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原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for January 31, 2019 is: raddled • \RAD-uld\  • adjective 1 : being in a state of confusion : lacking composure 2 : broken-down , worn Examples: We were met at the door by a raddled old man who turned out to be the actor’s father, and who in his day had also been an estimable presence on the London stage. “The real skill of Swan Song is the kaleidoscopic portrait it paints of its  raddled  hero. The narrative moves through time from Capote’s tawdry childhood and friendship with Harper Lee to his withered end in Fu Manchu pyjamas.” — Alex Preston, The Observer (London), 22 July 2018 Did you know? The origin of raddled is unclear. Its participial form suggests verbal parentage, and indeed there is a verb raddle just a few decades older than raddled that seems a likely source. This raddle means “to mark or paint with raddle,” raddle here being red ocher , or sometimes other pigments, used for marking animals....

原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for January 30, 2019 is: proliferate • \pruh-LIF-uh-rayt\  • verb 1 : to grow or cause to grow by rapid production of new parts, cells, buds, or offspring 2 : to increase or cause to increase in number as if by proliferating : multiply Examples: “ Muskies in Lake St. Clair are a world-class presence because local folks 30 years ago got smart. They agreed on a catch-and-release ethic. Catch the muskie. Put it back into the water. And watch a species  proliferate .” — Lynn Henning, The Detroit News , 26 December 2018 “The surge in the price of bitcoin , and of other cryptocurrencies , which proliferated  amid a craze for initial coin offerings, prompted a commensurate explosion in the number of stories and conversations about this new kind of money….” — Nicholas Paumgarten, The New Yorker , 22 Oct. 2018 Did you know? Proliferate is a back-formation of proliferation . That means that proliferation came first (we ...

原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for January 29, 2019 is: charisma • \kuh-RIZ-muh\  • noun 1 : a personal magic of leadership arousing special popular loyalty or enthusiasm for a public figure (such as a political leader) 2 : a special magnetic charm or appeal Examples: The young singer had the kind of charisma that turns a performer into a star. “Winner of seven Tony Awards including Best Musical, ‘Evita’ is the story of Eva Peron who used her charisma and charms to rise from her penniless origins to political power as the first lady of Argentina at the age of 27.” — Oscar Sales, The Press Journal (Vero Beach, Florida), 19 Dec. 2018 Did you know? The Greek word charisma means “favor” or “gift.” It is derived from the verb charizesthai (“to favor”), which in turn comes from the noun charis , meaning “grace.” In English, charisma has been used in Christian contexts since the mid-1500s to refer to a gift or power bestowed upon an individual by the Holy ...

原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for January 28, 2019 is: sleuth • \SLOOTH\  • verb 1 : to act as a detective : search for information 2 : to search for and discover Examples: “Farmer would go sleuthing in the archives of Arizona State University’s Center for Meteorite Studies to find evidence of an undiscovered landfall in Canada, and Ward could build a rig that trailed an 11-foot metal detector behind a combine, which is how they unearthed $1 million in pallasite fragments from several square miles of Alberta farmland.” — Joshuah Bearman and Allison Keeley, Wired , January 2019 “For more than five decades, Morse has sleuthed out long-lost family trees for a living. From his home base here in Haywood, Morse travels the world tracking down missing heirs.” — Becky Johnson, The Mountaineer (Haywood County, North Carolina), 20 Nov. 2018 Did you know? “They were the footprints of a gigantic hound!” Those canine tracks in Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Hound of ...

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原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for January 27, 2019 is: foray • \FOR-ay\  • noun 1 : a sudden or irregular invasion or attack for war or spoils : raid 2 : an initial and often tentative attempt to do something in a new or different field or area of activity Examples: “Although she debuted a line of jewelry last year, this is her first foray into creating her own makeup line.” — Hayley Schueneman, The New York Magazine , 28 Nov. 2018 “Edgardo Defortuna has been flying high for years, … erecting a string of ultra-luxury condo and hotel towers on his way to becoming one of Miami’s most prominent developers. He recently announced his first foray outside South Florida, unveiling a design for a trio of luxury towers in Paraguay.” — Andres Viglucci and Rene Rodriguez, The Miami Herald , 16 Dec. 2018 Did you know? Foray comes from Middle English forrayen and probably traces back to an Anglo-French word that meant “raider” or “forager.” It’s related to the wo...

