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Jun 24, 2010 This week's theme Words to describe people This week's words weathercock persnickety nescient bromidic esurient Follow us on Discuss Feedback RSS/XML A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg bromidic PRONUNCIATION: (broh-MID-ik) MEANING: adjective: Commonplace; trite. ETYMOLOGY: From the former use of bromide compounds as sedatives. Bromine got its name from the Greek bromos (stench) due to its strong smell. USAGE: "Joe Lieberman has the hectoring, bromidic, high-rhetorical style reminiscent of an especially pompous clergyman." Michael Kinsley; The Capitol's Pious Pair; The Washington Post; Jan 24, 2003. Explore "bromidic" in the Visual Thesaurus. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: Snakes and ladders: the game of organized religions. -Yahia Lababidi, writer (b. 1973)

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