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Sep 10, 2012
This week's themeWords to describe people This week's words munificent fastidious impeccable imperious rapacious Spread the joy of words Send a gift subscription It's quick and easy. 
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with Anu GargThere are some seven billion of us on this Earth and we are all interconnected. There's this idea of six degrees of separation that we are only six links away from any person. With online social networks, perhaps we have shed a few links already. What words do you use to describe people around you? This week's A.Word.A.Day discusses five words to describe people in your network. munificent
PRONUNCIATION:
(myoo-NIF-uh-suhnt)
MEANING:
adjective: Extremely generous.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin munus (gift) + facere (to make). Ultimately from the
Indo-European root mei- (to change, go, or move [of goods]) that
also brought us migrate, mutate, molt, miss, mutual, municipal,
and remunerate. Earliest documented use: 1565.
USAGE:
"The Southern Pacific was a rapacious villain whose coffers overflowed
only because of the government's munificent grant of land." Don Hofsommer; The Southern Pacific; Texas A&M University Press; 2009. See more usage examples of munificent in Vocabulary.com's dictionary. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
Our perception that we have "no time" is one of the distinctive marks of modern Western culture. -Margaret Visser, writer and broadcaster (b. 1940)
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