A Word a Day

On average, an English-speaking adult has acquired a functioning vocabulary of 25,000 words by the time they reach middle age – which only accounts for less than fifteen per cent of the total words in current usage. Furthermore, with new words being created all the time, as the word pool flourishes, can we afford to allow our vocabulary to stagnate? In A Word a Day, each of the 365 words have been carefully selected for their elegance and pertinence in everyday situations and every entry co...