This week’s theme
Words to describe people

This week’s words
pseudologue
adventurist
chicaner


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PRONUNCIATION:

(ad-VEN-chuh-rist)

MEANING:

noun: One who pursues reckless ventures, especially in politics, warfare, foreign affairs, or business, disregarding established principles and norms.

ETYMOLOGY:

From adventure, from Old French aventure, from Latin adventurus (about to happen), from advenire (arrive), from ad- (to) + venire (come). Earliest documented use: 1815.

USAGE:

“They are dealing with an adventurist with a penchant for acts of folly.”
Ehud Ya’ari; Bad Risk; The Jerusalem Report (Israel); Oct 30, 1997.

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