Well, Widge here. I manipulate Aaron’s Patreon to get a third season of Word-A-Week and things fall on me again. I suck. Did you hear the one about the three-foot king snake that...
Category - Word-a-Week
Word-A-Week Vocabulary Vlog #51: Fard
You thought Word-a-Week was gone for good. But since everything is trying to emulate Marvel these days, resurrection can come pretty easy. Or at least reasonably priced. Wordmonger...
Word-A-Week Vocabulary Vlog #50: Agraffe
Word-a-Week is dead. Long live Word-a-Week. Wordmeister Aaron Poole did it his way and he sends this feature off into the sunset in style. Granted, as you will see, he spent an entire...
Word-A-Week Vocabulary Vlog #49: Penultimate
As Word-a-Week draws to a close, the hope is that the vocabulary receptacles in your mind have been stretched sufficiently to allow you to replenish your hopefully whetted appetite for...
Word-A-Week Vocabulary Vlog #48: Apposite
The reason that wordsmiths like Aaron Poole can freestyle and not come off sounding like a maroon is because they have a good verbal foundation to work from. You have to learn the...
Word-A-Week Vocabulary Vlog #47: Opulent
Gene Wilder had a series–briefly–called Something Wilder. One of the most important quotes you will ever hear resulted from this show: “The problem with bad taste is...
Word-A-Week Vocabulary Vlog #46: Otiose
Not since Schoolhouse Rock has there been such rocking involving the English language. Such is the might of Aaron Poole. He is the only Wordsmith to have achieved such a level of...
Word-A-Week Vocabulary Vlog #45: Abderian
Language is power. Granted, power is also power. But in this case, for the sake of argument, language is power. And if you have a solid mastery of the language, you can harness that...
Word-A-Week Vocabulary Vlog #44: Kaput
We’ve all had to try and make the best of a bad situation. And sometimes you have to take whatever kind of edge you can lay hands upon. In some cases, you might just need to be...
Word-A-Week Vocabulary Vlog #43: Inextricable
Sometimes you can feel in a conversation like you can’t escape. Like you’ve got no way out. Even like you’re tied to a chair. It’s in moments such as these that...