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Discuss Email this Feedback RSS/XML Permalink A.Word.A.Day--redux This week's theme: adjectives used postpositively. redux (ri-DUKS) adjective Brought back; revisited. [From Latin re- (again) + dux (leader), from ducere (to lead). Ultimately from Indo-European root deuk- (to lead) that led to other words such as duke, conduct, educate, duct, wanton, and tug.] Today's word in Visual Thesaurus. -Anu Garg (garg AT wordsmith.org) "The nightmare, redux. Once again Eddie Guardado was an out away from a save. Once again, he couldn't get it done." John Hickey; M's Can't Finish Sox; Seattle Post-Intelligencer; May 4, 2006. X-Bonus There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth. -Edward Bulwer-Lytton, writer (1803-1873)

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