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Apr 25, 2014 This week's theme Words to describe people This week's words tractable bombastic impecunious petulant incorrigible Many ways to read AWAD o Email o Web o Twitter o RSS feed o On your own website A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg incorrigible PRONUNCIATION: (in-KOR-i-juh-buhl) MEANING: adjective: Incapable of being corrected or reformed. ETYMOLOGY: From Latin in- (not) + corrigere (to correct). Ultimately from the Indo-European reg- (to move in a straight line, lead, or rule), which also gave us regime, direct, rectangle, erect, rectum, alert, source, surge, recto, regular, abrogate, arrogate, prorogue, interregnum, regent, and supererogatory. Earliest documented use: 1340. USAGE: "I'm an incorrigible scavenger. I've been known to climb into dump trucks because I've seen an interesting table leg sticking out of the rubbish. I've furnished whole apartments from things I've found on the street." Lee Tulloch; My Souvenirs Are Not Snow Globes; The Canberra Times (Australia); Feb 22, 2014. See more usage examples of incorrigible in Vocabulary.com's dictionary. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: I don't mind that you think slowly but I do mind that you are publishing faster than you think. -Wolfgang Pauli, physicist, Nobel laureate (1900-1958)

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