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A.Word.A.Day--embrangle embrangle (em-BRANG-guhl) verb tr. To embroil or entangle. [From en- + brangle (to shake), from French branler (to shake).] Today's word in Visual Thesaurus. "This particular sentence - which I can already tell will not be anything to brag about by the time we get to the end of it, because it's going to be too long and embrangled - is being composed at 7 a.m. on the 25th of December 1995, so it's a genuine Christmas sentence." Leon Hale; Still on Deadline on Christmas; The Houston Chronicle; Dec 26, 1995. "And you, God, why embrangle the spirit in flesh?" Mary Potter Engel; A Woman of Salt: A Novel; Counterpoint Press; 2001. This week's theme: verbs. X-Bonus As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no sinners are so intolerant as those that have just turned saints. -Charles Caleb Colton, author and clergyman (1780-1832)

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