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Jul 7, 2025
This week’s themeWords related to colors This week’s words 
Fulvous shrike-tanager
Photo: Hector Bottai / Wikimedia Previous week’s theme Unusual antonyms 
A.Word.A.Day
with Anu GargLast year, during what he called “Freedom Summer”, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis banned colors -- all but red, white, and blue -- he didn’t find suitable to light up bridges at night. (WashPost, Permalink) Because nothing says freedom like policing your palette, your menu, and your reading list. Here at Wordsmith.org we celebrate all colors. This week we’ll feature five words related to colors he likely does not approve of. Share your favorite tint, shade, or neon dream on our website or drop us a technicolor line at words@wordsmith.org. Include your location (city, state). fulvous
PRONUNCIATION:
(FUHL-vuhs)
MEANING:
adjective: Tawny; brownish-yellow or orange.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin fulvus, from flavus (yellow). Earliest documented use: 1664.
USAGE:
“The woman with outstretched arms, looking out on the sun as it rises
or sets over a fulvous hillside.” Jason Farago; Terrains That Tap Into the Inner Self; The New York Times; Feb 7, 2025. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
I began to sense faintly that secrecy is the keystone of all tyranny. Not
force, but secrecy ... censorship. When any government, or any church for
that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, "This you may not read,
this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know," the end result is
tyranny and oppression, no matter how holy the motives. Mighty little force
is needed to control a man whose mind has been hoodwinked; contrariwise, no
amount of force can control a free man, a man whose mind is free. No, not
the rack, not fission bombs, not anything -- you can't conquer a free man;
the most you can do is kill him. -Robert A. Heinlein, science-fiction
author (7 Jul 1907-1988)
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