Daily Word Quiz
XANTHOCOMIC a) yellow-haired b) outrageously funny c) foreign, strange d) ill-tempered, irritable Answer below. Today's Featured Word: SPERATORY ADJ. resting in hope or expectation; hoped for, hopeful, expected ...1629 obs. ETYMOLOGY from Latin speratus hoped for, expected, pa. pple. of sperare to hope FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1629 - see EXAMPLE below EXAMPLE "...he the present and possessory things of this world, God but the future and speratory things of the next." From: Sermon CXXXVI A Lent Sermon Preached to the King, At Whitehall, February 12, 1629 By: John Donne Daily Word Quiz Answer XANTHOCOMIC a) yellow-haired ...1861 nonce word
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