I'm not sure why this word seems strangely fitting. Go figure.

I think it's cool word, but maybe it's just me.

I pulled today's word from Keith Phipps' review of Kate and Leopold. Speaking of our friend Mr. Phipps, he's written about the only positive review I've read of Ali, which is still enough to make me want to see it.

I'm tired. Seems like a cool word starting with "x" for 4 am.

Obviously, I was more concerned with the first meaning than the second set when I chose this word.

I know I've missed the last two days (one day because of a hacker to AOL and one day due to the Blogger hacker), but I'm not going to bother making it up. We'll just have two less words.

Another word randomly chosen from the dictionary - so sue me.

I haven't had a whole lot of opportunity to read much in last few days, so here's another word chosen from the dictionary at random.

I've been pretty busy lately, so I picked out the first interesting word I found when I opened the dictionary. Sure it's useless, but now you know a useless word.

After arrriving home at 4 this morning, I sat up reading a little René Girard, and he kept using this word. Seems pretty important, doesn't it?

I was inspired to pick this word when I found it used to describe in Audrey Tatou in the latest issue of "Entertainment Weekly." Of course, my first experience with the word came from Charles Chaplin's Modern Times.

Today's WotD is being offered up in adjective form, but the inspiration was the noun form found in this week's edition of The Onion. It necessitated me digging out the dictionary, so here you are.

I had a different word for today, but I forgot what is was. I figured nobody would mind my choice of replacement.

I'm embarrased to admit I didn't know the actually meaning of this word until I looked it up today. I have, of course, encountered it on several previous occasions, but never bothered to look up its meaning until I came across it Sunday while reading Friday's Daily.

I took this one from the opening lines of Wonder Boys. Prof. Trip (Michael Douglas) uses the word to describe the situation into which student James Leer (Tobey Maguire) has placed himself. I picked this word this morning over a much more useless word I had originally chosen last night.

I never said these words would have practical daily applications. I think I heard this one on "Jeopardy!" yesterday, but it was more randomly chosen than anything.

I already knew this word, but when I heard it spoken by one of the characters in Arsenic and Old Lace (I think it might have been Jonathan Brewster (Raymond Massey)) while watching it last night, I knew it had to be one of my choices.

I think I came across this one on some random person's blog I read recently. I've read the word quite a few times in the past, but never knew what it meant exactly. Seems like a pretty good nominee for a word to learn then, doesn't it?

For my very first Word-of-the-Day, I chose the word that inspired this entire project. I think it's rather important, because it explains one of the reasons for me doing this in the first place.