WOTD: Convive

Tis the season to convive!

convive (v.) IPA:
To feast together, enjoy a banquet

AGAMEMNON.
First, all you peers of Greece, go to my tent;
There in the full convive we…

-Troilus and Cressida (IV.iv)

Convive with your families this Holiday season while you’re on Christmas break. None of this “winter break” political correctness. The fact of the matter is Hannukah is over and the break was invented to have time off for Christmas. Convive and be merry!

WOTD: Fardel

For the first word of the day, I just picked something random that came to mind.

Fardel or Farthel (n) IPA pronunciation:
1. a pack, a bundle
2. burden

SHEPHERD
Sir, there lies such secrets in this fardel and box, which none must know but the king;
-The Winter’s Tale (IV.iv)

HAMLET
…who would fardels bear,
To grunt and sweat under a weary life,
-Hamlet (III.i)

ETYMOLOGY: c.1300, from O.Fr. fardel, dim. of farde, perhaps from Arabic fardah.