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原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for April 30, 2020 is: emblem • \EM-blum\  • noun 1 : a picture with a motto or set of verses intended as a moral lesson 2 : an object or the figure of an object symbolizing and suggesting another object or an idea 3 a : a symbolic object used as a heraldic device b : a device, symbol, or figure adopted and used as an identifying mark Examples: “The picture, changed or unchanged, would be to him the visible emblem of conscience.” — Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray , 1891 “The 1870 home was built by the city’s first Presbyterian minister, Rev. Thomas Smith, who modeled it after his ancestral home in Scotland. A symbolic thistle—Scotland’s national emblem —is sculpted onto the marble fireplace.” — Sharon Roznik, The Reporter (Fond du Lac, Wisconsin), 18 Mar. 2020 Did you know? Both emblem and its synonym symbol trace back to the Greek verb bállein , meaning “to throw.” Emblem arose from embállein , meaning “to...

原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for April 29, 2020 is: disingenuous • \dis-in-JEN-yuh-wuss\  • adjective : lacking in candor ; also : giving a false appearance of simple frankness : calculating Examples: “There are plenty of ways to be passive aggressive toward someone on their birthday, including … making a disingenuous comment about whatever he is doing for his special day when you know you aren’t invited….” — Sylvan Lane, Mashable , 27 June 2014 “We talked to some behavioural experts to understand why a colleague may be acting ‘fake,’ and how to work with it…. If someone seems disingenuous , it tends to come from a sense of inadequacy, and understanding that is the first step on the road to acceptance.” — Isabella Krebet, ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation), 10 Feb. 2020 Did you know? A disingenuous remark might contain some superficial truth, but it is delivered with the intent to deceive or to serve some hidden purpose. Its base word ing...

原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for April 28, 2020 is: garnish • \GAHR-nish\  • verb 1 a : decorate , embellish b : to add decorative or savory touches to (food or drink) 2 : to equip with accessories : furnish 3 : garnishee Examples: “[Mariah] Carey pioneered featuring rappers on pop hits, and to date she has garnished  56 of her tracks with guest verses.” — Billboard.com , 25 Apr. 2019 “Every day, problems that have fundamentally legal solutions—like a debt collector wrongfully garnishing  hard-earned wages—derail the lives of people who are already struggling to make ends meet.” — David Zapolsky, Fortune , 18 June 2019 Did you know? Although we now mostly garnish food, the general application of the “decorate” meaning is older. The link between embellishing an object or space and adding a little parsley to a plate isn’t too hard to see, but how does the verb’s sense of “garnishee,” which refers to the taking of debtors’ wages, fit in? The...

原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for April 27, 2020 is: zephyr • \ZEFF-er\  • noun 1 a : a breeze from the west b : a gentle breeze 2 : any of various lightweight fabrics and articles of clothing Examples: “There was not even a zephyr stirring; the dead noonday heat had even stilled the songs of the birds.” — Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer , 1876 “Thrown properly, with as little spin as possible, the only forces acting on a knuckleball are gravity and wind. That means any last-second zephyr can knock a knuckler off its path and into the virtual ‘box’ of a strike zone.” — J. P. Hoornstra, The Los Angeles Daily News , 20 Nov. 2019 Did you know? For centuries, poets have eulogized Zephyrus , the Greek god of the west wind, and his “swete breeth” (in the words of Geoffrey Chaucer). Zephyrus , the personified west wind, eventually evolved into zephyr , a word for a breeze that is westerly or gentle, or both. Breezy zephyr blew into English with t...

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原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for April 26, 2020 is: promulgate • \PRAH-mul-gayt\  • verb 1 : to make (an idea, belief, etc.) known to many people by open declaration : proclaim 2 a : to make known or public the terms of (a proposed law) b : to put (a law or rule) into action or force Examples: “Gov. John Bel Edwards signed two bills into law June 26 allowing alcohol delivery in Louisiana, but retailers and third-party delivery companies must first secure permits issued by ATC [Office of Alcohol and Tobacco Control] to deliver the goods. The state agency is charged with promulgating the rules surrounding alcohol delivery.” — Annie Ourso Landry, The Greater Baton Rouge (Louisiana) Business Report , 2 July 2019 “It was not until the ‘common school’ movement gathered momentum, in the eighteen-thirties and forties, that public education began, gradually, to take hold. The movement’s ideals were most famously promulgated by the Massachusetts reformer Horac...

