English word of the day

Definition: (noun) Therapeutic exposure to sunlight. Synonyms: insolation. Usage: Heliotherapy has long been used as a treatment for various skin conditions.

Definition: (noun) The excessive and often meaningless use of words; verbosity. Synonyms: repetition, tautology, redundancy, circumlocution, prolixity, periphrasis, pleonasm. Usage: He is generally a smooth and fluent versifier, but his fluency is his undoing; he wraps up his material in too great a mass of verbiage.

Definition: (noun) An inflated feeling of pride in your superiority to others. Synonyms: self-importance. Usage: I confess, too, that I was irritated by the egotism which seemed to demand that every line of my pamphlet should be devoted to his own special doings.