Daily Word Quiz
IMPIGROUS a) fattening b) wicked, unprincipled c) immodest, indelicate, indecent d) diligent, quick, ready Answer below. Today's Featured Word: OBLUCTATION NOUN striving or struggling against something; resistance, opposition ...1615 obs. ETYMOLOGY from late Latin obluctationem n. of action from Latin obluctari from ob- + luctari to struggle, wrestle FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1615 - see EXAMPLE below EXAMPLE "...In a word, these muscles partly by yeelding and giuing ground, partly by obluctation or opposition to secure the Membrane from being torne and rent asunder." From: Mikrokosmographia A Description of the Body of Man By: Helkiah Crooke, 1615 Daily Word Quiz Answer IMPIGROUS d) diligent, quick, ready ...1656 obs. rare
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Daily Word Quiz
SACRIPANT a) a contemptible person b) one whose greediness grudges others their food c) an illiterate priest of low status d) a boastful pretender to valour Answer below. Today's Featured Word: IRRECURED ADJ. incurable, beyond cure or remedy ...1598 obs. rare ETYMOLOGY from ir- + recured pa. pple. of recure to heal, to cure FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1598 - see EXAMPLE below EXAMPLE "...As Mandrakes cry a passer doth amate, Striking his soule with irrecured wound..." From: Thule, Or, Vertues Historie By: Francis Rous, 1598 Daily Word Quiz Answer SACRIPANT d) a boastful pretender to valour ...1830 rare Daily Word Quiz
WINTER APPLE a) a potato b) a pine cone c) a snowball d) a snowflake Answer below. Today's Featured Word: GESTIENT ADJ. restlessly excited, nervously agitated ...1644 obs. ETYMOLOGY from Latin gestientem, pres. pple. of gestire to be excited FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1644 - see EXAMPLE below EXAMPLE "...all juvenile gestient pompe and ostentation laid aside, by a submisse Action ..." From: Chirologia Or, The Naturall Language of the Hand Composed of the Speaking Motions, and Discoursing Gestures thereof By: John Bulwer, 1644 Daily Word Quiz Answer WINTER APPLE c) a snowball ...B1900 Eng. dial. |
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