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Miscellaneous words



This week's words

sagacity

stochastic

immanent

venial

connubial



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stochastic PRONUNCIATION: (stuh-KAS-tik)

MEANING: adjective: Involving chance; random; probabilistic.

ETYMOLOGY: From Greek stokhos (aim, target, a pointed stake for an archer to aim at). Earliest documented use: 1662.

USAGE: "Medicine is a stochastic science -- no doctor can predict the future."

Sandeep Jauhar; When Doctors Slam the Door; The New York Times; Mar 16, 2003.

See more usage examples of stochastic in Vocabulary.com's dictionary.



A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: There are two kinds of light -- the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures. -James Thurber, writer and cartoonist (1894-1961)





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