aegis \EE-jis\, noun:1. Protection; support.2. Sponsorship; patronage.3. Guidance, direction, or control.4. A shield or protective armor; — applied in mythology to the shield of Zeus. It is this ideal of the human under the aegis of something higher which seems to me to provide the strongest counterpressure against the fragmentation and barbarization of our world.— […]

The screaming you hear is me trying in vain to continue this experiment. I am now (not having searched for today’s word) at a 75% failure rate for finding films using the real word of the day. That’s because today’s word is: Habitue \huh-BICH-oo-ay; huh-bich-oo-AY\, noun:One who habitually frequents a place. Here you will meet […]

It’s just not fair. provender \PROV-uhn-duhr\, noun:1. Dry food for domestic animals, such as hay, straw, corn, oats, or a mixture of ground grain; feed.2. Food or provisions. It turns out that he and thousands of other German immigrants have been acting as pre-invasion intelligence-gatherers, ensuring that “the German Army knew almost to a bale […]

Tough one today. Not having searched yet, I might have to resort to a back-up plan already. robustious \roh-BUHS-chuhs\, adjective:1. Boisterous; vigorous.2. Coarse; rough; crude. . . .the robustious romantic figure comparable to John Willoughby in Sense and Sensibility–he comes in with dash, then proves a temptation to the heroine but is an eventual disappointment.— […]

denizen \DEN-uh-zuhn\, noun:1. A dweller; an inhabitant.2. One that frequents a particular place.3. [Chiefly British] An alien granted certain rights of citizenship.4. An animal, plant, etc. that has become naturalized. Goethe, who visited Berlin only once, found the “wit and irony” of its denizens quite remarkable.— Peter Gay, My German Question But he will know […]