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Aug 19, 2009
This week's themeWords that exercise all your fingers This week's words diastrophism micropsia supplicatory adiaphorism simpatico Add your two cents' ... worth to this week's theme and words. Or, if you wish, use centimes, paise, pence, yen, lire, pesos, piasters, etc. Log on at our bulletin board Wordsmith Talk 
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with Anu Gargsupplicatory
PRONUNCIATION:
(SUH-pli-kuh-tor-ee)
MEANING:
adjective:
Humbly pleading.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin supplicare (to kneel). Ultimately from the Indo-European root
plak- (to be flat) that's also the source of fluke, flake, flaw, plead,
please, and supple.
USAGE:
"The supplicatory attitude that some Taiwanese politicians have shown
to China to win its favor must stop."Bill Chang; Warnings on China Also Meant For Taiwan; The Taipei Times (Taiwan); Jun 11, 2005. See more usage examples of supplicatory in Vocabulary.com's dictionary. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
Affliction, like the iron-smith, shapes as it smites. -Christian Bovee, lawyer and author (1820-1904)
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