This week’s theme
Insults

This week’s words
ultracrepidarian
mythomane
libertine
homunculus
vacuous


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Next week's theme
Words for diseases, used metaphorically

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PRONUNCIATION:

(VAK-yoo-uhs)

MEANING:

adjective: Lacking ideas or intelligence.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Latin vacuus (empty). Earliest documented use: 1651.

USAGE:

“A beaming, vacuous Hollywood wannabe sashays into the ring.”
Dan Hill; Sometimes When We Punch; Maclean’s (Toronto, Canada); May 23, 2011.

See more usage examples of vacuous in Vocabulary.com’s dictionary.

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