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Today's word is deserve.
As defined by Merriam-Webster:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/deserve

Synonym Discussion of deserve
deserve, merit, and earn mean to be worthy of something. deserve is used when a person should rightly receive something good or bad because of his or her actions or character.

A hard worker deserves to be rewarded.

merit is used when someone or something is especially worthy of reward, punishment, or consideration.

These students merit special praise.

earn is used when a person has spent time and effort and gets what he or she deserves.

You've earned a long vacation.

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Today's word is fetish.
As defined by Merriam-Webster:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fetish

A Brief History of fetish

When fetish first appeared in English in the early 17th century, it referred to objects (often amulets) believed by certain West Africans to have supernatural powers. During the 19th century, the word took on a broader meaning: "an object of irrational devotion or reverence." The object need not be physical: a person may have a fetish for an idea, such as an unwarranted belief that a particular economic system will solve societys ills. By the early 20th century, fetish took on yet another meaning quite distinct from its antecedents: a sexualized desire for an object (such as a shoe) or for a body part that is not directly related to the reproductive act (such as an earlobe).

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Today's word is accurate.
As defined by Merriam-Webster:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/accurate

Synonym Discussion of accurate
correct, accurate, exact, precise, nice, right mean conforming to fact, standard, or truth. correct usually implies freedom from fault or error.

correct answers
socially correct dress

accurate implies fidelity to fact or truth attained by exercise of care.

an accurate description

exact stresses a very strict agreement with fact, standard, or truth.

exact measurements

precise adds to exact an emphasis on sharpness of definition or delimitation.

precise calibration

nice stresses great precision and delicacy of adjustment or discrimination.

makes nice distinctions

right is close to correct but has a stronger positive emphasis on conformity to fact or truth rather than mere absence of error or fault.

the right thing to do

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Today's word is generous.
As defined by Merriam-Webster:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/generous

Synonym Discussion of generous
liberal, generous, bountiful, munificent mean giving or given freely and unstintingly. liberal suggests openhandedness in the giver and largeness in the thing or amount given.

a teacher liberal with her praise

generous stresses warmhearted readiness to give more than size or importance of the gift.

a generous offer of help

bountiful suggests lavish, unremitting giving or providing.

children spoiled by bountiful presents

munificent suggests a scale of giving appropriate to lords or princes.

a munificent foundation grant

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Today's word is engage.
As defined by Merriam-Webster:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/engage

Did You Know?

Engag is the past participle of the French verb engager, meaning "to engage." The French have used "engag" since the 19th century to describe socially or politically active people. The term became particularly fashionable in the wake of World War II, when French writers, artists, and intellectuals felt it was increasingly important for them to take a stand on political or social issues and represent their attitudes in their art. By 1946, English speakers had adopted the word for their own politically relevant writing or art, and within a short time "engag" was being used generally for any passionate commitment to a cause.

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Today's word is intellectual.
As defined by Merriam-Webster:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/intellectual

given to study, reflection, and speculation

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Today's word is hyperbole.
As defined by Merriam-Webster:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hyperbole

Did You Know?

In the 5th century B.C. there was a rabble-rousing Athenian, a politician named Hyperbolus, who often made exaggerated promises and claims that whipped people into a frenzy. But even though it sounds appropriate, Hyperbolus' name did not play a role in the development of the modern English word hyperbole. That noun does come to us from Greek (by way of Latin), but from the Greek verb hyperballein, meaning "to exceed," not from the name of the Athenian demagogue.

How is hyperbole pronouncedand why?

This word doesn't behave the way we expect a word that's spelled this way to behave. It begins with the prefix hyper-, which we know in words like hyperlink (and in the adjective hyper itself), but instead of having the accent, or emphasis, on the first syllableHYE-per-linkit has the accent on the second syllable: hye-PER-buh-lee. And then there's that bole. It should sound just like the word bowl, right? Nope. Instead it's two syllables: \buh-lee\ .

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Today's word is obnoxious.
As defined by Merriam-Webster:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/obnoxious

The Lost Meaning of obnoxious

Obnoxious in its oldest sense means exposed to something unpleasant or harmful. This meaning is etymologically accurate: obnoxious is derived ultimately from the Latin ob- exposed to and noxa harm. It has been entirely superseded, however, by the sense extremely offensive. Though this sense is by no means new, having been first recorded more than 300 years ago, some commentators in the late 19th and early 20th centuries were displeased about its ascendancy over the etymological meaning. Ambrose Bierce, the author of the satirical Devils Dictionary, wrote in his 1909 book Write It Right: Obnoxious means exposed to evil. A soldier in battle is obnoxious to danger. Despite these admonitions, obnoxious is nowadays widely used to describe bothersome, rather than perilous, things, and no one questions its correctness.

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Today's word is invincible.
As defined by Merriam-Webster:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/invincible

invincible Has Latin Origins

The origins of invincible are easily subdued. The word derives, via Middle French, from Late Latin invincibilisa combination of the negative prefix in- with vincibilis, an adjective meaning "conquerable," from the Latin verb vincere, "to conquer." Other descendants of vincere in English include convince, evince, vanquish, and even victor. Vincere also gave English vincible, meaning (unsurprisingly) "capable of being overcome or subdued," though it is significantly less common than invincible.

