Pronounced: prih-HEN-suh-bull, adj
Notes: I got this word unnecessarily confused with another word
Yesterday’s word
The word scrutable means “capable of being understood”
First usage
Our word came into English in the early 1600s
Background / Comments
We are all more familiar with ‘inscrutable’; I was not aware that scrutable was a word. It comes from the Latin word scrutari (to examine), which – oddly – comes from scruta (trash).
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