1092695</link>
 
    <pubDate>Feb/05/2012</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Today's Word "recrudescent"]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[recrudescent \ree-kroo-DES-uhnt\ (adjective) - Breaking out again after temporary abatement or suppression; as, a recrudescent epidemic.

"Jenna's recrudescent acne had a tendency to make its appearance at the most inconvenient of times, such as ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://www.arcamax.com/vocabulary/s-1092254</link>
 
    <pubDate>Feb/03/2012</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Today's Word "mephitic"]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[mephitic \muh-FIT-ik\ (adjective) - 1 : Offensive to the smell; as, mephitic odors. 2 : Poisonous; noxious.

"The mephitic stench from the bilge became overpowering." -- Richard Holmes, Coleridge: Darker Reflections, 1804-1834

Mephitic is the ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://www.arcamax.com/vocabulary/s-1090933</link>
 
    <pubDate>Feb/01/2012</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Today's Word "contumely"]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[contumely \kon-TYOO-muh-lee; -TOO-; KON-tyoo-mee-lee; -too-; KON-tum-lee\ (noun) - 1 : Rudeness or rough treatment arising from haughtiness and contempt; scornful insolence. 2 : An instance of contemptuousness in act or speech.

"But surely it ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://www.arcamax.com/vocabulary/s-1090350</link>
 
    <pubDate>Jan/31/2012</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Today's Word "tete-a-tete"]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[tete-a-tete \TAYT-uh-TAYT; TET-uh-TET\ (adjective) - Private; confidential; familiar.

(noun) - 1 : A private conversation between two people. 2 : A short sofa intended to accommodate two persons.

"There was a phone in her office, but she wasn't ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://www.arcamax.com/vocabulary/s-1078749</link>
 
    <pubDate>Jan/30/2012</pubDate>
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