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Jan 21, 2021
This week’s themeWords to describe people This week’s words diversivolent smatchet mensch unflappable circumspect 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 Gargunflappable
PRONUNCIATION:
MEANING:
adjective: Staying calm even in difficult circumstances.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Middle English flap (to beat or shake), probably of imitative
origin. Earliest documented use: 1958.
USAGE:
“Nothing seemed to faze the unflappable Alvin.” Margie House Neal; Hummingbird Memories; Xlibris; 2012. See more usage examples of unflappable in Vocabulary.com’s dictionary. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
The test of a democracy is not the magnificence of buildings or the speed
of automobiles or the efficiency of air transportation, but rather the care
given to the welfare of all the people. -Helen Adams Keller, lecturer and
author (27 Jun 1880-1968)
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