Word of the Day: Embargo | Merriam-Webster September 01, 2023 | a government order that limits trade in some way English speakers got embargo—both the word and the concept, it seems—from the Spanish in the early 17th century
Word of the Day: Gravitate | Merriam-Webster November 13, 2023 | to move or be attracted toward something The force is strong in the family of words descended from the Latin adjective gravis, meaning “heavy”: gravitation has it, graviton has it,
Word of the Day: Ransack | Merriam-Webster November 21, 2023 | to look through thoroughly in a rough way Ransack carries the image of a house being roughly disarranged, as might happen when you are frantically searching for something
Word of the Day: Tenebrous | Merriam-Webster September 23, 2023 | dark and murky Tenebrous can mean both “obscure” and “murky,” but its history is crystal clear Etymologists know that the word comes from the Latin noun tenebrae, meaning “
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