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Today's word is anticipate.
As defined by Merriam-Webster:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/anticipate

Synonym Discussion of anticipate
foresee, foreknow, divine, anticipate mean to know beforehand. foresee implies nothing about how the knowledge is derived and may apply to ordinary reasoning and experience.

economists should have foreseen the recession

foreknow usually implies supernatural assistance, as through revelation.

if only we could foreknow our own destinies

divine adds to foresee the suggestion of exceptional wisdom or discernment.

was able to divine Europe's rapid recovery from the war

anticipate implies taking action about or responding emotionally to something before it happens.

the waiter anticipated our every need

prevent, anticipate, forestall mean to deal with beforehand. prevent implies taking advance measures against something possible or probable.

measures taken to prevent leaks

anticipate may imply merely getting ahead of another by being a precursor or forerunner or it may imply checking another's intention by acting first.

anticipated the question by making a statement

forestall implies a getting ahead so as to stop or interrupt something in its course.

hoped to forestall the sale

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Today's word is enthusiasm.
As defined by Merriam-Webster:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/enthusiasm

What is the history of enthusiasm?

It may come as a surprise to many people, when they first look up the word enthusiasm, to see that its original meaning has to do with passion for religion, rather than passionate or eager interest in general. A brief explanation of the words etymology should clear this up. Enthusiasm entered the English language around the beginning of the 17th century. It was borrowed from the Greek enthousiasmos, meaning inspiration or possession by a god. For the first two hundred or so years that it was used in English, enthusiasm was primarily employed to refer to beliefs or passions that related to religion. By the beginning of the 18th century, however, the word began to be used to describe having strong feelings or interest in secular matters.

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Today's word is coerce.
As defined by Merriam-Webster:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/coerce

Synonym Discussion of coerce
force, compel, coerce, constrain, oblige mean to make someone or something yield. force is the general term and implies the overcoming of resistance by the exertion of strength, power, or duress.

forced to flee for their lives

compel typically suggests overcoming of resistance or unwillingness by an irresistible force.

compelled to admit my mistake

coerce suggests overcoming resistance or unwillingness by actual or threatened violence or pressure.

coerced into signing over the rights

constrain suggests the effect of a force or circumstance that limits freedom of action or choice.

constrained by conscience

oblige implies the constraint of necessity, law, or duty.

felt obliged to go

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Today's word is enable.
As defined by Merriam-Webster:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/enable

Enabling: the Behavior of an Enabler

Enable has a number of senses, most of which are some variant on allowing someone (or something, such as enabling cookies on a computer) to do something. In the past several decades, enable has also started to take on a new associated sense in the field of addiction studies, where enabling is viewed as giving misguided support to a person with some substance-abuse issue. A person who facilitates the self-destructive behavior of another is referred to as an enabler.

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Alternative facts sounds like a word of the day for a different day. It also sounds like something politicians have used throughout history.

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Today's word is fact.
As defined by Merriam-Webster:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fact

It is amazing how facts have changed in the last 20 years.
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Today's word is accepted.
As defined by Merriam-Webster:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/accepted
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Today's word is predict.
As defined by Merriam-Webster:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/predict

Synonym Discussion of predict
foretell, predict, forecast, prophesy, prognosticate mean to tell beforehand. foretell applies to the telling of the coming of a future event by any procedure or any source of information.

predict commonly implies inference from facts or accepted laws of nature.

forecast adds the implication of anticipating eventualities and differs from predict in being usually concerned with probabilities rather than certainties.

prophesy connotes inspired or mystic knowledge of the future especially as the fulfilling of divine threats or promises.

prognosticate is used less often than the other words; it may suggest learned or skilled interpretation, but more often it is simply a colorful substitute for predict or prophesy.

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Today's word is artificial.
As defined by Merriam-Webster:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/artificial

Synonyms
affected, assumed, bogus, contrived, factitious, fake, false, feigned, forced, mechanical, mock, phony (also phoney), plastic, pretended, pseudo, put-on, sham, simulated, strained, unnatural

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I assume this topic is political in nature?

That was a previous word of the day. XD
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Today's word is thrive.
As defined by Merriam-Webster:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/thrive

To quote an old game when an adviser is summoned, "Chao Yun thrives on danger!"

*Disclaimer: I never expected to be able to use that on CE. XD
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Today's word is support.
As defined by Merriam-Webster:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/support

Synonym Discussion of support
support, uphold, advocate, back, champion mean to favor actively one that meets opposition. support is least explicit about the nature of the assistance given. uphold implies extended support given to something attacked. advocate stresses urging or pleading. back suggests supporting by lending assistance to one failing or falling. champion suggests publicly defending one unjustly attacked or too weak to advocate his or her own cause.

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Today's word is burn.
As defined by Merriam-Webster:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/burn

to consume fuel and give off heat, light, and gases

There are quite a few interesting definitions of burn, but this is keeping it simple.
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Today's word is trade.
As defined by Merriam-Webster:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/trade

Synonym Discussion of trade
business, commerce, trade, industry, traffic mean activity concerned with the supplying and distribution of commodities. business may be an inclusive term but specifically designates the activities of those engaged in the purchase or sale of commodities or in related financial transactions. commerce and trade imply the exchange and transportation of commodities. industry applies to the producing of commodities, especially by manufacturing or processing, usually on a large scale. traffic applies to the operation and functioning of public carriers of goods and persons.

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Today's word is eradicated.
As defined by Merriam-Webster:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/eradicate

The Root of eradicate is, Literally, Root

Given that eradicate first meant "to pull up by the roots," it's not surprising that the root of eradicate is, in fact, "root." Eradicate, which first turned up in English in the 16th century, comes from eradicatus, the past participle of the Latin verb eradicare. Eradicare, in turn, can be traced back to the Latin word radix, meaning "root" or "radish." Although eradicate began life as a word for literal uprooting, by the mid-17th century it had developed a metaphorical application to removing things the way one might yank an undesirable weed up by the roots. Other descendants of radix in English include radical and radish. Even the word root itself is related; it comes from the same ancient word that gave Latin radix.

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