Category Archives: word

Pronounced: pruh-PIH-shuhs, adj Notes: I am familiar with one of the definitions Yesterday’s word The word adventious means First usage Our word came into English in the mid-1600s Background / Comments As you can see, nothing to do with the word “adventure”. Our word is a variant spelling of adventitious, which comes from the LatinContinue reading “propitious”

Pronounced: ad-VEN-shuhs, adj Notes: I (incorrectly) see “adventure” when I look at this word Yesterday’s word The word caesura is “a pause or break in a melody or line of verse” First usage Our word came into English in the mid-1500s Background / Comments Our word claims to be a break in a melody, butContinue reading “adventious”

Pronounced: si-ZYOOR-uh, noun Notes: I haven’t run across this word, and I’m a bit surprised Yesterday’s word The word intrapreneur means “an employee who works as an entrepreneur within an established company, having the freedom to take risks and act independently” First usage Our word came into English in the 1970s Background / Comments OurContinue reading “caesura”

Pronounced: in-truh-pruh-NUHR (alt-1: in-truh-pruh-NOOR; alt-2: in-truh-pruh-NYOOR), noun Notes: I know “entrepreneur”, but not this word Yesterday’s word The word rhadamanthine means “rigorously strict or just” First usage Our word came into English in the mid-1600s Background / Comments Our word comes from Greek mythology: in the underworld (Hades), there were three judges: Minos, Aeacus, andContinue reading “intraprenuer”

Pronounced: rah-duh-MAN-thuhn (alt: rah-duh-MANT-thuhn), adj Notes: This long word is often capitalized Yesterday’s word The word camelious means “relating to the camel or its hump” First usage Our word came into English in the first decade of the 1900s Background / Comments I think I was thinking of chamomile or chameleon and missed the moreContinue reading “rhadamanthine”

Pronounced: kuh-MEE-lee-uhs, adj Notes: My thoughts flew (incorrectly) to a flower Yesterday’s word The word solstitial means First usage The reference material I consulted do not agree; one says that the word arrived in English in the 1300s; another says the mid-1500s Background / Comments As I noted yesterday, after I read the definition, itContinue reading “camelious”

Pronounced: sahl-STIH-shuhl, adj Notes: I didn’t know the meaning when looking at the word; after seeing the definition, it seems obvious – do you know it? Yesterday’s word The word solipsism means First usage Our word came into English in the mid-1800s Background / Comments I don’t subscribe to the theory in the first definition;Continue reading “solstitial”

Pronounced: SOL-ip-siz-uhm, noun Notes: I confused this word with another word dealing with logic Yesterday’s word The word carpaccio means “thinly sliced raw meat or fish served with a sauce”; note that the word is usually used postpositively (after the name of the dish, as in ‘salmon carpaccio’) First usage Our word came into EnglishContinue reading “solipsism”

Pronounced: car-PAH-choh (alt: car-PAH-chee-oh), noun Notes: I guessed at this word, and was way off Yesterday’s word The word affectious means “affectionate or cordial” First usage Our word came into English in the late 1500s Background / Comments Did you notice that our word contains all of the standard vowels in order? If you guessedContinue reading “carpaccio”

Pronounced: uh-FEK-shuhs, adj Notes: You might be able to guess the meaning of this one… and do you see anything interesting in our word? Yesterday’s word The word cacography means First usage Our word came into English in the late 1500s Background / Comments I should have been able to guess the meaning of ourContinue reading “affectious”