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Jan 27, 2017
This week’s themeMiscellaneous words This week’s words quotidian effluvium ineffable visage inexorable This week’s comments AWADmail 761 Next week’s theme Words borrowed from Yiddish ![]() Read it today ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() A.Word.A.Day
with Anu Garginexorable
PRONUNCIATION:
MEANING:
adjective: Incapable of being persuaded, moved, or stopped.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin in- (not) + exorare (to prevail upon), from ex- (out) + orare
(to pray, beg). Earliest documented use: 1553.
USAGE:
“Another star who shuffled off this mortal coil before continuing down an
inexorable slide toward personal catastrophe and artistic irrelevance:
Doors frontman Jim Morrison, whose insouciant visage also graced
pulp-stock posters of the time.” Jim Reed; Join the Cult of Marilyn; Savannah Morning News (Georgia); Jun 6, 2013. See more usage examples of inexorable in Vocabulary.com’s dictionary. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the
environment. -Ansel Adams, photographer (1902-1984)
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