原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for April 25, 2020 is: nabob • \NAY-bahb\  • noun 1 : a provincial governor of the Mogul empire in India 2 : a person of great wealth or prominence Examples: “The extreme concentration of wealth in the United States in the late 1800s and again in the 1920s were major contributors to recurrent economic slumps and market crashes…, climaxing with the crash of 1929 and the Great Depression . Those crises led to two congressional investigations early in the last century, in which lawmakers tried to hold the millionaire nabobs  of those eras responsible.” — Michael Hiltzik, The Los Angeles Times , 29 Dec. 2019 “By day he would prowl the streets of the city on his bicycle photographing anonymous strangers whose style caught his eye. These he would print in his popular New York Times column On the Street. By night he would attend fancy fetes and snap photos of high-society nabobs  in their finery for his feature Evening Hou...

原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for April 24, 2020 is: arboreal • \ahr-BOR-ee-ul\  • adjective 1 : of or relating to a tree :  resembling a tree 2 :  inhabiting or frequenting trees Examples: “[The hammocks] are relatively indestructible, mimic the arboreal nests used by orangutans, and provide a resting area for the gibbons as they swing among the treetops.” — Jim Redden, The Portland (Oregon) Tribune , 25 Aug. 2014 “In the wild, they’re arboreal and live in tropical rainforests. And as their name implies, sloths move slowly. So slowly, in fact, that they have a metabolic rate of about 40 percent to 45 percent of ‘what would be expected for their body weight,’ according to zoo experts.” — Dana Hedgpeth, The Washington Post , 30 Dec. 2019 Did you know? Arbor , the Latin word for “tree,” has been a rich source of tree-related words in English, though a few are fairly rare. Some arbor descendants are generally synonymous with arboreal : arborace...

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原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for April 23, 2020 is: facilitate • \fuh-SIL-uh-tayt\  • verb : to make easier : help bring about Examples: “The Northwest Ordinance of 1787 freed most of America’s important waterways from private ownership and thereby facilitated the uninterrupted movement of American commerce.” — Mark R. Brown, Cleveland.com , 11 Mar. 2020 “She imagined he was thinking a similar set of thoughts beside her, even if they too went unexpressed. Silence  facilitated  blame, she would decide later. In the absence of another person’s account, the story you invented for yourself went unchallenged.” — Laura van den Berg, The Third Hotel , 2018 Did you know? As with so many English words, it’s easy to find a Latin origin for facilitate . It traces back to the Latin adjective facilis , meaning “easy.” Other descendants of facilis in English include facile (“easy to do”), facility (“the quality of being easily performed”), faculty ...

原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for April 22, 2020 is: obstinate • \AHB-stuh-nut\  • adjective 1 : perversely adhering to an opinion, purpose, or course in spite of reason, arguments, or persuasion 2 : not easily subdued, remedied, or removed Examples: The project that had been the group’s main focus for weeks was temporarily stymied by one member’s obstinate refusal to compromise. “With a permanent frown, Mr. Gnome has an obstinate  attachment to the word  no . ‘Say hello to the readers, Mr. Gnome,’ the narrator requests. ‘No,’ says Mr. Gnome, arms crossed in front of his belly.” — Publisher’s Weekly Review , 2 Mar. 2020 Did you know? If you’re obstinate, you’re just plain stubborn. Obstinate , dogged , stubborn , and mulish all mean that someone is unwilling to change course or give up a belief or plan. Obstinate suggests an unreasonable persistence; it’s often a negative word. Dogged implies that someone goes after something without ever t...

原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for April 21, 2020 is: colloquy • \KAH-luh-kwee\  • noun 1 : conversation , dialogue 2 : a high-level serious discussion : conference Examples: The company’s employees worried and speculated as the executive team remained closeted in an intense colloquy for the entire morning. “He has a pitch-perfect ear for the cutesy euphemisms parents devise for their little kids (‘Don’t be a pane of glass’) and for their snarky colloquies with precocious teenagers (‘That’s not the tone you take with your grandmother.’ ‘I’m not taking a tone, I’m making an argument.’ ‘Your argument has a tone’).” — Rand Richards Cooper, The New York Times , 14 Nov. 2019 Did you know? Colloquy may make you think of colloquial , and there is indeed a connection between the two words. As a matter of fact, colloquy is the parent word from which colloquial was coined in the mid-18th century. Colloquy itself, though now the less common of the two words, ...

