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Misc. words

This week’s words
flagrant
mendacious
venal
feckless
veritable

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PRONUNCIATION:

(men-DAY-shuhs)

MEANING:

adjective: Telling lies, especially as a habit.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Latin mendac-, stem of mendax (lying), from mendum (fault or defect) that also gave us amend, emend, and mendicant. Earliest documented use: 1616.

USAGE:

“Usually I only meet fishermen more flagrantly mendacious than anywhere else. But they’ve got bored with me because I always unhesitatingly go two pounds better than the biggest juggler of avoirdupois present.”
Compton Mackenzie; Sinister Street; Martin Secker; 1914.

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

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