Today's word: "Adroit"
adroit: (a.) Dexterous in the use of the hands or in the exercise of the mental faculties; exhibiting skill and readiness in avoiding danger or escaping difficulty; ready in invention or execution; -- applied to persons and to acts; as, an adroit mechanic, an adroit reply.
http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning/adroit/
http://www.audioenglish.net/dictionary/adroit.htm
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/adroit
Do YOU(?) have a word of the day?
Here's one that my wife found in an e-mail from a Chinese eBay vendor she does business with. Apparently, he just got a new English language thesaurus. We had to look it up, which we found sort of embarrassing since we both pride ourselves on our extensive vocabularies.
favonian
[fuh-voh-nee-uhn]
–adjective
1. of or pertaining to the west wind.
2.mild or favorable; propitious.
All the world’s a stage, but obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines. Maybe that’s why it’s hard to tell if we’re living in a tragedy or a farce.
I like "lacustrine", or perhaps "riparian".
Erudite
erudite [ˈɛrʊˌdaɪt]adj having or showing extensive scholarship; learned[from Latin ērudītus, from ērudīre to polish, from ex-1 + rudis unpolished, rough]
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"Riparian" is good. I actually won a bet with the XYL on that once.
A current favorite is "lachrymose," tearful or given to weeping. I don't think I need to explain to anyone why I've been using it lately.
On edit:
lachrymose |ˈlakrəˌmōs; -ˌmōz|
adjective formal or poetic/literary
tearful or given to weeping : she was pink-eyed and lachrymose.
• inducing tears; sad : a lachrymose children's classic.
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All the world’s a stage, but obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines. Maybe that’s why it’s hard to tell if we’re living in a tragedy or a farce.
Nice limnological terms.Originally Posted by ab1ga
But fallen into disuse among all but the antediluvian.
:-)
Just read another good one: amanuensis.
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