原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for January 26, 2019 is: doldrums • \DOHL-drumz\  • plural noun 1 : a spell of listlessness or despondency 2 often capitalized Doldrums : a part of the ocean near the equator abounding in calms , squalls , and light shifting winds 3 : a state or period of inactivity, stagnation, or slump Examples: “A vacation on a tropical island could be just the thing you need to fight against the winter doldrums ,” said Christine as she handed me the resort’s brochure. “At the time, the bourbon industry was in the process of emerging from a lengthy period of doldrums and rebranding itself as not just something old men drank.” — The Kentucky Standard , 21 Nov. 2018 Did you know? Almost everyone gets the doldrums—a feeling of low spirits and lack of energy—every once in a while. The doldrums experienced by sailors, however, are usually of a different variety. In the early-19th century, the word once reserved for a feeling of desponde...

原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for January 25, 2019 is: myopic • \mye-OH-pik\  • adjective 1 : affected by myopia : of, relating to, or exhibiting myopia : nearsighted 2 : lacking in foresight or discernment : narrow in perspective and without concern for broader implications Examples: “This is, on the whole, an encouraging finding. If children became myopic due to looking at objects too closely, then we’d be stuck with an unsolvable dilemma: choosing between teaching children to read and protecting their eyesight.” — Brian Palmer, Slate , 16 Oct. 2013 “But even the most myopic seer can foretell with near certainty that our traditional use of privately owned vehicles running on fossil fuels is going to be giving way to new mobility options, and soon.” — John Gallagher, The Detroit Free Press , 9 Dec. 2018 Did you know? Myopia is a condition in which visual images come to a focus in front of the retina of the eye, resulting in defective vision of di...

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原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for January 24, 2019 is: adjudicate • \uh-JOO-dih-kayt\  • verb 1 : to make an official decision about who is right in (a dispute) : to settle judicially 2 : to act as judge Examples: “… Nichols said in addition to the nine dogs brought to the shelter, it is housing 31 dogs that were confiscated in animal cruelty or neglect cases. She said the shelter has to board the dogs, feed them and care for them until the cases are adjudicated .” — Russ Coreyemp, The Times Daily (Florence, Alabama), 16 Dec. 2018 “To qualify as a couture house, which is an official designation like champagne, a brand must maintain an atelier of a certain number of artisans full time and produce a specific number of garments twice a year for a show. There are only a very few that can fulfill the requirements…. A lot have dropped out over the years …, and the governing organization that adjudicates  this has relaxed some of its rules to admit young...

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原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for January 23, 2019 is: imbroglio • \im-BROHL-yoh\  • noun 1 a : an acutely painful or embarrassing misunderstanding b : a circumstance or action that offends propriety or established moral conceptions or disgraces those associated with it : scandal c : a violently confused or bitterly complicated altercation : embroilment d : an intricate or complicated situation (as in a drama or novel) 2 : a confused mass Examples: “He was close to scandal—GOP chairman during the Watergate years, vice president during the Iran-Contra imbroglio —yet was not tainted by it.” — David M. Shribman, The Boston Globe , 1 Dec. 2018 “The present imbroglio follows protracted struggles over the budget of the sheriff’s office, the fate of the 911 system, the county role in reducing blight and who should pay what for animal control.” — Rockford (Illinois) Register Star , 13 Dec. 2018 Did you know? Imbroglio and embroilment are more than ju...

