Language – Page 200 – For Reading Addicts

Word of the Day

May 28, 2020

Word of the Day – Agathism

Agathism (noun) ag-ath-iz-m The doctrine that all things ultimately tend towards good, although the means…

Kath 0

Love1

Word of the Day

May 27, 2020

Word of the Day – Adaxial

Adaxial (adj) ad-ak-see-al (botany) Facing towards the stem of a plant (in particular denoting the…

Kath 0

Love0

Word of the Day

May 26, 2020

Word of the Day – Mundowie

Mundowie (noun) (aus/informal) mun-dow-ee A footstep Early 19th century Australian pidgin, perhaps from Dharuk manuwi…

Kath 0

Love0

Language News

May 26, 2020

Artificial intelligence is creating new words and definitions

Artificial intelligence has been programmed to create new words with new definitions. The elves from…

Rowan Jones 0

Love2

Word of the Day

May 25, 2020

Word of the Day – Sphygmograph

Sphygmograph (noun) sfig-mo-graf An instrument which produces a line recording the strength and rate of…

Kath 0

Love0

Word of the Day

May 24, 2020

Word of the Day – Tenebrosity

Tenebrosity (noun) ten-e-bros-it-ee The quality of being dark or shadowy. Late Middle English from Old…

Kath 0

Love2

Word of the Day

May 23, 2020

Word of the Day – Nostrification

Nostrification (noun) nos-trif-ik-ay-shun (rare) With reference to (especially central) European universities: the action or process…

Kath 0

Love0

Word of the Day

May 22, 2020

Word of the Day – Anarchism

Anarchism (noun) an-aak-iz-m Belief in the abolition of all government and the organization of society…

Kath 0

Love0

Word of the Day

May 21, 2020

Word of the Day – Affray

Affray (noun) af-ray An instance of group fighting in a public place that disturbs the…

Kath 0

Love0

Word of the Day

May 20, 2020

Word of the Day – Advect

Advect (verb) ad-vekt Transfer (heat or matter) by the flow of a fluid, especially horizontally…

Kath 0

Love0