Blog: Idolator

The deciding word in last night's Scripps National Spelling Bee was a musical term: "amarevole," which, according to the wire stories on the bee's results, is "a musical term that means 'with bitterness, poignantly.'" But while trying to find out just how one could use it, I noticed that there aren't many references to the word online that employ it in the context of an English sentence; they're either in Italian or references to the spelling bee. (Even the word's entry on m-w.com is behind a pay wall.) One insight on its proper use comes from [...]