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The sentence ‘My girl wove six dozen plaid jackets before she quit’ contains every letter of the alphabet.

An AFTERWINTER is a period of unseasonably cold or wintry weather when spring is expected.

To be LENTITUDINOUS is to be sluggish. To be HEBETUDINOUS is to be blunt. To be PINGUITUDINOUS is to be plump. To be SOLICITUDINOUS is to be anxious. To be TURPITUDINOUS is to be wicked. To be FORTITUDINOUS is to be courageous. To be SOLITUDINOUS is to be solitary or reclusive.

Word of the Day: FLOBBERCHOPS (n.) a dolt, a nincompoop; (interj.) an exclamation of annoyance [1800s]

In timekeeping, SECONDS are so called because, after the minute, they were the ‘second’ means of subdividing an hour.

Word of the Day: BEDUNDERED (adj.) stupefied, utterly confounded

Alexander Graham Bell suggested that telephones should be answered with the word AHOY. HELLO was Thomas Edison’s suggestion.

To be MULTIVAGANT is to wander in many directions. To be NOCTIVAGANT is to wander at night. To be MUNDIVAGANT is to wander the world. To be MONTIVAGANT is to wander in the mountains. To be NEMORIVAGANT is to wander in the woods.

FOCUS was the Latin word for a hearth or fireplace. It came to be used of any central point of convergence because a fire was seen as the central part of a room or household.

AFFECT and EFFECT both come from the Latin verb ‘facere’, meaning to do—but AFFECT took the prefix ‘ad–’ (meaning to or towards) while EFFECT took ‘ex–’ (meaning out of or from). So to AFFECT something is essentially to do something to it, while an EFFECT is what results from it.

The word TREMENDOUS originally meant dreadful or awful—Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary defines it as “astonishingly terrible.” It derives from the Latin word ‘tremere’, meaning to quake, and so literally describes something so impressive or shocking that it is to be trembled at.

HISTORIOPOEIA is the making of history. MELOPOEIA is the composition of a melody. LOGOPOEIA is the invention of a word. GLOSSOPOEIA is the creation of a language. MYTHOPOEIA is the writing of a myth. PHANOPOEIA is the creation of an image using language.

Word of the Day: SCOFFLAW (n.) someone who flouts the law in a brazen, contemptuous manner

To OBLIGURATE is to pass the time eating gluttonously.