This week’s theme
Words with all the vowels

This week’s words
elocutionary
commensurability
vituperatory
equivocacy
perfunctionary


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Words made with combining forms

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PRONUNCIATION:

(puhr-FUNK-shuh-ner-ee)

MEANING:

adjective: Done without any interest, care, or effort.

ETYMOLOGY:

Alteration of perfunctory, from Latin perfunctorius (careless), from perfungi (to get through with), from per- (through) + fungi (to perform). Note that fungus has a different origin, likely from Greek spongos (sponge). Earliest documented use: 1838.

USAGE:

“He had no success in his nefarious acts of trying to paw her, except for a perfunctionary kiss. She had skillfully and cleverly warded off his amorous advances.”
Brian D. Kharpran Daly; The Pangs of Love; Prowess Publishing; 2021.

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