This week’s theme
There’s a word for it

This week’s words
despotocracy
verbicide
agnotology
antithalian
renitent

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A.Word.A.Day

PRONUNCIATION:

(REN-uh-tuhnt)

MEANING:

adjective: Resistant to compulsion or pressure.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Latin renitent-, renitens, present participle of reniti (to resist), from re- + niti (to strive, to struggle). Earliest documented use: 1604.

NOTES:

Not everyone can shout. Everyone can refuse to slide.

USAGE:

“My quivering quill, that riddling renitent reed refused to write.”
Julián Ríos (Translation: Suzanne Jill Levine and Richard Alan Francis); Larva: Midsummer Night’s Babel; Dalkey Archive Press; 1990.

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