This week’s theme
Words with all the vowels

This week’s words
elocutionary
commensurability
vituperatory
equivocacy
perfunctionary

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A.Word.A.Day

PRONUNCIATION:

(kuh-men-suh/shuh-ruh-BIH-lih-tee)

MEANING:

noun:
1. The quality of being in proportion or suitable in relation to something else.
2. The quality of being measurable by a common standard; comparability.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Latin com- (together) + mensurare (to measure). Earliest documented use: 1570.

USAGE:

“Aristotle agreed there was a problem about the commensurability of any barter -- how would you equalise the use-value of a shoe/bed/house?”
Peter Jones; In Praise of Barter; The Spectator (London, UK); Dec 10, 2011.

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: