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原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for June 30, 2019 is: plummy • \PLUMM-ee\  • adjective 1 a : full of plums b : choice , desirable 2 a : having a plum color b : rich and mellow often to the point of affectation Examples: “… meetings are spent in youthful yammering about art, music and poetry, in that plummy British way….” — Michael O’Sullivan, The Washington Post , 6 May 2019 “Tyrion survived because he somehow scored the plummy roles of judge, jury and executioner at his own … trial.” — Kayleigh Dray, Stylist Magazine (UK), 21 May 2019 Did you know? The name of the fruit plum goes back to Old English. During the 18th century, the word plum became a delectable ingredient in the language. The word for the sweet, juicy fruit denoted such things as a fortune of 100,000 pounds, a rich person, and, by the early 19th century, anything desirable. The related adjective plummy blossomed in the early 18th century with the meaning “full of plums” and had bra...

原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for June 29, 2019 is: higgledy-piggledy • \hig-ul-dee-PIG-ul-dee\  • adverb : in a confused, disordered, or random manner Examples: Maya took a deep breath and began the daunting task of sorting through the hundreds of photos scattered higgledy-piggledy across the floor. “Indeed, the hallways of Geokon’s offices are lined with metal filing cabinets, and workshops have been added in higgledy-piggledy over the years, giving the premises a haphazard feel.” — John Lippman, The Valley News (White River Junction, Vermont), 11 Nov. 2018 Did you know? We really have no idea where higgledy-piggledy came from, but we do know it’s a perfect demonstration of English speakers’ fondness for reduplication —that is, for forming new words by repetition of a base word often with a slight change of sound. In this case, the base word might actually be the second term, which encompasses the word pig and calls to mind the association of pigs w...

原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for June 28, 2019 is: volition • \voh-LISH-un\  • noun 1 : the power of choosing or determining : will 2 : an act of making a choice or decision; also : a choice or decision made Examples: “The rules of the universe created certain compulsions, as did the formal and structural conventions I’d put in motion. Slowly, without any volition from me…, the characters started to do certain things, each on his or her own, the sum total of which resulted, in the end, in a broad, cooperative pattern that seemed to be arguing for what I’d call a viral theory of goodness.” — George Saunders, The Guardian , 4 Mar. 2017 “Mr. [Gus] Ben David said there is no chance that the wild coyote was brought to the Island by a human. ‘No, no way. Coyotes, even if you raise one from a little pup, they’re vicious. No way that animal was brought to this Island. That animal basically got here on its own volition ,’ he said.” — Noah Asimow, The Vineyard ...

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原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for June 27, 2019 is: acquisitive • \uh-KWIZ-uh-tiv\  • adjective : strongly desirous of acquiring and possessing Examples: The game aims to teach middle schoolers to balance their acquisitive instincts with a consideration of what will benefit society as a whole. “[ Property , by Lionel Shriver, is a] collection of short fiction that becomes a catalog of the ways an  acquisitive urge can go astray. Renters become unhappy owners; a gift prompts a battle among friends; a man and his father feud over £160 and the price of an airmail stamp.” — The New York Times , 2 Dec. 2018 Did you know? While acquisitive is a useful synonym of the likes of greedy and avaricious , it’s relatively unknown compared to its more popular lexical relations, acquire and acquisition . The former of that pair is most often used to mean “to get as one’s own,” as in “skills acquired through practice”; the latter refers either to the act of acqu...

原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for June 26, 2019 is: supersede • \soo-per-SEED\  • verb 1 a : to cause to be set aside b : to force out of use as inferior 2 : to take the place or position of 3 : to displace in favor of another Examples: “What may someday supersede Einstein’s hypothesis is any genius’ good guess. In the meantime, not only the theory of relativity but also Newton’s laws , with all their known limitations, serve us rather well in navigating through space and in constructing bridges and dams on earth.” — Henry Petroski, To Engineer is Human , 1992 “This park also supersedes what must have been the world’s cleverest playground—a 10-foot-high fort made of telephone poles or logs up the hill at Rocky Ridge Park. (That simple, but popular play area was dismantled. Kids kept getting their heads stuck between the poles.)” — Jim McClure, The York (Pennsylvania) Daily Record , 5 May 2019 Did you know? Supersede ultimately derives from the L...

