It's the Word of the Day podcast for April 2nd.
Today's word is effusive, spelled E-F-F-U-S-I-V-E.
Effusive is an adjective.
Someone or something described as effusive is expressing or showing a lot of emotion or enthusiasm.
Here's the word used in a sentence from The Hollywood Reporter.
More recently, Billboard ranked Grande, who also writes and produces her own work,
high on its list of the greatest pop stars of the 21st century.
Rolling Stone has been similarly effusive,
praising a whistle tone that rivals Maria Carries in her prime.
English speakers have used the word effusive to describe excessive outpourings
since the 17th century.
Its oldest and still most common sense relates to the expression of abundant emotion or enthusiasm.
But in the 1800s, geologists adopted a specific sense,
characterizing flowing lava or hardened rock formed from flowing lava.
Ifusive can be traced via the medieval Latin adjective ifusivus,
meaning generating profusely or lavish, to the Latin verb ifundere,
meaning to pour out, which itself comes from fundere,
meaning to pour, plus a modification of the prefix ex, meaning out.
Our verb ifuse, E-F-F-U-S-E, has the same Latin ancestors.
A person effuses when speaking effusively.