This week's theme
Miscellaneous words

This week's words
canorous
prosaic
expansive
animadversion
sempiternal

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A.Word.A.Day

PRONUNCIATION:

(ik-SPAN-siv)

MEANING:

adjective:
1. Having a wide range; comprehensive.
2. Friendly, open, communicative.
3. Having a tendency or capacity to expand.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Latin expandere (to spread out), from ex- (out) + pandere (to spread). Earliest documented use: 1651.

USAGE:

"The European Dream is more expansive and systemic, and therefore more bound to the welfare of the planet."
Jeremy Rifkin; The European Dream; Utne (Topeka, Kansas); Sep/Oct 2004.

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