• urchin • Pronunciation: êr -chin • Hear it! Part of Speech: Noun Meaning: 1. A brat, a scamp, a guttersnipe, a mischievous youngster. 2. A raggedly dressed child. 3. A sea hedgehog. Notes: Generally speaking, urchin is a lexical orphan, though an appropriately derived adjective urchinly has been ...

• torch • Pronunciation: torch • Hear it! Part of Speech: Noun Meaning: 1. A flame at the end of a stick used for light. 2. [British] A portable electric light, called a flashlight in the US. 3. [Slang] A professional arsonist. 4. A device that produces a very hot flame for welding. Notes: The symb...

• etagere • Pronunciation: e-tah- zher • Hear it! Part of Speech: Noun Meaning: A piece of furniture or tableware with a stack or stacks of open shelves, trays, or plates. Notes: If you like, you may decorate this word like this: étagère. This word was borrowed from French so recently (mid 1800s), ...

• indenture • Pronunciation: in- den -chêr • Hear it! Part of Speech: Noun Meaning: 1. A contract binding one person to another to serve for a specified term, as between an apprentice and a master. 2. An official document executed by two or more individuals with separate identical copies with ident...

Thanks. Fixed.

• bicker • Pronunciation: bik -êr • Hear it! Part of Speech: Verb, intransitive Meaning: 1. To petulantly quarrel over trivialities, wrangle. 2. To mildly quarrel, to slightly disagree verbally. Notes: Here is a substitute for quarrel when you have in mind a light quarrel. In fact, long ago before ...

• verge • Pronunciation: vêrj • Hear it! Part of Speech: Noun, verb Meaning: 1. (Noun) Brink, border, edge, the time just before the beginning. 2. (Verb) To be on the brink, border, edge, come close to, border on, to be just before. 3. (British) The shoulder of a road. Notes: We have two qualitativ...

• exodic • Pronunciation: eg- zah -dik, ek- sah -tik • Hear it! Part of Speech: Adjective Meaning: 1. Pertaining to an exodus, a (mass) departure, exiting, exiting, going out. 2. (Medicine) Efferent, referring to motor nerves carrying signals away from the spinal cord rather than esodic, afferent o...

• Easter • Pronunciation: ee -stêr • Hear it! Part of Speech: Noun, proper Meaning: The Christian holiday celebrating Christ's resurrection from the dead. https://www.alphadictionary.com/images/cross.gif Notes: You might find it strange that we celebrate Christ's resurrection with rabbits and eggs....

• hallelujah • Pronunciation: hæ-lê- lu -yê • Hear it! Part of Speech: Interjection, noun Meaning: 1. (Interjection) An interjection of unexpected joy or relief. 2. (Noun) An exclamation of "Hallelujah!" or piece of music based on it. Notes: This word is a spelling nightmare. Don't forget...

• cenacle • Pronunciation: se -nê-kêl • Hear it! Part of Speech: Noun Meaning: 1. The upper room in which the Last Supper took place. 2. An upstairs dining room. 3. A clique of friends, an inner circle, especially of writers or other artists. https://www.alphadictionary.com/images/cenacle.gif Notes...

It was a misspelling of a misspelling. I copied an unedited version into the Agora.

My apologies. It's fixed now.

• maundy • Pronunciation: mawn -dee • Hear it! Part of Speech: Adjective, noun Meaning: 1. (Religion) The ceremonial washing the feet of the poor. 2. The alms associated with that ceremony. Today is Maundy Thursday, a traditional Christian celebration of the Last Supper, a Passover meal, probably t...

• relevant • Pronunciation: re -lê-vênt • Hear it! Part of Speech: Adjective Meaning: Having a bearing on the matter at hand, pertinent, germane, apropos. Notes: This word is sometimes mispronounced revelant and misspelled relevent . Careful how you pronounce and spell it. The adverb is relevantly ...

• contraband • Pronunciation: kahn -trê-bænd • Hear it! Part of Speech: Noun Meaning: 1. Smuggled goods, goods legally or otherwise prohibited from importation. 2. Smuggling, traffic in illegal goods. 3. Before the Civil War, a fugitive or captured slave. Notes: This word is closely associated with...