Word of the Day

glut

• To fill beyond capacity, especially with food; satiate.
• To flood (a market) with an excess of goods so that supply exceeds demand.

Synonyms: oversupply, surfeit.

Usage: There has been a glut of apples this year.

References

The Free Dictionary — glut
Wordle — Glut

val·or·ous

• Marked by or possessing great personal bravery.

Synonyms: valiant.

Usage: He was a valorous soldier, Gur Tus by name, and together we kept the now thoroughly frightened troops in the semblance of order.

References

• The Free Dictionary — valorous
• Wordle —Valorous

ac·rid

• Unpleasantly sharp, pungent, or bitter to the taste or smell.
• Caustic in language or tone.

Synonyms: pungent.

Usage: The taste of the salt was strong in my mouth, and I was strangling with the acrid stuff in my throat and lungs.

References

• The Free Dictionary — acrid
• Wordle — Acrid

• Something that sustains; a support.
• Sustenance.

Synonyms: maintenance, sustainment, sustenance, upkeep.

Usage: In her heart, as in his, there gnawed ever an all-devouring hunger to work land of their own, a fervent aspiration to establish a solid basis of self-sustentation upon which their children might build.

References

• The Free Dictionary — sustentation
• Wordle — Sustentation

shoal

• A large group; a crowd.
• A large school of fish or other marine animals.

Synonyms: school.

Usage: Every now and then a shoal of flying fish, scared from the water under the bows, would leap into the air, and fall the next moment like a shower of silver into the sea.

References

• The Free Dictionary — shoal
• Wordle — Shoal