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		<title><![CDATA[Today's Word "Fain"]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[fain \fayn\ (adverb) - 1 : Willingly; gladly. 2 : Rather. (adjective) - 1 :  Pleased. 2 : Obliged. 3 : Eager.

"As the delay continued Mordecai was both busy and happy at the Mill, for he liked and loved this damsel well, and was fain of her ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/vocabulary/s-1105165</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Oct/12/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Today's Word "Libertine"]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[libertine \LI-behr-teen\ (noun) - 1 : A free-thinker (originally used to 
refer to an emancipated slave or freedman). 2 : A person who lives without 
constraints, including moral ones.

"In her third affair in as many months, Michelle is treading ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/vocabulary/s-1104121</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Oct/11/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Today's Word "Corybantic"]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[corybantic \kor-i-BAN-tik\ (adjective) - Wild; frenzied; uncontrolled.

"Harold felt that the radio show was worse than merely 'bad,' thinking that it penetrated the mind, filling it with a babble of distractions, blasts of corybantic or ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/vocabulary/s-1103496</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Oct/10/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Today's Word "Thalassic"]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[<b>thalassic</b> <i>\theh-LAE-sik\</i> (adjective) - Pertaining to the sea; 
marine.

"We can dream thalassic dreams until the occasion for a thalassic respite 
from work presents itself."
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		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/vocabulary/s-1102831</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Oct/09/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Today's Word "Goth"]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Goth /goth/ (noun) - A rude or uncivilized person.

"The speaker's announcements swung wildly between statesman and Goth."

 From Goth, one of a Germanic tribe who invaded the Roman empire during the 
third, fourth and fifth centuries.
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		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/vocabulary/s-1103166</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Oct/08/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Today's Word "ploce"]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ploce \PLO-see\ (noun) - The repetition of a word or phrase to gain special emphasis or to indicate an extension of meaning, as in Ex. 3:14: "I am that I am.'

"Popeye's ploce of 'I am what I am' seemed to Terry to be the perfect mantra for an ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/vocabulary/s-1101782</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Oct/07/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Today's Word "perforce"]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[perforce \pur-FORS\ (adverb) - By necessity; by force of circumstance.

"Should it actually come to pass, even those who followed every twist and turn of the process will perforce rub their eyes, incredulous that such a man could be elected to ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/vocabulary/s-1101266</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Oct/06/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Today's Word "Runagate"]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[runagate \REHN-eh-geyt\ (noun) - The same as that of "renegade:" 1 : an 
apostate, someone who deserts a religion, cause or obligation; 2 : an 
outlaw, especially one who runs rampant over a territory.

"The new music teacher put together a jazz ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/vocabulary/s-1100409</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Oct/05/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Today's Word "Snook"]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[snook \SNOOK\ (noun) - 1 : A gesture of defiance and/or derision. 2 : Any 
of several kinds of salt-water fish of family Centropomidae, such as the 
sergeant-fish and the robalo.

"Sarah's rendition of 'I'm still standing' at the karaoke evening ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/vocabulary/s-1100305</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Oct/04/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Today's Word "explicate"]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[explicate \EK-spluh-kayt\ (transitive verb) - To explain; to clear of difficulties or obscurity.

"Every day I would come home from the office to find him waiting and he would stay until dinnertime. During that time I would read and explicate a ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/vocabulary/s-1099863</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Oct/03/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Today's Word "bivouac"]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[bivouac \BIV-wak, BIV-uh-wak\ (noun) - An encampment for the night, usually under little or no shelter.

(intransitive verb) - To encamp for the night, usually under little or no shelter.

"When the weather suddenly turned snowy and cold, Jack and...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/vocabulary/s-1099526</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Oct/02/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Today's Word "Unique"]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[<b>unique</b> <i>\yu-NEEK\</i> (adjective) - Sole, one of a kind, without 
equal or match.

"Going out with Mary Ellen to the county sausage-eating contest was an 
almost unique experience in my life."
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		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/vocabulary/s-1098012</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Oct/01/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Today's Word "Cacodylic"]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[<b>cacodylic</b> <i>\kae-keh-DI-lik\</i> (adjective) - 1 :  Belonging to 
the arsenic group of poisons. 2 : Foul-smelling.

<i>"After playing in the yard, Meghan found a cacodylic substance clinging 
stubbornly to the bottom of her right shoe."</i>
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		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/vocabulary/s-1098100</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Sep/30/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Today's Word "spoony"]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[spoony \SPOO-nee\ (adjective) - 1 : Foolish; silly; excessively sentimental. 2 : Foolishly or sentimentally in love.

"There is no doubt whatever that I was a lackadaisical young spoony; but there was a purity of heart in all this, that prevents ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/vocabulary/s-1096894</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Sep/29/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Today's Word "Solipsism"]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[solipsism \sa-LIP-si-zehm\ (noun) - The view that only the self can be 
known or that the self is the only reality (egotism).

"When Catherine is writing, she falls into a solipsistic state impervious 
to the outside world."
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		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/vocabulary/s-1096385</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Sep/28/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Today's Word "frisson"]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[frisson \free-SOHN\ (noun) - A moment of intense excitement; a shudder; an emotional thrill.

"While Carol loved the frisson of watching movies where hapless ladies became victims through no fault of their own, she hated to think about what she ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/vocabulary/s-1094773</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Sep/27/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Today's Word "rebarbative"]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[rebarbative \ree-BAR-buh-tiv\ (adjective) - Serving or tending to irritate or repel.

"Over the several hours of the party a lot of rebarbative, ulcerated and embittered people had been working hard at bedding their resentments down in sensory-...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/vocabulary/s-1094774</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Sep/26/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Today's Word "collude"]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[collude \kuh-LOOD\ (intransitive verb) - To act in concert; to conspire; to plot.

"Sadly, well-heeled contributors and interest groups that seek political power routinely collude with needy office-seekers to find new paths around the hollow ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/vocabulary/s-1094775</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Sep/25/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Today's Word "trencherman"]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[trencherman \TREN-chuhr-muhn\ (noun) - A hearty eater.

"Dr. Zollner was arranging his large lunch in front of him with the expertise of a real trencherman." -- Nelson DeMille, 'Plum Island'

Trencherman is from trencher, "a wooden board or ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/vocabulary/s-1093904</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Sep/24/2026</pubDate>
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