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- Word of the Day Calendar | Merriam-Webster
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- Word of the Day: Beltane | Merriam-Webster
To the ancient Celts, May Day marked the start of summer, and a critical time when the boundaries between the human and supernatural worlds were removed, requiring that people take special measures to
- Word of the Day: Foray | Merriam-Webster
Take the particularly apt example (stay tuned) of mushroom hunting The likely ancestor of foray is an Anglo-French word referring to the violent sort who do invasion forays, but that word could also refer to a forager—that is, one who wanders in search of food
- Word of the Day: Griot | Merriam-Webster
In many West African countries, the role of cultural guardian is maintained, as it has been for centuries, by griots Griot—a borrowing from French—refers to an oral historian, musician, storyteller,
- Word of the Day: Gambit | Merriam-Webster
Don’t let the similarities of sound and general flavor between gambit and gamble trip you up; the two words are unrelated Gambit first appeared in English in a 1656 chess handbook that was said to
- Word of the Day: Brazen | Merriam-Webster
This is where the clever coyote is perhaps becoming more brazen and bold while hunting for food in certain neighborhoods ” — J V Houlihan, The Block Island (Rhode Island) Times, 30 Jan 2026
- Word of the Day: Glaucous | Merriam-Webster
What It Means Glaucous as a color word can describe things of two rather different shades: a light bluish-gray or bluish-white color, or a pale yellow-green It can also mean "having a powdery or waxy coating that gives a frosted appearance and tends to rub off " His glaucous eyes grew wide with curiosity The tree's glaucous leaves help prevent sun damage See the entry > glaucous in
- Word of the Day: Hark Back | Merriam-Webster
From its use in hunting, the verb acquired its current figurative meanings concerned with returning to the past The variants hearken and harken (also very old words meaning "to listen") are also used, with and without back, as synonyms of hark back
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