原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for April 20, 2020 is: peccant • \PEK-unt\  • adjective 1 : guilty of a moral offense : sinning 2 : violating a principle or rule : faulty Examples: “Cavil at Dylan Thomas’s overdoings; praise this bit and dispraise that bit; but there he was, there he is, an emblem of poetry, which is Being itself…. And the world honored him for it, while chopping him to pieces…. It’s the loony, peccant villagers of Under Milk Wood …. It’s Auntie Hannah in ‘A Child’s Christmas in Wales,’ who liked port, and who stood in the middle of the snowbound back yard, singing like a big-bosomed thrush.'” — James Parker, The Atlantic , December 2014 “The book stands for all the right things, and is peccant only in two minor but irritating ways. That there are occasional errors—’deprecatingly’ for ‘depreciatingly,’ ‘a bookstore which’ for ‘a bookstore that,’ a couple of faulty agreements and a captious attack on the useful word ‘demythify’—is not so...

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原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for April 19, 2020 is: alienist • \AY-lee-uh-nist\  • noun : psychiatrist Examples: “Enter two protagonists, also historical figures. One is the novelist Benito Pérez Galdós , ‘the most famous Spanish writer whom many English-speaking readers may not know by name or reputation.’ The other is the eminent alienist  (as psychiatrists were then called) Luis Simarro.” — The Kirkus Reviews , 6 Mar. 2020 “Medical professionals (the kind known as ‘ alienists ‘ in the 1930s) have tried to improve the level of sunshine in M. Kinsler’s life with one miracle cure or another. There are anti-depressants, and mood elevators, and serotonin re-uptake inhibitors, and all have side-effects.” — Mark Kinsler, The Lancaster (Ohio) Eagle Gazette , 6 Oct. 2019 Did you know? Alienist looks and sounds like it should mean “someone who studies aliens,” and in fact alienist and alien are related—both are ultimately derived from the Latin word aliu...

原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for April 18, 2020 is: regurgitate • \ree-GUR-juh-tayt\  • verb 1 : to become thrown or poured back 2 : to throw or pour back or out from or as if from a cavity Examples: “When [Kawhi] Leonard says, ‘The youth is the future, and good education, they need it,’ like he did Wednesday night in Phoenix, he’s not just regurgitating  a cliché. It’s a sincere belief. After signing with the Clippers, the team’s community relations team brought a number of service ideas to Leonard, with the team’s superstar immediately zeroing in on efforts in public schools, in Moreno Valley, where he grew up, and in Los Angeles.” — Dan Woike, The Los Angeles Times , 27 Feb. 2020 “Not only do wolves eat berries—something researchers were already aware of—but adult wolves also regurgitate them to feed their pups.” — Pam Louwagie, The Star Tribune (Minneapolis, Minnesota), 22 Feb. 2020 Did you know? Something regurgitated has typically been take...

原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for April 17, 2020 is: vanilla • \vuh-NILL-uh\  • adjective 1 : flavored with the extract of the vanilla bean 2 : lacking distinction : plain , ordinary , conventional Examples: “Training for sales, marketing and installation staff takes place in a series of small conference rooms on one side of the floor.… They’re rather vanilla , but the company plans to enliven them by hiring graffiti artists to paint colorful murals on the parapet wall outside the windows.” — Sandy Smith, Philadelphia Magazine , 14 Feb. 2019 “Joanna is frustrated that she’s forbidden from sending more personal replies and breaks the rules at a certain point, with unexpected consequences. But apart from this tiny transgression, she’s too vanilla to be a very compelling character.” — Peter DeBruge, Variety , 20 Feb. 2020 Did you know? How did vanilla get such a bad rap? The flavor with that name certainly has enough fans, with the bean of the Vanilla g...

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原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for April 16, 2020 is: caduceus • \kuh-DOO-see-us\  • noun 1 : the symbolic staff of a herald ; specifically : a representation of a staff with two entwined snakes and two wings at the top 2 :  a medical insignia bearing a representation of a staff with two entwined snakes and two wings at the top: a :  one sometimes used to symbolize a physician but often considered to be an erroneous representation b :  the emblem of a medical corps or a department of the armed services (as of the United States Army) Examples: “The tattoo starts at Harry Crider’s left shoulder…. It’s a caduceus —a long staff, wrapped by intertwining snakes and topped with a pair of wings.” — Zach Osterman, The Indianapolis Star , 20 Sept. 2019 “Symbols commonly associated with the medical or pharmaceutical professions would also be prohibited from being used by cultivation facilities or dispensaries under SB441. Items specifically mentioned...

