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Discuss Email this Feedback RSS/XML Permalink A.Word.A.Day--cark cark (kark) verb tr., intr. To worry. noun A worry or care. [From Middle English carken (to load or burden), from Norman French carquier, from Latin carricare. Ultimately from Indo-European root kers- (to run) that's also the source of car, career, carpenter, occur, discharge, and caricature. Why caricature? Because a caricature is a loaded or distorted picture of someone.] Today's word in Visual Thesaurus. "Crows in hundreds carking desolately from the blasted white skeletons of dead trees." Colleen McCullough; The Thorn Birds; HarperCollins Publishers; 1977. This week's theme: archaic words. X-Bonus In their early passions women are in love with the lover, later they are in love with love. -Francois de La Rochefoucauld, writer (1613-1680)

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