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Oct 28, 2008
This week's themeContranyms, or words with an opposite set of meanings. This week's words cleave continuance asperse copemate quiddity 
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with Anu GargcontinuancePRONUNCIATION:
(kuhn-TIN-yoo-uhns)
MEANING:
noun:1. The state of continuing: remaining in the same place, action, etc. 2. An adjournment of a court proceeding to a future day. ETYMOLOGY:
From Anglo-French continuer, from Latin continuare, from continere
(to hold together), from com- (together) + tenere (to hold).
USAGE:
"There is abundant room for more aggressive fiscal policies, continuance --
if not expansion -- of credit, and domestic growth in consumption."Slower Boat From China; The Economist (London, UK); Oct 20, 2008. "Attorney Kevin Camp asked for a continuance earlier this month due to conflicting court dates in other districts." Law Enforcement Briefs; The Clarion-Ledger (Jackson, Mississippi); Oct 20, 2008. See more usage examples of continuance in Vocabulary.com's dictionary. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
What I stand for is what I stand on. -Wendell Berry, farmer, author (b. 1934)
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