Some outcomes can't be dodged, delayed, or talked out of existence. Ineluctable is the elegant word for what simply cannot be escaped, however hard you try....

The medieval household officer who guarded the bread and set the lord's table is gone from English, but his job title is hiding in your kitchen....

A mapmaker's trick named for a governor and a lizard, gerrymander describes drawing voting districts so cleverly that one side wins before ballots are cast....

Run a finger under your nose and you'll find a strip of tissue with an exact name. Surgeons, snail collectors, and bird anatomists all use it....

Supple describes anything that bends with ease and grace, from fresh leather to a dancer's spine. Its French roots once hinted at bowing low in submission....

A word you know, with a meaning you almost certainly don't. Here is the Newfoundland answer to today's guess, and the story of the water it names....