Most word-of-the-day services, emails or other vocabulary building tools are pretty wimpy in my snotty opinion so I have a running list of new words I keep in a note file on Evernote. See my blog post about how I approach reading and vocabulary collection using index cards, a pen or pencil, and Evernote.
When I remember I’ll throw a new work into the sidebar of this blog and archive the old ones on this page in case you want to throw a bookmark at it. Submissions welcome:
Percipient: adjective
Deodand: noun
- Pertaining to vultures.
- Predaceous.
Titivate:verb
Calentures: noun
A feverish delirium formerly supposed to affect sailors in the tropics
Timoneer: noun
Helmsman
French timonier, from timon (“a helm”), from Latin temo, temonis (“a pole”).