Daily Word Quiz
WAG-FEATHER a) one who agitates or stirs b) a silly swaggerer; a swaggering coxcomb c) a piece of mischievous jesting; a practical joke d) a cowardly person Answer below. Today's Featured Word: VERIDICAL ADJ. 1. speaking, telling, or relating the truth; truthful, veracious ...1653 2. of hallucinations, phantasms, etc.: coincident with, corresponding to, or representing real events or persons ...1884 ETYMOLOGY from Latin veridicus from verum truth + dic- stem of dicere to speak + -al FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1653 - see EXAMPLE below EXAMPLE "...that I had now a Bottle of the best Wine that ever those drank who shall read this so veridical History!" From: The First Book of the Works of Mr. Francis Rabelais By: Thomas Urquhart, 1653 Daily Word Quiz Answer WAG-FEATHER b) a silly swaggerer; a swaggering coxcomb ...1611 obs.
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