Daily Word Quiz SUBITANEOUS a) exalted, excited b) inferior, subordinate to c) sudden, hasty, unexpected d) of the voice: low, uttered in an undertone Answer below. Today's Featured Word VICINATE VERB to lie near to, to be next to, to adjoin ...1638 obs. rare ETYMOLOGY from Latin vicinat- ppl. stem of vicinari from vicinus neighbouring, near FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1638 - see EXAMPLE below EXAMPLE "...seated so advantagiously for traffique with all the world, both the Indies possible to be awed by her; and vicinating those golden countries of Mozambiq'... From: Some Yeares Travels Into Divers Parts of Asia and Afrique By: Sir Thomas Herbert, 1638 Daily Word Quiz Answer SUBITANEOUS c) sudden, hasty, unexpected ...1651 rare
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