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Jun 1, 2012 This week's theme Insults This week's words flagitious thewless flaneur prima donna cunctator This week's comments AWADmail 518 Next week's theme Contranyms Discuss Feedback RSS/XML A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg cunctator PRONUNCIATION: (kungk-TAY-tuhr) MEANING: noun: One who hesitates; a procrastinator or delayer. ETYMOLOGY: From Latin cunctari (to hesitate, delay). Earliest documented use: 1654. USAGE: "No cunctator, James quickly provided his wife with the surefire ammunition to divorce him -- adultery." Richard Kepler Brunner; With Marriage Penalty, It Can Pay to Get Divorced; The Morning Call (Allentown, Pennsylvania); Oct 3, 1999. Explore "cunctator" in the Visual Thesaurus. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: I would have made a good Pope. -Richard M. Nixon, 37th president of US (1913-1994)

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