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		<title><![CDATA[Today's Word "Histrionic"]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[histrionic \his-tree-AHN-ik\ (adjective) - Exaggerated or melodramatic in 
behavior or speech, extremely theatrical.

"Every time Jason fails to get his way, he flies into a histrionic diatribe 
about how he is undervalued by those around him."
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		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/vocabulary/s-967378</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Jun/21/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Today's Word "Boondocks"]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[boondocks \BUN-dahks\ (noun) - A remote, wild, unexplored region; rural, 
isolated area.

"You should move to the city; you will never find yourself a husband living 
out there in the boondocks."
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		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/vocabulary/s-967287</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Jun/20/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Today's Word "Hoghenhine"]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[<b>hoghenhine</b> <i>\HAH-gehn-hIn\</i> (noun) - (English Medieval Law) A 
legal member of one's own family; a visitor who remains past the third 
night or the third night of a visit itself in someone else's home.

"Confident of the quality of his...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/vocabulary/s-966650</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Jun/19/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Today's Word "Wrought"]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[<b>wrought</b> <i>\rat\</i> (adjective) - Worked, crafted, done.

"The antiqued knotty pine shelf was wrought by my freat-grandfather back 
when 'wrought' was the only participle for 'work.'"
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		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/vocabulary/s-965848</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Jun/18/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Today's Word "Oscitancy"]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[oscitancy \AH-si-tehn-si\ (noun) - 1 : Yawning or a yawn, hence  2 : the 
drowsiness or dullness associated with yawning.

"Jack insisted that his oscitancy came more from lack of sleep than from 
lack of interest."

Latin oscitare "yawn" from os-...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/vocabulary/s-965786</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Jun/17/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Today's Word "Hallucinate"]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[hallucinate \heh-LU-seh-neyt\ (verb) - To be deceived by delusions as a 
result of mental illness or a narcotic; to suffer a wildly distorted dream 
of something nonexistent but perceived as real.

"Courtney hallucinates more boyfriends than she ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/vocabulary/s-964309</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Jun/16/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Today's Word "Ecdemic"]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ecdemic \ek-DEM-ik\ (adjective) - Of foreign origin; introduced from outside; pertaining to a disease that's observed far from the area it originates in.

"Charles observed that bird flu, while growing from endemic to a specific population to a ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/vocabulary/s-963782</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Jun/15/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Today's Word "Trampoline"]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Trampoline \TRAEM-peh-leen\ (noun) - A unit of athletic equipment 
comprising a piece of resilient cloth or netting stretched across a frame 
and used for acrobatic jumping and tumbling.

"If you go to work for the company that Dennis works for, ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/vocabulary/s-963695</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Jun/14/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Today's Word "bedaub"]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[bedaub \bih-DOB\ (transitive verb) - 1 : To smudge over; to besmear or soil with anything thick and dirty. 2 : To overdecorate; to ornament showily or excessively.

"Am I, your kinsman and benefactor, a fit person to be juggled out of my ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/vocabulary/s-963088</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Jun/13/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Today's Word "Generic"]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[generic \juh-NEHR-ik\ (adjective) - 1 : Of or pertaining to a genus. 2 : Sold without a brand name. 3 : Relating to a whole group or class.

"In an effort to save money, Lois even started buying generic toilet paper that felt like sandpaper on her...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/vocabulary/s-962537</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Jun/12/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Today's Word "Turdiform"]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[turdiform \TEHR-deh-form\ (adjective) - Having the shape of a thrush.

"I'm not sure of the name of this turdiform little flyer is but I'm sure 
you will agree that it is a delight to the eye."
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		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/vocabulary/s-962131</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Jun/11/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Today's Word "indolent"]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[indolent \IN-duh-lehnt\ (adjective) - 1 : Disinclined to exert oneself; habitually lazy. Conducive to inactivity or laziness; lethargic. 2 : Causing little or no pain. Slow to heal, grow, or develop; inactive.

"For the indolent body there are ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/vocabulary/s-961082</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Jun/10/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Today's Word "salmagundi"]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[salmagundi \sal-muh-GUHN-dee\ (noun) - 1 : A salad plate usually consisting of chopped meat, anchovies, eggs, and onions, served with oil and vinegar. 2 : Any mixture or assortment; a medley; a potpourri; a miscellany.

"While the movie purported ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/vocabulary/s-960449</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Jun/09/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Today's Word "hortatory"]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[hortatory \HOR-tuh-tor-ee\ (adjective) - Marked by strong urging; serving to encourage or incite; as, "a hortatory speech."

"Giles later gave up the position in the conviction that he could reach thousands with his beguiling pen while only ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/vocabulary/s-959802</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Jun/08/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Today's Word "Remonstrant"]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[<b>remonstrant</b> <i>\reh-MAHN-strehnt\</i> (adjective) - In a state of 
vigorously objecting to, earnestly aggrieved by or opposed to something.

"The remonstrant set of Russel's jaw convinced Andre that she could never 
persuade him to give her...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/vocabulary/s-959142</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Jun/07/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Today's Word "vituperate"]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[vituperate \vy-TOO-puh-rate, -TYOO-, vi-\ (verb) - To find fault with; to scold; to overwhelm with wordy abuse; to censure severely or abusively; to rate.

"The incensed priests...continued to raise their voices, vituperating each other in bad ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/vocabulary/s-957961</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Jun/06/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Today's Word "chortle"]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[chortle \CHOR-tl\ (transitive and intransitive verb) - To utter, or express with, a snorting, exultant laugh or chuckle.

(noun) - A snorting, exultant laugh or chuckle.

"Kip punctuated each of his sarcastic remarks with his customary, derisive ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/vocabulary/s-957484</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Jun/05/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Today's Word "faineant"]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[faineant \fay-nay-AWN\ (adjective) - 1 : Doing nothing or given to doing nothing; idle; lazy.

(noun) - 1 : A do-nothing; an idle fellow; a sluggard.

"A faineant government is not the worst government that England can have. It has been the great ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/vocabulary/s-956785</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Jun/04/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Do You Have a Knack for Nicknames?]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[

For 15th-century Florentine artist Paolo di Dono, the bird was the word.
He loved feathered creatures so much that he acquired the nickname
"Uccello" ("bird").

The Italian painter Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi, born in 1445,
inherited his ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/thewordguy/s-4218288</link>
 
    <pubDate>Jun/03/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Today's Word "Bort"]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[bort \bort\ (noun) - Poor-quality diamond, or diamond fragment, used as an industrial abrasive, as in grinding wheel.

"James was so notoriously cheap that Theresa wasn't at all surprised to discover that her supposedly 'high-quality' engangement ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/vocabulary/s-956201</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Jun/03/2026</pubDate>
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