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Jan 2010
- Covering the extremities
- Words relating to religion
- Miscellaneous words
- Words made with combining forms
Feb 2010
2009
Jan 2009
- Miscellaneous words
- "New" words
- Words from Obama
- Latin terms in English
Feb 2009
- Words from Darwin and Lincoln
- Words derived from birds
- Whose what?
- Words to describe people
Mar 2009
- Terms from French
- 15-letter words
- Words with no repeating letters
- Double trouble
- A random walk through the dictionary
Apr 2009
- People who have more than one word coined after them
- Terms from French
- There's a word for it
- Words for him and her
May 2009
- Forgotten positives
- Verbs
- Fabric words used metaphorically
- Words derived from numbers
Jun 2009
- Words having many unrelated meanings
- Eponyms
- Medicinal words to describe people
- Miscellaneous words
- Slang
Jul 2009
- Words with three letters in alphabetic sequence
- Words from geology
- Miscellaneous words
- Combining forms
Aug 2009
- Eponymous pairs
- Short words
- Words that exercise all your fingers
- Illustrated words
- Animal words
Sep 2009
- Yours to discover
- Eponyms
- Words about censorship and destruction of books
- Words derived from hands and feet
Oct 2009
- Autumn colors
- Terms from law
- Miscellaneous words
- Eponyms
Nov 2009
- There is a word for it
- Words related to horses
- Verbs
- Adverbs
- Terms from French
Dec 2009
- Words about words
- Miscellaneous words
- Fear and desire
- Words that have changed with time
2008
Jan 2008
- Whose what? (animal edition)
- Miscellaneous words
- Words with color as metaphor
- What does that company name mean?
Feb 2008
- Words related to sleep
- Words related to medicine
- Short words
- Whose what? (named after specific persons)
Mar 2008
- Lesser-known counterparts of common words
- Words to mark the quadridecennial of the founding of Wordsmith.org: 14-letter words, 14-letter definitions
- Words from guest wordsmith Matt Ball, founder of Vegan Outreach
- Words from Yiddish
- Words formed by contraction
Apr 2008
- Words to describe people
- Words made using combining forms
- Verbs
- Words derived from the names of mythical creatures
May 2008
- Eponyms
- Words related to beards
- Eponyms
- Archaic words
Jun 2008
- Insults
- Words borrowed from Irish
- Toponyms
- Whose what?
- Words from medicine
Jul 2008
- Words made using combining forms
- Words related to royalty
- Words about words and language
- Words with hidden connections to animals
Aug 2008
- Metaphorical descriptions of people
- Miscellaneous words
- Words for physical characteristics used to describe people figuratively
- Why use a simple word?
Sep 2008
- Words that appear to be misspellings
- Toponyms
- Words with nautical origins
- Words from geology and geography
- Insults
Oct 2008
- There is a word for it
- Words about words
- Words that appear to have been coined after the 2008 US presidential candidates
- Contranyms
Nov 2008
- Prepositions
- Portmanteaux
- Miscellaneous words
- Unusual conjunctions
Dec 2008
- Americanisms
- Words related to the shaping of trees
- Toponyms from India
- Words related to the names of fish
- Uncommon adverbs
2007
Jan 2007
- Odd-looking words
- Words that have many unrelated meanings
- Eponyms
- Yours to discover
- Words with hidden animals
Feb 2007
- Miscellaneous words
- Words that are homophones of everyday words
- Porcine words to mark the Chinese new year
- There is a word for it
Mar 2007
- Latin terms in English
- Words related to the number 13 to mark the thirteenth anniversary of Wordsmith.org
- Hair today, gone tomorrow
- Miscellaneous words
Apr 2007
- Professions of the past
- Words that seem risque
- Words for odds and ends
- Words having vowels aeiou once and only once, and in order
- Words about words
May 2007
- Expressions coined after the names of birds
- Eponyms
- Words borrowed from Spanish
- Words to describe people
Jun 2007
- Words that turn into other words when beheaded
- Archaic words
- Toponyms coined after places in Ireland
- Miscellaneous words
Jul 2007
- Words from theater
- Words about diplomacy
- Words from the writing of Judge Bruce M. Selya
- Unusual words used in famous quotations
- Words with double connections
Aug 2007
- Red-herring words
- Words related to calendar
- Words with hidden animals
- Miscellaneous words
Sep 2007
- Words derived from Indo-European roots
- Words formed by false splitting
- Fabric words used metaphorically
- Toponyms
Oct 2007
- Miscellaneous words
- Terms from law
- Words for bosses, officials, and leaders
- There is a word for it
- Words related to food
Nov 2007
- Adjectives
- Words to describe people
- Eponyms
- Words with a built-in definite article
Dec 2007
- Miscellaneous words
- Whose what?
