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First recorded in 1680–90. From the Latin vīnum, meaning “wine.”. EXAMPLES OF VINACEOUS. The sunset cast a vinaceous tint across the sky. In fall, some of the leaves turned a vinaceous hue.
Whenever lookups for a particular five-letter word spike at Dictionary.com, it’s a sure sign that the day’s Wordle answer is a real stumper. This actually happens quite often. Here are the top 25 Wordle answer lookups from 2022, ranked by search volume—along with their definitions.
By the first half of the 19th century, Hard-Scrabble (variously spelled) was used as a placename for a remote town or region where life was difficult. The current sense “yielding meager results” dates from the second half of the 19th century.
Whether you struggle to spell these words or others, keep in mind that the English language is a real challenge to spell! Mind your p's and q's ... and double c's and silent letters. English has many hard words to spell—let's review some common ones with tips for spelling them.
Yakka “work” is a term in Australian slang that used to be spelled variously as yacker or yakker, among other options. Because Australian English is a variety of English that is non-rhotic, dropping the r sound after a vowel, the original spelling of yakka may have changed to reflect this r- dropping tendency. While the ultimate source of ...
To help give you a leg up on some of the trickier words you may come across in everyday life, we have broken down 26 of the hardest-to-pronounce words in the English language, from A–Z … or from A–W, anyway.
A combination of stead, “the place of a person,” and fast, “firmly fixed in place.”. Sign up for more Word of the Day! EXAMPLES OF STEADFAST. Despite facing numerous challenges, she remained steadfast in her commitment to finishing the marathon.
Hard, difficult both describe something resistant to one's efforts or one's endurance. Hard is the general word: hard times; It was hard to endure the severe weather. Difficult means not easy, and particularly denotes that which requires special effort or skill: a difficult task.
The Word of the Day for October 11, 2024 is battologize. Find out the meaning of battologize and learn about its origin and uses!
Though the god’s name in older Latin was Iovis, in classical Latin, the compound name Iuppiter “father Jove” (based on pater “father”) took the place of Iovis as part of a process called suppletion, as we learned about recently in the etymology of the Word of the Day laisser-aller.