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Your word for today is: desperado

Pronunciation: /ˌdespəˈrädō/

Definition: a desperate or reckless person, especially a criminal

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Your word for today is: labefaction

Pronunciation: /ˌlabəˈfakSHən/

Definition: deterioration or downfall

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Your word for today is: dosha

Pronunciation: /ˈdōSHə/

Definition: (in Ayurvedic medicine) each of three energies believed to circulate in the body and govern physiological activity

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Your word for today is: revivify

Pronunciation: /rēˈvivəˌfī/

Definition: give new life or vigor to

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Your word for today is: carrack

Pronunciation: /ˈkarək/

Definition: a large merchant ship of a kind operating in European waters in the 14th to the 17th century

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Your word for today is: pekoe

Pronunciation: /ˈpēˌkō/

Definition: a high-quality black tea made from young leaves

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Your word for today is: gasconade

Pronunciation: /ˌgaskəˈnād/

Definition: extravagant boasting

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Your word for today is: jackal

Pronunciation: /ˈjakəl/

Definition: a slender, long-legged wild dog that feeds on carrion, game, and fruit and often hunts cooperatively, found in Africa and southern Asia

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Your word for today is: catboat

Pronunciation: /ˈkatˌbōt/

Definition: a sailboat with a single mast placed well forward and carrying only one sail

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Your word for today is: paramatta

Pronunciation: /ˌparəˈmatə/

Definition: a fine-quality twill fabric with a weft of worsted and a warp of cotton or silk

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Your word for today is: torticollis

Pronunciation: /ˌtôrtiˈkälis/

Definition: a condition in which the head becomes persistently turned to one side, often associated with painful muscle spasms

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Your word for today is: palmistry

Pronunciation: /ˈpä(l)məstrē/

Definition: the art or practice of supposedly interpreting a person's character or predicting their future by examining the lines and other features of the hand, especially the palm and fingers

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Your word for today is: taffy

Pronunciation: /ˈtafē/

Definition: a candy similar to toffee, made from sugar or molasses, boiled with butter and pulled until glossy

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Your word for today is: marquess

Pronunciation: /ˈmärkwəs/

Definition: a British nobleman ranking above an earl and below a duke

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Your word for today is: spence

Pronunciation: /spens/

Definition: a larder

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Your word for today is: compurgator

Pronunciation: /ˈkämpərˌgātər/

Definition: a sworn witness to the innocence or good character of an accused person

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Your word for today is: rikishi

Pronunciation: /ˈrikəˌSHē/

Definition: a sumo wrestler

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Definition: the ideal superior man of the future who could rise above conventional Christian morality to create and impose his own values, originally described by Nietzsche in Thus Spake Zarathustra (1883–85)

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Pronunciation: /ˈprämənˌtôrē/

Definition: a point of high land that juts out into a large body of water; a headland

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Definition: an error in printing or writing

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Definition: an American feral horse, typically small and lightly built

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Definition: a clumsy or botched attempt at something, especially a shot in golf

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Definition: a drink, especially one other than water

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Definition: coax (someone) with kind words or flattery

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Definition: a thin, plain-weave, semitransparent fabric of cotton, wool, or silk

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Definition: a devotee of horse racing, especially one who owns or trains horses

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Pronunciation: /ˌmem(ə)rəˈbilēə/

Definition: objects kept or collected because of their historical interest, especially those associated with memorable people or events

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Definition: a person's biological father

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Pronunciation: /ˈmōmənˌterē/

Definition: lasting for a very short time; brief

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Definition: severe or otherwise extreme

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Definition: a person or thing that is particularly impressive or attractive

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Definition: a metal support, typically one of a pair, that holds wood burning in a fireplace

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Definition: a leguminous plant with cloverlike leaves and bluish flowers. Native to southwestern Asia, it is widely grown for fodder

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Definition: extreme nervousness causing a golfer to miss easy putts

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Your word for today is: boojum

Pronunciation: /ˈbo͞ojəm/

Definition: an imaginary dangerous animal

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Your word for today is: vortal

Pronunciation: /ˈvôrtl/

Definition: an Internet site that provides a directory of links to information related to a particular industry

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Your word for today is: asunder

Pronunciation: /əˈsəndər/

Definition: apart; divided

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