- Yours to discover
- Words borrowed from other languages
- Newly coined words
2006
Jan 2006
- Words related to time
- Words to describe people
- Words better known in their negative forms
- Words related to repartee
- Less-known synonyms of everyday words
Feb 2006
- Loanwords from Sanskrit
- Coined words
- Red-herring words
- Miscellaneous words
Mar 2006
- Words borrowed from German
- Words related to number 12, to mark the 12th anniversary of the founding of Wordsmith.org.
- Words about war
- Words related to archery
Apr 2006
- Terms imported from other languages
- Words related to death and taxes
- Words about books
- Uncommon words with common suffixes or prefixes
May 2006
- Words from games and sports
- Yours to discover
- Unusual words
- Short words
- Adjectives used postpositively
Jun 2006
- Long words
- Fear and Desire
- Professions that exist mainly as surnames
- Words related to shoes
Jul 2006
- Yours to discover
- Words related to the eyes
- Words from Yiddish
- Eponyms
- Verbs
Aug 2006
- Words related to forecasting and divination
- Miscellaneous words
- There is a word for it
- Words about poetry
Sep 2006
- Words from chemistry
- Slang/informal terms
- Words related to pirates
- Miscellaneous words
Oct 2006
- Words related to teaching, learning, and schools
- Words that aren't what they appear to be
- Words about books
- Words to describe people
- Ordinal words
Nov 2006
- Blend words
- Words with a built-in definite article
- Miscellaneous words
- Words that appear to be misspellings
Dec 2006
- Desserts used metaphorically
- Words for body parts used figuratively
- Reduplicatives
- Adjectives used postpositively
2005
Jan 2005
- Words borrowed from other languages
- Words related to movie making
- Miscellaneous words
- Reduplicatives
- Words that aren't what they appear to be
Feb 2005
- Words related to art
- Feminine and masculine forms of words
- Words borrowed from Spanish
- Words related to eating and drinking
Mar 2005
- Toponyms
- Words related to the number eleven
- Words to describe people
- Words about wordplay
Apr 2005
- Words derived from mythical creatures
- Words relating to religion
- Words about books
- Verbs
May 2005
- Allusions and personifications
- Miscellaneous words
- Eponyms
- Insults
- Words from music
Jun 2005
- Words from the 2005 Spelling Bee
- Slang
- Words from The Devil's Dictionary
- Archaic words
Jul 2005
- Terms from Latin
- Words from movie titles
- Words derived from Italian landmarks
- Words related to forecasting
Aug 2005
- Biblical allusions
- Words to describe people
- Words that appear to be misspellings
- Miscellaneous words
- Words related to medicine
Sep 2005
- Metaphorical terms having origins in New York
- Collective nouns
- Words about words (nyms)
- Words for colors
Oct 2005
- Words formed using combining forms
- Eponyms
- Words about words
- There is a word for it
- Words that aren't what they appear to be
Nov 2005
- French terms for food
- Words from the plant kingdom
- Uncommon homophones of common words
- Assorted words
Dec 2005
- Eponyms
- Terms from French
- Words related to words, writing, and language
- Words to describe the Earth's features
2004
Jan 2004
- Earls who became words (or places that became words)
- Words related to medicine
- Words that aren't what they appear to be
- Assorted words
Feb 2004
- Words with variant spellings
- Words borrowed from Yiddish
- Yours to discover
- Words for insults
Mar 2004
- Words for body parts used figuratively
- Words related to writing
- Words related to elections
- Descriptive words to apply to people
- Unusual words
Apr 2004
- Words from law
- Contranyms: words with opposite meanings
- Eponyms
- Miscellaneous words
May 2004
- Words that appear contradictory
- Words to describe people
- Words about relations
- Coined words
- Words from French
Jun 2004
- Unusual verbs
- Words to describe physical characteristics of people
- Words to highlight rankism
- Eponyms
Jul 2004
- Miscellaneous words
- Words to describe people
- Expressions derived from pet animals
- Unusual words
Aug 2004
- Words derived from Old English
- Toponyms or words derived from place names
- Latin expressions
- Words from Greek
- Words that are also names
Sep 2004
- Miscellaneous words
- Archaic words
- Words borrowed from other languages
- Slang
Oct 2004
- Miscellaneous words
- Words to describe people
- Words from politics and elections
- Eponyms
Nov 2004
- Toponyms
- What do those car names mean?
