Are you a wordsmith?

Me, I am not a wordsmith, yet. I would however like to think of myself as an aspiring wordsmith, if you will. I enjoy increasing my vocabulary when possible. I recently came across a couple of sites recently that I wanted to share with you. The first one is Wordsmith.org. There are several useful things that this website provides. They have services that are available for free via e-mail. This page has a list of all of the commands that are accepted by the wordsmith server.

So if you need to know the definition of a word simply send an e-mail to the address wsmith@wordsmith.org with a subject line of "define XXXX" where XXXX is your word and make sure to remove the quotess. Also you can find an anagram in a similar way.

I decided to try out the anagram service and found that an anagram for the word "insolence" is "no silence". Who knows what else you will find by using this service. I have also subscribed to the word-a-day list that is offered. Hopefully this will help you, as it has me, on the never ending quest to be educated.

There is also a book put out by the author of wordsmith which can be purchased here.

Does anyone know what sextumvirate means? Well I had to look it up. Except that turned out to be more of a problem than I would have imagined. I tried my normal online dictionary.com which could not find a link for it. I then searched the Noah Webster's 1828 online dictionary to no avail. I then searched for the word in Google and was able to find a dictionary with my word.
I found a difficult word dictionary that was able to inform me of what my word meant.

sextumvirate

n. government by six men.

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Online Dictionaries
My Normal Dictionary
1828 Noah Webster's Dictionary
Difficult Word Dictionary

This page has quite a few links with refference resources on it

• Electronic Resources Index
  There is one more site that I wanted to share with you Today. Or more correctly one more book. The Wrong Word Dictionary is a book that can help you if you mix words up sometimes. This would have been useful when I tried using the word 'defecate' when I meant to use 'defenestrate'. Wow was that a fun conversation!