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Aug 6, 2010 This week's theme Words for insults This week's words troglodyte puerile odoriferous jejune vainglorious All is Vanity: An optical illusion Illustration: C. Allan Gilbert (1873-1929) This week's comments AWADmail 423 Next week's theme Glacial landforms Discuss Feedback RSS/XML A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg vainglorious PRONUNCIATION: (vayn-GLOR-ee-uhs) MEANING: adjective: Filled with, exhibiting, or proceeding from excessive pride, especially in one's achievements or abilities. ETYMOLOGY: From Latin vana gloria (empty pride), from vana, feminine of vanus (empty) + gloria (pride, glory). USAGE: "But some see James Cameron as a vainglorious auteur and seek to puncture his perceived pretension." Nick Watt; Is the 'Avatar' Movie Making Viewers Nauseous?; ABC News (New York); Dec 18, 2009. Explore "vainglorious" in the Visual Thesaurus. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived. -Oscar Wilde, writer (1854-1900)

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