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原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for February 29, 2020 is: untenable • \un-TEN-uh-bul\  • adjective 1 : not able to be defended 2 : not able to be occupied Examples: Faced with a budget deficit, the company’s CEO made the untenable decision to lay off several upper management employees while still making sure he received a salary bonus. “At noon on February 20, tanks from the 8th Panzer Regiment slammed into the British two miles north of Kasserine Pass on Highway 17. For the next six hours, the Tommies yielded one untenable hill after another.” — Rick Atkinson, An Army at Dawn , 2002 Did you know? Untenable and its opposite tenable come to us from Old French tenir (“to hold, have possession of”) and ultimately from Latin tenēre (“to hold, occupy, possess”). We tend to use untenable in situations where an idea or position is so off base that holding onto it is unjustified or inexcusable. One way to hold onto the meaning of untenable is to associate it

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原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for February 28, 2020 is: coax • \KOHKS\  • verb 1 : to influence or gently urge by caressing or flattering : wheedle 2 : to draw, gain, or persuade by means of gentle urging or flattery 3 : to manipulate with great perseverance and usually with considerable effort toward a desired state or activity Examples: “Toasting the pine nuts until they’re properly golden brown to the center and not just on the surface is key in coaxing out maximum flavor.” — Molly Willett, Bon Appétit , December 2019/January 2020 “Recycling is still important, but it’s not the whole answer to our problem with getting rid of ‘stuff.’ What we really need is to shut our eyes and ears to the advertising that coaxes us to buy more, and spend our money on only the things we really need.” — Dorothy Turcotte, The Grimsby Lincoln (Ontario) News , 6 Jan. 2020 Did you know? In the days of yore, if you made a “cokes” of someone, you made a fool of them. Cokes —

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原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for February 27, 2020 is: trenchant • \TREN-chunt\  • adjective 1 : keen , sharp 2 : vigorously effective and articulate; also : caustic 3 a : sharply perceptive : penetrating b : clear-cut , distinct Examples: “Felix had a confident, gayly trenchant way of judging human actions which Mr. Wentworth grew little by little to envy; it seemed like criticism made easy.” — Henry James, The Europeans , 1878 “Whether you view it as a trenchant treatise on the contemporary effects of Marxism , or just a wonderfully odd glimpse into a fading star of the fashion industry, Celebration is at turns beguiling, fascinating, and true, which is what one should want and need out of a documentary.” — Josh Kupecki, The Austin Chronicle , 18 Oct. 2019 Did you know? The word trenchant comes from the Anglo-French verb trencher , meaning “to cut,” and may ultimately derive from the Vulgar Latin trinicare , meaning “to cut in three.” Hence, a

原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for February 26, 2020 is: injunction • \in-JUNK-shun\  • noun 1 : the act or an instance of enjoining : order , admonition 2 : a court order requiring a party to do or refrain from doing a specified act Examples: The family gathered in the room to hear the matriarch’s dying injunctions . “The Benton County district filed a lawsuit asking for the division of fees to be declared unconstitutional and seeking an injunction to have the disputed money held in escrow .” — Tom Sissom, The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette , 22 Jan. 2020 Did you know? Injunction derives, via Anglo-French and Late Latin, from the Latin verb injungere , which in turn is based on jungere , meaning “to join.” Like our verb enjoin , injungere means “to direct or impose by authoritative order or with urgent admonition.” (Not surprisingly, enjoin is also a descendant of injungere .) Injunction has been around in English since at least the 15th century, when it b

原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for February 25, 2020 is: dissemble • \dih-SEM-bul\  • verb 1 : to hide under a false appearance 2 : to put on the appearance of : simulate 3 : to put on a false appearance : to conceal facts, intentions, or feelings under some pretense Examples: “The front room of the gallery will feature the artist’s new work presented in large scale and a salon style arrangement of miniature vignettes that dissemble  various elements of his inhabited landscapes.” — The Register-Star (Hudson, New York), 14 Nov. 2019 “She nodded again, and her eyes closed. It was very pleasant to Darrow that she made no effort to talk or to dissemble her sleepiness. He sat watching her till the upper lashes met and mingled with the lower, and their blent shadow lay on her cheek; then he stood up and drew the curtain over the lamp, drowning the compartment in a bluish twilight.” — Edith Wharton, The Reef , 1912 Did you know? We don’t have anything to hid

