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Mar 18, 2015

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Words with all the vowels

This week’s words
abstentious
arterious
placentious
aerious
duoliteral

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placentious

PRONUNCIATION:

(pla-SEN-shus)

MEANING:

adjective: Pleasing or inclined to please.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Latin placentia (pleasantness), from placere (to please). Earliest documented use: 1661.

USAGE:

“[John Walbye was] a placentious person, gaining the good-will of all with whom he conversed, being also ingenious, industrious, learned, eloquent, pious, and prudent.”
Thomas Fuller; The History of the Worthies of England; T. Tegg; 1840.

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:

Smaller than a breadbox, bigger than a TV remote, the average book fits into the human hand with a seductive nestling, a kiss of texture, whether of cover cloth, glazed jacket, or flexible paperback. -John Updike, writer (18 Mar 1932-2009)

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