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This week's theme Contranyms, or words with an opposite set of meanings. This week's words cleave continuance asperse copemate quiddity Today's word in Visual Thesaurus Extreme Makeover DORD will smarten you up so much even your mother won't recognize you. Discuss Feedback RSS/XML A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg continuance PRONUNCIATION: (kuhn-TIN-yoo-uhns) MEANING: noun: 1. The state of continuing: remaining in the same place, action, etc. 2. An adjournment of a court proceeding to a future day. ETYMOLOGY: From Anglo-French continuer, from Latin continuare, from continere (to hold together), from com- (together) + tenere (to hold). USAGE: "There is abundant room for more aggressive fiscal policies, continuance -- if not expansion -- of credit, and domestic growth in consumption." Slower Boat From China; The Economist (London, UK); Oct 20, 2008. "Attorney Kevin Camp asked for a continuance earlier this month due to conflicting court dates in other districts." Law Enforcement Briefs; The Clarion-Ledger (Jackson, Mississippi); Oct 20, 2008. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: What I stand for is what I stand on. -Wendell Berry, farmer, author (b. 1934)

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