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Word of the Week: harpy (HÄR-pē)

Stephanie Whetstone2023-01-03T10:09:36-05:00

Word of the Week: harpy (HÄR-pē) Definition (Noun) A rapacious, plundering, or grasping person; one that preys upon others. In Context "Like some sort of harpy, he would appear in the street and even his acquaintances, spotting him from far off, would try to dodge and avoid the encounter, saying it was enough to poison all the rest of the day." Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, Translators, The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol, 1998.

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wherewithal (WAIR-wih-thawl)

Stephanie Whetstone2023-12-14T11:01:24-05:00

Definition (noun) means or resources for purchasing or doing something; specifically : financial resources : money In Context "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

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Word of the Week: dell (dĕl)

Stephanie Whetstone2023-01-03T10:12:14-05:00

Word of the Week: dell (dĕl) Definition (Noun) A deep natural hollow or vale of no great extent, the sides usually clothed with trees or foliage. In Context "Both sides of the dell were thickly covered with scrub oak, but glades had been cut, and at the intersection of two on the near bank stood a thatched hut." John Buchan, Midwinter, 1923.

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Word of the Week: balalaika (băl-ə-LĪ-kə)

Stephanie Whetstone2022-11-21T12:32:22-05:00

balalaika (băl-ə-LĪ-kə) Definition (Noun) A musical instrument of the guitar kind, with a triangular body, popular in Russia and other Slav countries. In Context "Every new scene was accompanied by the ghastly twanging of a balalaika, a sound that gave the action a touch of the Devil." Anatoly Smeliansky, The Russian Theatre After Stalin, 1999.

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Word of the Week: insensate (ĭn-SĔN-sāt)

Stephanie Whetstone2022-10-10T12:38:10-04:00

insensate (ĭn-SĔN-sāt) Definition (Adjective) Wanting in mental or moral feeling; devoid of sensibility; unaffected, unmoved; unfeeling. (Of persons, or their qualities, actions, etc.) In Context "Beneath this polished exterior, one sensed, lived a man capable of insensate rage and unrestrained debauchery, a man who, even before arriving in the tropics, had cast off the ennobling bonds of civilization and honour." Alan Vanneman, Sherlock Holmes and the Giant Rat of Sumatra, 2002.

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Word of the Week: cosset (KŎS-ĭt)

Stephanie Whetstone2022-10-10T12:36:32-04:00

cosset (KŎS-ĭt) Definition (Verb) To treat as a cosset; to fondle, caress, pet, indulge, pamper. In Context "Much of what Truman and Acheson did in the Middle East set patterns that long survived the administration, especially that of trying both to cosset Israel and to keep friendly relations with neighboring Arab states, many with oil underground." Robert L. Beisner, Dean Acheson: A Life in the Cold War, 2006.

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Word of the Week: Yule (yōōl)

Stephanie Whetstone2023-11-09T16:27:57-05:00

Word of the Week: Yule (yōōl) Definition (Noun) Christmas and the festivities connected therewith. In Context "How has the Yule festival come to dominate our minds and pocketbooks each winter?" William B. Waits, The Modern Christmas in America: A Cultural History of Gift Giving, 1993.

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Word of the Week: sugar-plum (SHŎŎG-ər-plŭm)

Stephanie Whetstone2022-10-10T12:35:54-04:00

sugar-plum (SHŎŎG-ər-plŭm) Definition (Noun) Something very pleasing or agreeable, especially when given as a sop or bribe. In Context "That was my father's way of extracting the most out of everyone -- dangling his sugar plums that would vanish when reached for." V. C. Andrews, If There Be Thorns, 1981.

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Word of the Week: brouhaha (BROO-hah-hah)

Stephanie Whetstone2022-10-03T11:29:22-04:00

Word of the Week: brouhaha (BROO-hah-hah) Definition (Noun) a state of commotion or excitement : hubbub, uproar. In Context "But where do you go, when the temperatures are soaring and you want to cool off but without all of the brouhaha that comes along with a trip to one of our more popular, crowded city beaches?" Ji Suk Yi, The Chicago Sun-Times, 25 July 2018.

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Word of the Week: fugacious (fyoo-GAY-shus)

Stephanie Whetstone2022-10-03T11:27:20-04:00

Word of the Week: fugacious (fyoo-GAY-shus) Definition (Adjective) lasting a short time : evanescent. In Context “The maple leaves are a yellow light signaling me to slow down and take in the last pulse of color of a fugacious fall." David Johnson, The Daily News of Newburyport (MA), 26 Nov. 2013.

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