Wednesday, December 18

At least 14 people are dead and hundreds of others are injured after a major earthquake struck the island nation of Vanuatu yesterday, sparking landslides, damaging buildings, and ripping apart roadways.

Fact of the Day (Reader's Digest): The small South Asian country of Bhutan is the most mountainous in the world-- mountains cover a staggering 98.8% of its total area.

Quote of the Day: A diamond is a chunk of coal that did well under pressure. (Henry Kissinger)

Word of the Day (Merriam-Webster): Lexical (adj, pronounced LEK-sih-kul)- To describe something as lexical is to say that it is related to words or vocabulary.

In a Sentence: A dictionary provides lexical information—it tells you what the word "cat" means, not all there is to know about cats.