It's the Word of the Day podcast for April 17th.

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You're built to win it. Today's word is postulate, spelled P-O-S-T-U-L-A-T-E. Postulate is a verb.

It's a formal word used to mean to suggest something such as an idea or theory, especially in order to start or continue a discussion.

Here's the word used in a sentence from ABC News.

Based on their findings, researchers postulate that Homo sapiens reacted better to lead exposure evolutionarily than Neanderthals, a species that were close

relatives to Homo sapiens and that went extinct around 40,000 years ago. When you postulate

an idea or theory, you suggest that it is true, especially for the purposes of an argument or discussion.

The word postulate is mostly at home in formal and academic contexts, but don't let that

stop you from postulating, for example, that take-out for dinner makes sense given the cook's

delayed return home from work, or that a thunderstorm is imminent given the cumulonimbus

building on the horizon. This hypothesized sense of postulate emerged in the early 18th century,

but the verb first appeared in English centuries earlier in ecclesiastical contexts, as recorded

in our unabridged dictionary.

To postulate someone, according to this sense of the word, was to request that a higher authority

in the church sanction their promotion, even though they would otherwise be disqualified by church

rules or regulations. With your word of the day, I'm Peter Sokolowski.

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