- Words to describe women
- Miscellaneous words
- Short words
Dec 2004
- Words from the world of money and finance
- Hair today, gone tomorrow
- Eponyms
- Words to describe people
2003
Jan 2003
- Words about words
- Words from the word game Derivation
- Eponyms
- Verbs
Feb 2003
- What does that company name mean?
- Toponyms
- Words with interesting etymologies
- Words to describe people
Mar 2003
- Words from mathematics that have other meanings as well
- Words about collecting and study of things
- Miscellaneous words
- Words from the world of law
- Words based on numbers
Apr 2003
- Words to describe poetic forms
- Words derived from many different languages
- Toponyms
- Words to describe people
May 2003
- Words to describe words
- Miscellaneous words
- Words borrowed from African languages
- Metal words used as metaphors
Jun 2003
- Numeric terms
- Yours to discover
- Anglo-Saxon words
- Slang/informal terms
- Miscellaneous words
Jul 2003
- Abbreviations and acronyms
- Words from architecture
- Words that aren't what they appear to be
- Words of horse-related origins
Aug 2003
- Words of horse-related origins
- Eponyms: Words coined after someone's name
- Portmanteau or blend words
- Words to describe your opponents
Sep 2003
- Words with origins in war
- Terms from Latin
- Words related to the solar system
- Words originating in Cantonese
- Words originating in Southeast Asian countries
Oct 2003
- Words based on numbers
- Words originating in Australia
- Words from the works of Gwendolyn Brooks
- Words derived from Sanskrit
Nov 2003
- Eponyms
- Archaic words
- Miscellaneous words
- Words formed in error
Dec 2003
- Words borrowed from Native American languages
- Words borrowed from Spanish
- Words from aviation
- Words to describe people
- Words related to movies
2002
Jan 2002
- Words from sports
- Words to describe people
- Words with Italian connection
- Coined words
Feb 2002
- Toponyms or words derived from place names
- Miscellaneous words
- Words with presidential connections
- Words from theater
Mar 2002
- Words to describe people
- Words from Russian
- Eponyms
- Words that seem unreal
Apr 2002
- Loanwords from Spanish
- Terms with origins in food
- You guess the theme
- Words about books and writing
- Words from Yiddish
May 2002
- Words from law
- Toponyms
- Words that appear misspelled
- Words from Arabic
Jun 2002
- Words formed erroneously
- What's in a name?
- Words based on fish names
- Words that appear misleading
Jul 2002
- Eponyms from fiction
- Yours to discover
- Terms employing various nationalities
- Words with double connections
- Words related to calendar
Aug 2002
- False cognates (words that appear to be related but aren't)
- Red-herring words
- Terms related to the body
- Words about buying and selling
Sep 2002
- AEIOU words
- Miscellaneous words
- Words that have changed meaning with time
- Words about wordplay
- Eponyms
Oct 2002
- Words from Gulliver's Travels
- Words about words
- Lesser-known antonyms of everyday words
- Words to describe people
Nov 2002
- Words `borrowed' from other languages
- Words from medicine
- Words from poetry
- Kangaroo words
Dec 2002
- Toponyms
- Words from the major source languages of English
- Short words
- Miscellaneous words
- Words from the military
2001
Jan 2001
- Words better known in their negative forms
- Yours to discover
- Words from Dante's Inferno, a verse translation by Jean Hollander and Robert Hollander
- Words from "Made in Japan", by Sony co-founder Akio Morita
- Less well-known synonyms of everyday words
Feb 2001
- Words from speeches
- Words with all the vowels
- Coined words
- English as a global language
Mar 2001
- Eponyms
- Words from AWAD archives
- Words about words
- Uncommon words with common suffixes
Apr 2001
- Words to describe people
