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Discuss Email this Feedback RSS/XML Permalink A.Word.A.Day--peradventure This week's theme: archaic words. peradventure (pur-ad-VEN-chur) adverb Maybe; possibly. noun Uncertainty; doubt. [From Middle English per aventure, via French, from Latin per- (through) + adventurus, future participle of advenire (to arrive).] Today's word in Visual Thesaurus. -Anu Garg (words at wordsmith.org) "[Philip Coyle, former director of operational test and evaluation at Pentagon] reckons America's chances of shooting down an enemy missile next year, if peradventure it needed to, are 'practically zero'." Warding Off Missiles; The Economist (London, UK); Dec 6, 2003. X-Bonus It's like, at the end, there's this surprise quiz: Am I proud of me? I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth what I paid? -Richard Bach, writer (1936- )

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