"Gloaming"

The vampires and princesses will start appearing tonight at gloaming, demanding candy of me. Of course, I will provide. Happy Halloween!

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"Hubris"

I would tell you how awesome I am, but I am afraid that my hubris would come back to haunt me. They do say that "Pride goes before a fall."

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"Bivouac"

After his parents kicked him out of the house, Joe spent the chilly night at a makeshift bivouac by the river.

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"Execrable"

My first painting was execrable, so I splashed and splattered other colors over it. By the time I was done, it looked modern and quite tolerable.

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"Corroborate"

I thought I knew what this word meant, but dictionary.com's corroboration with my own definition validated my assumption.

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"Genuflect"

In an act of genuine penitence, a young man came forward to the altar and genuflected. The pastor bowed to pray with him for a while, and then the young man left his position of prayer to return to his pew.

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"Quandary"

I was in a quandary regarding a blog topic until I visited dictionary.com and looked at the word of the day. Then I knew what to write about!

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"Limn"

Her painting of cottony cumulus clouds from the view of an airplane window limned the surreal scene to her daughter, who had not yet flown.

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Welcome to Word of the Day!

Hey everybody, I have created a brand-new blog that revolves around dictionary.com's word of the day (hence the name). The plan is that I will use dictionary.com's word of the day in a short post (hopefully correctly). It should be a fun little vocabulary-building exercise!

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