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		<title><![CDATA[Today's Word "tete-a-tete"]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[tete-a-tete \TAYT-uh-TAYT; TET-uh-TET\ (adjective) - Private; confidential; familiar.

(noun) - 1 : A private conversation between two people. 2 : A short sofa intended to accommodate two persons.

"There was a phone in her office, but she wasn't ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/vocabulary/s-1078749</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Sep/17/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Today's Word "ephemeron"]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ephemeron \ih-FEM-uh-ron\ (noun) plural ephemera \ih-FEM-uh-ruh\ - 1 : Something short-lived or of no lasting significance. 2 : ephemera: Items, especially printed matter (as posters, broadsides, pamphlets, etc.), intended to be of use or ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/vocabulary/s-1064239</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Sep/16/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Today's Word "benignant"]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[benignant \bih-NIG-nuhnt\ (adjective) - 1 : Kind; gracious. 2 : Beneficial; favorable.

"Bruce's benignant behavior in financially supporting the homeless shelter's programs were rather at odds with his image as a grouchy skinflint."

Benignant ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/vocabulary/s-1063937</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Sep/15/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Today's Word "winsome"]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[winsome \WIN-suhm\ (adjective) - 1 : Cheerful; merry; gay; light-hearted. 2 : Causing joy or pleasure; agreeable; pleasant.

"Above all, it was winsome, devastatingly winsome. For a pretty face to be winsome is normal enough and very winsome it ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/vocabulary/s-1059960</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Sep/14/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Today's Word "daedal"]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[daedal \DEE-duhl\ (adjective) - 1 : Complex or ingenious in form or function; intricate. 2 : Skillful; artistic; ingenious. 3 : Rich; adorned with many things.

"As a Web-site designer, Susan realized that large image maps and daedal layouts were ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/vocabulary/s-1054119</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Sep/13/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Today's Word "supererogatory"]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[supererogatory \soo-puhr-ih-ROG-uh-tor-ee\ (adjective) - 1 : Going beyond what is required or expected. 2 : Superfluous; unnecessary.

"He was close to her doors: his standing was sufficient: his qualities were even supererogatory." -- Thomas ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/vocabulary/s-1050377</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Sep/12/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Today's Word "hardscrabble"]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[hardscrabble \HARD-skrab-uhl\ (adjective) - 1 : Yielding a bare or meager living with great labor or difficulty. 2 : Marked by poverty.

"The hardscrabble land was such that few wanted to come and live in the area in spite of the government's ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/vocabulary/s-1045329</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Sep/11/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Today's Word "paragon"]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[paragon \PAIR-uh-gon; -guhn\ (noun) - A model of excellence or perfection; as, "a paragon of beauty; a paragon of eloquence."

"Old Roland, that paragon of acceptable standards, viewed the world with a thoroughly jaundiced, nearly blind eye." -- ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/vocabulary/s-1045754</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Sep/10/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Today's Word "camarilla"]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[camarilla \kam-uh-RIL-uh; -REE-yuh\ (noun) - A group of secret and often scheming advisers, as of a king; a cabal or clique.

"Few faulted the president for the problems during his tenure, instead choosing to blame the camarilla of closely held ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/vocabulary/s-1044995</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Sep/09/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Today's Word "Landloper"]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[landloper \LAND-lo-puhr\ (noun) - A wanderer; vagabond; vagrant ; also 
landlouper and landleaper

"Through a series of games and dreamlike fantasies, the dynamic of the lead 
character's struggle between good and evil established him as both an 
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		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/vocabulary/s-1043571</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Sep/08/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Today's Word "iota"]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[iota \eye-OH-tuh\ (noun) - 1 : The ninth letter of the Greek alphabet, corresponding to the English i. 2 : A very small quantity or degree; a jot; a bit.

"A brilliant negotiator, James had not  moderated his demands one iota in seven years."

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		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/vocabulary/s-1042572</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Sep/07/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Today's Word "inveigle"]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[inveigle \in-VAY-guhl; -VEE-\ (transitive verb) - 1 : To persuade by ingenuity or flattery; to entice. 2 : To obtain by ingenuity or flattery.

"Once a soft touch for those who inveigled her into sparing them her change, Jhenna began to cross the ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/vocabulary/s-1041237</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Sep/06/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Today's Word "redivivus"]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[redivivus \red-uh-VY-vuhs; -VEE-\ (adjective) - Living again; brought back to life; revived; restored.

"'He can't be redivivus if he's never died,' Diotallevi said. 'Sure he's not Ahasuerus, the wandering Jew?'" -- Umberto Eco, 'Foccault's ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/vocabulary/s-1040319</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Sep/05/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Today's Word "tutelary"]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[tutelary \TOO-tuh-lair-ee; TYOO-\ (adjective) - Having the guardianship or charge of protecting a person or a thing; guardian; protecting; as, "tutelary goddesses."

"But there is a tutelary deity for misers, and by a chain of unforeseen ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/vocabulary/s-1037547</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Sep/04/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Today's Word "virtu"]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[virtu \vuhr-TOO; vir-\ (noun) - 1 : love of or taste for fine objects of art. 2 : Productions of art (especially fine antiques). 3 : Artistic quality.

'In the latter case, the new emblem held no personality or virtu until it had participated in ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/vocabulary/s-1037566</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Sep/03/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Today's Word "Quietus"]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[quietus \kwy-EE-tuhs\ (noun) - 1 : A final stroke that settles something. 2 
: Discharge from life; death. 3 : A release from a duty or debt.

"The irony was, as Lucinda saw it, that her family's curse would provide 
its own quietus and lead her ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/vocabulary/s-1035483</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Sep/02/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Today's Word "concinnity"]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[concinnity \kuhn-SIN-uh-tee\ (noun) - 1 : Internal harmony or fitness in the adaptation of parts to a whole or to each other. 2 : Studied elegance of design or arrangement -- used chiefly of literary style. 3 : An instance of concinnity.

"To the ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/vocabulary/s-1036471</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Sep/01/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Today's Word "Zeitgeist"]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Zeitgeist \TSYT-guyst; ZYT-guyst\ (noun) - [Often capitalized] The spirit of the time; the general intellectual and moral state or temper characteristic of any period of time.

"Yet being a man, as I say, with his hair a little stirred by a ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/vocabulary/s-1033496</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Aug/31/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Today's Word "parlous"]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[parlous \PAR-luhs\ (adjective) - Attended with peril; fraught with danger; hazardous.

"It was a parlous time in the schoolyard, when preppies and goths vied brutally for supremacy."

Parlous derives from Old French perillous, perilleus, from ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/vocabulary/s-1034428</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Aug/30/2026</pubDate>
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