原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for June 25, 2019 is: gritty • \GRIT-ee\  • adjective 1 : containing or resembling grit 2 : courageously persistent : plucky 3 : having strong qualities of tough uncompromising realism Examples: “Unlike a lot of natural deodorants that also use baking soda but have a gritty texture, this stick has a gel-like consistency that doesn’t aggravate tender underarm skin.” — Kristine Gill, Real Simple , 7 May 2019 “[John] Singleton was nominated for two Oscars—Best Director and Best Original Screenplay—for Boyz n the Hood… . The gritty tale of gangs in South Central Los Angeles marked the acting debuts of Ice Cube and Morris Chestnut, and also starred Cuba Gooding Jr., Laurence Fishburne, Nia Long, Regina King and Angela Bassett.” — Bruce Haring, Deadline , 20 Apr. 2019 Did you know? Gritty comes from grit (“small hard granules”), which in turn derives, via Middle English, from an Old English word for “sand” or “gravel.” Grit...

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原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for June 24, 2019 is: contraption • \kun-TRAP-shun\  • noun : device , gadget Examples: “In Connecticut, the Hartford Marathon Foundation worked with an engineering company to create a 40-foot-long drinking fountain for the finish line of its race. The contraption , known as the Bubbler, allows multiple people to drink at the same time and is estimated to have saved about 85,000 plastic bottles and wax cups since 2007, according to the foundation.” — Sarah Mervosh, The New York Times , 10 Apr. 2019 “And scientists are creating devices to track the decay of icebergs. The small, cylindrical contraptions  will be deployed in the Arctic, where they will sit atop ice as it breaks off and floats away from larger ice formations.” — Laura Krantz, The Boston Globe , 9 May 2019 Did you know? English has a number of words that can be used as general terms for mechanical or electronic devices, including gadget , gizmo , widget , and ...

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原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for June 23, 2019 is: lade • \LAYD\  • verb 1 a : to put a load or burden on or in : load b : to put or place as a load especially for shipment : ship c : to load heavily or oppressively 2 : dip , ladle Examples: “… we might, for example, see what are arguably Mr. Boontje’s two most influential designs: his Blossom chandelier for Swarovski, a sparkling spray of branches laden with rosy crystals; and the more affordable Garland light….” — Pilar Viladas, The New York Times , 9 May 2019 “There were no pictures on the walls but here and there boughs laden with heavy-petalled flowers spread widely against them.” — Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out , 1915 Did you know? Lade most often occurs in its past participle form laden , as shown in our examples. There is also the adjective laden , best distinguished from the verb by its placement before nouns, as in “laden ships” or “a laden heart.” (The adjective is also at work in h...

原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for June 22, 2019 is: puckish • \PUCK-ish\  • adjective : impish , whimsical Examples: “Ms. Jamon, with her charm and puckish humor, makes the restaurant feel like a home. For Christmas in 2009, after their move from Los Angeles, there was a fully decorated tree hanging upside down from the ceiling. ‘Everything in the world seems upside down,’ she said, ‘so I decided to match it.'” — John Willoughby, The New York Times , 14 Mar. 2019 “[Thomas] Venning said the wheelchair became a symbol … of [Stephen] Hawking’s ‘ puckish sense of humor.’ He once ran over Prince Charles’ toes—and reportedly joked that he wished he had done the same to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher—and appeared in a ‘Monty Python’ skit running down fellow physicist Brian Cox.” — The Salt Lake Tribune , 22 Oct. 2018 Did you know? We know Puck as “that merry wanderer of the night,” the shape-changing, maiden-frightening, mischief-sowing henchman to the king ...

原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for June 21, 2019 is: tonsorial • \tahn-SOR-ee-ul\  • adjective : of or relating to a barber or the work of a barber Examples: “Once again Ryan’s Barber Shop and Shaving Parlor … provided the tonsorial team the chairs and the needed supplies for the men to sit down and get their faces cleaned up or hair trimmed.” — Steve Moran, The Asbury Park (New Jersey) Press , 6 Dec. 2018 “I think we are still a long way off from having tonsorial  robots, so whatever the trends and styles that come about … as long as we are all still growing hair out of our heads, there will be patrons attending the barbershop.” — Adam Castleforte, quoted in The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette , 24 Sept. 2018 Did you know? Tonsorial is a fancy word that describes the work of those who give shaves and haircuts. (It can apply more broadly to hairdressers as well.) It derives from the Latin verb tondēre , meaning “to shear, clip, or crop.” (Another descendan...

