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Do you love sesquipedalian sentences?
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If you answered "huh" to any of the above questions, you’ve come to the right place!
The new and improved Word of the Day website is your destination for dulcifying your vocabulary. Every business day we give you a new Word of the Day with its complete definition and pronunciation.* We also show a legitimate use of the Word of the Day. Then we test how well you absorbed its meaning with our daily Word of the Day Quiz, and on weekends we offer a Weekly Review where your memory is tested to see if you can match all of five of the week's words to their correct meanings.

Plus if you subscribe, you'll receive an email every business day identifying the Word of the Day along with its definition and pronunciation as well as a unique sentence that uses it in context. From the email you can link directly into the site and take the Word of the Day Quiz.

On the weekend you'll be emailed the Weekly Review match game and as an extra treat, you’ll receive our Word of the Day Words of Wisdom--a famous (or not so famous) quote about vocabulary, language, or a related topic. Some are funny; some are poignant; and some are completely off the wall. So start your subscription to Word of the Day today. Please allow two to three business days for your free subscription to begin.

Definitions and pronunciations for all Word of the Day selections are taken from either Webster’s New Unabridged Dictionary or The Oxford English Dictionary, and. If another source is ever utilized, it would be identified along with the WOTD’s definition. Word of the Day strongly supports the reliability of published dictionaries over any other word source and strongly recommends verifying the meaning of any newly encountered word in a respected dictionary before using it in conversation or correspondence.