Weekly Vocab Builder

Improve your writing by increasing your vocabulary. This week's list:

• Nurturance: going beyond nurturing, the nourishment and emotional and physical care of someone.
• Acrostic: a poem in which the first letter of the first word in every line spells out a word when taken together. For example:
  Elizabeth it is in vain you say
  "Love not" — thou sayest it in so sweet a way:
  In vain those words from thee or L.E.L.
  Zantippe's talents had enforced so well:
  Ah! if that language from thy heart arise,
  Breath it less gently forth — and veil thine eyes.
  Endymion, recollect, when Luna tried
  To cure his love — was cured of all beside —
  His follie — pride — and passion — for he died.
                                             —"An Acrostic" by Edgar Allan Poe
  
• Decision engine: Microsoft's marketing term for search engine.
• Favicon: the small icon in a browser's address bar particular to a site.
• More weight: Giles Corey utter these words during the Salem Witch Trials.

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