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This week's theme Miscellaneous words. This week's words loquacious austral nugacity epiphenomenon fugacious Today's word in Visual Thesaurus Next week's theme Words for physical characteristics used to describe people figuratively. Why is cappuccino... named after a monk? Learn this, and more, in Anu Garg's new book: The Dord, the Diglot, and an Avocado or Two Discuss Feedback RSS/XML A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg fugacious PRONUNCIATION: (fyoo-GAY-shuhs) MEANING: adjective: Lasting a very short time. ETYMOLOGY: From Latin fugere (to flee) which also gave us other words such as fugitive, centrifugal, refuge, and subterfuge. USAGE: "We must realise and be ever conscious of the fact that life is fugacious and ephemeral." Bobson Gbinije; Reflections at Christmas; This Day (Lagos, Nigeria); Nov 15, 2004. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: The conscience of the world is so guilty that it always assumes that people who investigate heresies must be heretics; just as if a doctor who studies leprosy must be a leper. Indeed, it is only recently that science has been allowed to study anything without reproach. -Aleister Crowley, author (1875-1947)

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