Word to the Wise: Welter
by ETR (07/16/2008)
A "welter" (WEL-ter) - from the Middle English for "to toss about" - is a confused jumble of things.
Example (as used by Emily Mitchell in a New York Times review of The Two Kinds of Decay by Sarah Manguso): "From an original welter of experience, [Manguso] has carefully culled details that remain vivid."
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