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Aug 15, 2008
This week's themeMiscellaneous words This week's words loquacious austral nugacity epiphenomenon fugacious This week’s comments AWADmail 320 Next week's theme Words for physical characteristics used to describe people figuratively 
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with Anu GargfugaciousPRONUNCIATION:
(fyoo-GAY-shuhs)
MEANING:
adjective: Lasting a very short time.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin fugere (to flee) which also gave us other words such as
fugitive, centrifugal, refuge, and subterfuge.
USAGE:
"We must realise and be ever conscious of the fact that life is fugacious
and ephemeral."Bobson Gbinije; Reflections at Christmas; This Day (Lagos, Nigeria); Nov 15, 2004. See more usage examples of fugacious in Vocabulary.com's dictionary. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
The conscience of the world is so guilty that it always assumes that people who investigate heresies must be heretics; just as if a doctor who studies leprosy must be a leper. Indeed, it is only recently that science has been allowed to study anything without reproach. -Aleister Crowley, author (1875-1947)
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