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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 Discuss Feedback RSS/XML A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg nugacity PRONUNCIATION: (noo-GAS-i-tee, nyoo-) MEANING: noun: Triviality; futility. ETYMOLOGY: From Latin nugax (trifling), from nugari (to trifle). USAGE: "For many, the Beachcomber column has been an oasis of nugacity in an otherwise worthy landscape." Beachcomber; The Daily Express (London, UK); Jan 9, 2006. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: A hair in the head is worth two in the brush. -Oliver Herford, writer and illustrator (1863-1935)

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