Today's Word "incipient"
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incipient \in-SIP-ee-uhnt\ (adjective) - Beginning to exist or appear.
"Rather than worrying about his actual circumstances, Jeff devoted entirely too much of his energies to worrying about money, preoccupied as he was by thoughts of his incipient pauperdom."
Incipient is derived from Latin incipere, "to undertake, to begin" (literally "to take in"), from in-, "in" + capere, "to take." It is related to inception, "beginning, commencement."
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