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Jun 7, 2012 This week's theme Contranyms This week's words enjoin liege nickel-and-dime prodigious cull Discuss Feedback RSS/XML A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg prodigious PRONUNCIATION: (pruh-DIJ-uhs) MEANING: adjective 1. Remarkable in size, quantity, strength, etc. 2. Marvelous. 3. Abnormal; monstrous. ETYMOLOGY: From Latin prodigiosus (marvelous, portentous), from prodigium (portent). Earliest documented use: around 1487. USAGE: "Kurtley Beale just cannot wait to display his prodigious talents at his first World Cup." Beale Anxious to Parade Prodigious Talents in First; The Star (Malaysia); Sep 3, 2011. "The rodents have prodigious appetites and ability to multiply." Deerslayers; Houston Chronicle (Texas); Feb 4, 2010. Explore "prodigious" in the Visual Thesaurus. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: "Do you ever read any of the books you burn?" "That's against the law!" "Oh. Of course." -Ray Bradbury, science-fiction writer (1920-2012)

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