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Sep 13, 2012 This week's theme Words to describe people This week's words munificent fastidious impeccable imperious rapacious Discuss Feedback RSS/XML A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg imperious PRONUNCIATION: (im-PEER-ee-uhs) MEANING: adjective: 1. Domineering; dictatorial. 2. Urgent; imperative. ETYMOLOGY: From Latin imperare (to command) which also resulted in imperative, emperor, empire, and imperial. Earliest documented use: 1541. USAGE: "She had an imperious manner that dared anyone to get in her way. She wore impeccable suits." Helen Stringer; Spellbinder; Macmillan; 2009. Explore "imperious" in the Visual Thesaurus. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: In the cellars of the night, when the mind starts moving around old trunks of bad times, the pain of this and the shame of that, the memory of a small boldness is a hand to hold. -John Leonard, critic (1939-2008)

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