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原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for June 20, 2019 is: demeanor • \dih-MEE-ner\  • noun : behavior toward others : outward manner Examples: The professor’s friendly and laid-back demeanor made him a favorite among the students. “Detroit’s well-earned place as one of America’s most iconic cities is a credit to its past, present and future. It is a city that has never had it easy, but its steely demeanor has also always encased and protected a powerful heart.” — Adweek.com , 14 May 2019 Did you know? There’s a long trail from the Latin origins of demeanor to its English incarnation. It starts with minari , “to threaten”—a word connected to the threatening cries of cattle drivers. Leaving minari , we soon encounter a close Latin relation, minare ; it means “to drive,” and was once used specifically of driving animals for herding. From there, the path leads us to Anglo-French, where we pass by mener (“to lead”) and then demener (“to conduct”). Next comes Mi...

原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for June 19, 2019 is: insuperable • \in-SOO-puh-ruh-bul\  • adjective : incapable of being surmounted, overcome, passed over, or solved Examples: Though it had appeared that the visiting team had an insuperable lead, the home team rallied to win in the end. “‘Life and Fate,’ his resulting magnum opus, is not likely to be unseated as the greatest Second World War novel ever written. Grossman’s challenge over the ten years of its composition seems nearly insuperable : to evoke the scope and magnitude of the conflict without turning his characters into cogs in a vast military machine.” — Sam Sacks, The New Yorker , 25 June 2013 Did you know? Insuperable first appeared in print in the 14th century, and as a close synonym to insurmountable , it still means now approximately what it did then. In Latin, superare means “to go over, surmount, overcome, or excel.” (The sur- in surmount is related to the Latin prefix super- .) The L...

原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for June 18, 2019 is: boilerplate • \BOY-ler-playt\  • noun 1 : syndicated material supplied especially to weekly newspapers in matrix or plate form 2 a : standardized text b : formulaic or hackneyed language 3 : tightly packed icy snow Examples: “‘I think the middle class is getting clobbered,’ he said one day, over lunch. ‘I think there has to be a significant change in both, over time, fiscal policy and tax policy.’ He was trying to get that view ‘further insinuated into the White House,’ he said. It seemed like boilerplate , and I didn’t quote it.” — Evan Osnos, The New Yorker , 26 Apr. 2019 “… we ask each of our esteemed colleagues to negotiate hard to get anti-harassment language woven into all service agreements, to make it part of the basic boilerplate  and/or the standard asks in any negotiation.” — Monika Tashman, Esq., et al., Billboard.com , 12 Nov. 2018 Did you know? In the days before computers, small...

原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for June 17, 2019 is: flounce • \FLOUNSS\  • verb 1 a : to move with exaggerated jerky or bouncy motions b : to go with sudden determination 2 : flounder , struggle Examples: “With skirts flouncing , 15 young women ascended the steps … to a traditional Mexican birthday song played in a mariachi style.” — Laurel Wamsley and Vanessa Romo, NPR , 19 July 2017 “The Master of the Music flounced out with the choir flouncing out in perfect unison behind him.” — Terry Pratchett, Unseen Academicals , 2009 Did you know? The story behind flounce is an elusive one. The verb’s earliest recorded uses in English occurred in the mid-1500s, and some scholars believe it is related to the Norwegian verb flunsa (meaning “to hurry” or “to work briskly”) and Swedish flunsa (“to fall with a splash” or “to plunge”). The connection is uncertain, however, because the flunsa verbs did not appear in their respective languages until the 18th cen...

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原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for June 16, 2019 is: assiduous • \uh-SIJ-uh-wus\  • adjective : showing great care, attention, and effort : marked by careful unremitting attention or persistent application Examples: “Ryan Murphy …, in his last FX series before founding his Netflix empire, was also assiduous about hiring transgender actors and creative staff….” — James Poniewozik, The New York Times , 1 June 2018 “In conjunction with his efforts as a painter, Goya was an assiduous draftsman and printmaker. His first efforts at etching include … royal portraiture and grand subject paintings such as the Feast of Bacchus.” — Michael A. Gibson, Jr. and Jessica Brandrup, NBCDFW.com (Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas), 24 Oct. 2018 Did you know? Judges presiding over assizes (former periodical sessions of the superior courts in English counties) had to be assiduous in assessing how to best address their cases. Not only were their efforts invaluable, but they al...

