Word of the Day!

[Suicune's Fire]

Awesome word; I like it a lot. Perhaps in my writing I'll give it a shot!

[Noblejanobii]

Word of the Day: Abyssal

Definition:
1. Of or relating to the bottom waters of the ocean depths
2. Impossible to comprehend
3. Unfathomable

Examples:
1. "Since the accident, researchers from the Guangzhou Institute of Oceanology have mapped several deep eddies in the Xisha Trough, an area of abyssal ocean off Hainan." — David Hambling, The Guardian (UK), 29 Dec. 2016
2. "I'm referring to something that was revealed when the federal opposition parties were talking about a coalition government: The abyssal ignorance, even in parts of the media, about how our own parliamentary system works." — Josée Legault, The Gazette (Montreal), 26 Dec. 2008

[Rival Max]

Word of the Day: Abyssal

Definition:
1. Of or relating to the bottom waters of the ocean depths
2. Impossible to comprehend
3. Unfathomable

Examples:
1. "Since the accident, researchers from the Guangzhou Institute of Oceanology have mapped several deep eddies in the Xisha Trough, an area of abyssal ocean off Hainan." — David Hambling, The Guardian (UK), 29 Dec. 2016
2. "I'm referring to something that was revealed when the federal opposition parties were talking about a coalition government: The abyssal ignorance, even in parts of the media, about how our own parliamentary system works." — Josée Legault, The Gazette (Montreal), 26 Dec. 2008

Cool examples!

[Noblejanobii]

Word of the Day: Recidivate

Definition:
1. To return to a previous pattern of behavior.
2. Relapse
3. Go back to bad or criminal behavior.

Example"
1. “The convictions for those over sixty are unlikely to recidivate.”

[Noblejanobii]

Word of the Day: Paralogize

Definition:
1. to draw conclusions that do not follow logically from a given set of assumptions.

Examples:
1. "A brick," he retorted, "is a parallelogram; I am not a parallelogram, and therefore not a brick ..." "Charley Lightheart, you paralogize." - Stewart Edward White and Samuel Hopkins Adams, The Mystery, 1907
2. "Whether, moreover, in seeking to find an analogy between the laws of nature, and municipal laws, he does not paralogize, may perhaps be questioned." - Abraham Coles, Abraham Coles: Biographical Sketch, Memorial Tributes, Selections from His Works (Some Hitherto Unpublished), 1892

[Noblejanobii]

Word of the Day: Canard

Definition:
1. A false or unfounded rumor or story
2. A groundless rumor or belief
3. An airplane with horizontal stabilizing and control surfaces in front of supporting surfaces

Example:
1. “The tabloid included some of Hollywood’s oldest canards.”

Fun Fact:
1. It originates from the french word for duck.

[Suicune's Fire]

Wow! Didn't know that word. And lololol, duck. Amazing. I guess it's sort of like mallard.

[Noblejanobii]

Wow! Didn't know that word. And lololol, duck. Amazing. I guess it's sort of like mallard.

Well when you google canard usually ducks pop up so it makes sense

[Pokemon Trainer Sarah]

I like when words just have a really random third definition. XD

[Noblejanobii]

Word of the Day: Billet-doux

Definition:
1. A Love Letter

Examples:
1. "While cleaning out her parents' basement, Amy stumbled upon a box containing billets-doux written by her dad to his high-school sweetheart—her mom."
2. "… when you stop to think about it the entire panoply of behaviours we consider as romantic, from sending little billets-doux, to developing a shared vocabulary of pet names, are … infantile. What's romance, then, but a kind of childish make-believe?" — Will Self, Prospect, 13 Oct. 2016

Did You Know:
The first recorded use of the French word billet doux (literally, "sweet letter") in an English context occurs in John Dryden's 1673 play Marriage a-la-Mode. In the play, Dryden pokes fun at linguistic Francophiles in English society through the comic character Melanthe, who is described by her prospective lover Rodophil as follows: "No lady can be so curious of a new fashion as she is of a new French word; she's the very mint of the nation, and as fast as any bullion comes out of France, coins it immediately into our language." True to form, Melanthe describes Rodophil with the following words: "Let me die, but he's a fine man; he sings and dances en Français, and writes the billets doux to a miracle."