This Slack channel was created with one specific purpose - guess the word of the day, win $1000. Much easier than Trivia, that's for sure.

Four years ago, at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns, friends Annette Venebrügge in Hamburg, Germany, and Tina Oehmsen-Clark in Toronto dreamed up a project: to each share a word a day.

Our approach remains the same, and it's still Day 1." (2009-2015, with a one-word deviation in 2014) "As always, I attach a copy of our original 1997 letter. It remains Day 1." (2016-2018) ...

Raise a toast of blue (or green) milk, it's Luke Skywalker's 67th birthday!

This word has appeared in 32 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year. Can you use it in a sentence? By The Learning Network 1. an alert and energetic person 2. a generator consisting of a coil ...