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This week's theme Miscellaneous words. This week's words logy prolix cadastral corpulent mythologem Today's word in Visual Thesaurus Roll the dice Get a random word from A.Word.A.Day archives Discuss Feedback RSS/XML A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg prolix PRONUNCIATION: (pro-LIKS, PRO-liks) MEANING: adjective: Tediously wordy. ETYMOLOGY: From Latin prolixus (extended, poured), from liquere (to flow), which is also the source of words such as liquid, liquor, licorice. Now you see the connection -- why consuming liquor makes people prolix. USAGE: "No one has ever called him prolix. At a future-war seminar that he sponsored, Mr. Andrew Marshall mumbled a few introductory words and then sat in silence, eyebrows arched, arms folded, for the remaining two days." James Der Derian; The Illusion of a Grand Strategy; The New York Times; May 25, 2001. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief. -Arthur Schnitzler, writer and doctor (1862-1931)

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