Rod's Word of the Day

j’accuse j'ac·​cuse | \ zhä-kᵫz \ Definition of j'accuse : I accuse : bitter denunciation Context:  In his j’accuse, Mattis excoriates the president for setting Americans against one another. Source:  The Atlantic, June 3, 2020

marcescent [ˌmärˈses(ə)nt] mar•ces•cent ADJECTIVE botany (of leaves or fronds) withering but remaining attached to the stem. withering but not falling off, as a part of a plant. marcescence [marcescence] DEFINITION noun form of marcescent Source: My sister Kathleen Williams used the word in conversation while we were taking a walk.

I spent every afternoon walking through a ______ park that was very close to my house. Vicinal [vi-sə-nəl] 1. Adjacent, local 2. Of or relating to a neighborhood or limited area Word Genius

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.