This week's theme
Words to describe people

This week's words
emulous
vegete
nonesuch
pervicacious
cautelous

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A.Word.A.Day

PRONUNCIATION:

(vuh-JEET)

MEANING:

adjective: Lively; active; vigorous.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Latin vegere (to enliven). Ultimately from the Indo-European root weg- (to be strong or lively), which also gave us vigor, velocity, and vegetable. Earliest documented use: 1639.

USAGE:

"I love to be my own master, when my spirits are prompt, when my brain is vegete and apt for thought."
Ralph Waldo Emerson's Journal; Jul 10, 1828.

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