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Dec 2, 2010
This week's themeWords with unusual initial consonants This week's words sforzando kvetch tmesis svelte llano 
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PRONUNCIATION:
(svelt)
MEANING:
adjective:1. Slender; lithe. 2. Graceful; suave. ETYMOLOGY:
From French svelte (slender), from Italian svelto (slender), past participle
of svellere (to pull out or stretch), from Latin exvellere, from ex- (out)
vellere (to pull). First recorded use: 1817.
USAGE:
"Five years ago, Kareena Kapoor, a top young actress in Bollywood, was
a typical Punjabi girl, buxom and shapely, luscious like sweet kulfi
ice-cream. Today, I imagine, kulfi would make her heave and biryani
is never on her plate. For, you see, Kareena saw the light, and today
she is svelte and sinewy enough to jog on the streets of LA and wear
the tightest of designer jeans."Yasmin Alibhai-Brown; Why Are Asian Women Aspiring to Western Ideals of Beauty?; The Independent (London, UK); Nov 20, 2010. See more usage examples of svelte in Vocabulary.com's dictionary. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
Some people become so expert at reading between the lines they don't read the lines. -Margaret Millar, novelist (1915-1994)
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