原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for February 24, 2020 is: acumen • \AK-yoo-mun\  • noun : keenness and depth of perception, discernment , or discrimination especially in practical matters Examples: The author’s detective possesses a superior acumen that enables her to solve the most bizarre and puzzling of mysteries. “Much of Pei’s business acumen was shaped early on in his career, in the late 1940s. After receiving his master’s from the Graduate School of Design at Harvard, he taught for two years alongside Walter Gropius, founder of the Bauhaus School, whom he had also studied under.” — Spencer Bailey and Alex Scimecca, Fortune , 19 May 2019 Did you know? A keen mind and a sharp wit can pierce the soul as easily as a needle passes through cloth. Remember the analogy between a jabbing needle and piercing perception, and you will readily recall the history of acumen . Our English word retains the spelling and figurative meaning of its direct Latin ancestor,

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原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for February 23, 2020 is: misbegotten • \miss-bih-GAH-tun\  • adjective 1 : unlawfully conceived : illegitimate 2 a : having a disreputable or improper origin : ill-conceived b : contemptible , deformed Examples: The city’s misbegotten attempt to install new traffic signals at the busy intersection only caused greater confusion for motorists. “Stillness fills the remaining six pictures. Paradoxically, each presents evidence of human activity: a harbor city, a partly constructed building, a garbage truck, a muddy road, a cat sitting curbside and a rusty engine from a military plane that crashed in 1942 and now rests in the landscape, like a misbegotten icon.” — David Pagel, The Los Angeles Times , 4 Dec. 2019 Did you know? In the beginning, there was the Old English begiten , and begiten begot the Middle English begotyn , and begotyn begot the modern English begotten , and from thence sprung misbegotten . That description

原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for February 22, 2020 is: pontificate • \pahn-TIF-uh-kayt\  • verb 1 : to speak or express opinions in a pompous or dogmatic way 2 a : to officiate as a pontiff b : to celebrate pontifical mass Examples: Stan loves to hear himself talk and will often pontificate on even the most trivial issues. “If a talker’s objective through nonstop chatter is to impress others, I have a life lesson worth sharing. People generally are resentful and/or bored by hearing another pontificate about the greatness of themselves.” — Mike Masterson, The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette , 28 Dec. 2019 Did you know? In ancient Rome, the pontifices were powerful priests who administered the part of civil law that regulated relationships with the deities recognized by the state. Their name, pontifex , derives from the Latin words pons , meaning “bridge,” and facere , meaning “to make,” and some think it may have developed because the group was associated w

原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for February 21, 2020 is: numismatic • \noo-muz-MAT-ik\  • adjective 1 : of or relating to the study or collection of coins, tokens, and paper money 2 : of or relating to currency : monetary Examples: Andrew brought his father’s collection of 19th-century coins to an antique dealer to find out if any were of numismatic value. “Many a well-meaning metal detector enthusiast has taken aggressive measures to clean the old coins they unearth—including harsh scrubbing and abrasives like sandpaper. The coin may come out as bright and shiny as the day it was new, but its value can be destroyed in the process. Whatever the condition of the coin, it’s probably better to consult with a local coin collectors’ or numismatic group or experts before doing anything that can’t be reversed.” — Mason Dockter, The Sioux City (Iowa) Journal , 30 Oct. 2019 Did you know? The first metal coins are believed to have been used as currency by the Lydian

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原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for February 20, 2020 is: judgment • \JUJ-munt\  • noun 1 a : the process of forming an opinion or evaluation by discerning and comparing b : an opinion or estimate so formed 2 a : the capacity for judging : discernment b : the exercise of this capacity 3 a : a formal utterance of an authoritative opinion b : an opinion so pronounced 4 : a formal decision given by a court 5 : a divine sentence or decision Examples: Theresa showed good judgment by clearing her family out of the house as soon as she smelled gas. “The March hotel-tax increase and a $900 million housing bond proposal on the November ballot await judgment from voters.” — Michael Smolens, The San Diego Union-Tribune , 15 Jan. 2020 Did you know? Judgment can also be spelled judgement , and usage experts have long disagreed over which spelling is the preferred one. Henry Fowler asserted that “the OED [Oxford English Dictionary] prefers the older &

