Wednesday Word of the Day

poltroon \pol-TROON\, noun:

1. A wretched coward; craven.

adjective:
1. Marked by utter cowardice.

~Very cool word!  I love when I happen across words that I've never heard before.  Now, I feel compelled to write about a poltroon character.~

Poltroon originally came from the Latin pullus meaning “young animal.” It came to mean an idler or coward in Old French.

Tuesday Teaser

 

Can you complete this grid of letters? Each line is a valid 5 letter word with its first and last letters missing. The missing letters form a word when read downwards and the same word appears both at the start and at the end. What is the missing word?

_OMI_
_EVE_
_ROM_
_OAK_
_ATC_

See below for answers...

Answer

CLASH.

Friday Retro...

LOL...there's just something about Norman Rockwell's work that makes me smile.  I wonder what his sense of humor was like?