原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for April 15, 2020 is: deflagrate • \DEF-luh-grayt\  • verb 1 : to burn rapidly with intense heat and sparks being given off 2 : to cause (something) to burn in such a manner Examples: Certain materials, such as black powder , will deflagrate rather than cause a violent explosion when they are ignited. “Classification of substances by their sensitivity to impact and friction is particularly important for the handling of explosives. Some explosives are known to detonate on impact, whereas others will only deflagrate .” — Jacqueline Akhavan, The Chemistry of Explosives , 2004 Did you know? Deflagrate combines the Latin verb flagrare , meaning “to burn,” with the Latin prefix de- , meaning “down” or “away.” Flagrare is also an ancestor of such words as conflagration and flagrant and is distantly related to fulgent and flame . In the field of explosives, deflagrate is used to describe the burning of fuel accelerated by th...

原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for April 14, 2020 is: umbra • \UM-bruh\  • noun 1 a : a conical shadow excluding all light from a given source; specifically : the conical part of the shadow of a celestial body excluding all light from the primary source b : the central dark part of a sunspot 2 : a shaded area Examples: “Thus far, though, no one on the ISS has managed to ‘thread the needle,’ with a view passing through the narrow umbra of a total solar eclipse.” — David Dickinson, Sky & Telescope , 4 Aug. 2017 “A penumbral lunar eclipse is scheduled for Friday (Jan. 10). No part of the moon enters Earth’s much darker umbra , as happens during a partial or total lunar eclipse. But on Jan 10-11 (depending on your location), just about the best penumbral eclipse possible will occur.” — Joe Rao, Space.com , 9 Jan. 2020 Did you know? The Latin word umbra (“shade, shadow”) has given English a range of words in addition to umbra itself. An umbrella c...

原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for April 13, 2020 is: hypnagogic • \hip-nuh-GAH-jik\  • adjective : of, relating to, or occurring in the period of drowsiness immediately preceding sleep Examples: “Many of us have experienced hypnagogic hallucinations, the often terrifying perceptions … that occur as we hover between sleep and wakefulness. Hallucinations tend to comprise shadowy figures nearby, often perceived as intruders.” — Devon Frye, Psychology Today , 15 Aug. 2019 “Contrary to popular belief, clients don’t usually lose consciousness and are in fact consciously aware throughout the hypnosis therapy session, although they may experience their attention drifts off as if in a hynagogic or dreamlike state.” — Tim Dunton, quoted in The Express (UK), 16 July 2019 Did you know? “The hypnagogic state is that heady lull between wakefulness and sleep when thoughts and images flutter, melt, and transform into wild things,” wrote Boston Globe correspondent Cat...

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原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for April 12, 2020 is: expiate • \EK-spee-ayt\  • verb 1 : to extinguish the guilt incurred by 2 : to make amends for Examples: Although the editorial had characterized the mayor’s failure to disclose the details of the meeting as a lapse that could not be expiated , many of the city’s citizens seemed ready to forgive all. “Batman sacrifices himself at the movie’s climax—it’s he who takes Dent’s place, not the other way around—in an attempt to expiate not only his own guilt but also to assume the sins of the entire city.” — Justin Chang, The Los Angeles Times , 22 Aug. 2018 Did you know? “Disaster shall fall upon you, which you will not be able to expiate.” That ominous biblical prophecy (Isaiah 47:11, RSV) shows that expiate was once involved in confronting the forces of evil as well as in assuaging guilt. The word derives from the Latin expiare (“to atone for”), a combination of ex- and piare , which itself means “to a...

原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for April 11, 2020 is: pandiculation • \pan-dik-yuh-LAY-shun\  • noun : a stretching and stiffening especially of the trunk and extremities (as when fatigued and drowsy or after waking from sleep) Examples: “And finally pandiculation , a brain reflex action pattern similar to how a dog gets up from rest, putting his front paws out and lengthening his back as he relaxes his belly. Pandiculation can wake up the muscular system at the brain level and provide deep relaxation.” — Jennifer Nelson, Mother Nature Network , 18 Sept. 2017 “Yawning is often accompanied by stretching of the body. This is called pandiculation . Humans yawn and so do animals, like dogs, chimpanzees, baboons and horses.” — The Press & Sun-Bulletin (Binghamton, New York), 26 Apr. 2015 Did you know? Cat and dog owners who witness daily their pets’ methodical body stretching upon awakening might wonder if there is a word to describe their routine—and ther...

