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Oct 21, 2013
This week's themeMiscellaneous words This week's words tumid primogeniture recidivism mien autochthonous Discuss words & language in our discussion forum: Wordsmith Talk 
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with Anu GargI love words. It's something I gave up my career in software for. Every morning when I wake up I can't wait to begin exploring words and writing about them. I've been doing that for nearly 20 years and wouldn't want to do anything else. That said, there are times when I feel I have to be ready to feed this beast -- A.Word.A.Day -- week after week after week. It opens its hungry maw every Monday and I'd better be ready with another serving of juicy, delicious words. I do my best to come up with new recipes, new arrangements, new flavors. There are times, however, when I just have to reach into my grab-bag of loose words and offer them while I think of a new topic. It's one of those weeks. Enjoy this medley of words while I get back to the word lab, putting finishing touches to next week's material. tumid
PRONUNCIATION:
(TOO-mid, TYOO-)
MEANING:
adjective: 1. Swollen. 2. Bulging. 3. Pompous, bombastic. ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin tumere (to swell). Earliest documented use: 1541.
USAGE:
"Her tumid eyes filled with tears and she began to cry." Joseph Heller; Catch-22; Simon & Schuster; 1961. "Think of all the suits in marketing, communications, and public relations who clog up the institutional arteries with their tumid prose and clichéd sound bites." Blaise Cronin; Bloomington Days; AuthorHouse; 2012. See more usage examples of tumid in Vocabulary.com's dictionary. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
Hundreds of hysterical persons must confuse these phenomena with messages from the beyond and take their glory to the bishop rather than the eye doctor. -James Thurber, writer and cartoonist (1894-1961)
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