- Words to describe odds and ends
- Words formed by metathesis or transposing letter (false splitting)
- Eponyms
- Wordpix
May 2001
- Wordpix
- Ordinal words
- Words for odds and ends
- Words to describe people
Jun 2001
- Words from the names of newspapers
- Red-herring words
- Yours to discover
- New words in the OED
Jul 2001
- Words ending in "eric"
- Words from war
- Words for physical characteristics used to describe people figuratively
- Less-known counterparts of everyday words
- Words evolved using folk etymologies
Aug 2001
- Words from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's writings
- Words about words
- Words formed using combining forms
- Words related to places
Sep 2001
- Words related to body parts that are used metaphorically
- Eponyms
- Latin terms
- Verbs
Oct 2001
- Words from chess
- Unusual words
- Words with color as metaphor
- Animal words
- Red-herring words
Nov 2001
- Words to describe people
- Words from mathematics
- Words that appear to be mis-spellings of everyday words
- Wordpix
Dec 2001
- Eponyms
- Nyms
- Irregular plurals
- Archaic words
- Words about words
2000
Jan 2000
- Words for miscellany
- Coined words
- Words often used in a sense different from their established definitions
- Words that have reversed their meaning
- Yours to discover
Feb 2000
- Words about words
- Words not to put on a resume
- Verbs
- Eponyms
Mar 2000
- Toponyms
- Words from newspapers of the world
- Loanwords from German
- Eponyms
Apr 2000
- Miscellaneous words
- Words to describe people
- Words about words
- Words with unusual etymologies
May 2000
- Words with animals
- Words from classical mythology
- Words about words
- Words that sprout other words when beheaded
- Words from medicine
Jun 2000
- Words from government, politics, and elections
- Words about book-lovers
- Feminine and masculine forms of words
- Red-herring words
Jul 2000
- Unusual, esoteric, preposterous words
- Words to drop into conversation with a therapist
- Words for ailments and afflictions
- Eponyms
- You discover the themes of the words
Aug 2000
- Words about books and writing
- Words that make one say, "I didn't know there was a word for that."
- Words from Italian
- Words from the world of learning
Sep 2000
- Syndromes, principle, rule, law, corollary
- Words from the hackers' jargon
- Words about words
- Brand names that have entered the dictionary
Oct 2000
- Words from Gandhi's autobiography
- Words with ambigrams
(we reduced to five words a week starting this week)
- Semordnilaps, or words that spell other words when reversed
- Words to describe people
- Words to mark Halloween
Nov 2000
- Eponyms
- Words from German
- Words from the world of literature
- Animal words that are used figuratively
Dec 2000
- Fictional characters who live on in the dictionary
- Words from poetry
- Animal-related words that are used metaphorically
- Words about words
1999
Jan 1999
- Tree words
- Reduplicatives
- Words about people and food
- Words about books
Feb 1999
- Words related to eating and food
- Nautical words
- Words about words
- Words from the names of newspapers
Mar 1999
- Words derived by adding suffixes
- Pi words to mark Pi Day (March 14)
- Words derived by adding prefixes
- Words about punctuation and diacritics
- Words that go out of their way to not apply to themselves
Apr 1999
- Eponyms
- Toponyms
- Words from Greek mythology
- Words with slightly different spellings from some everyday words
May 1999
- Words with slightly different spellings from some everyday words
- Words about diplomacy
- Readers to discover the theme (answer)
- Words from The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce
- Loanwords from Hindi and Sanskrit
Jun 1999
- Collective nouns
- What would you ask words if you could speak with them?
