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Oct 10, 2014
This week's themeWords to describe people This week's words lubricious diffident virulent convivial orgulous This week's comments AWADmail 641 Next week's theme Words from mythology ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() A.Word.A.Day
with Anu Gargorgulous
PRONUNCIATION:
MEANING:
adjective: Haughty.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Old French orguill (pride). Earliest documented use: 1275.
USAGE:
"Behring was not too orgulous to ask for practical advice when in the
spring of 1894 he had run into difficulties." Ulrike Klöppel; Enacting Cultural Boundaries; Science in Context (Cambridge, UK); Jun 2008. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
You become writer by writing. It is a yoga. -R.K. Narayan, novelist (1906-2001)
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