Word of the Day: Obviate! Ex. "Some TVs come equipped with … technology that manufacturers incorporated to obviate the need for supplementary cable boxes."
Word of the Day: Hallmark! Ex. "His usually sympathetic, sometimes overgenerous interpretation of others' motives has been a hallmark of his character at least since his student days."
Nascent! Ex. "Both Enterprise and Hertz have small car-sharing units. Zipcar is estimated to have the largest share of the nascent industry, which has about $400 million in annual sales among all companies."
Riposte! Ex. "Modernism, with its strong Gothic influences recalling the glories of medieval Barcelona, was very much a riposte to the conservative architecture that flourished in Madrid at the time."