Word of the Day: Twee.

Adjective
1. Excessively or affectedly quaint, pretty, or sentimental.

Example Sentences.
1. "Mary Beth had a fascination with all things twee, such as her wardrobe filled with polka dots and sweater sets."
2. "The floral porcelain tea set was a twee addition to his kitchenware."
3. "Everything in her bedroom had a feminine, twee quality."

Word Origin.
British English, early 20th century

This word is a very recent addition to the English language, stemming from a childish pronunciation of the word "sweet." In 2014, James Parker wrote about the "Twee Revolution" in "The Atlantic."
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Word of the Day: Spatulate.

ADJECTIVE
1. Having a broad, rounded end.
2. (Botany, zoology) Broad at the apex and tapered to the base.

Example Sentences.
1. "To demonstrate a spatulate shape to the class, I showed a baseball bat."
2. "Pestles are spatulate, which is why they're good at grinding spices."
3. "The tropical plant is covered in lots of thick, spatulate leaves."

Word Origin.
Latin, mid-18th century

"Spatulate" comes from the Latin "spatula" (“broad piece”) and the Greek "spathe," meaning "broad flat blade." We’re familiar with the spatula used in the kitchen to flip pancakes, but today, "spatulate" is now used commonly in botany and zoology to describe features with slender bases and broad tips, such as water oak leaves.

1997 NYC teacher Jonathan Levin is tortured and killed by his former student.

Jonathan Levin, a popular 31-year-old English teacher, is stabbed and shot to death in his Upper West Side apartment in New York City. The son of Time Warner chairman Gerald Levin, Jonathan was known by many to be wealthy. When he did not show up for work, investigators searched his apartment and found his lifeless body bound to a chair with duct tape. Levin’s bankcard was missing from his wallet, and $800 had been removed from his account around the time that he was killed.

Police learned from Levin’s answering machine tape that Corey Arthur, a former student in Levin’s remedial English class at William H. Taft High School in the Bronx, called Levin on May 30 to arrange a meeting. Apparently, Arthur and his accomplice, Montoun Hart, tortured Levin with a kitchen knife in order to get him to tell them his debit card code. They turned on the vacuum cleaner and stereo to cover up his screams.

Arthur, arrested a week after the murders, first claimed that he had been at Levin’s apartment smoking crack when two other men came in and killed him. However, his story lost its credibility at trial when his fingerprints were found on the duct tape. Even still, Arthur denied being the one who pulled the trigger of the fatal shot.

Arthur was found guilty of second-degree murder and received 25 years to life in prison. Hart, despite his 11-page signed confession, was acquitted after convincing jurors that the confession had been coerced out of him when he was drunk.

Word of the Day: Snuggery
NOUN 1. A cozy or comfortable place, especially someone's private room or den.

Example Sentences.

"The hidden snuggery behind the kitchen is my favorite room in the house."

"I had to sacrifice my snuggery to create an office to work from home."

"The kids turn my snuggery into a play fort on rainy days."

Do you know the word "hygge" (pronounced "HOO-gah")? It's a Danish word meaning "cozy," but it's also a modern obsession with all things comforting. Having a snuggery is a key element of reaching the perfect state of hygge. .