原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for April 10, 2020 is: permeate • \PER-mee-ayt\  • verb 1 : to diffuse through or penetrate something 2 : to spread or diffuse through 3 : to pass through the pores or interstices of Examples: “As social media continues to permeate daily life, artists are also met with increasing demand from fans for content. Their enthusiasm is good for artists—but also challenging to satisfy.” — Tatiana Cirisano, Billboard , 15 Mar. 2019 “Anna Talvi … has constructed her flesh-hugging clothing to act as a sort of ‘wearable gym’ to counter the muscle-wasting and bone loss caused by living in low gravity. She has also tried to tackle the serious psychological challenges of space exploration by permeating her fabrics with comforting scents.” — Simon Ings, New Scientist , 18 Oct. 2019 Did you know? It’s no surprise that permeate means “to pass through something”—it was borrowed into English in the 17th century from Latin permeatus , whic...

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原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for April 9, 2020 is: seder • \SAY-der\  • noun : a Jewish home or community service including a ceremonial dinner held on the first or first and second evenings of the Passover in commemoration of the exodus from Egypt Examples: Ari enjoys the stories, songs, and rituals that accompany dinner on the night of the seder . “In the private classes, the group will get to choose among three menus for their lesson. The first includes  seder  dishes such as tri-colored matzo ball soup, tomato leek California beef roast, … date-honey roasted vegetables and chocolate souffles.” — Rebecca King, NorthJersey.com , 17 Feb. 2020 Did you know? Order and ritual are very important in the seder—so important that they are even reflected in its name: the English word seder is a transliteration of a Hebrew word ( sēdher ) that means “order.” The courses in the meal, as well as blessings, prayers, stories, and songs, are recorded in t...

原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for April 8, 2020 is: berserk • \ber-SERK\  • adjective : frenzied , crazed — usually used in the phrase go berserk Examples: The dog inevitably goes berserk whenever he hears the doorbell. “It was the first costume exhibit I had ever seen in my life. I didn’t know such a thing even existed. And I was so excited and I went berserk …. So much of what was in the exhibit, I already owned.” — Sandy Schreier, quoted in The Washington Post , 13 Nov. 2019 Did you know? Berserk comes from Old Norse berserkr , which combines ber- (“bear”) and serkr (“shirt”). According to Norse legend, berserkrs were warriors who wore bearskin coverings and worked themselves into such frenzies during combat that they became immune to the effects of steel and fire. Berserk was borrowed into English (first as a noun and later as an adjective) in the 19th century, when interest in Scandinavian myth and history was high. It was considered a slang t...

原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for April 7, 2020 is: maverick • \MAV-rik\  • noun 1 : an unbranded range animal; especially : a motherless calf 2 : an independent individual who does not go along with a group or party Examples: “‘My record company wanted more of “The River & The Thread” but I couldn’t do it,’ she said. ‘It seemed false. So I went in another direction.’ It’s not surprising for [Rosanne] Cash, who has been a maverick during her lengthy career, to go another way.” — Ed Condran, The Gazette (Cedar Rapids, Iowa), 6 Feb. 2020 “ Audubon , a naturalist, artist, hunter, showman, and conservationist, was a maverick in his day, and his legacy has come to mean the very heart of bird conservation.” — The Pontiac (Illinois) Daily Leader, 8 Feb. 2020 Did you know? When a client gave Samuel A. Maverick 400 cattle to settle a $1,200 debt, the 19th-century south Texas lawyer had no use for them, so he left the cattle unbranded and allowed them to...

原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for April 6, 2020 is: incarcerate • \in-KAHR-suh-rayt\  • verb 1 : to put in prison 2 : to subject to confinement Examples: Because the accused man presented a serious threat to society, the judge ordered that he remain incarcerated while he awaited trial. “But he said that some research demonstrates that when incarcerated people earn a degree, recidivism rates can drop by as much as 40%.” — Eliza Fawcett, The Hartford Courant , 24 Feb. 2020 Did you know? A criminal sentenced to incarceration may wish their debt to society could be canceled; such a wistful felon might be surprised to learn that incarcerate and cancel are related. Incarcerate comes from incarcerare , a Latin verb meaning “to imprison.” That Latin root comes from carcer , meaning “prison.” Etymologists think that cancel probably got its start when the spelling of carcer was modified to cancer , which means “ lattice ” in Latin—an early meaning of cance...