- Eponyms
- Words to describe people
Jul 1999
- Verbs
- Words with variant spellings
- Eponyms
- Words about teeth
Aug 1999
- Words from Greek and Roman mythology
- Words or phrases from the titles of fictional works
- Eponyms
- Words with no theme
- Loanwords from Japanese
Sep 1999
- Words with no theme
- Eponyms
- Words about words
- Words about numbers
Oct 1999
- Words about colors
- Words about relations
- Greek words
- Toponyms or words derived from place names
Nov 1999
- Words for everyday things and anatomical features
- Words from Greek and Roman mythologies
- Words for animal offspring
- Words to describe people
- Words to describe people
Dec 1999
- Foreignisms
- Words related to the human body, its actions and conditions
- Coined words
- Words to describe people from particular places
1998
Jan 1998
- Words from chess
- Words about forts and castles
- machicolation
- postern
- rampart
- entresol
- garderobe
- groin
- oratory
- Words with numbers
- Words about pregnancy
- primipara
- gravid
- parity
- couvade
- natality
- parturition
- postpartum
Feb 1998
- Words about body parts
- glabella
- lunula
- uvula
- frenum
- axilla
- canthus
- gular
- Words from Joseph Heller's "Catch-22"
- motile
- mellifluous
- obstreperous
- rubicund
- expurgate
- rancor
- subcutaneous
- Hair today, gone tomorrow
- piliferous
- pilgarlic
- hispid
- glabrous
- hirsute
- alopecia
- chevelure
- Poison words
- mephitic
- envenom
- bane
- cyanosis
- toxicant
- noxious
- lavage
Mar 1998
- Words from the 3rd vol. of OED Additions
- affluential
- mediocracy
- luggable
- ableism
- animatronics
- exfiltrate
- maudit
- Words from Faulkner's "Mule in the Yard"
- suspiration
- burlesque
- celerity
- apotheosis
- hap
- indomitable
- bucolic
- Words with weird pronunciations
- chaos
- oeuvre
- segue
- rendezvous
- victual
- contretemps
- Words from Scott Joplin songs' titles
- knurl
- paragon
- euphony
- heliotrope
- felicity
- kismet
- nonpareil
- augustan
- Short words
- vim
- fey
- gest
- kip
- dun
- purl
- maw
Apr 1998
- People and places that became words
- dunce
- baedeker
- casanova
- caucus
- aceldama
- babel
- shillelagh
- Words with interesting histories
- prude
- debunk
- apartheid
- cabal
- dicker
- midwife
- maroon
- Words with interesting histories
- comstockery
- seersucker
- rankle
- trump
- fizzle
- sleuth
- vogue
- Words about the quality of speech
- jape
- badinage
- confabulate
- snivel
- importune
- implore
- bluster
May 1998
- Words about symbols
- caduceus
- chevron
- escutcheon
- totem
- ideogram
- oriflamme
- hieroglyphic
- Words with interesting histories
- earwig
- chaperon
- impeach
- dirge
- ennui
- acrostic
- exorcise
- Words with interesting histories
- kaput
- embargo
- lucre
- superman
- sarcophagus
- iconoclast
- typhoon
- Words with interesting histories
- ombudsman
- diatribe
- posthumous
- mascot
- bigot
- goatee
- chivalry
Jun 1998
- Words from 1998 Spelling Bee
- daedal
- maieutic
- sang-froid
- seriatim
- assonance
- integument
- codicil
- Words with novel pluralizations
- numen
- opus
- virtuoso
- occiput
- trousseau
- chrysalis
- stigma
- Words with novel pluralizations
- os
- calcar
- arcanum
- gravamen
- corpus
- lemma
- cherub
- Words that make you say, "Eschew obfuscation"
- splendiferous
- philoprogenitive
- comestible
- pulchritude
- apothegm
- cerumen
- pronunciamento
- Words with interesting origins
- bootleg
- haywire
- logrolling
- southpaw
- credenza
- supercilious
- red-letter
Jul 1998
- Words from "The Figured Wheel" a collection of poetry by Robert Pinsky
- marmoreal
- ichor
- brogan
- mullion
- mattock
- mortmain
- souk
- Words to describe people
- atrabilious
- cockalorum
- rock-ribbed
- troglodyte
- duplicitous
- caitiff
- ambidextrous
- To need or not to need
- desideratum
- bounden
- obviate
- behoove
- gratuitous
- substantive
- superfluous
Aug 1998
- Words of all kinds
- schadenfreude
- ormolu
- panspermia
- labret
- muliebrity
- discombobulate
- micturate
- Words of all kinds
- opuscule
- phantasmagoria
- coprolite
- grig
- fugacious
- tyro
- tocsin
- People and places that became words
- boycott
- shangri-la
- bluestocking
- ritzy
- leotard
- jodhpurs
- limerick
- People and places that became words
- rialto
- karst
- psyche
- spa
- bobby
- pantaloon
- jesuit
- Words from math
- osculate
- vinculum
- singularity
- annulus
- protract
- involution
- congruent
Sep 1998
