7 word-a-day resources to expand your vocabulary

I’ve often written of my love of words. I’ve explored words that are fun to pronounce, words that make writers swoon, made-up words and words to describe people. There are also words to describe words and Janus words.

For this week’s post, I went searching for new sources of words and found several “word-a-day” resources, apps, and websites. Here are some you might find worthwhile:

A Word A Day For 20 years, the wordsmith.org online service has been emailing a word a day to subscribers all over the world. The New York Times has called the service “the most welcomed, most enduring piece of daily mass e-mail in cyberspace.”