Merriam-Webster

noun | a reference source containing words alphabetically arranged along with information about their forms, pronunciations, functions, and etymologies

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New cat species just dropped.

Meet Leopardus tilcayo, or the tilcayo tiger cat.

It’s smaller than a housecat, lives in Bolivia’s Yungas forest ecoregion, and is the first new living cat species discovered in more than 100 YEARS. ����⬇️

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The #WordOfTheDay is ‘volition.’
https://t.co/vamGipl9Q7

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'O’clock’ is a contraction of "of the clock."

‘Clock’ comes from the Medieval Latin ‘clocca,’ which meant “bell.”

Church towers would ring bells to mark the passing hours.

‘Cloak’ also comes from ‘clocca’ as the garment takes a bell-like shape around the body.

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it is so funny that “o’clock” is like, the official name for that concept

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cc @JamesGunn 🙏🙏🙏

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To whoever wrote in asking us about the lyrics “Baby, I compare you to a kiss from a rose on the grey,” we also don’t know what it means.

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Also, every 'Batman' should have a new cover/version of this song.

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Happy Batman Day!

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To whoever wrote in asking us about the lyrics “Baby, I compare you to a kiss from a rose on the grey,” we also don’t know what it means.

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The #WordOfTheDay is ‘aggrandize.’
https://t.co/uM3Sz7GXGR

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Word?

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It’s called “the speed of light,” but it’s not light-specific.

It’s the speed limit for anything massless.

E.g., gravitational waves travel at that speed.

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Merriam-Webster announced this week that it has added 1,400 new words and definitions to its online dictionary, with everything from internet slang and dating terminology to artificial intelligence terminology and food making the cut. https://t.co/8ecP3zTfbw

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Merriam-Webster announced this week that it has added 1,400 new words and definitions to its online dictionary, with everything from internet slang and dating terminology to artificial intelligence terminology and food making the cut.

Read more: https://t.co/xTKZuFWDmh

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Please avoid all salads, including word.

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Are you entering your “glow-up” era? Perhaps you’re “looksmaxxing” ahead of the fall season, or should we say, “cuffing season.”

Merriam-Webster has added these words, along with about 1,400 others, to its dictionary. See more additions here: https://t.co/UTckhXnugv

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Nobody asked for this, but here are some of our favorite facts about U.S. state flags:

Oregon is the only state with a two-sided flag.

The front shows the state seal, and the reverse shows the state animal: a beaver. 🧵⬇️

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These are your words of the week

parallax
saccharide
anthropic
oligarch
mastodon
fanfaron
https://t.co/nqkDSrOess

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Some say that ‘latter’ should only be used in a series of 2, insisting that ‘last’ is more appropriate for a series of 3 or more.

FWIW, our evidence shows that ‘latter’ is used to refer to the last in a series regardless of number.

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Got unmatched after this... time to call it a day on Hinge I think.

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There is no such thing as being "right-brained" or "left-brained."

Apologies to our logical thinkers who love assigning things to categories.

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The #WordOfTheDay is ‘churlish.’
https://t.co/TEIzWCqNbn

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@inhumannaty Thank you.

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@Ozoon_CA @InternetH0F That might be true, but the existence of new words is not responsible.