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Feb 8, 2013 This week's theme Words to describe people This week's words impetuous uxorious implacable cantankerous impudent This week's comments AWADmail 554 Next week's theme Words with initial silent letters Discuss Feedback RSS/XML A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg impudent PRONUNCIATION: (IM-pyuh-duhnt) MEANING: adjective: Marked by offensive boldness. ETYMOLOGY: From Latin im- (not) + pudere (to make or be ashamed) which also gave us pudibund (prudish), pudency (modesty), and pudeur (a sense of shame). Earliest documented use: 1386. USAGE: "The tie has matching socks and braces ... It seems imprudent (and possibly impudent) to ask if his boxers match, as well." Mike Amos; Laughing Matter; Northern Echo (Darlington, UK); Mar 5, 2011. Explore "impudent" in the Visual Thesaurus. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone. -Edith Cavell, nurse and humanitarian (1865-1915)

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