原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for June 15, 2019 is: recidivism • \rih-SID-uh-viz-um\  • noun : a tendency to relapse into a previous condition or mode of behavior; especially : relapse into criminal behavior Examples: The judge took the guilty felon’s rate of recidivism into account when she deliberated her sentence. “She said her main purpose is to support seniors’ efforts to ‘age in place’ with dignity, rather than face premature institutionalization. Her outreach has reduced recidivism into hospitals for many seniors.” — Mort Mazor, The Sun-Sentinel (Fort Lauderdale, Florida), 8 May 2019 Did you know? Recidivism means literally “a falling back” and usually implies “into bad habits.” It comes from the Latin word recidivus , which means “recurring.” Recidivus itself comes from the Latin verb recidere , which is a composite of the prefix re- and the verb cadere (meaning “to fall”) and means “to fall back.” Recidivists tend to relapse, or “fall ba...

原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for June 14, 2019 is: oneiric • \oh-NYE-rik\  • adjective : of or relating to dreams : dreamy Examples: The paintings, filled with fantastical imagery conjured by the artist’s imagination, have a compellingly oneiric quality. “Somewhere along the twisty path of the twentieth century, Vladimir Nabokov, our brilliant dreamer-in-chief, came into contact with [aeronautical engineer and philosopher John W.] Dunne’s theories of oneiric prophecy and was evidently inspired by them.” — Nicholson Baker, The New Republic , 21 Feb. 2018 Did you know? The notion of using the Greek noun oneiros (meaning “dream”) to form the English adjective oneiric wasn’t dreamed up until the mid-19th century. But back in the late 1500s and early 1600s, linguistic dreamers came up with a few oneiros spin-offs, giving English oneirocriticism , oneirocritical , and oneirocritic (each referring to dream interpreters or interpretation). The surge in one...

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原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for June 13, 2019 is: scrutinize • \SKROO-tuh-nyze\  • verb 1 : to examine closely and minutely    2 : to make a scrutiny Examples: “I think the biggest misconception out there is that every accident a commercial motor vehicle is involved in, the general public feels it is the big rig’s fault. Little does the general public know that everything from what needs to be inspected each day on these vehicles to hours of service to maintenance procedures, and even training, is so highly scrutinized either through regulations or insurance policies, or even our internal audits and tracking.” — Matt McDonald, quoted in The Caledon Enterprise , 15 Apr. 2019 “… Vaughn will be held to high expectations…. She’ll present her first budget report to the council Tuesday and, unlike previous meetings where city council gave scarce attention to the CFO report, her report will be closely scrutinized .” — The Dispatch (Columbus, Mi...

原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for June 12, 2019 is: equivocal • \ih-KWIV-uh-kul\  • adjective 1 a : subject to two or more interpretations and usually used to mislead or confuse b : uncertain as an indication or sign 2 a : of uncertain nature or classification b : of uncertain disposition toward a person or thing : undecided c : of doubtful advantage, genuineness, or moral rectitude Examples: When I asked Frances how her job was going, she gave me an equivocal response: “Let’s just say I won’t be a sous -chef for much longer.” “‘I don’t know if this is gonna be terrible or brilliant,’ says one of the brothers. Had he realised that he’d be the subject of a feature documentary, he might have been less equivocal .” — Ryan Gilbey, The New Statesman , 21 Nov. 2018 Did you know? Equivocal , vague , and ambiguous all mean “not clearly understandable” and are used to describe confusing speech or writing. Equivocal —which can be traced back to the Latin ...

原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for June 11, 2019 is: chasten • \CHAY-sun\  • verb 1 : to correct by punishment or suffering : discipline ; also : purify 2 a : to prune (something, such as a work or style of art) of excess, pretense, or falsity : refine b : to cause to be more humble or restrained : subdue Examples: He was very arrogant as a younger man, but he has been sufficiently chastened by life’s hardships and is now more cognizant of his own failings and weaknesses. “My hubris awakened the wrath of the Phlegm Gods who long ago decreed that should one choose to live in Austin, ‘It’s not if you will develop allergies, it’s when.’ To chasten me they sent us one of the wettest winters on record just to get every tree, shrub and blade of grass within breathing distance in the mood.” — Sarah Bird, The Austin (Texas) American-Statesman , 14 Apr. 2019 Did you know? If you say you would castigate or chastise someone in order to chasten them, you d...

