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Discuss Email this Feedback RSS/XML Permalink A.Word.A.Day--adit This week's theme: a medley of words. adit (AD-it) noun 1. Access; entrance; admission. 2. A nearly horizontal passage leading into a mine. [From Latin aditus (approach, entrance), from adire (to approach), from ire (to go). Ultimately from Indo-European root ei- (to go) that is also the ancestor of words such as exit, transit, circuit, itinerary, and obituary.] Today's word in Visual Thesaurus. -Anu Garg (garg AT wordsmith.org) "As the tramcar passed beneath the low-slung adit, [Sam] Sanders's head was crushed against the timbers." Fred Girard; The Last Bus Stop; The Detroit News; Jan 30, 2006. X-Bonus The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere. -Anne Morrow Lindbergh, writer (1906-2001)

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