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16 Oct 2020
Wordsmith is a worldwide online community of people who share a love for words, wordplay, language, and literature. Our readers hail from more than 170 countries, from Australia to Zimbabwe and almost all other places in between.
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A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: We open our mouths and out flow words whose ancestries we do not even know. We are walking lexicons. In a single sentence of idle chatter we preserve Latin, Anglo-Saxon, Norse: we carry a museum inside our heads, each day we commemorate peoples of whom we have never heard. -Penelope Lively, writer (b. 17 Mar 1933)
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relucent: 1. Shining or reflecting light. 2. Radiant; luminous. See more wordsmith.org/words/relucent…
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AWADmail 1237 A Weekly Compendium of Feedback on the Words in AWAD and Tidbits about Words and Language ow.ly/7PM150YukgH less
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A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life. -Giorgos Seferis, writer, diplomat, Nobel laureate (13 Mar 1900-1971)
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bantam (BAN-tuhm) noun: 1. Any of various breeds of small chickens, often miniature versions of larger breeds. 2. A small but aggressive person. adjective: 1. Diminutive; miniature. 2. Aggressive; spirited. See more wordsmith.org/words/bantam.h…
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A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: It is the hardest thing in the world to be in love, and yet attend to business. A gentleman asked me this morning, 'What news from Lisbon?' and I answered, 'She is exquisitely handsome.' -Richard Steele, writer and politician (12 Mar 1672-1729)
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gasconader: A braggart. See more wordsmith.org/words/gasconad…
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A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: We are not an endangered species ourselves yet, but this is not for lack of trying. -Douglas Adams, author (11 Mar 1952-2001)
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Laodiceanism: Indifference or lukewarmness, especially in matters of religion or politics. See more wordsmith.org/words/laodicea…
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A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: Anyone who wishes to become a good writer should endeavour, before he allows himself to be tempted by the more showy qualities, to be direct, simple, brief, vigorous, and lucid. -H.W. Fowler, lexicographer (10 Mar 1858-1933)
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Babylonian 1. Relating to Babylon or Babylonia. 2. Splendidly luxurious. 3. Decadent or corrupt. See more: wordsmith.org/words/babyloni…
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A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: Orbiting Earth in the spaceship, I saw how beautiful our planet is. People, let us preserve and increase this beauty, not destroy it! -Yuri Gagarin, first human in space (9 Mar 1934-1968)
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arcadia: A region that is idyllic, pastoral: simple, peaceful. See more wordsmith.org/words/arcadia.…
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AWADmail 1236 A Weekly Compendium of Feedback on the Words in AWAD and Tidbits about Words and Language wordsmith.org/awad/awadmail1…
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A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: Beauty is the purgation of superfluities. -Michelangelo Buonarroti, sculptor, painter, architect, and poet (6 Mar 1475-1564)
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profusion: 1. Extravagance. 2. A large quantity or abundance. See more wordsmith.org/words/profusio…
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A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: Sometimes they seem like living shapes, / The people of the sky, / Guests in white raiment coming down / From heaven, which is close by. -Lucy Larcom, teacher and author (5 Mar 1824-1893)
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perfusion: 1. The spreading of a liquid, color, light, aroma, etc. 2. The passage of a fluid through an organ or tissue, for example, to supply nutrients or oxygen. See more wordsmith.org/words/perfusio…
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A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: Creativity -- like human life itself -- begins in darkness. We need to acknowledge this. All too often, we think only in terms of light: "And then the lightbulb went on and I got it!" It is true that insights may come to us as flashes. It is true that ...
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... some of these flashes may be blinding. It is, however, also true that such bright ideas are preceded by a gestation period that is interior, murky, and completely necessary. -Julia Cameron, artist, author, teacher, filmmaker, composer, and journalist (b. 4 Mar 1948)
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