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- Word of the Day: Mitigate | Merriam-Webster
July 07, 2023 | to make something less severe, harmful, or painful The meaning of mitigate is straightforward enough: to make something—such as a problem, symptom, or punishment—less harsh or severe
- Word of the Day: Kafkaesque | Merriam-Webster
Those living in poverty are expected to complete mountains of complicated paperwork to access aid and can be harshly penalized for any errors For help, they must rely on overtaxed social workers, who are themselves often stumped by the Kafkaesque bureaucracy their clients face ” — Lola Duffort, VTDigger org (Montpelier, Vermont), 6 Oct 2023
- Word of the Day: Ransack | Merriam-Webster
November 21, 2023 | to look through thoroughly in a rough way Ransack carries the image of a house being roughly disarranged, as might happen when you are frantically searching for something
- Word of the Day: Dubious | Merriam-Webster
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- Word of the Day: Gravitate | Merriam-Webster
November 13, 2023 | to move or be attracted toward something The force is strong in the family of words descended from the Latin adjective gravis, meaning “heavy”: gravitation has it, graviton has it,
- Word of the Day: Culprit | Merriam-Webster
See the entry > culprit in Context “A severe housing shortage is the main culprit for steep housing costs The US is short of anywhere between an estimated 1 5 million and 5 5 million homes High interest rates are scaring off both would-be buyers and sellers and slowing rates of homebuilding ” — Eliza Relman, Business Insider, 1 Oct 2023
- Word of the Day: Boilerplate | Merriam-Webster
November 22, 2023 | standardized text or formulaic language In the days before computers, small newspapers around the U S relied heavily on feature stories, editorials, and other printed material
- Word of the Day: Zenith | Merriam-Webster
But those years hardly marked a creative zenith for Cale Since leaving the band in 1968, he has released more than a dozen solo albums, ranging in style from orchestral pop to new wave and punk; collaborated with luminaries like Patti Smith and Brian Eno; and scored numerous films " — Olivia Horn, The New York Times, 18 Aug 2023
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