caprice: a sudden, unpredictable change, as of one's mind or the weather.…

"Always get married early in the morning. That way, if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted a whole day."…

"Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?"…

"Of those who say nothing, few are silent."…

"A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing."…

Today's word is fountainhead, part of this week's theme, The source. It is a (noun) and is pronounced [FOUN-tahn-hed']. Click to read the definition, origin and see it in action! Thu: progenitor | Wed: beget | Tue: antecedent | Mon:…

excogitate: to think out; devise; invent.…

"An alcoholic is someone you don't like who drinks as much as you do."…

"Humor is everywhere, in that there's irony in just about anything a human does."…

"In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite."…

"I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up - they have no holidays."…

Today's word is progenitor, part of this week's theme, The source. It is a (noun) and is pronounced [proe-JEN-i-tahr]. Click to read the definition, origin and see it in action! Wed: beget | Tue: antecedent | Mon: wellspring | Fri:…

peroration: a long speech characterized by lofty and often pompous language.…

"Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, /And think they grow immortal as they quote."…

"When the politicians complain that TV turns the proceedings into a circus, it should be made clear that the circus was already there, and that TV has merely demonstrated that not all the performers are well trained."…

"Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions."…

"Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but, unlike charity, it should end there."…

Today's word is beget, part of this week's theme, The source. It is a (transitive verb) and is pronounced [bi-GET]. Click to read the definition, origin and see it in action! Tue: antecedent | Mon: wellspring | Fri: sisyphean |…

doyenne: a woman who is the senior member of a group, class, or profession.…

"No one who cannot rejoice in the discovery of his own mistakes deserves to be called a scholar."…

"I tend to live in the past because most of my life is there."…

"On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time."…

"Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese."…

"Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese."…

Today's word is antecedent, part of this week's theme, The source. It is a (adjective, noun) and is pronounced [an'-ti-SEED-nt]. Click to read the definition, origin and see it in action! Mon: wellspring | Fri: sisyphean | Thu: Gordian knot…

idoneous: appropriate; fit; suitable; apt.…

"A book of quotations . . . can never be complete."…

"We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us."…

"There's an old saying about those who forget history. I don't remember it, but it's good."…

"Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem."…

Today's word is wellspring, part of this week's theme, The source. It is a (noun) and is pronounced [WEL-spring']. Click to read the definition, origin and see it in action! Fri: sisyphean | Thu: Gordian knot | Wed: Herculean |…