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原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for April 5, 2020 is: forsooth • \fer-SOOTH\  • adverb : in truth : indeed — often used to imply contempt or doubt Examples: “For sure and forsooth , that means savings for you, dear Renaissance-loving reveler, if you purchase your entry to the weekend-whimsical Irwindale festival by Jan. 6, 2020.” — NBCLosAngeles.com, 26 Dec. 2019 “There is a man haunts the forest, that / abuses our young plants with carving ‘Rosalind’ on / their barks; hangs odes upon hawthorns and elegies / on brambles, all, forsooth , deifying the name of / Rosalind.” — William Shakespeare, As You Like It , 1599 Did you know? Forsooth sounds like a dated word, but it is still part of modern English; it is primarily used in humorous or ironic contexts, or in a manner intended to play off the word’s archaic vibe. Forsooth was formed from the combination of the preposition for and the noun sooth . Sooth survives as both a noun (meaning “truth” or “reali...

原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for April 4, 2020 is: solecism • \SAH-luh-siz-um\  • noun 1 : an ungrammatical combination of words in a sentence; also : a minor blunder in speech 2 : something deviating from the proper, normal, or accepted order 3 : a breach of etiquette or decorum Examples: “We meet at the stroke of midday on an autumnal day in his West London apartment, where I instantly commit two sins from the Common list: being on time and being Scottish. My host kindly overlooks this double solecism and has made a jug of what he calls rosé cup….” — Jan Moir, The Daily Mail (UK), 14 Sept. 2019 “He even took private instruction in English, and succeeded in eliminating his worst faults, though in moments of excitement he was prone to lapse into ‘you-all,’ ‘knowed,’ ‘sure,’ and similar solecisms . He learned to eat and dress and generally comport himself after the manner of civilized man; but through it all he remained himself….” — Jack London, Burn...

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原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for April 3, 2020 is: cocoon • \kuh-KOON\  • verb : to wrap or envelop in or as if in a cocoon Examples: Lily got out of the water and cocooned herself in a large beach blanket. “By the time the United States entered World War I, France and England had been battling the Germans, the Turks and the Austro-Hungarians for nearly four years…. America, cocooned by great oceans, saw the struggle as distant and obscene.” — Wayne Washington, The Palm Beach (Florida) Post , 23 Jan. 2020 Did you know? Since at least the late 1600s, English speakers have been using the noun cocoon for the silky covering that surrounds a caterpillar or other insect larva in the pupa stage of metamorphosis . The word derives, via French cocon , from Occitan coucoun , which, in turn, emerged from coco , an Occitan term for “shell.” Linguists believe the Occitan term was probably born of the Latin word coccum , a noun that has been translated as kermes ,...

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原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for April 2, 2020 is: pleonasm • \PLEE-uh-naz-um\  • noun 1 : the use of more words than those necessary to denote mere sense (as in the man he said ) : redundancy 2 : an instance or example of pleonasm Examples: The grammarian’s recent post discussed pleonasms , such as “past history” and “personal friend.” “Like most writers, I can be a stickler about language, but anyone who hangs out with me for long enough will learn that I favor a certain ungrammatical turn of phrase: ‘true fact.’ Technically speaking, that expression is a pleonasm —a redundant description—since all facts are, by definition, true.” — Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker , 19 Dec. 2018 Did you know? Pleonasm , which stems (via Late Latin) from the Greek verb pleonazein , meaning “to be excessive,” is a fancy word for “redundancy.” It’s related to our words plus and plenty , and ultimately it goes back to the Greek word for “more,” which is pleōn . Pleonasm ...

原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for April 1, 2020 is: loon • \LOON\  • noun 1 : lout , idler 2 chiefly Scotland : boy 3 a : a crazy person b : simpleton Examples: “He eagerly races by local cop Tom … at 300 mph, unwittingly shedding magical blue hair as he goes. He also teases Crazy Carl …, the local loon  who no one believes when he insists he’s seen a blue alien. If you didn’t know any better, you’d think Sonic wanted to get caught so he could have a family, friends, heck—a connection with anyone.” — Dan Hudak, The Monterey County (California) Weekly , 13 Feb. 2020 “The third subscription … was Rolling Stone, the best introduction to counter-culture a 10-year-old could ever ask for…. I never understood the political writing, and I distinctly remember thinking Hunter S. Thompson was a loon . But when it came to the articles about musicians, I hung on every word.” — Shane Brown, The Quad-City Times (Davenport, Iowa), 27 Jan. 2020 Did you know? ...