原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for February 19, 2020 is: eradicate • \ih-RAD-uh-kayt\  • verb 1 : to do away with as completely as if by pulling up by the roots 2 : to pull up by the roots Examples: Widespread, global vaccination has been successful in eradicating smallpox . “The golf-cart fleet is fully powered by lithium batteries, food and horticultural waste is processed into fertilizer for the course, and a simple edict that every agronomy worker must handpick 15 weeds daily before quittin’ time has all but eradicated  the need for chemical treatments.” — Max Alder, The Golf Digest , 16 Dec. 2019 Did you know? Given that eradicate first meant “to pull up by the roots,” it’s not surprising that the root of eradicate means, in fact, “root.” Eradicate , which first turned up in English in the 16th century, comes from eradicatus , the past participle of the Latin verb eradicare . Eradicare , in turn, can be traced back to the Latin word radix , meaning “

原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for February 18, 2020 is: bootless • \BOOT-lus\  • adjective : useless , unprofitable Examples: “At the first glimpse of his approach, Don Benito had started, a resentful shadow swept over his face; and, as with the sudden memory of bootless rage, his white lips glued together.” — Herman Melville, Benito Cereno , 1855 “We were forced out of the car for the second time that day and hustled into a jeep, unable to see where we were going. It peeled out, turning left, then right, then right again, before pulling over to the other side of the road, in a bootless attempt to mask the location of their base.” — Simon Ostrovsky, Vice , 27 May 2014 Did you know? This sense of bootless has nothing to do with footwear. The “boot” in this case is an obsolete noun that meant “use” or “avail.” That boot descended from Old English bōt and is ultimately related to our modern word better , whose remote Germanic ancestor meant literally “of mor

原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for February 17, 2020 is: probity • \PROH-buh-tee\  • noun : adherence to the highest principles and ideals : uprightness Examples: The tale of young George Washington’s refusal to tell a lie after cutting down his father’s cherry tree was told to us as grade schoolers to illustrate his probity . “The schoolmaster was often the most trusted man in America’s rural school districts. While some of his students might hold different opinions, the schoolmaster’s probity , impartiality and wisdom were valued by the community.” — Dan Krieger, The San Luis Obispo (California) Tribune , 21 Sept. 2019 Did you know? Probity and its synonyms honesty , honor , and integrity all mean uprightness of character or action, with some slight differences in emphasis. Honesty implies a refusal to lie or deceive in any way. Honor suggests an active or anxious regard for the standards of one’s profession, calling, or position. Integrity implies trus

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原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for February 16, 2020 is: stipulate • \STIP-yuh-layt\  • verb 1 : to make an agreement or covenant to do or forbear something : contract 2 : to demand an express term in an agreement 3 : to specify as a condition or requirement (as of an agreement or offer) 4 : to give a guarantee of Examples: “The county charter stipulates that county council appoint four citizens—two from each of the major political parties—to the election board. Those four then select a fifth member, who may be of any political affiliation, to serve as chairperson.” — Eric Mark, The Citizens’ Voice (Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania), 9 Jan. 2020 “If Zendaya’s grandfather inspired Rue’s hoodie, it was her grandmother who inspired her second collection in collaboration with Tommy Hilfiger, Tommy x Zendaya.…  She was also motivated by the diversity of body types in her family tree to stipulate that the lines she works on also come in plus sizes….” — Jessica Chia

原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for February 15, 2020 is: vinaceous • \vye-NAY-shus\  • adjective : of the color of red wine Examples: The dove had a slight vinaceous tinge on its breast and tail. “My Warwickshire venison was even better…; the seared loin was medium-rare, with a gorgeous vinaceous colour at its centre.” — Zoe Williams, The Telegraph (London), 19 Feb. 2012 Did you know? The first recorded evidence of vinaceous in English dates from 1678, shortly before the accession of Mary II . If ever the queen used vinaceous , she was probably in the confines of her landscaped garden, admiring the vinaceous shades of petals or studying the vinaceous cap of a mushroom; since its beginning, vinaceous has flourished in the earthy lexicon of horticulture and mycology . It has also taken flight in the ornithological world as a descriptive word for the unique red coloring of some birds, like the vinaceous purple finch . Lake桑 February 15, 2020 at 01:00PM

