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		<title><![CDATA[Today's Word "Cacodylic"]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[<b>cacodylic</b> <i>\kae-keh-DI-lik\</i> (adjective) - 1 :  Belonging to 
the arsenic group of poisons. 2 : Foul-smelling.

<i>"After playing in the yard, Meghan found a cacodylic substance clinging 
stubbornly to the bottom of her right shoe."</i>
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		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/vocabulary/s-1098100</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Sep/30/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Today's Word "spoony"]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[spoony \SPOO-nee\ (adjective) - 1 : Foolish; silly; excessively sentimental. 2 : Foolishly or sentimentally in love.

"There is no doubt whatever that I was a lackadaisical young spoony; but there was a purity of heart in all this, that prevents ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/vocabulary/s-1096894</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Sep/29/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Today's Word "Solipsism"]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[solipsism \sa-LIP-si-zehm\ (noun) - The view that only the self can be 
known or that the self is the only reality (egotism).

"When Catherine is writing, she falls into a solipsistic state impervious 
to the outside world."
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		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/vocabulary/s-1096385</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Sep/28/2026</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>https://www.arcamax.com/vocabulary/s-1094773</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Sep/27/2026</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>https://www.arcamax.com/vocabulary/s-1094774</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Sep/26/2026</pubDate>
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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>https://www.arcamax.com/vocabulary/s-1094775</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Sep/25/2026</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>https://www.arcamax.com/vocabulary/s-1093904</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Sep/24/2026</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.

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		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/vocabulary/s-1093400</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Sep/23/2026</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."

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		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/vocabulary/s-1092695</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Sep/22/2026</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>https://www.arcamax.com/vocabulary/s-1092254</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Sep/21/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Today's Word "Corybantic"]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[corybantic \kor-i-BAN-tik\ (adjective) - Wild; frenzied; uncontrolled.

"Harold felt that the radio show was worse than merely 'bad,' thinking that it penetrated the mind, filling it with a babble of distractions, blasts of corybantic or ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/vocabulary/s-1091558</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Sep/20/2026</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>https://www.arcamax.com/vocabulary/s-1090933</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Sep/19/2026</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>https://www.arcamax.com/vocabulary/s-1090350</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Sep/18/2026</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>https://www.arcamax.com/vocabulary/s-1078749</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Sep/17/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Today's Word "ephemeron"]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ephemeron \ih-FEM-uh-ron\ (noun) plural ephemera \ih-FEM-uh-ruh\ - 1 : Something short-lived or of no lasting significance. 2 : ephemera: Items, especially printed matter (as posters, broadsides, pamphlets, etc.), intended to be of use or ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/vocabulary/s-1064239</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Sep/16/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Today's Word "benignant"]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[benignant \bih-NIG-nuhnt\ (adjective) - 1 : Kind; gracious. 2 : Beneficial; favorable.

"Bruce's benignant behavior in financially supporting the homeless shelter's programs were rather at odds with his image as a grouchy skinflint."

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		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/vocabulary/s-1063937</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Sep/15/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Today's Word "winsome"]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[winsome \WIN-suhm\ (adjective) - 1 : Cheerful; merry; gay; light-hearted. 2 : Causing joy or pleasure; agreeable; pleasant.

"Above all, it was winsome, devastatingly winsome. For a pretty face to be winsome is normal enough and very winsome it ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/vocabulary/s-1059960</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Sep/14/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Today's Word "daedal"]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[daedal \DEE-duhl\ (adjective) - 1 : Complex or ingenious in form or function; intricate. 2 : Skillful; artistic; ingenious. 3 : Rich; adorned with many things.

"As a Web-site designer, Susan realized that large image maps and daedal layouts were ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/vocabulary/s-1054119</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Sep/13/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Today's Word "supererogatory"]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[supererogatory \soo-puhr-ih-ROG-uh-tor-ee\ (adjective) - 1 : Going beyond what is required or expected. 2 : Superfluous; unnecessary.

"He was close to her doors: his standing was sufficient: his qualities were even supererogatory." -- Thomas ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/vocabulary/s-1050377</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Sep/12/2026</pubDate>
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