Words of The Week:

heuristic, adj., enabling a person to learn something for him/herself.

nihilism, n., the rejection of all moral and religious principles in the belief that life is meaningless.

elucidate, v., make something clear; explain.

equipoise, n., the balance of forces or interests.

specious, adj., plausible but wrong.

fungible, adj., mutually interchangeable.

swaging, v., shape metal using a swage to reduce its cross section.