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Rupicolous [ruh-PIK-uh-luhs]
(adj.)
-Living among, inhabiting, or growing on rocks.

Used in a sentence:
“When cousin Larry Appleton wanted to toughen up his image by joining a rock band, Balki balked, saying ‘don’t be rupicolous!’”
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October 28, 2024 at 2:08 PM
"Macarism - Finding Pleasure in the Joy of Others”
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January 26, 2024 at 11:33 AM
Thanks to Dr. David McNamara @mcnamadd.bsky.social for inspiring today’s GWOTD

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Everywhere you look in Troodos - celadonite, a common ocean crust alteration mineral. Such an amazing trip to see the Troodos Ophiolite in Cyprus.
June 9, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Thanks @margaretzimmer.bsky.social for inspiring today’s GWOTD!
June 7, 2025 at 12:54 PM
If anyone needs a quick cheap birthday present for me GWOTD has an Ostrabogulous t-shirt that I would very much like to have.
Ostrobogulous [OS-truh-BAWG-yuh-luhs]
(adj.)
-Slightly risqué/indecent; bawdy/slightly off-colour
-Bizarre, interesting, or unusual
-Harmlessly mischievous

Used in a sentence:
“I can honestly say that I’ve never met anyone quite so ostrobogulous as Lady Octavia.”

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August 17, 2023 at 11:56 AM
🧪 Fact of the day: Some scorpions have different numbers of eyes on the left and right side of the same individual 🤯

German(ish) word of the day: abgefuckt = a portmanteau of English fucked up and German abgewichst

🧪FOTD x GWOTD: Skorpion augen sind total abgefuckt 🦂

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June 11, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Geology Word(s) of the Day!

Magmatic Evolution - The continuing change in composition of a magma as a result of magmatic differentiation, assimilation, or mixing of magmas.

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June 21, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Yarborough [YAR-bur-oh]
(n.)
- A hand in Bridge or Whist containing no ace and no card higher than a nine.

Used in a sentence:
"I think Clud has a better chance of getting dealt a Yarborough than of getting JoLynne to agree to be his date to the Spring Formal Dance.”
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October 2, 2024 at 6:40 PM
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Cantabank [KANT-uh-bank]
(n.)
- A second-rate ballad singer.

Used in a sentence:
“Despite the best band, back-up singers, and pyrotechnics money could buy, the cantabank’s debut performance ended in jeers, tears, and an unceremonious defenestration.”
September 7, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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February 3, 2024 at 6:20 PM
Geology Word of the Day!

Catastrophism - (a) The doctrine that sudden violent, short-lived, more or less worldwide events events outside our present experience or knowledge of nature have greatly modified the Earth’s crust;

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June 17, 2025 at 1:50 PM
"Ostrobogulous - Bizarre - Risqué - Unusual & Mischievous"
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January 30, 2024 at 11:31 PM
Geology Word/Term of the Day!

Bimodal Sediment - A sediment whose particle-size distribution shows two maxima; for example many coarse alluvial gravels.

From the 2nd Edition of AGI’s Glossary of Geology

[This distribution may indicate variable sources or transport mechanisms.] 1/3

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July 26, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Geology Word of the Day!

Nu’ee Ardente - A swiftly flowing, turbulent gaseous cloud, sometimes incandescent, erupted from a volcano and containing ash and other pyroclastics in its lower part; 1/2

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June 18, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Geology Word of the Day!

Placer Deposit - A surficial mineral deposit formed by mechanical concentration of mineral particles from weathered debris. 1/2

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July 14, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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November 28, 2023 at 5:01 PM
Don’t really appreciate being called out by GWOTD on this fine Wednesday morning, during the week of our nation’s birthday, the month of MY birthday. We should be celebrating my loquacious ways, as well as that of our founding fathers (AND mothers)! And furthermore…
Blatherskite [BLATH-er-skahyt]
(n.)
- One who speaks overmuch without saying anything of importance or without making much sense.
- One who blathers on and on.

Used in a sentence:
“That bloviating blatherskite sure seems to have a lot to say; unfortunately none of it makes a darn bit of sense.”
July 2, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Nittiness [NIT-ee-nis]
(n.)
-Effervescence; being full of small bubbles, as w/carbonated beverages

“I laugh whenever she drinks champagne because the nittiness always tickles her nose which causes her to make this adorable expression that looks like a mischievous little elf.”

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January 13, 2024 at 7:43 PM
Our Kickstarter has officially ended (successfully!), but it's not too late! You can still get your GWOTD calendars for 2026 here. And don't forget that they make GREAT holiday gifts for the other word-lovers in your life!

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August 15, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Geology Term of the Day!

Rootless Pluton - A pluton that formed exogenously and was emplaced onto a continental mass through accretion…apart from its source of magma.

My own definition…because in vacation mode from the eastern margin of the rootless Mt. Ashland pluton.

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July 5, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Geology Word of the Day!

Tsunami - A gravitational sea wave produced by any large-scale, short-duration disturbance of the sea floor, principally by a shallow submarine earthquake, but also by submarine earth movement, subsidence, or volcanic eruption.

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June 27, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Geology Word/Term of the Day!

Gilgai - The micro-relief of heavy clay soils with high coefficients of expansion and contraction according to changes in moisture. Gilgai is typical of vertisols.

(A new one for me!)

From the 2nd Edition of AGI’s Glossary of Geology

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July 24, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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June 3, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Geology Word of the Day!

Cotectic - Said of conditions of temperature, pressure, and composition under which two or more solid phases crystallize simultaneously and without resorption from a single liquid over a finite range of falling temperature;

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June 16, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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January 17, 2024 at 4:05 AM