The Introduction of Word Day: Corona (nope, not that one)

In college, I was required  had the honor of  kept a list of vocabulary words. It was a love/hate relationship. I liked learning new words, but I hated the effort of looking them up.

In MY day, my mom would tell me to "look it up" if I came across a word I didn't know, and this  required unreasonable amounts of effort. We used to have to walk all the way across the room to the bookshelf, up hill both ways, to find a dictionary. I mean, the first iPhone didn't even come out until halfway through my junior year of college, and do you remember what looking stuff up on a phone was like before then? Nobody does, because you just didn't.

One of the beauties of our technological age is our new-found ability to look things up on a whim. We're always with our phones, in front of our computers, or within arms reach of an old fashioned paper dictionary...nope, just those two things.

My appreciation for vocabulary hasn't changed, but my apathy and laziness toward actually looking up words has. Now all I have to do is type a few characters into my phone and, by the powers of tiny computers, satellites, and magic, I get answers wherever and whenever I want. It's like a super power or something. I now have the capability to do something about my word ignorance.

And that is my introduction to Word Day: a random day where we'll post a word and a picture. Maybe it will be a word you don't know. Maybe it will be on a Monday, or maybe a Friday, or maybe even a Wednesday. You'll never even see it coming!

I have to admit, when I initially read today's word, my first thought immediately went to that mediocre drink that only becomes marginally less mediocre by shoving a lime down its neck. But I knew this couldn't be what the word actually meant (after all, context and stuff).

I've kind of already tipped you off to the word by the title of this post. There are several definitions of the word "corona," and, surprisingly, none of them are beverage related (see what the rest are here).

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Admittedly, there aren't many times you can whip this one out in conversation. But it might just come in handy when you least expect it (perhaps on a moonlit walk with someone you're trying to impress). Remember: words save lives, and dates.

Any unique words you've come across lately?