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原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for June 10, 2019 is: ineffable • \in-EFF-uh-bul\  • adjective 1 a : incapable of being expressed in words : indescribable b : inexpressibly bad : unspeakable 2 : not to be uttered : taboo Examples: “Undaunted, in ‘Why You Like It’ Nolan Gasser attempts to explain the ineffable ways music produces sensations in listeners’ brains: its power to move people to tears, evoke awe and induce involuntary toe-tapping.” — The Economist , 27 Apr. 2019 “Such haziness was inevitable, because the questions Buber was trying to answer were the most ineffable ones of human life: What is the meaning of our existence? How can we achieve the feeling of wholeness that we so painfully lack?” — Adam Kirsch, The New Yorker , 29 Apr. 2019 Did you know? “Every tone was a testimony against slavery, and a prayer to God for deliverance from chains. The hearing of those wild notes always depressed my spirit, and filled me with ineffable sadness,” ...

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原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for June 9, 2019 is: vocation • \voh-KAY-shun\  • noun 1 a :  a summons or strong inclination to a particular state or course of action; especially   :  a divine call to the religious life b :  an entry into the priesthood or a religious order 2 a :  the work in which a person is employed  : occupation b :  the persons engaged in a particular occupation 3 :  the special function of an individual or group Examples: “The superpower I’ve always wished for is invisibility, and I chose my vocation accordingly. A novelist gets 140,000 words per one tiny author photo. That’s a visibility ratio I can live with.” — Barbara Kingsolver, quoted in The New Statesman (UK), 15 Oct. 2018 “I’d just graduated law school and was struggling to find a field of law that would interest me. My brother Tony … mentioned how his friend and college music professor had a lawyer … who was a big shot in the music ...

原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for June 8, 2019 is: quibble • \KWIB-ul\  • verb 1 : to evade the point of an argument by caviling about words 2 a : to find fault by raising trivial or frivolous objection b : to engage in a petty quarrel : bicker 3 : to subject to minor objections or criticisms Examples: “A few researchers and doctors have also  quibbled  with some of the details in the dietary advice….” — Eliza Barclay, Vox.com , 24 Jan. 2019 “I am not quibbling with the quality of these extravagant boats, but it seems some anglers believe a high-ticket item will make them better fishermen.” — Mike Jackson, The Daily Herald (Chicago), 5 May 2019 Did you know? In addition to functioning as a verb, quibble also exists as a noun meaning “an evasion of or shift from the point” and “a minor objection or criticism.” Both forms of the word arrived in English in the mid-17th century. Presumably (though not certainly) quibble originated as a d...

原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for June 7, 2019 is: bombast • \BAHM-bast\  • noun : pretentious inflated speech or writing Examples: Laura complained that the editorial columns in her local newspaper were full of bombast and offered little in the way of intelligent opinion. “Now that a new top-grossing movie of all time is about to be crowned, it seems the bombast of summer tentpole season has begun.” — Richard Lawson and K. Austin Collins, Vanity Fair , 6 May 2019 Did you know? The original meaning of bombast in English was “cotton or other material used as padding or stuffing.” It is derived through Anglo-French bombés or bombace , from a Medieval Latin word (of various forms, including bambax and bombax ) meaning “cotton plant, cotton fiber or wadding.” Bombax was once thought to be a corruption of bombyx , a Latin (and ultimately Greek) word that means “silkworm” or “silk,” although etymologists weren’t certain why the shift from silk to cotton ...

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原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for June 6, 2019 is: kinetic • \kuh-NET-ik\  • adjective 1 : of or relating to the motion of material bodies and the forces and energy associated therewith 2 a : active , lively b : dynamic , energizing 3 : of or relating to kinetic art Examples: “See, that’s where the height of the spaghetti mound comes in. The entire question hinges on how much momentum the meatball obtains as it rolls down. If the mound is very tall, the force of gravity could transform the meatball’s potential energy into sufficient kinetic energy.” — Arthur B. McDonald, The Washington Post Magazine , 17 Mar. 2019 “East London’s kinetic buzz of nightclubs, galleries, mosques, boutiques, synagogues, workers, government housing and condos, not to mention the traffic and the food markets … well, it can make a newcomer dizzy.” — José Sarmento Matos and Evelyn Nieves, The New York Times , 20 Mar. 2019 Did you know? Kinetic comes from the Greek word ki...

