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Jan 22, 2021
This week’s themeWords to describe people This week’s words diversivolent smatchet mensch unflappable circumspect This week’s comments AWADmail 969 Next week’s theme It’s raining cats & dogs 
A.Word.A.Day
with Anu Gargcircumspect
PRONUNCIATION:
(SUHR-kuhm-spekt)
MEANING:
adjective: Careful to consider all circumstances and potential consequences; prudent.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin circumspicere (to look around; to take heed), from circum
(around) + specere (to look). Earliest documented use: 1422.
USAGE:
“Everything about him was methodical and circumspect, both as to his
duties in operating the ship, but also concerning the rules many men
regarded as less strict or obligatory.” Kim Paffenroth; Pale Gods; Permuted Press; 2013. See more usage examples of circumspect in Vocabulary.com’s dictionary. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
I am so convinced of the advantages of looking at mankind instead of
reading about them, and of the bitter effects of staying at home with all
the narrow prejudices of an islander, that I think there should be a law
amongst us to set our young men abroad for a term among the few allies our
wars have left us. -Lord Byron, poet (22 Jan 1788-1824)
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