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Jan 17, 2013 This week's theme Words derived from bodily fluids This week's words sang-froid lymphatic seminal salivate melancholy Make a gift that keeps on giving, all year long A gift subscription of AWAD Discuss Feedback RSS/XML A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg salivate PRONUNCIATION: (SAL-uh-vayt) MEANING: verb intr.: 1. To show great relish in anticipation of something desirable. 2. To produce saliva. ETYMOLOGY: From Latin salivare (to salivate). Earliest documented use: 1669. USAGE: "The capitalists gathered in Tianjin salivate at the prospect of pushing beyond China's richer coastal provinces and into the hinterland, where hundreds of millions of new consumers would love to buy a fridge and fancy food to put in it." The Summer Davos Blues; The Economist (London, UK); Sep 15, 2012. Explore "salivate" in the Visual Thesaurus. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot. -Charlie Chaplin, actor, director, and composer (1889-1977)

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