Pronounced: kligh-MAK-trik (alt: kligh-MAK-tuh-rik), noun
Notes: I think this is another word I’ve not run across before, but it is a useful word
Yesterday’s word
The word placentious is “pleasing or inclined to please”
First usage
Our word came into English in the mid-1600s
Background / Comments
I think I was taught in grade school to “sound words out”, so I try to guess meanings of a word by what word (or words) it sounds like. This is pertinent to today’s word because it sounded like the adjectival form of “placenta”, and thus I was way off. Our word came from the Latin noun placentia (pleasantness), which came from the Latin verb placere (to please). I assume that salesmen are trained to be (or at least act) placentious. Oh, yes, and note that this is another word with all the vowels in order.
Richard's Vocabulary Word-of-the-Day 