This week’s theme
There’s a word for it!

This week’s words
glossophobia
agathokakological
pensum
perlage
sialoquent

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A.Word.A.Day

PRONUNCIATION:

(ag-uh-thuh-kak-uh-LAHJ-uh-kuhl)

MEANING:

adjective: Made up of both good and evil.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Greek agathos (good) + kakos (bad). Ultimately from the Indo-European root kakka-/kaka- (to defecate), which also gave us poppycock, kakistocracy, cacophony, cacology, and cacography. Earliest documented use: 1834.

USAGE:

“When any project dominates your life for a sizeable length of time, let alone the best part of six years, you have to accept the agathokakological nature of the beast.”
Ronan O’Callaghan; Walzer, Just War and Iraq; Routledge; 2016.

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