This week’s theme
Forgotten positives

This week’s words
licit
peccable
clement
effable
scrutable

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Next week’s theme
Miscellaneous words

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A.Word.A.Day

PRONUNCIATION:

(SKROO-tuh-buhl)

MEANING:

adjective: Capable of being understood.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Latin scrutari (to examine), from scruta (trash), which also gave us scrutiny, scrutator, and scrutate. Earliest documented use: 1604.

USAGE:

“In fact, that’s the great irony of the court’s decision: By ruling that Google had to alter its ‘memories’ for some, it essentially ruled that it should become less scrutable and less transparent for others.”
Caitlin Dewey; Europe’s Highest Court Says People Have ‘the Right to Be Forgotten’; The Washington Post; May 13, 2014.

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