English word of the day

Definition: (adjective) Deeply agitated especially from emotion. Synonyms: distraught. Usage: Now that the horror of absolute solitude was upon them, her overwrought nerves gave way, and the reaction came.

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.