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August 31, 2007 01:47 PM EDT --    Vamoose     The verb to vamoose, "to leave hurriedly," has a full range of tenses and grammatical moods in English, and it can be used with all grammatical persons: . . . more
June 29, 2007 02:36 PM EDT -- VENOM Anyone who has ever been lovesick will appreciate the etymology of the word venom. Venom descends from the Latin word venenum, “potion, drug,” which could originally be used to designate . . . more
November 28, 2007 01:43 PM EST -- A DEFINE-A-THON is the new word game sensation created by the Editors of the American Heritage ® Dictionaries. Why are they taking us beyond the spelling bee? Because being able to SPELL a word doesn't . . . more
June 11, 2008 02:32 PM EDT --   A DEFINE-A-THON is the new word game sensation created by the Editors of the American Heritage ® Dictionaries. Why are they taking us beyond the spelling bee? Because being able to SPELL . . . more
July 18, 2008 11:18 AM EDT --   COUPON A Roman might have had difficulty predicting what would become of the Latin word colaphus, which meant "a blow with the fist."   As the variety of Latin spoke in . . . more
July 06, 2007 01:59 PM EDT -- UGLY The standard sense of the adjective ugly, “unsightly,” becomes figurative in the common expression an ugly temper. Regional American speech shared this figurative sense and makes it . . . more
September 07, 2007 03:40 PM EDT -- barracuda Barracuda are fierce-looking fish that live mostly in tropical seas like the Caribbean. They have a projecting lower jaw, and their large mouth holds two rows, one behind the other, of fanglike . . . more
December 05, 2007 01:22 PM EST -- ACRIMONY Noun   Bitter, sharp hostility, especially in speech.   Some conversations I have heard in our own country sound like old records, long-playing, left over . . . more
January 30, 2008 03:28 PM EST -- IRREGARDLESS Irregardless is a word that many people mistakenly believe to be correct in formal style, when in fact it is used chiefly in nonstandard speech or casual writing.   The word . . . more
July 02, 2008 02:20 PM EDT --   SCHLOCK A good number of English words borrowed from Yiddish (a variety of German with an admixture of Hebrew and Slavic elements) are recognizably of foreign extraction because they begin . . . more
August 08, 2007 03:10 PM EDT -- VERBIAGE The term verbiage has two basic meanings: “an excess of words for the purpose; wordiness,” and “the manner in which something is expressed in words.” It is occasionally . . . more
August 10, 2007 03:24 PM EDT -- SARCASM A sarcastic comment can cut to the quick, and from an etymological point of view, sarcasm is quite literally “cutting wit.”  The English word sarcasm comes from the Greek word . . . more
August 30, 2007 03:30 PM EDT -- A DEFINE-A-THON is the new word game sensation created by the Editors of the American Heritage ® Dictionaries. Why are they taking us beyond the spelling bee? Because being able to SPELL a word doesn't . . . more
September 05, 2007 11:00 AM EDT -- COMPLEMENT/COMPLIMENT Complement and compliment, though quite distinct in meaning, are sometimes confused because they are pronounced identically.  As a noun, complement means “something that . . . more
September 14, 2007 02:02 PM EDT -- hazard  The modern meaning of the English word hazard, "risk" or "danger," is a development dating from  the 1500s. Hazard was originally the name for a dice game popular . . . more
October 05, 2007 02:45 PM EDT -- BREEZE  Nowadays a cool breeze can be enjoyed almost anywhere in the world, but when the word breeze first appeared in English in the late 1500s, it originally referred to the northeast trade winds . . . more
October 26, 2007 03:36 PM EDT -- Crusade   In 1095, the Byzantine emperor Alexius I sent a plea for help to the leaders of western Europe — the Muslim forces of the Seljuk Turks were chipping away at his empire, . . . more
November 02, 2007 03:39 PM EDT -- Alligator   A few days after Easter in 1513, the Spanish conquistador Juan Ponce de León and the other Spaniards accompanying him on his expedition spotted the shores of what . . . more
December 26, 2007 09:40 AM EST -- BUG/INSECT   The word bug is often used to refer to any insect, and sometimes to spiders and crustaceans (such as the pill bug), none of which are insects.   But in strict biological . . . more
December 28, 2007 01:37 PM EST -- BLUE BLOOD   The English expression blue blood, meaning "an aristocratic pedigree" as well as "a member of the aristocracy," is in origin a translation of the . . . more
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