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Podcast: Word of the Day
Episode: Icarian
Description: Icarian is an adjective that means excessively ambitious.
Our word of the day comes from the figure of Greek mythology who ambitiously tried to fly — only to have his wings melt, leading to his tragic demise. Icarian is a word used to describe a person whose ambitions — like Icarus — were excessive.