This week's theme
Words to describe people

This week's words
lubricious
diffident
virulent
convivial
orgulous

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Next week's theme
Words from mythology

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A.Word.A.Day

PRONUNCIATION:

(OR-gyuh-luhs)

MEANING:

adjective: Haughty.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Old French orguill (pride). Earliest documented use: 1275.

USAGE:

"Behring was not too orgulous to ask for practical advice when in the spring of 1894 he had run into difficulties."
Ulrike Klöppel; Enacting Cultural Boundaries; Science in Context (Cambridge, UK); Jun 2008.

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