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Mar 30, 2023

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Wheels

This week’s words
trochilic
rotiform
zodiac
exorbitant
encyclical

Thus, once all the dorm bedrooms are occupied by romantic pairs, additional roommates are forced into less restful “living room couch” orbitals.
The Pauli Sexclusion Principle

Cartoon: xkcd / Randall Munroe

A.Word.A.Day

with Anu Garg

exorbitant

PRONUNCIATION:

(ig-ZOR-bi-tuhnt)

MEANING:

adjective: Greatly exceeding what’s considered reasonable, especially in cost or price.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Latin exorbitare (to go out of the track), from ex- (out) + orbita (wheel track), from orbis (circle, disk). Earliest documented use: 1460.

USAGE:

“In a city like New York, with exorbitant housing costs, ninety-five thousand dollars a year does not buy the same comforts.”
Jennifer Gonnerman; The Total Package; The New Yorker; Jan 16, 2023.

See more usage examples of exorbitant in Vocabulary.com’s dictionary.

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:

One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul, and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. -Vincent van Gogh, painter (30 Mar 1853-1890)

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