- Words with synonyms that appear suspiciously like their antonyms
- flammable
- personate
- tegument
- criminate
- privation
- filiation
- candescence
- Reduplicatives
- tussie-mussie
- herky-jerky
- knickknack
- wishy-washy
- shilly-shally
- pell-mell
- mishmash
- Eponyms
- chauvinism
- tattersall
- titian
- simony
- romeo
- pinchbeck
- jacobin
- Places that became words
- laputan
- vesuvian
- siamese
- canter
- geyser
- tenderloin
- alpine
Oct 1998
- Words derived from place names
- orrery
- capitol
- piedmont
- balkanize
- monadnock
- mocha
- sodom
- Meta words or words about words
- heteronym
- pangram
- toponym
- word-hoard
- etymon
- logogram
- wordmonger
- Portmanteaux or blend words
- cremains
- pennant
- fruitarian
- cinematheque
- blaxploitation
- carmine
- birl
- Words about writing
- bildungsroman
- palinode
- litterateur
- palimpsest
- peripeteia
- excursus
- roman-fleuve
Nov 1998
- Words that violate the "i before e" rule
- Back-formations
- A verbal zoo
- Words to describe people
- Words with an unusual arrangement of letters
Dec 1998
- Words about oceans and seas
- Idioms
- Eponyms
- False splitting
1997
Jan 1997
- Eponyms
- Loanwords from Spanish
- Eponyms
- Things Are Seldom What They Seem
Feb 1997
- Slang
- Valentine's Day: words of affection, passion, and romance
- Cold words
- Eponyms
Mar 1997
- Eponyms
- AWAD's third anniversary: Words from AWAD archives
- Incubus, and what else to avoid while shopping for shoes
- Words from Rabindranath Tagore's "Geetanjali"
- Eponyms
Apr 1997
- Words from Jonathan Swift's "Gulliver's Travels"
- Portmanteau words
- "It was a dark and stormy night..."
- Similar sounding ten* words that can be confusing
May 1997
- Loanwords from Spanish
- Looong words
- Arthur Conan Doyle's "A Study in Scarlet"
- Dickensian characters who have turned into eponyms
Jun 1997
- Words from 1997 Spelling Bee
- Words from Patrick O'Brian's novels
- Words pertaining to animals
- Professions of yesterday that now exist mostly as surnames
Jul 1997
- AWAD's recommendations for some unusual areas to work in
- Tongue twisters
- "These are all real words."
- Twin words
Aug 1997
- Words from chemistry
- Eponyms
- Coined words
- Words about laughing
Sep 1997
- Trademarks that are often used figuratively
- Eponyms from fiction
- Fear and desire
- Figures of speech
- Words about stamps
Oct 1997
- Toponyms
- Positional words
- Aeiou words or words with all the vowels
- Skywatchers' watchwords
Nov 1997
- Oeuvres of nature
- Words that seem risque
- Words from Gibran's Sand and Foam
- Eponyms from fictional characters
Dec 1997
- Much Ado About Nothing
- Topology words
- Words from Tintin Comics
- Words from Tintin Comics
- Words from Maya Chandrasekaran's novel
1996
Jan 1996
- Words of hope, peace and wisdom
- Words from German
- Eponyms
- Miscellaneous words
- Words from Greek mythology
Feb 1996
- Portmanteaux or blend words
- Miscellaneous words
- Back-formations
- Miscellaneous words
Mar 1996
- Miscellaneous words
- Miscellaneous words
- Words about books
- Miscellaneous words
Apr 1996
- Words about words
- Miscellaneous words
- Miscellaneous words
- Number words
May 1996
- Eponyms from fiction
- Miscellaneous words
- Miscellaneous words
- Miscellaneous words
Jun 1996
- Words from Greek mythology
- Bird words
Jul 1996
- Loanwords from Hindi
- Words to mark the 1996 Summer Olympics
- Bad people in history who got a word after themselves
- Words about marriage
Aug 1996
- Savory words
- AWAD's guide to life on other planets
- Eponyms
- Eponyms
Sep 1996
- Words after names of cities
- Weather words
- Eponyms
- Words about colors to mark the autumn
Oct 1996
- Loanwords from Sanskrit
- Flip-flop words
- Odds and ends
- Halloween words
Nov 1996
- Verbs
- Book words
- Words about words
- Words of nautical origins
Dec 1996
- Eponyms
- Eponyms from fiction
- Forgotten Positives
- Forgotten Positives
- Picturesque expressions
1995
(Weekly themes did not become a regular feature until Jun 1996)
Jan 1995
Feb 1995
Mar 1995
Apr 1995
May 1995
Jun 1995
Jul 1995
Aug 1995
Sep 1995
Oct 1995
Nov 1995
Dec 1995
1994
(Weekly themes did not become a regular feature until Jun 1996. AWAD began on Mar 14, 1994.)
Mar 1994
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May 1994
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Nov 1994
Dec 1994
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