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Sep 13, 2022
This week’s themeMisc words This week’s words coruscate plenitude rufescent brume altiloquent Send a gift that keeps on giving, all year long: A gift subscription of A.Word.A.Day or the gift of books A.Word.A.Day
with Anu Gargplenitude
PRONUNCIATION:
MEANING:
noun: 1. The state of being full. 2. Abundance. ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin plenus (full). Earliest documented use: 1425.
USAGE:
“Your stomachs are round with the plenitude of eating.” Jack London; The Iron Heel; Macmillan; 1907. See more usage examples of plenitude in Vocabulary.com’s dictionary. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care
for. -Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, writer (13 Sep 1830-1916)
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