Merriam-Webster’s Word of the day & week – July 10

Word of the day

Other words I didn’t know or wasn’t sure about its meaning or pronunciation:

  • perihelion
  • apogee
  • perigee
  • AU
  • uproot
  • befits
  • glistering
  • Phaehon
  • sleight of hand
  • adroitness
  • sleight
  • sly
  • scrapping
  • resonance
  • Thesus
  • milieu
  • bequeath
  • Meiji-era
  • spirit
  • barley
  • rye
  • bromine
  • commonplace
  • tiresome
  • bore
  • hackneyed
  • knack
  • manning
  • inertia
  • melodrama
  • thespian
  • hot-ticket
  • masquerade
  • balls
  • burlesque

Words of the week

  • Faithless & elector
  • Ministerial
  • Svereignty
  • Internecine
  • Antedating: doomsayer

Other words I didn’t know or wasn’t sure about its meaning or pronunciation:

  • minister
  • ascertain
  • saga

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