

Apr 23, 2014 This week's theme

Words to describe people



This week's words

tractable

bombastic

impecunious

petulant

incorrigible



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impecunious PRONUNCIATION: (im-pi-KYOO-nee-uhs)

MEANING: adjective: Having little or no money.

ETYMOLOGY: From Latin im- (not) + pecunia (money), from pecus (cattle). Ultimately from the Indo-European root peku- (cattle, wealth), which also gave us fee, fief, fellow, peculiar, impecunious, and pecuniary . Earliest documented use: 1596.

USAGE:

James Wood; The New Curiosity Shop; The New Yorker; Oct 21, 2013.



"Discounts for the clever or impecunious greatly reduce the sticker price at many universities."

Is College Worth It?; The Economist (London, UK); Apr 5, 2014.



See more usage examples of "The children have no mother, and their father is impecunious, so they have embarked on a series of adventurous money-making schemes."James Wood; The New Curiosity Shop; The New Yorker; Oct 21, 2013."Discounts for the clever or impecunious greatly reduce the sticker price at many universities."Is College Worth It?; The Economist (London, UK); Apr 5, 2014.See more usage examples of impecunious in Vocabulary.com's dictionary

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: Action is eloquence. -William Shakespeare, playwright and poet (1564-1616)





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