原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for February 14, 2020 is: Cupid • \KYOO-pid\  • noun 1 : the Roman god of erotic love 2 not capitalized : a figure that represents Cupid as a naked usually winged boy often holding a bow and arrow Examples: I purchased a large Valentine’s Day card decorated with hearts and  cupids . “St. Clair said the library won’t actively purchase more cake pan designs, but would welcome additional holiday themed designs such as a Christmas tree, a jack o’lantern, cupid or a witch.” — Pamela Thompson, The Ashland (Nebraska) Gazette , 13 Dec. 2019 Did you know? According to Roman mythology, Cupid was the son of Mercury , the messenger god, and Venus , the goddess of love. In Roman times, the winged “messenger of love” was sometimes depicted in armor, but no one is sure if that was intended as a sarcastic comment on the similarities between warfare and romance, or a reminder that love conquers all. Cupid was generally seen as a good spirit w

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原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for February 13, 2020 is: gustatory • \GUSS-tuh-tor-ee\  • adjective : relating to or associated with eating or the sense of taste Examples: “December may be full of sparkling holiday soirees, intimate dinners with friends or boisterous family gatherings. This glorious gustatory time is perfect for preparing luscious hors d’oeuvres, creative cocktails, delectable desserts and time-honored traditional treats.” — Robin Glowa, The Ridgefield (Connecticut) Press , 14 Dec. 2019 “But I recently discovered that all the aforementioned fatteners aren’t the Most Dangerous Food at your friendly neighborhood/highway-side convenience store. No. It’s this dang-near-basketball-size, strawberry-cheese muffin. I encountered this gustatory Public Enemy No. 1 recently when I got gas at a convenience store in southwest Little Rock, then decided to go inside. Just for coffee, mind you.” — Helaine Williams, The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette , 17 Nov. 2019

原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for February 12, 2020 is: resile • \rih-ZYLE\  • verb : recoil , retract ; especially : to return to a prior position Examples: “Sir Keir Starmer, who has also announced his candidacy, said his aim was also to restore ‘trust’ in Labour. The manifesto, he conceded, was ‘overloaded,’ yet he did not resile from its ambitions.” — The Telegraph (London), 6 Jan. 2020 “Morrison is determined for the card trials to succeed, with community support, and won’t resile from his view that the best form of welfare remains a job. Critics of the program misconceive what welfare is about, he says.” — Max Koslowski, The Sydney Morning Herald , 14 Sept. 2019 Did you know? Resile is a resilient word: it’s been in use in English since the early 1500s. It’s also a cousin of resilient , and both words derive from the Latin verb resilire , which means “to jump back” or “recoil.” ( Resilire , in turn, comes from salire , meaning “to leap.”) Resilient

原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for February 11, 2020 is: obloquy • \AH-bluh-kwee\  • noun 1 : a strongly condemnatory utterance : abusive language 2 : the condition of one that is discredited : bad repute Examples: The manager walked quickly back to the dugout as insults and obloquy rained down from the stands. “During [literary critic Harold Bloom’s] extremely prolific career, his audience was split between adulation and obloquy .” — Benjamin Ivry, The Forward , 14 Oct. 2019 Did you know? English speakers can choose from several synonyms to name a tongue-lashing. Abuse is a good general term that usually stresses the anger of the speaker and the harshness of the language, as in “scathing verbal abuse.” Vituperation often specifies fluent, sustained abuse; “a torrent of vituperation” is a typical use of this term. Invective implies vehemence comparable to vituperation but may suggest greater verbal and rhetorical skill; it may also apply especially to

