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Discuss Email this Feedback RSS/XML Permalink A.Word.A.Day--strident This week's theme: words that turn into other words when beheaded. strident (STRYD-nt) adjective Loud, grating, strongly expressed. [From Latin stridere (creak).] Today's word in Visual Thesaurus. Behead it twice: strident/trident/rident. -Anu Garg (words at wordsmith.org) "Now 34, [Aviv] Geffen remains unrepentant and just as outspoken as in the early days when he began using the stage as a platform for airing his strident political views against Israel's continued occupation of the West Bank and Gaza." Barry Davis; Taking His Bad Boy Image Abroad; The Jerusalem Post (Israel); May 31, 2007. X-Bonus I'll tell you how the sun rose-- / A ribbon at a time. -Emily Dickinson, poet (1830-1886)

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