Today's word

morganatic \mor-guh-NAT-ik\ - of, relating to, or being a marriage between a member of a royal or noble family and a person of inferior rank in which the rank of the inferior partner remains unchanged and the children of the marriage do not succeed to the titles, fiefs, or entailed property of the parent of higher rank

Not a word for which we Americans have much use. I suppose if I can remember this sense of "morgan" from the German phrase I may have a shot at remembering this word if I encounter it again.

anabasis \uh-NAB-uh-sis\ - 1. a going or marching up : advance; especially : a military advance 2. a difficult and dangerous military retreat

I don't imagine I'll have much use for this one, either, though I can see where I might encounter both of these in future reading.  

Only Monday's selection of tintinnabulation prevented this from being a perfect work week of new words of the day! I can't remember the last time they gave me four consecutive days of new words.  What a treat! (I'll take my treats where I can get them.)

Plus one from today's Dictionary Devil puzzle:

 tomentose \tō-ˈmen-ˌtōs, ˈtō-mən-\ - covered with densely matted woolly hairs

 It was a pretty easy puzzle except for this new word.