30 April 2026

Ensconsed: Positioned safely and comfortably somewhere. 

• Often it’s by taking on the style of someone who is established, who is safely ensconced at the top of a tower where people can’t attack them. (Interview with Danilyn Rutherford)

26 April 2026

 Divining: To guess someting.  

• My tenth-grade students—they were growing up near the Mexican border, and many spoke Spanish as their first language—were left to endure my inept attempts at divining what their regular teacher (beloved, on maternity leave) had covered to date, and my baffling explanations of why and how to use the subjunctive. (Wyatt Mason)