原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for June 5, 2019 is: malapert • \mal-uh-PERT\  • adjective : impudently bold : saucy Examples: “Fair ladies, brave knights, churls, varlets, squires, scurvy knaves, men-at-arms, malapert rogues—all were merry.” — P. G. Wodehouse, The Man Upstairs and Other Stories , 1914 “Hers were never the records you confessed to owning—especially ‘How Am I Supposed to Live Without You’—but the payoff of having a musical affair with her was hearing her blissfully malapert voice rip the material to shreds.” — Christopher Muther, The Boston Globe , 21 Aug. 2005 Did you know? Malapert debuted in English in the 15th century, was a favorite of Shakespeare, and is still used sporadically today. The prefix mal- , meaning “bad” or “badly” and deriving from the Latin malus , is found in many English words, including malevolent and malefactor . The second half of malapert comes from the Middle English apert , meaning “open” or “frank.” Apert f...

原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for June 4, 2019 is: amalgamate • \uh-MAL-guh-mayt\  • verb : to unite in or as if in a mixture of elements; especially : to merge into a single body Examples: “Rolls-Royce has operational service centres around the world, in which expert engineers are analysing the data being fed back from their engines. It can amalgamate the data from its engines to highlight factors and conditions under which engines might need maintenance.” — Bernard Marr, Forbes , 1 June 2015 “When all the smaller municipalities in Hamilton-Wentworth were amalgamated into the City of Hamilton in 2001, there was resistance from the smaller suburban communities to the loss of their local governments.” — Peter Clutterbuck, The Hamilton (Ontario) Spectator , 27 Mar. 2017 Did you know? The noun amalgam derives, by way of Middle French, from Medieval Latin amalgama . It was first used in the 15th century with the meaning “a mixture of mercury and another m...

原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for June 3, 2019 is: nuance • \NOO-ahnss\  • noun 1 : a subtle distinction or variation 2 : a subtle quality : nicety 3 : sensibility to, awareness of, or ability to express delicate shadings (as of meaning, feeling, or value) Examples: “Poetry can enrich the academic and creative life of every student—from a second-grade English Language Learner exploring the nuances of language to the high school student learning to craft stories beyond their next text message.” — Suma Karaman Rosen, The Detroit Free Press , 5 Apr. 2019 “The beloved diva sustained exquisite control of her vast vocal resources, enriching line after line with gleaming tone and subtle nuance .” — Martin Bernheimer, The Financial Times , 15 Nov. 2016 Did you know? The history of nuance starts in Latin with the noun nubes , meaning “cloud.” Nubes floated into Middle French as nue , also meaning “cloud,” and nue gave rise to nuer , meaning “to make shade...

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原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for June 2, 2019 is: circumspect • \SER-kum-spekt\  • adjective : careful to consider all circumstances and possible consequences : prudent Examples: “The response in several previously frozen markets for short-term financing was extremely positive, and stock investors were jubilant. However, the reaction in longer-term fixed income and commodities markets, especially for gold, has been more circumspect .” — James C. Cooper, Business Week , 8 Oct. 2007 “… Churchill resisted the idea of Britain participating as a member of the European Community. He looked upon such entanglements as detrimental to the British Empire he loved. He was even circumspect of their membership in NATO.” — Don Cassiday, The Sahuarita (Arizona) Sun , 30 Mar. 2019 Did you know? Circumspect , cautious , wary , and chary all imply looking before you leap, but each puts a unique spin on being careful in the face of risk or danger. Circumspect , which des...

原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for June 1, 2019 is: nectar • \NEK-ter\  • noun 1 a : the drink of the Greek and Roman gods b : something delicious to drink c : a beverage of fruit juice and pulp 2 : a sweet liquid that is secreted by the nectaries of a plant and is the chief raw material of honey Examples: “Hummingbirds need to eat a third to a half of their body weight daily to fuel their high-energy lifestyle, Allen said. Their diet includes nectar for carbohydrates and insects for protein.” — Kym Pokorny, The World (Coos Bay, Oregon), 4 Apr. 2019 “When Drew Barrymore’s nutritionist, Kimberly Snyder, recently shared her Pomegranate Kale Salad recipe, I noticed something interesting. She uses coconut nectar to add a touch of sweetness to the base of white wine vinegar and extra virgin olive oil.” — Tehrene Firman, Well + Good , 21 Mar. 2019 Did you know? Nectar is often mentioned in conjunction with ambrosia , the food of the Greek and Roma...