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02/22/2026: Chrysopoeia (verb) The act of transmuting base substances into gold
02/15/2026: Zero Stroke (noun) A mental disorder occurring during times of economic hyperinflation in which the sufferer obsessively writes row upon row of zeros. The term was coined by German physicians observing this phenomenon during the Weimar Republic period.
02/08/2026: Naufragous (adjective) Shipwreck-causing
02/01/2026: Deasil (adverb or adjective) Clockwise. As a verb, it means to move clockwise.
01/25/2026: Widdershins (adverb or adjective) Counterclockwise
01/18/2026: Snup (verb) To underpay for something extremely valuable, taking advantage of a seller’s ignorance
01/11/2026: Cerberus (noun) A hypervigilant custodian, such as an office receptionist who makes people wait interminably and hardly lets anybody in, regardles of their import
01/04/2026: Euterpean (adjective) Pertaining to music
12/28/2025: Ucalegon (noun) A neighbor whose house is on fire
12/21/2025: Rubricate (verb) To mark in red, perhaps by using a rubric (classically, a piece of red chalk)
12/14/2025: Agalactic (adjective) Unable to produce milk
12/07/2025: Phthirophagous (adjective) Lice-eating
11/30/2025: Heterochromia (noun) The condition of having one eye a different color from the other, or having different colors within the iris of an eye
11/23/2025: Antejentacular (adjective) Before breakfast
11/16/2025: Desuetude (noun) A state of inactivity or of no longer being used or practiced
11/09/2025: Hyalophagy (noun) Glass-eating, sometimes a pathological condition but also done for shock effect by performers in the same vein as sword-swallowing, “pounding” nails up the nostrils, etc
11/02/2025: Preprandial (adjective) Before a meal, most often referring to dinner
10/26/2025: Phlogiston (noun) Invisible fluid first proposed in 1667 to be possessed by all flammable substances and released when they burn. Antoine Lavoisier debunked the theory in 1777.
10/19/2025: Quader (verb) To square a number (multiply it by itself)
10/12/2025: Bondieuserie (noun) Tacky or kitchy religious ornamentation. (From the French for “Dear Lord.”)