Daily Word Quiz
GRACILIOUS a) grieved, sorrowful b) excellent, first-rate c) slender, thin, lean d) highly skilled or capable Answer below. Today's Featured Word MAVORTIAN ADJ. warlike, martial ...1557 obs. NOUN a warrior ...1598 obs. ETYMOLOGY from Latin Mavortius of Mars, from Mavortem (Mavors - Mars) + -an FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1557 - see EXAMPLE below EXAMPLE "...Mauortian moods, Saturnian furies fell. Of tragicall turmoyls the haynous hell?" From: Tottel's Miscellany: Songes and Sonettes by Henry Howard, Sir Thomas Wyatt and Nicholas Grimald 'Of N. Ch.' by Nicholas Grimald, 1557 Daily Word Quiz Answer GRACILIOUS c) slender, thin, lean
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