This week's theme
Words to describe people

This week's words
impetuous
uxorious
implacable
cantankerous
impudent

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A.Word.A.Day

PRONUNCIATION:

(im-PLAK-uh-buhl, -PLAY-kuh-)

MEANING:

adjective: Impossible to pacify or appease.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Latin placare (to quiet or appease). Ultimately from the Indo-European root plak- (to be flat), which is also the source of fluke, flake, flaw, plead, please, supple, supplicatory, and archipelago. Earliest documented use: 1522.

USAGE:

"Big issues that pit a single, powerless individual against a vast, implacable adversary have inspired some of his most memorable novels."
Bill Sheehan; Grisham's Latest; The Washington Post; Oct 23, 2012.

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