Today’s word of the day is belvedere, a roofed structure, especially a small pavilion or tower on top of a building, situated so as to command a wide view.
We have a pair of “lists of the day” today: words that roll of the tongue and words that stumble off the tongue.
Today’s word of the day is indicia, a plural noun meaning “identifying marks” or “indications.” It’s a favorite of legal minds: “If the defendant is dishonorable, it can take advantage of this window by doing everything possible to cover its tracks; documents will be shredded, electronic evidence will be scrubbed, and any other indicia of wrongdoing will disappear.” It’s from the Latin plural of indicium, a notice, information, discovery, sign, mark, token.
Today’s word of the day is jug-handled, meaning “one-sided,” as in, “I think that courtesy, like reciprocity, should not be jug-handled.”
Today’s word of the day is tump, meaning “to overturn” or “to fall over.” It’s probably etymologically related to tumble and probably is not a contraction of “turn over” and “dump.”
Today’s word of the day is cashew, the kidney-shaped seed of a tropical American evergreen tree, Anacardium occidentale.
This is the fruit that contains the nut. Photo by Joao Vicente, used under a Creative Commons license.