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This week's theme Miscellaneous words This week's words equanimity assiduous disinter minatory expatiate Today's word in Visual Thesaurus Next week's theme Combining forms This week's comments AWADmail 369 Give a gift that ... keeps on giving, all year long A gift subscription of AWAD Discuss Feedback RSS/XML A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg expatiate PRONUNCIATION: (ek-SPAY-shee-ayt) MEANING: verb intr. 1. To speak or write at length. 2. To move about freely. ETYMOLOGY: From Latin exspatiatus, past participle of exspatiari (to wander or digress), from ex- (out) + spatiari (to walk about), from spatium (space). USAGE: "I spent part of the day of the debate watching a parade of talking heads expatiate endlessly on how dire was the need for Obama to go macho." Joe Klein; Hit Her Again! Time (New York); Oct 31, 2007. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: We lie the loudest when we lie to ourselves. -Eric Hoffer, philosopher and author (1902-1983)

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