Rod's Word of the Day

Clerisy: [ˈklerəsē] NOUN a distinct class of learned or literary people Context: One can believe simultaneously that the press must remain free and that it has built itself into a ersatz clerisy that regards its primary job not as conveying information in as effective a manner as possible but as translating writs for the benighted public, the better to save its soul.   Source: National review; Feb. 11, 2019; p 30; Bad, Press by Charles C. W. Cooke.

mawkish: [ˈmôkiSH] ADJECTIVE, sentimental in a feeble or sickly way. Context: Our national press is a joke. Vain, languid, excitable, morbid, duplicitous, cheap, insular, mawkish, and possessed of a chronic self-obsession that would make, Dorian Gray blush, .... Source: National review; Feb. 11, 2019; p 29; Bad, Press by Charles C. W. Cooke.

[fa-kəl-ˌtā-tiv] Part of speech: adjective Dealing with permissions and the granting of them Happening in some circumstances but not all About Facultative In biology, the word facultative describes traits in plants and animals that are considered optional. For example, facultative carnivores are those that can survive on non-animal foods when necessary. Reposted from Word Genius. 

Perspicacious  pur-spə-kā-shuhs Part of speech: adjective Origin: Latin, 17th century 1 Highly perceptive, keen 2 Discerning, shrewd Examples of Perspicacious in a sentence "The perspicacious 9-year-old easily picked up on my feelings without me even saying anything." "I take a perspicacious approach to my studies, analyzing every word in my textbooks." Reposted from Word Genius .