原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for January 22, 2019 is: cumulate • \KYOO-myuh-layt\  • verb 1 : to gather or pile in a heap 2 : to combine into one 3 : to build up by addition of new material Examples: “In the alternative, the company may provide greater input to minority shareholders by allowing shareholders to cumulate their votes and cast them all for one director.” — Gregory Monday, The Milwaukee Business Journal , 5 Mar. 2018 “The report … compares various income estimates and reaches a similar conclusion: Most Americans have realized small annual increases that ultimately cumulated into meaningful gains.” — Robert Samuelson, The Sun Journal (Lewiston, Maine), 12 Dec. 2018 Did you know? Cumulate and its far more common relative accumulate both come from the Latin word cumulare, meaning “to heap up.” Cumulare , in turn, comes from cumulus, meaning “mass.” ( Cumulus functions as an English word in its own right as well. It can mean “heap” or ...

原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for January 21, 2019 is: substantive • \SUB-stun-tiv\  • adjective 1 : having substance : involving matters of major or practical importance to all concerned 2 : considerable in amount or numbers : substantial 3 a : real rather than apparent : firm ; also : permanent , enduring b : belonging to the substance of a thing : essential c : expressing existence 4 a : having the nature or function of a noun b : relating to or having the character of a noun or pronominal term in logic 5 : creating and defining rights and duties Examples: “How many more carefully researched reports will need to be released before we finally act in a substantive way to protect our only home, planet Earth?” — Edwin Andrews, The New York Times , 14 Dec. 2018 “These are the moments—funny, yet  substantive  and cuttingly insightful—that will remain in the collective memory long after Ralph Breaks the Internet leaves cinemas an...

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原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for January 20, 2019 is: wherewithal • \WAIR-wih-thawl\  • noun : means or resources for purchasing or doing something; specifically : financial resources : money Examples: If I had the wherewithal , I’d buy that empty lot next door and put in a garden. “Typically, when a person makes more money and has more savings, they add credit such as signing up for a new card or taking on a car loan. That’s because they’re confident they have the financial wherewithal to pay back the debt.” — Janna Herron, USA Today , 5 Dec. 2018 Did you know? Wherewithal has been with us in one form or another since the 16th century. It comes from our still-familiar word where , and withal , a Middle English combination of with and all , meaning “with.” Wherewithal has been used as a conjunction meaning “with or by means of which” and as a pronoun meaning “that with or by which.” These days, however, it is almost always used as a noun referring ...

原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for January 19, 2019 is: gargantuan • \gahr-GAN-chuh-wuhn\  • adjective : tremendous in size, volume, or degree : gigantic , colossal Examples: “In 1920, the town council of Chamonix … decided to change the municipality’s name to Chamonix-Mont-Blanc, thus forging an official link to the mountain … with a summit that soars 12,000 feet above the town center. The council’s goal was to prevent their Swiss neighbors from claiming the mountain’s glory, but there was really no need: It’s impossible when you’re in Chamonix to ignore the gargantuan , icy beauty that looms overhead.” — Paige McClanahan, The New York Times , 13 Dec. 2018 “Due to our gargantuan scope, Houston is a haven for live music. As the nation’s fourth largest city, we have become a destination for touring acts by default—it certainly isn’t because of our collective reputation as an audience….” — Matthew Keever, The Houston Press , 17 Dec. 2018 Did you know? ...

原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for January 18, 2019 is: teetotaler • \TEE-TOH-tuh-ler\  • noun : one who practices or advocates teetotalism : one who abstains completely from alcoholic drinks Examples: “… he is one of those fit older people who have redefined what 74 can look like. It probably helps that he is a teetotaler , a choice he made as a young man, having been disturbed by the effect that alcohol had on members of his family.” — David Kamp, Vanity Fair , December 2017 “The names Rockefeller and Diego Rivera are forever intertwined thanks to the Mexican artist’s infamous mural at Rockefeller Center, which the family commissioned in 1932 and had demolished two years later—due in part to its depiction of the teetotaler  John D. Rockefeller Jr. sipping a martini.” — Adam Rathe, Town & Country , May 2018 Did you know? A person who abstains from alcohol might choose tea as his or her alternative beverage, but the word teetotaler has...