Given definition 2, I guess a Molotov cocktail would count as a grenade, too.

Curious how many words there are for an inner grouping that begin with C: cabal, camarilla, coterie (& here), clique, cadre, etc. This one seems to be the most neutral of them. Exalted, but neutralish.

This morning this word reminded me of the wonderful Gordon Lightfoot song, "The Minstrel of the Dawn." I hadn't heard it in quite some time, but it still sounds great.

Lambent link.

I can see why impromptitude never caught on; it really should mean lateness, not spur-of-the-momentness.

A difficult one to remember, for me at least. There's cant argot, the gait canter, an intoning chanter, etc. vying for memory space. Being rare doesn't help much, either. I would like to be able to remember the back end of a saddle, though. Just to go along with pommel. A word we haven't seen here, ...

Well, it's the middle of April and we've got showers in my neck of the woods. May they bring an efflorescence of May flowers!

Though teeth can theoretically be in a pre-carious state (no caries, as yet), which would make long term health prospects precarious, those "cariouses" aren't related. Unless there's some Proto PIE hiding out there.

This one's from PIE prek-/prok-, while t'other's from kere-. Wild.

Basically, yes. Now I'm also thinking that coterie may be in the middle, but it can go either way, depending on how it's deployed by the user and taken by the usee.

If a cabal is usually up to no good, and a clique is as much for the exclusion of others as for the inclusion of like minds, where does a coterie fall? Any thoughts?

Dr, Goodword has treated this word, here. Perhaps someone would like to be the first to post a reply to it?

Welcome to the Agora, by the way!

A pronunciation thought-let; when saying words in a vacuum, as individuals, I frequently pronounce them too distinctly. As an example, words that begin with ex-. In normal speaking, it probably comes out as eg-z or ig-z. As an individual word, eks-. Is that what others find in their speaking/reading?

The fuzzy GW for 4/10/24: • velutinous • Pronunciation: vê- lut -ên-ês • Hear it! [/url] Part of Speech: Adjective Meaning: Velvety, covered with a fine, soft, silky fiber. Notes: Today's Good Word is one that botanists have been hiding from us for centuries; it is most frequently used to refer to s...

For more on maundy money, see here.

On an infamous note, Volare was also used as the name of a Plymouth automobile that didn't have a great reception.

I remember well some summer eves, walking among the volitant swallows swooping about, gobbling up the pesky mosquitos.