rubicund @ Dictionary.com

palmy @ Wordsmith

alleviate @ Merriam-Webster


In addition, the Classics Technology Center's My Word feature this week is a handful of writing words in Latin ... and of course, word mavens will always enjoy Done With Mirrors' Carnival of the Etymologies ... and utterly unrelated to Classics specifically, but of interest, I think, is the OED's word of the day: information fatigue.