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		<title><![CDATA[Today's Word "paragon"]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[paragon \PAIR-uh-gon; -guhn\ (noun) - A model of excellence or perfection; as, "a paragon of beauty; a paragon of eloquence."

"Old Roland, that paragon of acceptable standards, viewed the world with a thoroughly jaundiced, nearly blind eye." -- ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/vocabulary/s-1045754</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Sep/10/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Today's Word "camarilla"]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[camarilla \kam-uh-RIL-uh; -REE-yuh\ (noun) - A group of secret and often scheming advisers, as of a king; a cabal or clique.

"Few faulted the president for the problems during his tenure, instead choosing to blame the camarilla of closely held ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/vocabulary/s-1044995</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Sep/09/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Today's Word "Landloper"]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[landloper \LAND-lo-puhr\ (noun) - A wanderer; vagabond; vagrant ; also 
landlouper and landleaper

"Through a series of games and dreamlike fantasies, the dynamic of the lead 
character's struggle between good and evil established him as both an 
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		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/vocabulary/s-1043571</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Sep/08/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Today's Word "iota"]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[iota \eye-OH-tuh\ (noun) - 1 : The ninth letter of the Greek alphabet, corresponding to the English i. 2 : A very small quantity or degree; a jot; a bit.

"A brilliant negotiator, James had not  moderated his demands one iota in seven years."

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		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/vocabulary/s-1042572</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Sep/07/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Today's Word "inveigle"]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[inveigle \in-VAY-guhl; -VEE-\ (transitive verb) - 1 : To persuade by ingenuity or flattery; to entice. 2 : To obtain by ingenuity or flattery.

"Once a soft touch for those who inveigled her into sparing them her change, Jhenna began to cross the ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/vocabulary/s-1041237</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Sep/06/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Today's Word "redivivus"]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[redivivus \red-uh-VY-vuhs; -VEE-\ (adjective) - Living again; brought back to life; revived; restored.

"'He can't be redivivus if he's never died,' Diotallevi said. 'Sure he's not Ahasuerus, the wandering Jew?'" -- Umberto Eco, 'Foccault's ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/vocabulary/s-1040319</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Sep/05/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Today's Word "tutelary"]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[tutelary \TOO-tuh-lair-ee; TYOO-\ (adjective) - Having the guardianship or charge of protecting a person or a thing; guardian; protecting; as, "tutelary goddesses."

"But there is a tutelary deity for misers, and by a chain of unforeseen ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/vocabulary/s-1037547</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Sep/04/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Today's Word "virtu"]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[virtu \vuhr-TOO; vir-\ (noun) - 1 : love of or taste for fine objects of art. 2 : Productions of art (especially fine antiques). 3 : Artistic quality.

'In the latter case, the new emblem held no personality or virtu until it had participated in ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/vocabulary/s-1037566</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Sep/03/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Today's Word "Quietus"]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[quietus \kwy-EE-tuhs\ (noun) - 1 : A final stroke that settles something. 2 
: Discharge from life; death. 3 : A release from a duty or debt.

"The irony was, as Lucinda saw it, that her family's curse would provide 
its own quietus and lead her ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/vocabulary/s-1035483</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Sep/02/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Today's Word "concinnity"]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[concinnity \kuhn-SIN-uh-tee\ (noun) - 1 : Internal harmony or fitness in the adaptation of parts to a whole or to each other. 2 : Studied elegance of design or arrangement -- used chiefly of literary style. 3 : An instance of concinnity.

"To the ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/vocabulary/s-1036471</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Sep/01/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Today's Word "Zeitgeist"]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Zeitgeist \TSYT-guyst; ZYT-guyst\ (noun) - [Often capitalized] The spirit of the time; the general intellectual and moral state or temper characteristic of any period of time.

"Yet being a man, as I say, with his hair a little stirred by a ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/vocabulary/s-1033496</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Aug/31/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Today's Word "parlous"]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[parlous \PAR-luhs\ (adjective) - Attended with peril; fraught with danger; hazardous.

"It was a parlous time in the schoolyard, when preppies and goths vied brutally for supremacy."

Parlous derives from Old French perillous, perilleus, from ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/vocabulary/s-1034428</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Aug/30/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Today's Word "pule"]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[pule \PYOOL\ (intransitive verb) - To whimper; to whine.

"Darla's fretting and puling over her missing feline were such that she was banished to the furthest, most sound-proofed room in the domicile."

Pule is perhaps from French piauler, "to ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/vocabulary/s-1032910</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Aug/29/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Today's Word "clerisy"]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[clerisy \KLER-i-see\ (noun) - The well-educated class; the literati; the intelligentsia.

"While Terry fancied himself one of the clerisy, his friends thought of him as nothing so much as a know-it-all and blowhard."

From German Klerisei (clergy)...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/vocabulary/s-1032285</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Aug/28/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Today's Word "Nonplus"]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[nonplus \non-PLUS, NON-plus\ (verb tr.) - To put at a loss for what to do, 
think, or say; perplex. (noun) 0 -A state of perplexity or bewilderment.

"The Native-American Navajo Code Talkers used a code created with their 
native language to ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/vocabulary/s-1028305</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Aug/27/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Today's Word "temerarious"]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[temerarious \tem-uh-RAIR-ee-uhs\ (adjective) - Recklessly or presumptuously daring; rash.

"I have confessed myself a temerarious theologian, and in that passage from boyhood to manhood I ranged widely in my search for some permanently satisfying ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/vocabulary/s-1029248</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Aug/26/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Today's Word "small beer"]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[small beer \small beer\ (noun) - 1 : Weak beer. 2 : Insignificant matters; something of little importance.

(adjective) - 1 : Unimportant; trivial.

"While Mary was concerned that they would be considered insignificant posers by the 'old money' in...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/vocabulary/s-1028086</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Aug/25/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Today's Word "Pernicious"]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[pernicious \pur-NISH-uhs\ (adjective) - Causing great harm; deadly; wicked.

"After his visit to management's floor, Dave came to the conclusion that the bulk of them were the most pernicious race of little odious vermin that nature ever suffered ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/vocabulary/s-1026744</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Aug/24/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Today's Word "humblebrag"]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[humblebrag \HUM-behl-brag\ (verb) - A moniker for the false humility exhibited by celebrities and other people on Twitter, Facebook, or other forms of social media.

"It only took Franklin a day or two to realize that Lady Gaga's Twitter feed ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/vocabulary/s-1026243</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Aug/23/2026</pubDate>
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