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Oct 20, 2011 This week's theme Back-formations This week's words euthanize admix darkle intuit quisle Spread the Magic Help spread the joy of words Send a gift subscription Discuss Feedback RSS/XML A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg intuit PRONUNCIATION: (in-TOO-it, -tyoo-) MEANING: verb intr.: To know or sense immediately without the use of reasoning. ETYMOLOGY: Back-formation from intuition, from Latin intueri (to gaze at, contemplate), from tueri (to watch). Earliest documented use: 1776. USAGE: "Graham Swift is most perceptive about undercurrents of feeling, motive, what is not said but intuited between people." Tim Upperton; Terror Seeps Through Journey Back in Time; Waikato Times (New Zealand); Aug 13, 2011. Explore "intuit" in the Visual Thesaurus. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: A cynic knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. -Oscar Wilde, writer (1854-1900)

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