It's the word of the day for March 31st.
Today's word is penchant spelled P-E-N-C-H-A-N-T.
Penchant is a noun.
It refers to a strong liking for something or a strong tendency to behave in a certain way.
It's usually used with the word for.
Here's the word used in a sentence from Slate by Jack Hamilton.
Sly Lives is exceptionally strong in its attention to musical detail.
Even more than Questlove's previous cinematic effort, the Academy Award-winning Summer of Soul,
Sly Lives feels like a film made by a great musician.
The film's interviewees offer illuminating ruminations on Sly's vocal arrangements,
including his penchant for switching back and forth between unison vocal parts and harmonized ones.
English has multiple P words that imply a strong instinct or liking for something,
including propensity and proclivity.
But to keep things precise,
penchant is the proper word for implying a pronounced persistent taste in a person,
as in a penchant for pretty pendants,
or a predominant predilection for performing particular actions,
as in a penchant for petting penguins.
Penchant traces all the way back to the Latin verb pendere, meaning to weigh,
but is more immediately preceded in English by the French word penchant,