Word to the Wise: Welter

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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