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This week's theme Why use a simple word? This week's words dactylogram apograph argillaceous maquillage pleonexia Today's word in Visual Thesaurus Discuss Feedback RSS/XML A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg argillaceous PRONUNCIATION: (ahr-juh-LAY-shuhs) MEANING: adjective: Made of, resembling, or relating to clay: clayey. ETYMOLOGY: From Latin argilla (clay). Ultimately from the Indo-European root arg- (to shine; white), that is also the source of words such as argentine (silvery) and argue (from Latin arguere, to make clear). USAGE: "But unlike many family movies, [the movie Akeelah and the Bee] has moments of pulchritude while showing no traces of argillaceous feet." Ruthe Stein; Sweetly entertaining 'Bee' Takes Fresh Approach to Spelling It Out; San Francisco Chronicle; Apr 28, 2006. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: Not being able to govern events, I govern myself. -Michel de Montaigne, essayist (1533-1592)

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