原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for February 10, 2020 is: debonair • \deb-uh-NAIR\  • adjective 1 : suave , urbane 2 : lighthearted , nonchalant Examples: “Bacs, 47, has sharp features, including a pointed nose; he carries permanent stubble and slicks back his silvered hair, in the style of a debonair , world-conquering James Bond villain.” — Cam Wolf, GQ , May 13, 2019 “The fat kolaches and muffins go fast, but that still leaves treats to take home: piercingly sweet lemon bars, debonair  key lime tarts, and petite, fairy-tale-perfect chocolate cakes peeking out from cascades of pink icing.” — Patricia Sharpe, The Texas Monthly , April 2019 Did you know? In Anglo-French, someone who was genteel and well-brought-up was described as deboneire —literally “of good family or nature” (from the three-word phrase de bon aire ). When the word was borrowed into English in the 13th century, it basically meant “courteous,” a narrow sense now pretty much obsolete. Today’s

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原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for February 9, 2020 is: expunge • \ik-SPUNJ\  • verb 1 : to strike out, obliterate, or mark for deletion 2 : to efface completely : destroy 3 : to eliminate from one’s consciousness Examples: As part of the plea bargain, the defendant’s record will be expunged after 100 hours of community service. “Now, court officials and prosecutors are bracing for a possible flood of people seeking to expunge their criminal records beginning Jan. 1 under a new law passed by the Legislature and signed by Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham.” — Colleen Heild and Katy Barnitz, The Albuquerque Journal , 29 Dec. 2019 Did you know? In medieval and Renaissance manuscripts, a series of dots was used to mark mistakes or to label material that should be deleted from a text, and those deletion dots can help you remember the history of expunge . They were known as puncta delentia . The puncta part of the name derives from the Latin verb pungere , which c

原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for February 8, 2020 is: lenticular • \len-TIK-yuh-ler\  • adjective 1 : having the shape of a double- convex lens 2 : of or relating to a lens 3 : provided with or utilizing lenticules Examples: Amateur astronomers might be interested in what the observatory markets as the “largest lenticular telescope on Earth.” “This is not the first time Boulder County has been enthralled by a strange cloud formation. In 2017, a spaceship-shaped group of lenticular clouds made its way across the county and onto social media.” — Mitchell Byars, The Boulder (Colorado) Daily Camera , 20 June 2019 Did you know? “Lentil-shaped”—that’s the meaning of Latin lenticularis , the parent of English’s lenticular . It’s an appropriate predecessor because a double-convex lens is one that is curved on both sides, giving it a shape similar to that of a lentil . English speakers borrowed the Latin term in the 15th century. Lenticularis , in turn, derives

原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for February 7, 2020 is: infantilize • \IN-fun-tye-lyze\  • verb 1 : to make or keep infantile 2 : to treat as if infantile Examples: “Food manufacturers have been infantilizing us by selling calorie-dense, salty, sweet stuff in brightly colored packages with exciting punctuation for a very long time. And we’re buying it.” — Tamar Haspel, The Washington Post , 23 Dec. 2019 “In China, we like to believe we honor the elderly. We pamper them with gifts of fancy fruit baskets, imported foods and other indulgences. But this shallow perspective on aging infantilizes the elderly and neglects to preserve their dignity.” — Frankie Huang, The New York Times , 7 Dec. 2019 Did you know? Infantilize is just a baby, relatively speaking. It first saw the light of day in the early 1900s, when social scientists started using the term to discuss the ways in which treating humans as helpless can prolong or encourage their dependency on others.

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原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for February 6, 2020 is: canard • \kuh-NARD\  • noun 1 a : a false or unfounded report or story; especially : a fabricated report b : a groundless rumor or belief 2 : an airplane with horizontal stabilizing and control surfaces in front of supporting surfaces; also : a small airfoil in front of the wing of an aircraft that can increase the aircraft’s performance Examples: “Naysayers have been saying that theater is dying, of course, only since the moment it was born. And as a theater critic, I work to debunk that persistent canard .” — Lily Janiak, The San Francisco Chronicle , 18 Dec. 2019 “NHL players can’t play in the Olympics because—though contrary to every publicly available metric—the league continues to trot out the canard about how interrupting the season is injurious to teams’ financial health. Yes, players can get hurt in midseason competition…. Players also get hurt in exhibition games, but the owners have neve

