Merriam-Webster's trending list today:

[conuly]

imbroglio
spurious
righteous
Kafkaesque
mike (short for "microphone")

Should I ditch my plans and plunge into a day of current events?

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[elenbarathi.livejournal.com]

Maybe - what were your plans?

So far today, my accomplishments comprise a)give cat his medicine, b)water plants, c) talk to kid on phone, d)sweep leaves off deck, e)prepare and eat canned soup.

Words like imbroglio just suck. Not just because of that "Are you a Martian?" look one would assuredly get for using it (as if that weren't enough!) but moreso because of silent g, which has NO fricking place in the ENGLISH language, and is nothing but trouble wherever it occurs. Not that that's the hill I'd pick to die on (there are so many from which to choose!) but.... just sayin'.

My word for the day is 'obloquy', since I used it in conversation with my daughter today, and then commented that she was one of the few people I knew who would know that word. The true purpose behind education is making people worth talking to.

[conuly]

Well, there's a new word for me!