原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for February 5, 2020 is: ancillary • \AN-suh-lair-ee\  • adjective 1 : of lower or secondary class or rank : subordinate , subsidiary 2 : providing additional help or support : auxiliary , supplementary Examples: One ancillary benefit of Beatrice’s job at the movie theater is the ability to catch an early glimpse of new releases. “Ohio’s medical marijuana industry has spawned dozens of growers, dispensaries and processors, and while those businesses receive the most attention, an entire industry of ancillary companies has also sprung up.” — Patrick Cooley, The Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch , 2 Jan. 2020 Did you know? Ancillary derives from the English word ancilla , a rare word that means “an aid to achieving or mastering something difficult.” That word derives from Latin, in which it means “female servant.” While English ancilla is unlikely to be encountered except in very specialized contexts (such as philosophy or quantum co

原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for February 4, 2020 is: scumble • \SKUM-bul\  • verb 1 a :  to make (something, such as color or a painting) less brilliant by covering with a thin coat of opaque or semiopaque color applied with a nearly dry brush b :  to apply (a color) in this manner 2 :  to soften the lines or colors of (a drawing) by rubbing lightly Examples: “In an accomplished artist’s hands, oil paint is fluid; it can be scumbled or glazed; it’s a more versatile medium than tempera .” — Cate McQuaid, The Boston Globe , 11 Mar. 2018 “Yet even more than usual, Ms. Yiadom-Boakye paints so hastily that she undoes her own best efforts. Backgrounds are often so light that you can see the weave of the linen underneath; faces are reworked carelessly, and the edges between the figures and backgrounds become scumbled .” — Jason Farago, The New York Times , 11 May 2017 Did you know? The history of scumble is blurry, but the word is thought to be related to the ve

原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for February 3, 2020 is: hierophant • \HYE-uh-ruh-fant\  • noun 1 : a priest in ancient Greece; specifically : the chief priest of the Eleusinian mysteries 2 a : a person who explains : expositor b : one who defends or maintains a cause or proposal : advocate Examples: “My choir knew their order and moved into it neatly. One expects that nowadays; then, one often saw choirs jostling about, even arguing aloud about where to stand. I bowed to the High Priestess—here was no Polykrates who’d expect to be noticed first—took in the other hierophants with a general reverence, and made the Archon my homage.” — Mary Renault, The Praise Singer , 1978 “The art world is a balkanized anarchy, with lots of little insides, lots of little games, better and worse people, hierophants and hustlers.” — Peter Schjeldahl, The Village Voice , 6 June 2019 Did you know? Hierophant , hieroglyphics , and hierarch have a common root: hieros , a

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原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for February 2, 2020 is: prognosticate • \prahg-NAHSS-tuh-kayt\  • verb 1 : to foretell from signs and symptoms : predict 2 : to give an indication of in advance : foreshadow Examples: The university’s political science professor has successfully prognosticated the outcomes of the last 8 presidential elections. “What is it about pundits that they are so often wrong, including in the United States, but they get to keep  prognosticating  anyway?” — Cal Thomas, The Baltimore Sun , 19 Dec. 2019 Did you know? Prognosticate , which comes from the Greek prognōstikos (“foretelling”), first appears in English during the 15th century. Since that time, prognosticate has been connected with things that give omens or warnings of events to come and with people who can prophesy or predict the future by such signs. William Shakespeare used the “prophesy” sense of prognosticate in the sonnet that begins “Not from the stars do I my judgeme

原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for February 1, 2020 is: fissile • \FISS-ul\  • adjective 1 : capable of or prone to being split or divided in the direction of the grain or along natural planes of cleavage 2 : capable of undergoing fission Examples: “The facility itself is buried under a mountain. Several hundred feet down, in two cavernous halls, neat rows of centrifuges spin uranium gas to produce fissile   isotopes , which could be used for nuclear energy—or, if concentrated enough, a nuclear bomb.” — The Economist , 7 Nov. 2019 “This country that self-identified so smugly as stable, tolerant and moderate, with a crown to symbolise traditions honed down the centuries, is revealed as fissile , fragile and ferociously divided.” — Polly Toynbee, The Guardian (London), 28 Aug. 2019 Did you know? When scientists first used fissile back in the 1600s, the notion of splitting the nucleus of an atom would have seemed far-fetched indeed. In those days, people thou